Virgin Media O2 Deploy FTTP to 4000 More County Down Homes
Some 4,000 extra homes in the small County Down (Northern Ireland) town of Donaghadee have just become the latest to benefit from the expansion of Virgin Media’s (VMO2) new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband and TV network, which can offer top download speeds of up to 1130Mbps to local residents.
The work forms part of their ongoing Project Lightning build, which has so far extended their network to cover over 2.7 million extra UK premises. The operator’s original network was deployed using Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) technology, but this expansion harnesses FTTP via Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFoG) – both methods make use of the DOCSIS standard to harness the same consumer hardware.
At the same time, VMO2 are also rolling out their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network upgrade across the UK, which by the end of 2021 aims to have made download speeds of 1Gbps+ possible across their network of around 15.5 million premises. Outside those areas, you can currently expect average speeds of up to c.630Mbps from their existing EuroDOCSIS 3.0 based packages (via their top Ultimate Oomph TV bundle).
Prices for their top 1Gig package start from £62 per month on an 18-month contract term, with a guaranteed price freeze for at least 24 months.
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Out of interest, what’s the deal with new crap Google pop up adverts that need a click to get rid of them?
I looked at them and they seem legit from your site today. I don’t like clicking on adverts as that poses a security risk. Or do I need to up my adblockers?
I’m unsure if related but I don’t seem to be getting those ads, I am getting the standardised ads such as banners. But none have been forcefully popped up. Have you tried another browser or so?
I am getting those too
Looks like a copy of the ones on thinkbroadband
Site needs funding somehow though
And for this site and the effort Mark puts in, I can tolerate the crappy ads.
Totally off-topic, but those are Google’s Auto Ads. Google experimented (they run such ‘experiments’ automatically) with them before (in May I think), and I disabled them, saying they were too disruptive to visitor flow. But for some reason Google enabled them as an automated experiment again this week, despite me disabling that experiment before. I’ve disabled them again as they irritate me too, partly due to the fact that when you try to dismiss them there’s an annoying delay of 1-2 seconds before they go.
Them tubes ain’t getting any deeper.
250 mm coverage is all they need.
Those adverts are a bit of a pest at the moment but we have to put up with them