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Virgin Media reaches a quarter of the UK with 'superfast' broadband
BROADBAND PROVIDER Virgin Media has announced that its 100Mbits/s broadband service is available to 6.5 million homes in the UK.
The last milestone that Virgin Media hit with its rollout was four million homes. That was just over a month ago and now it has hit 6.5 million homes in reach of its network, or about 25 per cent of the UK.
Jon James, executive director of broadband at Virgin Media said, "Virgin Media has consistently led the greatest developments in broadband in the UK and we're proud to continue this tradition with the roll-out of our 100Mb service."
Virgin Media's target for the rollout is 13 million homes by mid 2012, so it's well on the way after hitting the halfway mark with a year left to go. This covers over 160 locations across the UK.
The 100Mbits/s service costs £35 per month when you take a phone line with the firm or £45 per month without. Virgin Media said it is "contributing significantly to the Government's objective to deliver the best broadband in Europe by 2015".
Not happy with providing the UK's fastest broadband connection, Virgin Media is trialing 200Mbits/s broadband across the country and is testing 1.5Gbits/s connections in East London.
James said, "Only Virgin Media has the network to drive forward the UK's digital economy, giving Brits a true world-class digital entertainment service at their fingertips."µ
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FWIW - VM have never had a fair usage policy on the 50Mb service since it launched a couple of year back now and there isn't one on the 100Mb service now
Can't say they'll never introduce one but past experience says they won't
The problem with having virgin as an ISP is there "fair usage policy".
I live in a shared house with 5 other people all use the internet for normal things Iplayer,Itunes,Gaming.
We where on there 20mb service untill they atrted the fair usage policy when we started getting capped every day
Basicly leaving the internet useless
Moved to BE There on a real unlimited package and sorted
If only they put in cable in to new builds
I mean there's no excuse for not putting the cables in for new flats and houses in cabled areas
I'm unlucky enough to have no cable access in a 2 year old flat in Edinburgh - it does however have a communal satellite dish on the roof
It would have been nice to have the choice
If only Virgin could get the Superhub to work. Seven months later, and the same problems still happen with this dog of a piece of networking gear that gets foisted on customers whether they want it or not.
The long promised modem-only mode (that disables all the features and turns the SuperDud into a hot, power hungry modem) has been delayed yet again.
If they can't get their lowest tiers of service working properly thanks to an overcontented network and an inherently faulty router/modem, how are they going to get 200 mbit working?
In my opinion, it's just vanity advertising of service Virgin can't deliver.