Virgin Media to offer 150mb service in 2010

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

been told that virgin media 100 to 150mb set up fee will be £120 and the monthly service charge for this will be £135 a month.

Is that VAT inclusive price?

[nodrogd]

This is a obvious response to BT's list of FTTC exchanges being released.

Most of them are in Virgin cabled areas.

Chelmsford - Essex
Watford - Hertfordshire
Hemel Hempstead - Hertfordshire
Leagrave - Bedfordshire
Luton - Bedfordshire
Canonbury - London
Chingford - London
Edmonton - London
Enfield - London
Highams Park - London
Tottenham - London
Thamesmead - London
Woolwich - London
Bury - Greater Manchester
Didsbury - Greater Manchester
Failsworth - Greater Manchester
Heaton Moor - Greater Manchester
Oldham - Greater Manchester
Rusholme - Greater Manchester
Belfast Balmoral - Belfast
Dean - Edinburgh
Glasgow Halfway - Glasgow
Glasgow Western - Glasgow Scotland
Cardiff - Cardiff
Taffs Well - Rhondda Cynon Taf
Halifax - West Yorkshire
Pudsey - West Yorkshire
Calder Valley - West Yorkshire

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

been told that virgin media 100 to 150mb set up fee will be £120 and the monthly service charge for this will be £135 a month.

I've been told that the modem will be free in boxes of cornflakes, and the monthly charge will infact involve VM paying everyone on 150mb £50 a month to use the service.

My information is just as accurate as yours. Your "team leader" knows nothing. The ONLY people who know anything about future products and pricing are extremely high up, and they wouldn't dream of leaking details because their 6 figure salaries depend on them not doing so.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by TheDon

My information is just as accurate as yours. Your "team leader" knows nothing. The ONLY people who know anything about future products and pricing are extremely high up, and they wouldn't dream of leaking details because their 6 figure salaries depend on them not doing so.

Come on. you have to give him some credit. he's already been right about what he's said. why should this one be any different?

I want to know if he's got any contacts close to Berkett. tell us if he's sweating like a pig any more than usual

[lymmranger]

I just dont seem the point of being on any of the higher packages I am on 10 meg and...
...Paying more for a higher speed package would really anoy me
- all that potential speed I cannot use due to STM and network oversubscription

......will virgin be holding a lottery type draw for the one individual customer who will actually get these speeds???

......will they finally devise a fair way of actually downloading a music track in under 10 seconds (10 meg) - or will they change the advert to say you can download a music track in under 10 seconds once a month on a wednesday at 3am if you are a good customer and we like you

[jcm193]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

been told that virgin media 100 to 150mb set up fee will be £120 and the monthly service charge for this will be £135 a month.

How can Virgin Media justify £135 a month especially when you can get the 50 meg service for £35 a month would it not make sense to charge £70 for double the service, you would have to be mad to outlay that type of money just for broadband this will be a complete non starter in opinion.

[broadbandking]

Berkett confirmed higher speed BBI anyways so I could have took a guess that VM will do 100Mb soon plus they was trialing it in the lab when 50Mb was been trialed on customers so telfordcable info is outdated and well known anyways, so he source is full of BS.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by lymmranger

I just dont seem the point of being on any of the higher packages I am on 10 meg and...
...Paying more for a higher speed package would really anoy me
- all that potential speed I cannot use due to STM and network oversubscription

......will virgin be holding a lottery type draw for the one individual customer who will actually get these speeds???

......will they finally devise a fair way of actually downloading a music track in under 10 seconds (10 meg) - or will they change the advert to say you can download a music track in under 10 seconds once a month on a wednesday at 3am if you are a good customer and we like you

In a survey of 2,000 bored housewifes. 1,967 said it wasn't who had the biggest, but who could keep it up the longest.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Gary L

In a survey of 2,000 bored housewifes. 1,967 said it wasn't who had the biggest, but who could keep it up the longest.

well said dude, as muchn as I have always wanted more speed, 50mbit down is more than enough for anything i can imagine doing. The 2 things they need to do is upgrade the network so everyone can get their sustained speeds and to increase the upload juice.

Guaranteed un-stm'd 50mbit * 10mbit is far more appealing to me than 150*20 with stm

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

been told that virgin media 100 to 150mb set up fee will be £120 and the monthly service charge for this will be £135 a month.

Why should there be any need for a set up fee that high? the Docsis 3 modems going in for 50Mbit are more than capable for 150Mbit

So it should just work like a normal tier upgrade for those already on 50Mbit or would be the £80 fee for those on the lower tiers

Wouldn't be able to do Wireless with it though

Originally Posted by jcm193

How can Virgin Media justify £135 a month especially when you can get the 50 meg service for £35 a month would it not make sense to charge £70 for double the service, you would have to be mad to outlay that type of money just for broadband this will be a complete non starter in opinion.

Maybe because those figures are completely made up?!

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

well said dude, as muchn as I have always wanted more speed, 50mbit down is more than enough for anything i can imagine doing. The 2 things they need to do is upgrade the network so everyone can get their sustained speeds to increase the upload juice.

Guaranteed un-stm'd 50mbit * 10mbit is far more appealing to me than 150*20 with stm

The truth is there's nothing to use the speed with really. but there are people who think that the increased speed means more seconds and minutes knocked off.
They keep giving examples of how fast you can download certain things, but eventually you'll have to hit the speed of the server which will affect them stated figures.

It's like having a 1,000 MPH car. all the other 400 MPH cars have the same 3.4 sec 0-60 time as this 1,000 MPH car, but nobody has found a road where anyone has done even 300 MPH yet.

[Russ]

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[Sirius]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

been told that virgin media 100 to 150mb set up fee will be £120 and the monthly service charge for this will be £135 a month.

Will you please stop posting verbal cow muck. This has gone beyond the joke it was and is now just making you look like a right numpty.

You are now on my never to be believed list .

[graf_von_anonym]

Originally Posted by nodrogd

This is a obvious response to BT's list of FTTC exchanges being released.
Most of them are in Virgin cabled areas.

Most of them are areas with relatively high population densities, which influences both BT's decision to use them for the trial and the presence of cable. The IPSTREAMX trials took place in similar reasons for similar reasons.

That said, I'm sure that BT will make much of the Fibrous nature of their offering; the state of broadband marketing in the UK means that "unlimited" doesn't mean what you'd expect it to mean, "fibre-optic" is based on proximity, and BT can claim to have better wireless routers because of, um, something.

Personally, I'm waiting for them to quintuple bond DOCSIS 4.0 channels so I can get tea, coffee, milk and cream delivered straight to the home.

[KingDaveRa]

VM really do need to stop chasing speeds, and focus on sorting out their network in the heavily loaded areas.

Besides, these uberspeeds start to see dimishing returns. Over about 50Mbs, I think you're not going to see much benefit, unless there's loads of you all trying to download loads of stuff at once. Even bursty traffic (which is what most folk produce) doesn't burst much over a few meg a second. We have a gig connection at work, and that is barely getting over 50Mbs, occasionally peaking a little higher when somebody starts a big download. And that's with a couple thousand PCs behind it!

I'd rather have reliable, and dependable, than "OMG SUPER TURBO PHATPIPE!".