Cable giant Virgin Media UK has today released their latest quarterly financial results (Q3-2011), which saw the operator return to growth, following a brief Q2 dip, to top 4,333,600 broadband ISP subscribers (up by +19,100 from 4,314,500 in Q2-2011).

The vast majority of Virgin's broadband subscribers (4,072,900) use its ultrafast cable (DOCSIS / EuroDOCSIS) platform, although the Virgin National (Virgin.net) / ADSL2+ based non-cable services still account for 260,700 of the total (down by -5,200 from 265,900 in Q2).


Some 26% of Virgin's cable broadband base (over one million households) now take its 20Mbps or faster services and 54% of "new" subscribers are adopting superfast speeds of 30Mbps or higher. At the time of writing their 30Mbps service is home to roughly 500,000 subscribers, with 187,000 on their top 50Mbps and 100Mbps packages (up from 170,000 in Q2).

The 100Mbps service in particular, which launched at the end of 2010, will be available to half of the UK by mid-2012 and over eight million homes can already access it. Overall Virgin Media saw quarterly revenue growth of 2.2% to reach £1bn, while their Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) grew by 3.2% to record £47.86.