{"id":22245,"date":"2020-05-12T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=22245"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:39:09","slug":"virgin-media-broadband-covers-150000-extra-n-ireland-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/virgin-media-broadband-covers-150000-extra-n-ireland-premises.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media Broadband Covers 150000 Extra N.Ireland Premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news. Cable operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> UK has today effectively completed the target they set in 2017 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/50000-extra-premises-northern-ireland-get-virgin-medias-network.html\">here<\/a>) by growing the reach of their &#8220;<em>gigabit-capable<\/em>&#8221; broadband ISP and TV network to a further 150,000 premises in Northern Ireland (total of 375,000). As a result half of all premises in the country can now access their service.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The operator says they&#8217;ve so far invested more than \u00a3100m into Northern Ireland, which includes the recent opening of a new office in Belfast that houses the majority of the company&#8217;s 350 employees in the country. Meanwhile the network build itself forms part of their wider \u00a33bn <strong>Project Lightning<\/strong> build, which originally aimed to add an additional 4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they\u2019ve completed c.2.2 million).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> VM&#8217;s network is dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> powered Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) and some Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) via Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFoG).<\/div>\n<p>Overall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s latest network expansion in <strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong> has benefited 30 towns and villages such as Belfast, Bangor, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Craigavon, Lurgan, New Buildings, Portadown, Magheramason, Sion Mills, Templepatrick and many others.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that their on-going upgrade to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 technology means that every premises covered by their network will gain access to speeds of 1Gbps (albeit just 50Mbps upload) by the end of 2021. Hopefully they&#8217;ll eventually get around to adding that upgrade to their upstream channels too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Seamus McCorry, VM Regional Director for N.Ireland, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re expanding our gigabit-capable network in Northern Ireland so that more homes, businesses and public sector organisations can benefit from our ultrafast, reliable and resilient network.<\/p>\n<p>Our investment is benefitting citizens right across the province and laying the digital foundations that will continue to support growth and drive forward Northern Ireland\u2019s digital agenda.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly VM has not set any new future targets for the expansion of their network coverage in N.Ireland, which suggests that we may only see a more limited build going forward (if any at all).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news. 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