Virgin Media speed boost to upgrade 2.6m homes to 10Mbps RSS

Despite having ditched the old Size: M service from their roster of broadband services a few weeks ago, Virgin Media have announced that they will now be upgrading all of their current Size: M packages – which offer top speeds of 2Mbps and unlimited downloads – to Size: L which instead provides a maximum downstream speed of 10Mbps.

Some 2.6 million homes are currently still on the old Size: M package, which will now be completely phased out. The launch of the new premium Size: XXL product was likened to “opening up a new lane on the M25″ during the grand opening in London last December, allowing for upgrades such as this to be easily actioned.

Current Size: M subscribers who signed up before Virgin dropped the package will pay the same amount they would have done, i.e. less than the amount paid out by existing Size: L customers with a Virgin Phone line.

However customers in line for a speed boost who want all the attendant security software and spam shields will have to cough up the same amount as current 10Mbps punters.

“Our entry-level broadband product is now twice the speed of comparable services and with our new 10-20-50 [Mbps] range, we clearly offer the highest quality broadband service in the UK,” said Neil Berkett, the company’s chief executive.

This marks the third speed upgrade Virgin Media have announced since their launch in March 2007.

The first saw Size: XL customers, previously on 10Mbps download speeds, getting twice that amount with top speeds of 20Mbps. Then Size: L customers languishing on a 4Mbps connection got a leg up to 10Mbps. Now Size: M customers are being brought up to speed, being dragged out of the 2Mbps dark ages with a new service five times faster.

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2 Comments »Posted by Tom on February 26th 2009 in Broadband, Virgin Media



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2 Responses to “Virgin Media speed boost to upgrade 2.6m homes to 10Mbps”

  1. Chris said on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:34 pm #

    “we clearly offer the highest quality broadband service in the UK” is a misleading comment. Just being the fastest does not imply quality, a factor that I find VM are lacking, being a customer of theirs. If the speeds are consistent then it would be great. However their policy of throttling bandwidth after a very low download limit is exceeded means that I find myself on lower than average speeds, and certainly nowhere near the argued UK fastest.

  2. Richard said on 06 May 2009 at 11:49 pm #

    When will this happen fro me? I am in Leeds, upgrade will be good for me as I work from home.


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