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Virgin Media: 200Mbps by 2012

Virgin Media have revealed that it plans to offer ‘up to’ speeds of 200Mbps to UK customers by 2012, according to an interview with news agency Reuters. Virgin chief technology officer Howard Watson has revealed that the fibre providers plan to beat BT‘s £1.5 billion broadband offering by double by the time the Olympics arrive in London:

“We are setting ourselves a vision of households using 200 Mb per second by 2012. The current technology that we’re investing in to roll out the 50 Mb per second over the next 12 months has inherent within it that extra capability,” Watson said, before saying how customer usage shifts dramatically once they realise they have some new bandwidth to play with:

“If you take a 20Mb customer [and upgrade them to 50Mb] on day one or two you might see a relatively small increase in usage but by day 60 or 65 they’re using 50 MB per second quite easily.”

Virgin haven’t mentioned anything as of yet about how much money they’re planning on putting into the pot to funds this, or how many UK homes would be able to get the super fast 200Mbps speeds, although an independent source tells us Virgin Media can only hope to get top speeds of 160Mbps out of their current network as it is, so it would seem that Virgin are going to have to start digging up the roads along with BT if this next-gen vision is to be a reality.

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1 Comment »Posted by Tom on July 28th 2008 in BT Broadband, Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, Virgin Media



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One Response to “Virgin Media: 200Mbps by 2012”

  1. kim said on 29 Jul 2008 at 2:50 pm #

    what a feed of rubbish Virginmedia cant even sort out 8mb broadband le alone 200mb cable but hey they really dont give a toot about phone line users!
    Keep away from virgin if you have a phone line they really are rubbish, i should know i have been with them for 12 years but boy im leaving soon


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