Virgin Media to add 500,000 homes to cable network

Virgin Media is planning to add a further half a million UK homes to its existing network, with some 50,000 homes and businesses to be added this year alone. The Virgin Media network currently covers some 12.5 million premises, which accounts for roughly 50 per cent of the UK.

Virgin Media will be initially focussing on places where ducting and infrastructure has already been set up in order to minimize costs and delays, close to or within areas already fully or partially covered by the cable network.

A Virgin Media spokesperson, quoted in DigitalSpy earlier this week, said that the move will “improve our consumer offer and lay the foundation for future growth.”

“We have identified around half a million homes whose proximity to our existing access network makes it a commercially attractive opportunity to extend our network to reach them over the next few years. We plan to extend our network coverage to over 50,000 of these homes during 2009.”

This news reached us just as BT announced intentions to seriously motor on with the deployment of its own next-gen fibre optic network, with a view to connecting a million UK homes by Spring 2010.

[Source: DigitalSpy]

1 Comment »Posted by Tom on May 19th 2009 in BT Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, Virgin Media

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One Response to “Virgin Media to add 500,000 homes to cable network”

1. camy said on 21 Jul 2009 at 9:58 pm #

   go on vm!! its about time you extended your network you’ve been quiet about that recentely ( over the past 10 years!! ) now you will be able to truely challenge sky ( there going to get what they deserve the robbing pr**k’s !! ) and also vm 6 new hd channels that are to be relased soon

   go on vm!!

   camy

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