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Originally Posted by denphone
l think the simple fact is no matter what Sky does with its broadband in the next few years it still has a awful way to go to match Virgin network and thats a fact which is undisputed no matter how much some people want to tell us differently.  |
Hi,
3 or 4 years ago what you say may of had some weight, but these days Sky's FTTC offering is matching Infact exceeding the speed that 85% of virginmedia customers choose and is unmanaged. By the end of 2013 Sky should be offering 100mb fibre broadband to more customers than virginmedia can.
Virginmedia have the problem of being seen as the dinosaur in this market.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Wrong?
VM could provide services to 25 million homes too.
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Exactly
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Now why do you think that is? Seeing as it has the same "coverage", which negates your whole point completely
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Exactly.
If VM's off-net service was any good, it would in itself be a challenger to the likes of Sky, BT, and all the other "big" xDSL ISPs
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You can't really do an apples to apples comparison on that, the part of the "network" that sees most congestion problems on VM does not exist on Sky. Sky do not own or operate that part of their network.
Core network congestion on VM (the only part Sky has any control over) is resolved pretty much just as quickly. I've never seen core network issues on VM last over a month.
Ermm...
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35531120-post51.html
Notice how his opinion of "decent" on Sky is nearly 40ms minimum. The worst on VM (when the network isn't broken) is 26ms, that's in the most northern reaches of their network in Scotland.
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Consider yourself derped. |
If only you knew the amount of equipment, the amount of customers and the increase of capacity that is currently being added to sky's Internet product both ADSL and FTTC right now you would be amazed. The fact it is happening so fast is unprecedented, it has never happened before and will never happen like this again. Do not think for 1 second that the maximum resources are not being directed at sky's network 7 days a week currently. The grown forecasts for 2012 were beaten by August. What some providers call 1 years profit sky are spending in a matter of months.