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Virgin Media Details UK Fibre Capacity Deal to Boost 4G Mobile from O2

12th July, 2013 (7 Comments)

Virgin Media Business has today released more information about its “significant” ten-year deal with O2 (Telefonica UK) for the provision of new backhaul network capacity to 1,500 sites, which is intended to help “supercharge data speeds” and support the operators imminent launch of 4G based mobile broadband services.

UK Map Shows Consumer Superfast Broadband Uptake Hits 20%

5th July, 2013 (4 Comments)

The latest map from Point Topic has revealed that uptake of superfast broadband (30Mbps+) based internet connections in the United Kingdom has now reached 20% (Q1-2013), which is largely thanks to Virgin Media’s effort to double its customers speeds and thus lift several million consumers into the same area of performance.

ISP Virgin Media UK Launches Broadband Help Channel on YouTube

5th July, 2013 (1 Comment)

Cable provider Virgin Media has launched a new “Helping Hands” channel on YouTube today that’s designed to help its home customers make the most of their broadband connections and other services.

O2 UK Target FREE WiFi for London Underground Stations on 22nd July

2nd July, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 has confirmed that its public wireless internet (wifi) service at 120 London Underground train stations, which will be offered for free to their customers, will now go live on 22nd July 2013 after having suffered a slight delay from June 2013.

BT Bring FTTC and FTTP to 2.7M UK Apartments and High Rise Buildings

2nd July, 2013 (8 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which maintains BT’s national UK telecoms network, has revealed that 2.7 Million apartments (Multi Dwelling Units) or high rise buildings around the United Kingdom can now access its superfast broadband service (i.e. up to 80Mbps FTTC or 330Mbps capable FTTP). But 550k more will soon follow.

Virgin Media UK Tweaks its Broadband Traffic Management Policy Again

26th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

As expected Virgin Media has once again tweaked its broadband Traffic Management policy, which many consumers already find to be quite confusing, to improve upstream (upload) speeds and flexibility in order to help make video streaming from home computers smoother.

UPDATE Rights Holders Want Big UK ISPs to Block EZTV and Yify-Torrents

19th June, 2013 (8 Comments)

Some of the country’s broadband ISPs have told ISPreview.co.uk that Rights Holders are putting pressure on them to prevent their broadband customers from being able to access two extra website (EZTV and Yify-Torrents), which have both been accused of facilitating internet copyright infringement (piracy).

Big Four UK ISPs Commit GBP1m to Help Tackle Online Child Abuse

18th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

Following this week’s controversial meeting with the government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, four of the United Kingdom’s biggest broadband ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Sky Broadband) have agreed to collectively commit £1 million over the next 4 years to “crack down” on the creation and distribution of online child abuse content.

Virgin Mobile UK Drops Unlimited Mobile Broadband Data from PAYG Tariff

13th June, 2013 (14 Comments)

The mobile division of Virgin Media has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they will next month drop the “unlimited data” (Mobile Broadband) aspect of their Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) based Big Data and Texts top-ups, which launched at the end of last year (here), in favour of a capped usage allowance.

Liberty Global Completes GBP15bn Takeover of UK Cable ISP Virgin Media

8th June, 2013 (28 Comments)

International cable operator Liberty Global (LGi) has, after clearing all the necessary shareholder and regulatory approvals, officially completed its £15bn (enterprise value) acquisition of broadband, phone and TV giant Virgin Media in the United Kingdom.

Portsmouth UK Virgin Media Users Suffer Lengthy Outage After Cable Cut

4th June, 2013 (5 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media’s cable broadband and TV network in Portsmouth on the south coast of England could be left without service for up to three days after contractors conducting roadworks cut through one of the operators vital cables. Separately Virgin are also testing a new Traffic Management policy on the 100Mbps+ package.

UPD Virgin Media UK Claims New SuperHub Broadband Router is the Fastest

31st May, 2013 (7 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today announced the official launch of its new SuperHub V2 wireless broadband modem and router, which it describes as being the “fastest wireless hub in the UK” thanks to their new concurrent dual band wifi (5GHz and 2.4GHz) technology.

Arthur D. Little Says UK Could Adopt Ultrafast FTTH Broadband in 5 Years

31st May, 2013 (9 Comments)

Management consultancy giant Arthur D. Little has published a new paper that examines the importance of investing in better telecoms infrastructure. It also predicts that the UK might need to adopt ultrafast (100Mbps+) fibre optic FTTH broadband “over the next five years“, unless G.Fast is realised to expand the life of FTTC.

Virgin Media UK Deploy R38 SuperHub Firmware Update to Fix Bugs

31st May, 2013 (1 Comment)

Cable ISP Virgin Media UK should today completed the national roll-out of their latest R38 Firmware update for the troubled SuperHub (NetGear) wireless router and modem device, which fixes a couple of nasty bugs.

Big UK ISPs All Plan Network Level Adult Website Filtering

25th May, 2013 (30 Comments)

BT, Sky Broadband (BSkyB) and Virgin Media have all now confirmed that they plan to join TalkTalk (HomeSafe) in launching an automatic network level filtering service in the UK, which would block access to websites that contain “adult” content.

Virgin Media Business Detail UK £49m Fibre Capacity Deal with Sky Broadband

23rd May, 2013 (12 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has detailed its new £49 million backhaul network capacity deal with BSkyB (Sky Broadband). Under the agreement Virgin will connect around a third of Sky’s unbundled (LLU) local UK telephone exchanges with Sky’s own wholly owned nationwide broadband network.

Virgin Media Target Hooligan Household Objects for Crimes Against WiFi

22nd May, 2013 (12 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today unleashed its “broadband sheriffs” to help broadband consumers identify which seemingly innocent household items can cause the most interference for your home wifi network; these could result in a serious loss of performance. Oh and they’re also touting that new SuperHub V2 router again.