{"id":28785,"date":"2021-12-07T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=28785"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:12:50","slug":"virgin-media-o2-completes-uk-gigabit-broadband-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/12\/virgin-media-o2-completes-uk-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"ISP Virgin Media O2 Completes UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) has today switched-on their last batch of DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 network upgrades, which has put an additional 1.1 million homes within reach of “gigabit<\/em>” download speeds (1130Mbps down and 52Mbps up) and means that c.65% of UK premises should now be covered by “gigabit-capable broadband<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The final batch of locations to be upgraded aren’t named in the announcement, but we understand that they include Exeter, Poole, Plymouth, Norwich, Luton, Loughbrough, Oldham, Rochdale and parts of Surrey and Hertfordshire which weren’t upgraded earlier in the year. Prior to today, VMO2 had already upgraded 14.3 million of their covered premises to the new cable standard, and the latest change will complete this picture for all 15.5 million.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> D3.1 utilises enhancements like Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which can encode data by using multiple carrier frequencies, and boosts the amount of radio spectrum up to 200MHz. This also supports other enhancements, like Distributed Access Architecture \/ Remote Phy (R-PHY) \u2013 here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Until today, a good chunk of VMO2’s customers on the operator’s existing EuroDOCSIS 3.0 based Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC) and Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) network could already access top ultrafast speeds of c.630Mbps (Ultimate Oomph TV bundle), but by adopting the D3.1 standard they\u2019ve been able to significantly boost the downstream performance up to 1Gbps (potentially hitting 2Gbps+ in the future).<\/p>\n

As a result of all this Virgin Media<\/a> has, in a fairly short amount of time (2 years), put all 15.5 million of their covered premises within reach of gigabit-capable broadband download speeds. This, when combined with rival FTTP<\/a> deployments from other operators, should push the UK’s overall gigabit coverage to around 65% (FTTP<\/a> providers alone deliver about 29%, but a fair bit of that includes overbuild with VMO2).<\/p>\n

Lutz Sch\u00fcler, CEO of VMO2, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Just two years ago we set out to spearhead the UK\u2019s gigabit revolution and today we\u2019ve delivered. Our investment to bring gigabit broadband to every home on our network has catapulted the UK\u2019s digital infrastructure forward by a decade and forced others to up their game.<\/p>\n

As the country\u2019s largest gigabit provider by far, we\u2019re the driving force behind widespread gigabit availability four years ahead of the Government\u2019s target.<\/p>\n

Having reached this major milestone in just two years, we\u2019re doubling down on our mission to upgrade the UK by continuing to innovate and invest in our network to support the technologies of tomorrow \u2013 there\u2019s no slowing down at Virgin Media<\/a> O2<\/a>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nadine Dorries MP, UK Digital Secretary, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Getting high speed broadband into everyone’s homes is a top priority and Virgin Media O2<\/a>’s efforts mean we’re making quick progress in our mission to level up the UK with better connectivity.<\/p>\n

We must ensure that rural areas are not left behind, which is why alongside industry’s roll out we’re investing up to \u00a35 billion to make top-of-the-range speeds available in hard-to-reach communities.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The catch here is that future progress will be much slower, since it will come almost entirely from fresh FTTP deployments that take a lot longer to build than simply upgrading existing kit and will probably first need to overbuild a lot of VMO2’s gigabit-capable patch. On top of that, VMO2’s upgrade still leaves the upstream side of their network stuck on the old D3.0 standard, which is why the speed is just c.50Mbps.<\/p>\n

One trial, which was conducted last year, did however boost uploads to 214Mbps by applying D3.1 to the upstream side (here<\/a>), but it remains unclear when or even if they’ll deploy this. More recent trials, which had similar characteristics to the first one, have seen uploads drop back to 50Mbps (here<\/a> and here<\/a>). In other words, we can expect a 2Gbps package in the future, but a question mark will continue to hover over uploads.<\/p>\n

However, for the next few years\u2019 VMO2 will still be able to claim that they\u2019re the largest UK provider of gigabit speeds, even if it is only the on the downstream side. By comparison, arch rival Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) plans to reach 25 million premises with gigabit FTTP by December 2026 (c.80% of the UK), but they\u2019re currently only at 6 million+ and playing a long game of catch-up with VMO2.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, VMO2 has previously stated a vague \u201cambition<\/em>\u201d to expand their newest FTTP network to reach an extra 7 million homes<\/strong> over the next 5-years. On top of that, they’ll also go back to upgrade their entire fixed line network – c.14.3 million premises in existing HFC areas – to XGS-PON based symmetric speed FTTP by the end of 2028 (here<\/a>). A wholesale solution for UK ISPs is also expected.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> VMO2 are investing \u00a310bn on fixed line and 5G<\/a> upgrades over the next 5-years.<\/div>\n

Customers who take out the related Gig1Fibre<\/strong> package from Virgin Media today will usually be sent a D3.1 capable HUB 4.0<\/strong> (TG3492LG-VMB<\/em> \/ Gigabit Connect Box<\/em>) router, and you can see the specification for that in this article<\/a>. But they\u2019ve also launched a much more capable HUB 5.0<\/strong> (Sagemcom F3896LG-VMB<\/em>) router (details<\/a>), although this is technically still more of a pre-launch trial.<\/p>\n

Prices for the new 1Gbps broadband package typically start at \u00a362 per month<\/strong> (standalone broadband) on an 18-month term and come attached to a guaranteed price freeze for at least 24 months. Customers can also take this alongside their various Pay TV and phone bundles, albeit at extra cost.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 8am<\/strong><\/p>\n

One final point to make here is that there’s sometimes a short additional gap of time between VMO2 making such announcements and the change actually becoming live. Virgin has informed us that their website\/checker hasn’t yet been updated to fully reflect today’s news.<\/p>\n

In addition, Virgin Media has informed us that today’s final 1.1 million premises came from Exeter, Poole, Plymouth, Norwich, Luton, Loughbrough, Oldham, Rochdale and parts of Surrey and Hertfordshire which weren\u2019t upgraded earlier in the year. We’ve updated the article above to reflect this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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