@Anonymous User
Good thing you stayed with EE until Virgin arrives then. The NowTV streaming service is a month-to-month no contract one, but the broadband isn’t - it’s a minimum of one year.
But the two are quite separate, and the account you likely nearly set up was for the streaming service, not the broadband.
I do notice though, that while there are quite a number of legitimate-looking complaints there are an equally large number where people obviously haven’t read enough about how NowTV works, despite the wealth of explanation on the NowTV website.
Good thing you made your exit when you did, as you had a narrow escape there.
But even with Virgin as your ISP, there is a lot that NowTV can offer that you can get nowhere else; so you may want to look again at what the NowTV streaming service can provide, and still sign up if it attracts you. And this service really is contract-free 
