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Virgin Media UK Pauses Cable Network Rollout in Great Yarmouth

22nd February, 2018 (12 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media appears to have paused their Project Lighting network expansion of ultrafast broadband and TV services in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth, which had originally been due to reach 5,000 homes and businesses before the end of 2019.

Virgin Media UK Revamp 4G Mobile Tariffs with Bigger Allowances

22nd February, 2018 (5 Comments)

The mobile division of cable ISP Virgin Media (Virgin Mobile) will later today unveil a major refresh of their monthly 4G SIM-Only and handset plans, which boosts allowances and also introduces an “unlimited” data tariff (only available to existing home broadband customers).

Quick Update on the Virgin Media Hub 3 Cable Router Latency Fix UPDATE3

21st February, 2018 (37 Comments)

Last week it emerged that cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK had begun deploying a new firmware update v9.1.116.603 for their Hub 3.0 (SuperHub v3) wireless router in order to fix the long running latency bug (here) on the Intel Puma 6 chipset. Today we wanted to share a quick update.

Uncertainty Grips Wireless Broadband Project in Swindon AGAIN

20th February, 2018 (4 Comments)

The Swindon Borough Council‘s £1.9m contract with UKB Networks, which has been building an LTE (4G) based Fixed Wireless Access network that can bring “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) to 19,500 premises (99.4% total coverage), is facing a fresh challenge over changes to its deployment.

Virgin Media Average Broadband Speeds Showing Improvement

19th February, 2018 (47 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media looks to be in a good shape ahead of the forthcoming change in UK advertising rules. The provider has published a monthly update that reveals the “average” speeds of their broadband packages and in most cases they’re now delivering faster than the headline rate.

Virgin Media UK to Launch 350Mbps Home Broadband Package UPDATE2

15th February, 2018 (59 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has published their latest Q4 2017 (calendar) results, which saw them pledge to introduce a new 350Mbps broadband tier and add 159,000 premises to their UK network coverage. Virgin’s total broadband base also grew by +24K in the quarter to total 5,104,300.

uSwitch 2018 Awards Name the UK Best Mobile and Broadband ISPs

9th February, 2018 (13 Comments)

The annual uSwitch.com Awards 2018 were held last night, which saw budget ISP Plusnet pick-up the most wins for fixed line home broadband services and giffgaff grab the largest number of awards for their mobile service. Meanwhile NOW TV was named as the best TV provider.

Behind Schedule Virgin Media Cable Network Grows 1 Million Premises

5th February, 2018 (8 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has officially passed an additional 1 million UK premises as part of their £3bn Project Lightning network extension, which is bringing ultrafast broadband and TV services to 4 million extra homes and businesses. But it’s still behind schedule.

Vodafone Confirm Talks Over Possible Liberty Global EU Asset Swap

3rd February, 2018 (10 Comments)

The prospect of mobile giant Vodafone gaining access to Virgin Media’s growing HFC cable and fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network in the UK has once again been raised. Voda has confirmed that it is in “early stage discussions” with Liberty Global regarding a “potential acquisition.”

Virgin Media UK Discounts Ultrafast Broadband and Phone Bundles

1st February, 2018 (15 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today further reduced the price of their discount offer on bundles of phone and ultrafast broadband, which for example means that monthly prices will start at £29 per month for the 50Mbps package rather than £32 (applies for the first 12 months of service).

Virgin Media UK Shelves Budget Broadband ISP Project Prosecco

1st February, 2018 (3 Comments)

Newspaper reports appear to suggest that cable operator Virgin Media has quietly scrapped their tentative Project Prosecco plan, which back in 2016 (here) indicated that they were aiming to setup a new sub-brand called ‘Ruby‘ that would offer cheaper broadband packages.

Ookla 2018 Study Awards the UK Fastest Mobile and Broadband ISPs

31st January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has today published their annual ‘Speedtest Market Report‘ for the United Kingdom. Overall the country ranked 29th in the world for average fixed line broadband ISP speeds (Virgin Media is the fastest) and just 46th for mobile (EE is the fastest).

BT in UK Court Battle Over Website Blocking for Trade Mark Abuse

30th January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Two broadband providers, BT and sibling EE, have today gone to the Supreme Court in London to appeal two key aspects of an earlier ruling, which forced major UK ISPs to start blocking websites that were found to sell counterfeit goods (i.e. abuse of Trade Mark).

Bugs as Virgin Media Upgrade TV Channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4 -UPDATE

29th January, 2018 (7 Comments)

Customers of UK cable operator Virgin Media have noticed that their TV channels are finally being migrated from the old MPEG2 to newer MPEG4 (H.264) video standard, which is a subtle but still quite important change, albeit one that has created the odd small gremlin.

Virgin Media TV Customers Offered Free Upgrade to New V6 Box

24th January, 2018 (14 Comments)

After a long wait Virgin Media has announced that existing UK customers of their broadband, phone and TV bundles will now be able to take advantage of a FREE upgrade to the cable operator’s new 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) ready V6 set-top-box. The offer comes with no re-contract requirements.

Bad News for TalkTalk and Post Office in Ofcom Complaints Study Q3 2017

19th January, 2018 (3 Comments)

The UK telecom regulator’s latest Q3 2017 consumer complaints report has named and shamed TalkTalk for attracting the most gripes in the fixed ISP broadband sector, while the Post Office suffered the same for landline phone services and Vodafone took the most heat for Mobile.

Virgin Media’s Exit Fees for Non-Network Areas Put Under Spotlight

15th January, 2018 (11 Comments)

A new article has once again highlighted Virgin Media UK’s practice of charging hefty contract exit fees, which specifically relates to situations where customers move house into an area that exists outside of the operator’s current broadband ISP and TV network coverage.