Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed - Page 47

**Hugh** · 13-01-2012, 13:24

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Originally Posted by AndyCalling

Playing Chinese walls with budgets is no excuse for treating workers that poorly. They are the engines of profit and should be treated as such. Claiming you don't have the money 'cause you've left it in your other pinstripe jacket is not going to fool anyone.

It's not quite that simple - budgets are split between Operational Expenditure (non-pay), Operational Expenditure (pay), and Capital Expenditure for very good reasons, amongst which are better control and tracking of expenditure, and amortisation and deprecation (you can depreciate Capital Expenditure (which can include the pay part of discrete projects) over a period of time, which you cannot do with Operational Expenditure).

telfordcable · 13-01-2012, 13:24

BT FTTC will be better than VM upcoming 60Meg / 6Meg in 2012 nationwide roll out as BT had a record of 80Meg /20 Meg trial. So, BT FTTC customers will see a strong upload speed of 20Meg meanwhile a download speed of between 57Mbps - 79.7Mbps.

So, why isn't VM not doing 20Meg upload yet to be competition against BT?

AndyCalling · 13-01-2012, 13:30

And the VM workers are not essential to compete with BT? Give them a bonus at least! A budget is just an artificial label, not a real obstacle.

BenMcr · 13-01-2012, 13:31

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Originally Posted by AndyCalling

Give them a bonus at least!

Virgin do have either a quarterly or annual bonus scheme for it's staff

**Hugh** · 13-01-2012, 13:34

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Originally Posted by AndyCalling

And the VM workers are not essential to compete with BT? Give them a bonus at least! A budget is just an artificial label, not a real obstacle.

Try telling that to my FD and Chief Exec.....

Kushan · 13-01-2012, 13:34

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

BT FTTC will be better than VM upcoming 60Meg / 6Meg in 2012 nationwide roll out as BT had a record of 80Meg /20 Meg trial. So, BT FTTC customers will see a strong upload speed of 20Meg meanwhile a download speed of between 57Mbps - 79.7Mbps.

So, why isn't VM not doing 20Meg upload yet to be competition against BT?

So why aren't you switching to BT's FTTC instead of moaning about it here?

FUN TRIVIA: When I first started working for Virgin, it was a first-line phone monkey. In that whole time, I had customers threaten to leave and go to Sky, Talktalk, be, etc.
However, not once, no matter how bad the service Virgin gave was, did I ever have anyone threaten to leave and go to BT.

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Originally Posted by AndyCalling

And the VM workers are not essential to compete with BT? Give them a bonus at least! A budget is just an artificial label, not a real obstacle.

Unfortunately, pay is only one of a multitude of issues at hand. Anyway, as much as I'd love to rag on against Virgin, I don't think this thread is the place for it (there is a thread dedicated to that topic, though).

Ignitionnet · 13-01-2012, 13:38

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

BT FTTC will be better than VM upcoming 60Meg / 6Meg in 2012 nationwide roll out as BT had a record of 80Meg /20 Meg trial. So, BT FTTC customers will see a strong upload speed of 20Meg meanwhile a download speed of between 57Mbps - 79.7Mbps.

So, why isn't VM not doing 20Meg upload yet to be competition against BT?

I really need to put you on ignore, my serotonin levels drop precipitously each and every time you post.

They aren't doing that because they do not compete on upload speed. It's still download that grabs the headlines and the attention.

**Hugh** · 13-01-2012, 13:42

What Igni says - most (not all) consumers are interested in download speeds, not upload.

craigj2k12 · 13-01-2012, 13:45

the speed doubling post code checker says that the lower tiers will be upgraded to 20mb and not 30 for some reason

Peter_ · 13-01-2012, 13:46

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Originally Posted by craigj2k12

the speed doubling post code checker says that the lower tiers will be upgraded to 20mb and not 30 for some reason

That is correct as otherwise they would all require new modems when the modems already in service will suffice for that speed.

Kushan · 13-01-2012, 13:50

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Originally Posted by craigj2k12

the speed doubling post code checker says that the lower tiers will be upgraded to 20mb and not 30 for some reason

That's correct, because 10 doubled is 20 - what made you think they were going to 30?

Peter_ · 13-01-2012, 13:52

The speeds are here.

Broadband Package

New speed after your speed boost

Broadband Size : S (up to 2Mb) Up to 5Mb

Broadband Size : M (up to 10Mb) Up to 20Mb

Broadband Size : L (up to 10Mb) Up to 20Mb

Broadband Size : XL (up to 20Mb or 30Mb) Up to 60Mb

Broadband Size : XXL (up to 50Mb) Up to 100Mb

Broadband Size : 100 (up to 100Mb) Up to 120Mb – Note these increases will start from summer 2012

telfordcable · 13-01-2012, 14:07

The roll out is annoying say October 2013:

Why had to wait 20 months ? Oh well I am lucky I still on fastest speed 100 Meg!

BenMcr · 13-01-2012, 14:09

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

The roll out is annoying say October 2013

Erm, that's October this year

telfordcable · 13-01-2012, 14:16

ah ok, october 2012 then. So, are 100 Meg customer get upgrade to 120 Meg in Summer 2012 before October 2012 (for those who are on 10, 20, 30 and 50 Meg) ?