[Sirius]

Originally Posted by driz

By this reasoning, back when people were using dialup or ISDN it could have been marketed as 'fibre internet' because the entire backbone at that point was quite likely fibre.

The last mile matters. HFC has different performance characteristics to FTTH. Virgin's last mile is not fibre. They shouldn't be able to call it such.

For what it's worth, I'm also very annoyed by BT's VDSL2 (and resellers) being marketed as fibre. It's also clearly not.



If/when Virgin start actually running fibre to people's homes then of course I'm not going to say the same thing... because it wouldn't be true? It'd be brilliant if they did this on a broader scale!

Hangon, I just googled this and it's 1.5gb down and 150meg up, which sounds suspiciously like massive amounts of channel bonding on DOCSIS3? Prossibly not fibre.

VM are about to try fibre directly to the home but we are as yet not allowed to say where