Cable provider Virgin Media UK has, following an initially botched email notice, issued a small correction to last week's £110m plan to double its customers broadband speeds (original news). Under the amendment Virgin's existing 50Mbps (Megabits per second) customers will now get a speed boost of 120Mbps (12Mbps uploads) instead of the originally planned 100Mbps.


Some suspect that the seemingly unplanned move could be aimed at defusing any confusion over the botched email update. Either way customers will probably be pleased. It's understood that the 50Mbps to 120Mbps upgrade will now occur, unlike the other boosts, in two phases. Customers will first be lifted to 100Mbps, as originally planned, and then to 120Mbps at a later date.

As before the mass deployment of Virgin's faster speeds will start in February 2012 and continue for over 18 months with completion expected to occur by the middle of 2013.