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Originally Posted by davidthornton
I found it here. Seems like most areas are complete and the rest should be within six months.
"not" because "cannot" or "not" because "don't want"?  One FTTC ISP has reported two successful trials of 20Mbit upload today. If 20Mbit upload becomes generally available to FTTC users within three months, for example, Virgin Media are going to look a little slow (offering a maximum of 50% of that, until 120:12Mbit is rolled out and then still 8Mbit slower). I will be interested to see if BT point this out when advertising their Infinity service later this year. VM might then feel compelled to do something, particularly as I suspect the forthcoming 120Mbit tariff is partially designed so VM can say "we offer the fastest download speeds in the UK". |
To be fair, Virgin has never really been known for having faster upload speeds. Before the 10:1 rollout (which isn't even complete in some areas), upload speeds were pretty limited. The 10meg had a measly 512kbps upload and the 20meg did 768kbps. Even the 50meg only had 1.5Mbit upload.
Meanwhile, just about anyone on ADSL2 could get about 1meg up, with the odd ISP offering 2Meg. Sure, there's the usual issues of distance and stuff, but the point is it was never really something Virgin tried to grab headlines with.