{"id":34878,"date":"2023-06-29T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T08:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=34878"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:03:20","slug":"virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> UK (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) lines, which is currently being rolled out as into new areas, via nexfibre<\/a>, and as an upgrade on their legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) infrastructure.<\/p>\n

At present around 14.3 million out of Virgin Media<\/a>\u2019s 16.1 million premises passed are currently still reached via their older HFC network using DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 technology, while well over 1 million of their premises are also being served by \u201cfull fibre<\/em>\u201d (FTTP<\/a>) using the older Radio Frequency over Glass<\/strong> (RFoG) approach to ensure compatibility.<\/p>\n

The operator\u2019s existing FTTP<\/a> and HFC deployments are already capable of gigabit speeds, but in order to stay competitive VMO2 needed to go beyond this. The solution they chose, as announced in 2021 (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), was to upgrade all of their existing HFC areas – at a cost of c.\u00a3100 per home (i.e. using existing ducts to avoid digging new trenches) – to support the latest XGS-PON<\/strong> powered full fibre technology by 2028 (Project Mustang<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

The initial trials of this new technology, which took place last year and involved 50,000 premises around Stoke<\/strong>, Salisbury<\/strong> and Wakefield<\/strong> (here<\/a>), went well and the operator has since been busy making progress on upgrades to the rest of their legacy HFC network. But until today, they hadn’t started selling related services outside the trial base.<\/p>\n

At the same time the vast majority of new XGS-PON powered FTTP broadband build (i.e. not the HFC upgrade programme) has separately come under nexfibre<\/a><\/strong>, which is a new joint venture company setup by Telef\u00f3nica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners (here<\/a>). Virgin Media<\/a> are an anchor tenant ISP for nexfibre<\/a>’s new wholesale network.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> VMO2’s gigabit-capable broadband network – a mix of FTTP (RFoG and XGS-PON) and HFC – covers 16.274 million UK \u201cHomes Serviceable<\/em>\u201d when combined with Nexfibre<\/a> (or c.16.1m for just VMO2).<\/div>\n

The \u00a34.5bn aim of nexfibre is to expand full fibre to reach \u201cup to<\/em>\u201d 7 million additional UK homes – staring with 5 million by 2026 (i.e. those homes not currently served by VMO2). In theory, this could push the combined VMO2 and nexfibre footprint to around 80% of UK premises by 2028 (up to 23 million premises), which is roughly comparable with Openreach<\/a>\u2019s rival FTTP target (25m by Dec 2026).<\/p>\n

So what does today’s news mean?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The announcement seems to be focused on their new XGS-PON build via Nexfibre (c. 200,000 premises and rising), rather than the XGS-PON upgrades for legacy HFC and RFoG areas. For existing customers or consumers in areas where their network is already available, this won’t mean any change (for now). But for those living in areas where VMO2\/Nexfibre recently expanded their network or will do very soon, they’ll gain access to the operator’s services for the first time and their connections will be powered by this new technology.<\/p>\n

While the technology used to power these customers\u2019 home broadband connections will be new, the products and services on offer will be familiar to many. “We\u2019ll be offering broadband with the same look and feel as the rest of our network, as well as the option to add features like our latest connected entertainment service, Stream<\/em>,” said VMO2.<\/p>\n

But it won’t always be this way and VMO2 will eventually seek to harness the performance benefits of their new network. “In the long term, XGS-PON and fibre connections will provide customers with even more bandwidth as the technology enables symmetrical upload and download speeds. This means that customers will have the ability to upload as quickly as they download, at speeds of up to 10Gbps<\/em>,” added the operator.<\/p>\n

Jeanie York, VMO2’s Chief Technology Officer, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Consumers and businesses won\u2019t be the only winners as we roll out this technology more widely: the planet is set to benefit, too. XGS-PON uses a passive optical network so energy consumption will be lower in future. This will help us deliver our ambitious net zero goals that supports better outcomes for customers, communities and the planet.<\/p>\n

Work to evolve our network never stops, and everyday households across the country gain access to our award-winning and fully gigabit broadband. With network innovation and investment unlocking faster and ever-more reliable services for customers, we\u2019re entering a golden era for fixed connectivity and planning for the decades ahead. Today is a key moment in that journey.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As to the next most obvious question, when will we start seeing XGS-PON products going live in the HFC upgrade areas too? Back in April 2023 VMO2’s Director of Fixed Infrastructure, Engineering and Delivery, Matt Tully<\/strong>, perhaps unintentionally revealed that this will start to go live for homes “later this year<\/em>” (at that point they’ll have already upgraded around 2 million premises).<\/p>\n

The video of Tully’s presentation has since been removed, but not before we published our detailed summary (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which is currently being rolled out as into new areas, via nexfibre, and as an upgrade on their legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) infrastructure.<\/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":[56,32,475],"class_list":["post-34878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fttp","tag-o2","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nVirgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they've officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON\" \/>\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\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they've officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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=\"2023-06-29T08:34:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-29T09:03:20+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=\"4 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\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-29T08:34:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-29T09:03:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html\"},\"wordCount\":830,\"commentCount\":101,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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\":[\"FTTP\",\"O2\",\"Virgin Media\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ISP News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html\",\"name\":\"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband - ISPreview UK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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\":\"2023-06-29T08:34:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-29T09:03:20+00:00\",\"description\":\"Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they've officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband\"}]},{\"@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 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband - ISPreview UK","description":"Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they've officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON","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\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband - ISPreview UK","og_description":"Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they've officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html","og_site_name":"ISPreview UK","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_published_time":"2023-06-29T08:34:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-06-29T09:03:20+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":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html"},"author":{"name":"Mark Jackson","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5"},"headline":"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband","datePublished":"2023-06-29T08:34:47+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-29T09:03:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html"},"wordCount":830,"commentCount":101,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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":["FTTP","O2","Virgin Media"],"articleSection":["ISP News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html","name":"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband - ISPreview UK","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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":"2023-06-29T08:34:47+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-29T09:03:20+00:00","description":"Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they've officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.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\/2023\/06\/virgin-media-o2-uk-start-selling-xgs-pon-powered-fttp-broadband.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband"}]},{"@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\/34878","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=34878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878\/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=34878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}