still installing cable to new areas? - Page 3

tjdurden · 05-10-2011, 11:22

Thanks mate. It's around 40-50 houses I think. I'd say it was a small estate.

Oh well, fingers crossed then. Failing that, it'll be BT infinity at xmas.

weesteev · 05-10-2011, 21:03

Unless theres VM duct on site already that we dont know about then its unlikely, you never know though! Keep us posted.

05-10-2011, 21:12

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Originally Posted by tjdurden

Thanks mate. It's around 40-50 houses I think. I'd say it was a small estate.

Oh well, fingers crossed then. Failing that, it'll be BT infinity at xmas.

I can vouch for the team as well ,i have sent in a request and got a reply in 48 hrs i was told that they will look into my enquiry ,i gave them details of the existing network which stops in the next street and details of the new houses(1800) being built to extend the estate which will be cabled so i am very hopefull as we are smack in the middle

weesteev · 05-10-2011, 21:13

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Originally Posted by martyh

I can vouch for the team as well ,i have sent in a request and got a reply in 48 hrs i was told that they will look into my enquiry ,i gave them details of the existing network which stops in the next street and details of the new houses(1800) being built to extend the estate which will be cabled so i am very hopefull as we are smack in the middle

Yes im aware of this project Martyh (Scotswood), we will have an answer for you soon!

05-10-2011, 21:26

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Originally Posted by weesteev

Yes im aware of this project Martyh (Scotswood), we will have an answer for you soon!

didn't realise we where that famous

fatherjack · 13-10-2011, 10:20

trying to find out when virgin cable is or when it is coming to our area. its like platting fog.
our area is: high green, sheffield, s35

planetf1 · 15-11-2011, 19:06

I live in CHandlers Ford - one of the areas mentioned for VM expansion.

Back around 1991-1995 ish we had Videotron cable tv and phone. I then moved to an uncabled area (twice), though still within walking distance.

Right now I'm "over the road" in a new estate away from the old videotron area which at it's closest point I'd guess is 200m away. This estate to my knowlede has ZERO cable (though does have bt infinity). It does seem to have ducting for cable everywhere - mini manholes every 20m or so, larger ones further apart.

Is VM just overlaying the ex-videotron area or are they expanding at all?

purplerain1275 · 18-11-2011, 15:41

I live on a new housing development (Taylor Wimpey) just outside a medium sized market town.

This new development currently has about 300 houses on it, and is scheduled to end up at 2200 houses within the next 7 years. Currently, they are building about 5 houses a week.

Every single house suffers from diabolical BT telephone line length. Broadband speed ranges from 500kb to 800kb, or may just drop out completely, and this is the same for everybody. Every house also has an unsightly satelite dish attached to it.

Apparently, it's not financially viable for Virgin to cable this estate. Despite me coming out of my house and walking 500 metres up a straight road with soft grass verges to run cable in and straight past a Virgin cabinet serving the next estate.

In my last home, I loved my Virgin connection, it was always quick and reliable and the TV on demand was in a different league to Sky. So what really annoys me now is the constant bombardment of Virgin TV adverts that are posted through my door, advertising a service that I cannot have!

I realise cabling is expensive, but when you have a situation where nearly every resident and new ones being added every week would be delighted to have a Virgin service and the take up would be massive, you have to ask, does that make network expansion in general not financially viable?

Dialup · 18-11-2011, 16:57

Same boat here, I live on quite a large estate with new builds all around but still not worth it according to virgin.
In one direction cable is 0.4 miles away and in another is about 0.2 miles from empty ducting that was laid by ntl ten+ years ago and was never used.
Instead of wasting money trying to get more money from existing customers you would think they would want to find new customers?
If its too expensive to cable why not use the empty ducting?