{"id":22779,"date":"2020-06-17T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=22779"},"modified":"2020-06-17T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:07:44","slug":"virgin-media-uk-summarise-broadband-use-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/06\/virgin-media-uk-summarise-broadband-use-during-lockdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media UK Summarise Broadband Use During Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadband ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has today revealed new insights on the extent of internet traffic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown, such as the fact that households on their network have downloaded an &#8220;<em>extra<\/em>&#8221; 325GB (GigaBytes) on average during lockdown so far.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As most people will be aware, the Coronavirus crisis has caused many more adults and children alike to both work and play from home. The situation caused an increase in domestic internet traffic, particularly during April, although this has recently begun to soften as more people start returning to work.<\/p>\n<p>In fact since lockdown started, every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> broadband customer has downloaded an extra <strong>3.4GB per day<\/strong> on average when compared with download levels in February &#8211; the month before lockdown measures began. During the busiest week of the lockdown, VM&#8217;s customers were downloading a &#8220;<em>third more data than before<\/em>&#8220;, burning through an extra 32.5GB compared to February.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly you&#8217;d sort of expect this, given that 99% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s customers are now taking &#8220;<em>ultrafast broadband<\/em>&#8221; speeds of 100Mbps or more. But interestingly the change for upload traffic is also significant, with customers uploading an extra 3.7GB each week (e.g. remote working, gaming, Twitch and socialising online by uploading pictures\/videos etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Data usage also varies significantly between regions. Consumers in <strong>London<\/strong> have made the biggest shift to consuming content online and have been downloading 20% more throughout the emergency period. Meanwhile, <strong>Wales<\/strong> has seen the smallest change with just a 10% growth in download traffic, while <strong>N.Ireland<\/strong> tops the table for overall peak use and customers in <strong>Scotland<\/strong> downloaded the least of all the UK regions during the busiest 8pm-10pm period.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to upload traffic, Northern Irish customers have made the biggest change, with peak data use increasing by 58% during lockdown, while Welsh users appear to be making less evening video calls with the lowest average upload traffic of any region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Jeanie York, Virgin Media&#8217;s CTIO, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite a surge in demand as people have relied on their broadband more than ever, our network has proved itself reliable and resilient and helped keep people connected to loved ones, work and entertainment. This is a new dawn for broadband usage; the way people use their connectivity has irrevocably changed and we expect Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on patterns of data consumption.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Overall it&#8217;s noted that April 2020 was the busiest month on record for Virgin Media&#8217;s network, with usage in May only just behind that. However the busiest single week was, unsurprisingly, the first week of lockdown in late March. The following week, at the end of March and start of April, also turned out to be the busiest in terms of uploaded data as customers embraced video calls and remote working.<\/p>\n<p>However, as lockdown measures have gradually eased, there has been a slight decline in data consumption compared to the busiest weeks, although newly established patterns (e.g. daytime upstream traffic more than doubling) have remained (e.g. children doing video calls with friends and for work etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Fears that broadband networks would not be able to cope with increased usage during lockdown have, thankfully, not materialised despite customers using their connections more intensively than ever. Sadly that&#8217;s all we get from Virgin Media and it would have been more helpful if they&#8217;d provided a full summary of the statistics they&#8217;ve recorded, rather than a partial one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadband ISP Virgin Media has today revealed new insights on the extent of internet traffic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown, such as the fact that households on their network have downloaded an &#8220;extra&#8221; 325GB (GigaBytes) on average during lockdown so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[414,89,34,475,71],"class_list":["post-22779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-statistics","tag-virgin-media","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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