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Old 12-12-2024, 17:07   #15
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Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by roughbeast View Post
They seem to be their own worst enemy. Some years ago, just a block away from me, VM installed full fibre to the premises. At the time, understandably, they offered a much lower upstream speed than downstream. I guess their main exchange still didn't have the capacity for symmetrical connections. Yet, here we are a few years later, with CityFibre over the whole city of Coventry, enabling symmetrical connections up to 2.5Gb, and Virgin is still offering only 100Mb upstream with 1.3Gb downstream on full fibre.
It just seems that VM must be in a desperate position if they ring up old customers who left them such a long time ago. They were, before the Altnets, in a comfortable position but they did nothing to enhance their service and have been overtaken by the Altnets. !!
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