{"id":16333,"date":"2018-06-15T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16333"},"modified":"2018-06-15T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:25:57","slug":"virgin-media-uk-complete-network-build-for-24000-bangor-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/virgin-media-uk-complete-network-build-for-24000-bangor-premises.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media UK Complete Network Build for 24,000 Bangor Premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has announced that they&#8217;ve completed a major extension of their ultrafast 350Mbps cable broadband ISP and TV network in Bangor (Northern Ireland), which began last year and can now reach an additional 24,000 premises.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The deployment forms part of the provider&#8217;s commitment to cover an additional 50,000 homes and businesses in Northern Ireland, which was made last August 2017 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/50000-extra-premises-northern-ireland-get-virgin-medias-network.html\">here<\/a>). At the time the roll-out had already started in Ballykelly, Bangor, Limavady, Newtownards, Strabane and Artigarvan.<\/p>\n<p>As usual this forms part of their wider \u00a33bn Project Lightning programme, which is working to reach an additional 4 million premises by 2019 or 2020 and this should extend their network coverage to around 60%+ of UK premises. Roughly half of this work is forecast to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> and the rest will be Hybrid Fibre Coax (both via EuroDOCSIS).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Conor Harrison, VM Regional Director for N.Ireland, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted that local residents and businesses can now start to benefit from the boost our ultrafast broadband will give them. 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