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purplerain1275 · 18-11-2011, 15:41

I live on a new housing development (Taylor Wimpey) just outside a medium sized market town.

This new development currently has about 300 houses on it, and is scheduled to end up at 2200 houses within the next 7 years. Currently, they are building about 5 houses a week.

Every single house suffers from diabolical BT telephone line length. Broadband speed ranges from 500kb to 800kb, or may just drop out completely, and this is the same for everybody. Every house also has an unsightly satelite dish attached to it.

Apparently, it's not financially viable for Virgin to cable this estate. Despite me coming out of my house and walking 500 metres up a straight road with soft grass verges to run cable in and straight past a Virgin cabinet serving the next estate.

In my last home, I loved my Virgin connection, it was always quick and reliable and the TV on demand was in a different league to Sky. So what really annoys me now is the constant bombardment of Virgin TV adverts that are posted through my door, advertising a service that I cannot have!

I realise cabling is expensive, but when you have a situation where nearly every resident and new ones being added every week would be delighted to have a Virgin service and the take up would be massive, you have to ask, does that make network expansion in general not financially viable?

18-11-2011, 15:41	#38
purplerain1275 Inactive Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 1	Re: still installing cable to new areas? I live on a new housing development (Taylor Wimpey) just outside a medium sized market town. This new development currently has about 300 houses on it, and is scheduled to end up at 2200 houses within the next 7 years. Currently, they are building about 5 houses a week. Every single house suffers from diabolical BT telephone line length. Broadband speed ranges from 500kb to 800kb, or may just drop out completely, and this is the same for everybody. Every house also has an unsightly satelite dish attached to it. Apparently, it's not financially viable for Virgin to cable this estate. Despite me coming out of my house and walking 500 metres up a straight road with soft grass verges to run cable in and straight past a Virgin cabinet serving the next estate. In my last home, I loved my Virgin connection, it was always quick and reliable and the TV on demand was in a different league to Sky. So what really annoys me now is the constant bombardment of Virgin TV adverts that are posted through my door, advertising a service that I cannot have! I realise cabling is expensive, but when you have a situation where nearly every resident and new ones being added every week would be delighted to have a Virgin service and the take up would be massive, you have to ask, does that make network expansion in general not financially viable?