Virgin Media has announced it will be stopping its Cloud services and calling app, SmartCall, on April 28.
Its SmartCall closure news page states the reason is simply down to competition, and more of its customers are choosing to use similar competitor products.
Whilst on the WebSpace side, Virgin has partnered with GoDaddy to offer users an alternative to the soon-to-be-defunct service.
In a statement given to techradar, Virgin Media said, “We are closing a range of Virgin Media Value Added Services from 28th April 2016. We apologise to customers who use these services and where possible have negotiated alternatives with globally recognised players in both the web and cloud spaces.”
Source: techradar.com
Hardly surprising that their web storage service is closing. It was far too expensive given that OneDrive is free with an Office 365 subscription.
Virgin should fix the services it runs already rather than trying to start new ones. Tivo is slow, their TV listings site doesn't work properly and their broadband is far from reliable.
The two aren't comparable.
Virgin webspace is storage to host a website, whereas OneDrive is online cloud storage. They're very different things.
Neither are surprising. I doubt any broadband provider who offers a VOIP service has managed to make it popular.
And website space is a thing for most people from a bygone era. The likes of Facebook has removed the need for people to run their own website.