UK ISP Virgin Media Business (VMB) has today signed a significant new £100 million+ deal to provide the Mobile Broadband Network Ltd. (MBNL), a Joint Venture network sharing and management company between T-Mobile , Orange and Three (3) , with a high capacity Ethernet based mobile backhaul service (Sync-E) that will "enable" customers to benefit from future "super-fast" 4G / Mobile Broadband services.

It's understood that VMB will build 14 regional aggregation networks across the UK to enhance MBNL's bandwidth capacity for both existing 3G and future 4G mobile data services. Phase One of the deployment will see MBNL gain 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) of new Ethernet connectivity. The whole project will take 18 months to complete.



Virgin Media Business claims to be the UK's "only nationwide fibre optic network", which is somewhat debateable, and carries 35% of all business broadband traffic. The firm also cites a recent study from the Yankee Group, which predicted that world mobile data traffic would increase by a staggering 3,000% come 2015.