One website, that I might add I've never heard of much less used having used broadband since 2000, does not anything 'official' make.
Their speedtest sucks by the way.
broadband.co.uk
Download speed : 6.53Mbps
Upload speed : 0.68Mbps
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/
Download Speed: 13756 kbps (1719.5 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 732 kbps (91.5 KB/sec )
Working for VM means nothing, care to give your job title Pogo, so that we can at least assess if you're likely to be able to confirm anything you say with any sort of clarity?
Unless you're pretty senior or working actively on the projects in question there's no way you'll know what's going on with them.
Incidentally I'm not interested in revisiting discussions on bonded upstreams on the 50Mbit product in Q3/4 2009, that it's being released with 1.5Mbit is enough of a slap to be honest. That's way below what's achievable without bonded upstreams, however as your collegue Broadbandbug mentioned the VM cable network can't handle offering higher speeds without bonding as it's not in good enough condition.
Maybe the people holding the purse strings also believed the hype about fibre optic broadband and forgot the copper needed upgrading.
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Now they just need to get analogue TV turned off so they can roll out channel bonding to increase upload speeds and there won't be anybody who can catch them.
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Out of interest what does switching off analogue TV, which is, obviously downstream, have to do with opening up bandwidth upstream, beyond elimination of CPD and replacement with intermodulatory products? CPD shouldn't really be a major issue on a properly maintained network anyway? Switching off analogue won't increase availability of upstream bandwidth, those areas with poor networks still stuck at 30MHz subsplits will remain so, it will possibly allow higher order modulation which is not relevant to bonding.