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Virgin-Media-O2-Business-2024-Logo

4th November, 2024 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve launched a new Small Business Partnerships initiative with several key brands including Virgin StartUp, GoDaddy, and egg, to bring exclusive offers to small business based broadband and mobile customers.

Internet Danger Websites with Scam Ads and Malware

4th November, 2024 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2, which invests millions in counter fraud measures each year and blocked more than £250m worth of fraud in 2023, has called on the UK Government to take “urgent action” to address the “epidemic” levels of fraud. The ISP is seeking stronger police powers and the appointment of a dedicated minister.

o2 uk mobile sim

4th November, 2024 (10 Comments)

Some customers of O2 UK’s (Virgin Media) Pay As You Go Data SIMs (mobile broadband) have recently been surprised to find that they can no longer top their plans up with extra data. The reason for this appears to be because the mobile operator quietly removed them from sale during early August 2024.

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mobile network speed test on UK smartphone

31st October, 2024 (8 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm nPerf has today released the results of a new study into mobile broadband (3G, 4G and 5G) performance across several EU countries, which analysed 61,696 internet speed tests via their app (crowdsourced) to reveal that the average UK download is 80Mbps – this makes the country slower than Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, France and Portugal.

31st October, 2024 (21 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2), has published their latest quarterly (Q3 2024) progress update on the roll-out of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network. This includes details on build locations for 2025 and 2026.

o2 uk mobile sim

31st October, 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, until 5th February 2025, both new and existing Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile customers will get the chance to boost their data (mobile broadband) by up to three times the amount for no extra cost (e.g. those with a 10GB plan can boost it to 30GB – GigaBytes).

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Virgin Media O2 Engineer Outside Cabinet

31st October, 2024 (1 Comment)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 18,000 additional homes in the West Sussex (England) town of Horsham.

virgin media gigabits van

30th October, 2024 (6 Comments)

The latest Q3 2024 results from Virgin Media (O2) have been published, which shows that they’re home to 5,726,900 fixed broadband customers (up by 16.2k in Q3 vs -12.2k in Q2) and expanded their full fibre (FTTP) network to 281,100 premises – primarily via nexfibre (down from 295k in Q2). VMO2 has also sold a minority 8.3% stake in Cornerstone (worth £186m).

o2 uk mobile sim

29th October, 2024 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has clarified to ISPreview that their Pay As You Go (PAYG) SIM plans still do NOT currently support their latest 5G (mobile broadband) network, which is despite the main product page for those plans being changed to state that customers will be able to “enjoy super-fast 4G and 5G with our Pay As You Go SIM cards.”

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Jangala-Get-Box-WiFi-Router

29th October, 2024 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and UK tech charity Jangala have this morning announced that, over the past year, they’ve provided more than 1,000 internet-enabling “Get Boxes” to charities and local authorities across the country, which are providing free WiFi hotspots to help thousands of people affected by “data poverty” to get online.

virgin_tv_360

26th October, 2024 (0 Comments)

Customers of UK broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), specifically those who take their pay TV service (TV 360, Stream Box etc.), may like to know that they’ll be able to get access to 14 premium South Asian TV channels at no extra cost until 8th November 2024 in celebration of Diwali.

Virgin-Media-Stream-UK-Box-and-TV

23rd October, 2024 (12 Comments)

Customers looking to take one of Virgin Media UK’s (VMO2) top broadband, pay TV, phone and or O2 SIM bundles – specifically ‘Mega Volt‘ and their ‘Biggest Combo‘ – should note that the ISP has quietly downgraded the Netflix plan they include in these packages with a much cheaper option.

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Virgin-Media-O2-Flat-Colour-Logo-UK

21st October, 2024 (0 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media and O2’s various broadband, mobile, phone and TV packages may like to know that the provider’s ‘Priority’ app, which is a way of rewarding existing subscribers with various special offers and discounts, has begun offering a cheaper Railcard for £10 instead of the usual £30.

Virgin-Media-O2-UK-Stream-TV-Box

17th October, 2024 (13 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media’s (O2) and certain pay TV, broadband, phone and or mobile bundles, primarily those that usually add their ‘Stream’ service, may have noticed that the provider renamed this from ‘Stream‘ to ‘Flex‘ this week. The change is partly cosmetic, but for new customers there’s now an extra £5 monthly charge.

Island Office in Manchester VMO2 via islandmcr.co.uk

16th October, 2024 (5 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today announced that around 1,500 employees (i.e. customer service, commercial and legal teams) are set to move to their new North West HQ in late 2025, which is to be based out of the Island (pictured) building – a net zero carbon workspace in central Manchester.

o2 uk mobile sim

12th October, 2024 (13 Comments)

A small but growing number of O2 UK’s (Virgin Media) mobile customers have reported that the operator has assigned an Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) address to their connections, although in most cases the IP address itself is not fully functional (certainly doesn’t work on data / mobile broadband connections).

virgin media uk engineers jacket

11th October, 2024 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has issued a brief update on the gradual roll-out of “Smart Support”, which is a new service that aims to boost the reliability of internet connections by proactively identifying and tackling issues remotely at no extra cost. Some 200,000 customers have now benefitted from this (up from 50k in July), with 150k more to join by the end of 2024.

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