Bit more info on VM's plans courtesy of Liberty Global's investor relations page.
From page 8 of this slide
http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...tion-FINAL.pdf
The 4m premises targeted will be less than 50 metres from VM's network and two-thirds are less than 20 metres away. VM is targeting about 40% penetration and is looking at an average revenue per user of £45.
From page 3 of VM's Q4 results
http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...ease-FINAL.pdf
"In order to achieve what we believe will be attractive returns, we plan to undertake a network extension programme pursuant to which we may connect up to an estimated four million additional homes and businesses to our broadband communications network from 2015 through 2020 (the U.K. Network Extension), thereby enabling these incremental homes to subscribe to
our market-leading services.
These additional premises were identified through a detailed review of our existing network that highlighted an opportunity to drive further scale by targeting accretive network extensions. The U.K. Network Extension will be completed in phases and will initially focus on the most accretive expansion opportunities. Depending on a variety of factors, including the financial and operational results of the earlier phases of the programme, the U.K. Network Extension may be modified or cancelled at our discretion ."
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Originally Posted by Helix
They probably want to wait until its nearer the time they start rolling it out, hopefully Liberty Global want to move away from all the coming soon nonsense that VM and NTL had and try and firm things up more before they announce them.
They can quite easily release a statement in a few months time which says in addition to the expansion of our network we are today announcing we are upgrading everyones speed to x.
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Liberty Global's investor relations statement on the UK network expansion has this to say this on the subject. "Liberty Global is a global leader in innovation and new technologies and is preparing trials of DOCSIS 3.1 technology across Europe later this year. This technology could extend Liberty Global’s speed leadership to up to 10Gb when it is fully deployed in the future."
http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...astructure.pdf