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Virgin Media O2 Adopt New UK Pricing Policy for Broadband, TV and Mobile UPDATE

11th November, 2024 (53 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today become the latest ISP to adopt Ofcom’s new guidance on inflation-linked annual broadband price rises. In practice, this means that new and re-contracting (upgrading) customers will be hit by a flat price increase of up to £3.50 (monthly) each April.

Virgin Media UK Offers 3 Months Free Broadband for Black Friday UPDATE

7th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that they’ve launched their first round of Black Friday discounts, which among other things complements their existing discounts by offering the first 3 months of service for free across many (but not all) of their broadband packages and TV / mobile bundles.

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Virgin Media and Nexfibre Add 9,000 Chelmsford Homes to UK FTTP Network

6th November, 2024 (5 Comments)

Broadband network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with UK ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 9,000 additional homes in the Essex (England) city of Chelmsford.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Switches on First 5G Standalone Small Cells

6th November, 2024 (9 Comments)

After launching their commercial 5G Standalone (SA) mobile network during February 2024 (here), O2 (Virgin Media) has today followed that up by claiming to have become the “first UK operator to switch on 5G standalone small cells“. Customers in Birmingham city centre will be the first to benefit from the faster mobile broadband kit (up to 300Mbps).

Virgin Media O2 Partners with StartUp, GoDaddy, and egg to Help UK SMEs

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.

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Virgin Media O2 Says UK Gov Must Get Serious with Tackling Fraud

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.

Mobile Operator O2 UK Quietly Discontinues Pay As You Go Data SIMs

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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nPerf Finds Top EU Countries Beat UK for Mobile Broadband Speeds

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.

Nexfibre Publish Q3 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update

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 Offers Pay As You Go Mobile Customers a Free DATA Boost

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).

Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Add 18k Homes to Horsham UK Fibre Network

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 O2 UK Broadband Users Grow to 5.73M as FTTP Adds 281K Premises

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 Clarify Contradictory Claim of 5G Support on PAYG Plans

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.”

Virgin Media O2 UK Has Distributed 1,000 Free WiFi Delivering 4G Get Boxes

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 Media UK Give Free Access to 14 South Asian TV Channels

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 UK Quietly Downgrade Netflix Standard on Top TV Bundles

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.

Virgin Media O2 UK Offers £10 Railcard Reward to Priority Members

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.