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Originally Posted by Qtx
It was more a rhetorical question out of disbelief.
Funny question about the time to build a network, real funny  Considering the networks I have been involved in building for some huge companies, I would say I know how long it takes (and how to) build a network.
As for mobile networks, this is not something I have done but I would guess most of it is similar. Not that it matters, the fact that Virgin is at the bottom of these recent mobile provider tests, the fact they have not started any upgrades yet as well as the fact they don't expect to have them finished until next year is enough to make consumers avoid Virgin mobile until at least the second half of next year.
If the independent tests showing how bad the VM mobile performance were not enough, the extra info given about time-frames just makes it sooo much worse. |
Virgin, at the moment, are what you call a Thin MVNO. They use the EE network for everything and if they want to introduce any new products or make any changes they are totally at the mercy of EE.
They are moving to Thick MVNO model, so that in the future they will only really be using the EE radio network, and everything else will be VM owned.
There will be vast improvements noticeable to VM mobile customers when this happens.
This, along with the VM off-net fibre offering, shows just how much VM is investing. These are two massive network builds.