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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Honestly? Virgin haven't yet completed the work to get everyone onto the current 10:1, so I can't see a further upstream programme being started before that, the 100Mbit rollout and this increase all going through
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How many areas remain less than 10:1? Isn't it just a few (I base this assumption on a relative having gone 10:1 with 50Mbit in Newton Abbott UBR and they always seem to be near the end of the queue for anything new)? Isn't 100Mbit likely to be available everywhere by the summer?
VM aren't appearing to be rolling out 120Mbit before the summer anyway so perhaps, between now and then, they could consider offering a better than 10:1 ratio on this top tier product when it is released? It seems obvious to me that 120Mbit is being offered simply so Virgin claim to be the fastest ISP in the UK
("And for those on Broadband 100, we’ll be boosting you up to a mighty 120Mb – a new benchmark as the UK’s fastest widely available broadband." quoted from
here). What they won't be is the fastest ISP on upload speeds. They'll need to consider offering at least 20Mbit upload, if not 25Mbit, in tandem with the 120Mbit product and I'd like to see this seriously considered. Given that 120Mbit isn't coming for a while it should be quite realistic for VM to consider a better than 10:1 ratio on this new top tier tariff for when it is available.