10000 Premises in Cleckheaton Set for Virgin Media UK Broadband

Cable ISP Virgin Media has continued their piecemeal announcements by revealing that 10,000 premises in Cleckheaton (Kirklees, West Yorkshire) will be the next to benefit from the expansion of their cable TV and 350Mbps capable broadband network, which forms part of ‘Project Lightning‘.

Overall the £3bn project aims to reach an additional 4 million premises across the UK by around the end of 2019 or 2020, which should extend their overall coverage of “gigabit-ready lines” (they’ll need to add DOCSIS3.1 and boost capacity again for that) to roughly 60%+ of the country (17 million premises). Apparently the work in Cleckheaten is already underway, with completion expected by the end of 2019.

Hugh Woolford, VM’s Regional Director, said:

“Families and small businesses across Cleckheaton will soon be benefiting from our brilliant ultrafast broadband service. Giving them greater speeds will enable them to do the things they need to do and love doing more quickly and more easily.”

Once again we can only plead with Virgin Media to publish a much fuller roll-out plan, as opposed to the current drip feed of information.