{"id":28789,"date":"2021-10-07T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T07:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=28789"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T07:40:36","slug":"virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million homes can now access their top “gigabit<\/em>” download speeds of 1130Mbps (52Mbps up) and this will surely push UK coverage of “gigabit-capable broadband<\/em>” to well over 50%.<\/p>\n

The latest areas to be upgraded include Brighton, Colchester, Doncaster, Derby, Gillingham, Portsmouth, Southend, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Swansea, Wakefield and many others that have not been specifically named (the list would be very long if they included all the smaller towns and areas too).<\/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

The move suggests that Virgin Media<\/a> may only have one final upgrade left to do before completing their rollout to all 15.5 million of their covered premises by the end of 2021, which, when combined with rival Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) deployments from other operators, could push the UK coverage of gigabit-capable broadband networks to around 60-65%.<\/p>\n

Until today, many of VMO2’s customers on the operator’s existing EuroDOCSIS 3.0 based Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC) and FTTP<\/a> network could already access top ultrafast speeds of c.630Mbps (Ultimate Oomph TV bundle), but by adopting the D3.1 standard they’ve been able to significantly boost the downstream performance of those existing services.<\/p>\n

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

“Our continued investment means more than three-quarters of our network is now gigabit ready, offering millions of households across the country access to future-proof services and the fastest broadband available from any major provider.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re continuing with our mission to upgrade the UK and connect our entire network to gigabit speeds by the end of the year \u2013 a pace unrivalled by any other provider.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the next few years’ VMO2 will be able to claim that they’re the largest UK provider of gigabit speeds, even if it is only the on the downstream side (upstream is still stuck on the older D3.0 standard). By comparison, arch rival Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) plans to reach 25 million premises with gigabit FTTP by December 2026, but they’re currently only at 5.2 million+ and will be playing catch-up for some time.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, VMO2 has previously stated an “ambition<\/em>” to expand their newer 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 FTTP by the end of 2028 (here<\/a>). A wholesale solution for UK ISPs is also being prepared.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, customers who take out the related Gig1Fibre<\/strong> package from Virgin Media today will be sent a new HUB 4.0<\/strong> (TG3492LG-VMB<\/em> \/ Gigabit Connect Box<\/em>) router, and you can see the specification for that at the bottom of this article<\/a>. The HUB 4.0 is VM\u2019s only router with DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 support, although they have made the device available on some slower packages in certain areas to help tackle issues of high utilisation (here<\/a>).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million homes can now access their top “gigabit” download speeds of 1130Mbps (52Mbps up) and this will surely push UK coverage of “gigabit-capable broadband” to well over 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[419,56,475],"class_list":["post-28789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-docsis3-1","tag-fttp","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nVirgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-07T07:26:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-07T07:40:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/nggallery_import\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1122\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-07T07:26:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-07T07:40:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\"},\"wordCount\":579,\"commentCount\":70,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"DOCSIS 3.1\",\"FTTP\",\"Virgin Media\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ISP News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\",\"name\":\"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes - ISPreview UK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-07T07:26:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-07T07:40:36+00:00\",\"description\":\"Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg\",\"width\":1122,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"ISPreview UK\",\"description\":\"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/mjack\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/bsky.app\\\/profile\\\/ispreview.bsky.social\",\"https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.social\\\/@ispreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\",\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Mark Jackson\"},\"description\":\"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/markj\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes - ISPreview UK","description":"Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes - ISPreview UK","og_description":"Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html","og_site_name":"ISPreview UK","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_published_time":"2021-10-07T07:26:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-10-07T07:40:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1122,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/nggallery_import\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mark Jackson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ispreview","twitter_site":"@ispreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Jackson","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html"},"author":{"name":"Mark Jackson","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5"},"headline":"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes","datePublished":"2021-10-07T07:26:58+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-07T07:40:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html"},"wordCount":579,"commentCount":70,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/nggallery_import\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg","keywords":["DOCSIS 3.1","FTTP","Virgin Media"],"articleSection":["ISP News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html","name":"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes - ISPreview UK","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/nggallery_import\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg","datePublished":"2021-10-07T07:26:58+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-07T07:40:36+00:00","description":"Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today upgraded a further 2.5 million UK premises to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 network, which means that 12.8 million","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/nggallery_import\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/nggallery_import\/Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer.jpg","width":1122,"height":1000,"caption":"Virgin-Media-O2-Street-Cabinet-and-FTTP-Engineer"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Virgin Media O2 Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 12.8 Million UK Homes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","name":"ISPreview UK","description":"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization","name":"ISPreview.co.uk","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"ISPreview.co.uk"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mjack\/","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ispreview.bsky.social","https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5","name":"Mark Jackson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","caption":"Mark Jackson"},"description":"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/markj"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}