Virgin Media Now Rolling Out New Cable

Virgin Media Now Rolling Out New Cable within their coverage area mainly infilling areas missed and new developments etc

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

Virgin Media Now Rolling Out New Cable within their coverage area mainly infilling areas missed and new developments etc

Got a link for that or did you make it up?

Going on form, you'll be waiting a while for a link.

In reply to a post by Rockh:

Going on form, you'll be waiting a while for a link.

You mean he's got to write an article first so he can link to it?

Wasnt it in their anual report . There was a news item on it recently on the main site page

Google will be working overtime
No doubt will dredge up something from a few years back for his efforts

From what I've read they will do some infilling if there is demand from consumers and the costs are low, IIRC £400 per property or something like that.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Wasnt it in their anual report . There was a news item on it recently on the main site page

You mean this?

In reference to www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/4583.html:

Virgin Media cop to speed issues with their Super Hub

Users of Virgin Media's new super-hub have been hit by speed problems following upgrades offered to customers on the 20meg XL product. Customers were offered an upgrade to a faster 30meg service with no additional monthly fee, but a one off £30 equipment charge for the new router that virgin dub the "Super Hub". Unfortunately a problem has been found in the new super hub that is rendering it not-so super, and users are seeing speed issues following this.

You made a new thread for that one poorly-constructed, unsupported and completely uninformative sentence?

Really?

Got a link for that or did you make it up?

previously he denied it was happening !

What a tit.

no they aren't, at least not according to http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/3961132-re-...

oh look, it's you !

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

Virgin Media Now Rolling Out New Cable within their coverage area mainly infilling areas missed and new developments etc

They've been doing this for a little while - this isn't news. They've added about 200,000 premises to the network since they started the programme.

In reply to a post by Rockh:

From what I've read they will do some infilling if there is demand from consumers and the costs are low, IIRC £400 per property or something like that.

Close - it's £300 / home passed limit.

We need evidence, a cold, hard .pdf report or news article with actual substantial sustainable claims. Your just one step up from an anonymous poster, one of many hundred steps.

He's one of those people who pops up pops for a bit with unsubstantiated rubbish then goes away for a bit, re-registers and starts the cycle again......................

Living life on the edge with his megs and his windows vista desktop popups.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

Virgin Media Now Rolling Out New Cable within their coverage area mainly infilling areas missed and new developments etc

They've been doing this for a little while - this isn't news. They've added about 200,000 premises to the network since they started the programme.

what areas were they doing this in and is the programme still running..?...the reason im asking is because my cousin stays in a street that was only serviced up to the building next to him and not his building or the remaining 3 past him........

cheers m8...

In reply to a post by krazykizza:

We need evidence, a cold, hard .pdf report or news article with actual substantial sustainable claims. Your just one step up from an anonymous poster, one of many hundred steps.

my area was infilled enabled dec 2009

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

In reply to a post by krazykizza:

We need evidence, a cold, hard .pdf report or news article with actual substantial sustainable claims. Your just one step up from an anonymous poster, one of many hundred steps.

my area was infilled enabled dec 2009

They now have a team set up dedicated to extending the rollout. They will only consider areas with in their existing coverage area


No one in your street or block can get Virgin, but they can on the next road down.

If the answer is yes, drop us an email to [email protected] with your name, full address & contact number (optional). This may take us a few weeks as we need to complete an in-depth survey & may need to wait for the local authority to respond to an enquiry. We will let you know as soon as we can.


[email protected]

All over the place and yes it is still running.

Bit of an open question but..

Has anyone who emailed Cablemystreet had them come back with a "yes" response? In particular i'm looking (hoping) for an example of a large purpose-built block of flats, not previously cabled, who were subsequently offered service.

I emailed Cablemystreet about my block and they came back with a very polite response saying that they would get a survey done and get back to me. I'm aware that I have almost zero chance of getting service in a property like this but it would be nice to be able to keep some hope alive...

large purpose-built block of flats

not fit for purpose if no connectivity ?

I agree Phil, but having lived in blocks like this one for ages (built since 2000, 50-150 units) they all share the following in common:

1) no VM cable service
2) awful phone wiring somewhere beyond the flat owner's control resulting in much lower than expected speeds on DSL.

It's depressing really, there are 3 new blocks going up in my town and according to VM none of them are planned to have cable.

I gather that FTTP/H is completely out of the question for a block like this too.

I gather that FTTP/H is completely out of the question for a block like this too.

au contraire. Most of the FTTP in EU is precisely to that sort of dwelling.

It should be built with ethernet wiring or phone wiring and then either an ethernet switch or a VDSL2 DSLAM used to supply high speed connectivity from a fibre feed.

If it was in Sweden it would have an ethernet socket pre-installed.