Virgin Media UK Complete Network Build for 24,000 Bangor Premises

Cable operator Virgin Media has announced that they’ve completed a major extension of their ultrafast 350Mbps cable broadband ISP and TV network in Bangor (Northern Ireland), which began last year and can now reach an additional 24,000 premises.

The deployment forms part of the provider’s commitment to cover an additional 50,000 homes and businesses in Northern Ireland, which was made last August 2017 (here). At the time the roll-out had already started in Ballykelly, Bangor, Limavady, Newtownards, Strabane and Artigarvan.

As usual this forms part of their wider £3bn Project Lightning programme, which is working to reach an additional 4 million premises by 2019 or 2020 and this should extend their network coverage to around 60%+ of UK premises. Roughly half of this work is forecast to use FTTP and the rest will be Hybrid Fibre Coax (both via EuroDOCSIS).

Conor Harrison, VM Regional Director for N.Ireland, said:

“We are delighted that local residents and businesses can now start to benefit from the boost our ultrafast broadband will give them. Giving them greater speeds will enable them to do the things they need to do and love doing more quickly and more easily.”

End.