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Virgin Broadband in cabled areas is marketed as "fibre optic broadband". It is a Hybrid fibre-coaxial network, where fibre optic trunk lines are used to connect the area's headend to cabinets on the street. [citation needed] In July 2009 and 2010, Virgin Media Broadband came first in an Ofcom broadband speed test in the UK.
In 2006 the UK market was dominated by six companies, with the top two taking 51%, these being Virgin Media with a 28% share, and BT at 23%. [132] By July 2011 BT's share had grown by six percent and the company became the broadband market leader. [133] The UK broadband market is overseen by the government watchdog Ofcom. According to Ofcom's ...
Broadband. Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide- bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access. The transmission medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber ...
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden congratulated the company on its ‘excellent progress’.
Virgin Media customers face 13.8% rise in bills. 19:52, Andy Gregory. Today’s outages come as Virgin Media customers face their bills rising by an average of 13.8 per cent.
Virgin cable services are available throughout Northern Ireland in most cities. Derry has had cable since the mid-1990s when CableTel installed the infrastructure, later adopting NTL as its name, and then 2006 merging with Telewest becoming NTL:Telewest, and again later that year merging ultimately with Virgin, and then re-branding as Virgin Media in 2007.
Virgin Media's immediate rival BT has also set out a target of providing fibre-broadband to 25 million premises, by the end-2026. ... Virgin Media's immediate rival BT has also set out a target of ...
Virgin Media Ireland is Liberty Global 's telecommunications operation in Ireland. [1] It is the largest digital cable television provider within the country. [1] As of 3 August 2024, the company offers broadband internet, digital television digital (VoIP) telephony and mobile phone services to 1 million customers (31 December 2014). [1]