Following successful trials in Ashford, Folkstone and
Dover, Virgin Media is planning to offer 50Mbps broadband to nine
million homes in the UK by the end of the year.
The company is also planning to begin the first part of a major
broadband upgrade programme. Customers on Virgin Media's "L"
tier broadband package will be upgraded for free, taking their
service from 4Mbytes to 10Mbytes. The upgrade will roll out by
regions from late February and will give customers more than double
the speed of their current package.
Neil Berkett, acting CEO of
Virgin
Media, said, "We have barely scratched the surface of what is
possible with our cable network, and we will continue to look for
new ways to satisfy the growing demand for even faster broadband in
the UK."