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Old 03-05-2016, 21:21   #48
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Re: Virgin Media announces largest UK fibre broadband rollout

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Originally Posted by MrIca View Post
Thanks, good solid facts as ever. Raises a question though, why do they have so many hubsites now then if they can serve 160km? In my area for instance they've got one in Bromborough which seems to serve about 10 miles on every direction and then also some kind of smaller switching site in Birkenhead a few miles down the road.

I'm assuming they've also got a few in Liverpool and Warrington.
Because the telco transmission cards of the time couldn't transmit that distance. And I doubt the catv stuff could at the time
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