Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

That assumes they spend money on infrastructure though...

Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

They don't know what that is

Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

perhaps the 113 sales people and 35 support staff at the firm's call centre in Colwick, Nottingham can get on a VM porta cabin training program so they dont loose their VM discounts and jobs, or perhaps even the 2000+ already announced VM job cuts to take place over the next four years, :angel:

http://www.personneltoday.com/articl...-job-cuts.html

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OT but interesting,
hmm, if only VM could/would put that last bit of fibre in from the fibre enabled street cabs to the other cabs and on to your house ,this might be a useful addition as a starting point to some areas perhaps.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...29&newsLang=en

"Alloptic Delivers Industry’s First DOCSIS Enabled PON


NCTA's The Cable Show 2009

LIVERMORE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alloptic, a global leader in the development of RF over glass (RFoG) and passive optical networking (PON) solutions for CATV, telecom, and private network operators worldwide, today announced the availability of its DPC™ software, Alloptic’s DOCSIS PON Controller, which enables DOCSIS provisioning and control of its EPON system. DPC facilitates the acceleration of PON rollouts by MSOs and others using DOCSIS for service delivery.

With DPC, network operators realize the benefits of PON, while continuing to use DOCSIS flow-through provisioning and control. DPC acts as a proxy between back office systems and Alloptic GEPON system. In effect, the PON OLT appears to be a cable modem termination system (CMTS), and the PON ONU takes the place of the cable modem, resulting in PON performance from a DOCSIS-controlled network. ....."

Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

Not likely popper would be too expensive and wouldn't sell to the money men.

They should be looking into a fibre deep architecture going to node + 1 amp only given its' huge efficiency gain and step towards full PON though this is unlikely especially given the DOCSIS 3 architecture aggregating nodes together.

Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

I work for a large company and C&W serve us fine we have 1Gbit connection between each site.

I believe 1Gbit connection to the outside world.

Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

I now look after a plethora of ISDN, DASS, DPNSS and analogue lines, a good proportion of which are managed by C&W.

Repeatedly I have asked them to do work, change things, move things, even just give me info, and they have repeatedly failed to do it.

Took them 6 months to install an ISDN line, because they lost the order, but bulshitted me for about 5 months that it was progressing before finally admitting they'd lost it.

One of our lines, they bill us for, yet they can't 'find' it. They can find NO record of it, yet they send us bills every month.

Their service is laughable, it really is. Considering how much money they get out of us each month, I'd expect better. BT run rings around them by comparison.

Re: Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010
 

Lol, how true. That is the point I am at and I only have 10meg line. :angel:

I would like to add that in Cambridge I have have never had a speed issue, I guess we're lucky!

I would like to move to a higher speed line but they will have to remove STM for that to be a realistic offer for anyone to considered in my household.