Virgin Media has announced a new deal for customers which will see access to 10 Mb per second broadband services for just £5 a month. Many experts believe this is the first real step towards the development of the VoIP market (voice over Internet protocol) which has for many years been lurking in the background.
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Over the last few months one name has dominated the UK broadband industry, that of Virgin Broadband which is currently trialling a broadband service which can offer speeds up to 200 Mb per second. You would be forgiven for thinking that Virgin Broadband is streets ahead of its competitors but in many ways this is [...]

In a bizarre turnaround it has been revealed that Virgin Broadband is looking to build a future broadband network using telephone lines and telecommunication poles currently installed around the UK. Despite the fact that communication networks in the UK have predominantly been built underground for many years it is easy to see the number of [...]

Despite the fact that British Telecom has grabbed the headlines in the broadband industry over the last few months with regards to funding issues and the opening up of the company’s broadband network, it looks as though the spotlight may soon be turning on Virgin Broadband. Only a few weeks after announcing it was in [...]

As the UK broadband market becomes ever more competitive there is a serious dispute raging between BT and Carphone Warehouse. The battle is over who is the U.K.’s leading broadband provider with Carphone Warehouse now suggesting, after the recent acquisition of the Tiscali UK broadband operation, that it has more residential broadband customers than BT. [...]

As we covered in one of our posts some time ago, the development of the Virgin Media fibre-optic broadband network could prove to be something of a regulatory headache in the medium to longer term. Much like British Telecom is forced to allow competitors to use its own broadband network, and the future fibre-optic broadband [...]

Building on the recent success of the Virgin Media broadband service the company is now looking to bundle together broadband, telephone and TV services with significant discounts available and free installation. There have been signs of success in this particular field and even though a recent announcement from the company suggested that the rate of [...]