Virgin Media UK Build FTTP to 6500 Premises in Gainsborough

Cable ISP Virgin Media has today announced that their on-going “Project Lightning” expansion has just completed deployment of a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 6,500 extra premises in Gainsborough (Lincolnshire), which will give locals access to broadband speeds of 516Mbps.

Hugh Woolford, Virgin Media’s Regional Director for the Midlands, said: “We are delighted to have completed our expansion works in Gainsborough. The local residents and businesses can now benefit from the boost in connectivity that our ultrafast broadband provides, and better connectivity means better streaming, downloading, playing, working and browsing.”

The Project Lightning build ultimately aims to add an additional 3-4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they’ve completed around 2 million) using a mix of FTTP via Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFoG) and Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) technology. Both methods make use of the DOCSIS standard so as to harness the same consumer hardware.

On top of that VM recently started to rollout their new DOCSIS 3.1 network upgrade (here), which by the end of 2021 aims to have boosted their top broadband download speeds to 1Gbps+ across the United Kingdom (currently live around Southampton, Greater Manchester and Reading).