Originally Posted by Qtx

That is the difference now. VM got their foot in customers doors when there were no other fibre broadband options. Now that has changed with many providers able to offer fibre. Most of the alternative fibre providers sell broadband connections that have almost double the upload speed of virgins top product and with cloud based consumerism getting larger, upload speeds are going to be very important.

So customer numbers from the past may have no bearing on the future. All the data pointed towards virgin being the loser in the next few years, so Liberty Global are either brave or stupid