More Cable & More Allowance From Virgin

14 May 2009 | 09.23 Europe/London

Virgin Media's recent financial results also contained a statement about expanding their hybrid fibre/coax cable network :

"We have identified around half a million homes whose proximity to our existing access network makes it a commercially attractive opportunity to extend our network to reach them over the next few years. We plan to extend our network coverage to over 50,000 of these homes during 2009."

This will potentially be good news to those in Virgin Cable areas who have found themselves on the wrong side of the street or having in the wrong type of garden to be conected up.

Other good news for VM cable customers is that the Subscriber Traffic Management (STM) scheme has been revised to give customers on L and XL packages (10 and 20 Mbits/s) increased daytime download allowances of 4.5 and 10.5 GBytes respectively. STM is a complex system where high volume users have their connection rate limited if the exceed their allowance, it is not currently applied to the fastest 50M service.

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