Virgin Media announces largest UK fibre broadband rollout

[MrIca]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Yes.

Thanks for the in depth reply

I think I meant where the shops and businesses are. I see no evidence of it.

[Skie]

It's a bit weird in Liverpool iirc. Commercial district is CATV'd up but you can't get normal service and the postcode checker will tell you no, it's either a business fibre connection (a proper connection, not the soho grade stuff they run over the residential network) or a line into a multi-tenant residential property that can provide it to all of their apartments.

[MrIca]

Originally Posted by Skie

It's a bit weird in Liverpool iirc. Commercial district is CATV'd up but you can't get normal service and the postcode checker will tell you no, it's either a business fibre connection (a proper connection, not the soho grade stuff they run over the residential network) or a line into a multi-tenant residential property that can provide it to all of their apartments.

That's right, postcode checkers show no service. Someone once told me that the whole city centre was only ever set up for telephone service. This was in a time when obviously they thought businesses would want that. Broadband wasn't thought of. Even in the area around Chinatown where there are some semi detatched houses, I don't see any boxes on the front of houses. Think Broadband coverage maps basically show nothing in the city centre.

[Ignitionnet]

Had the same problem in the centre of Twickenham but a talk with VM and a visit from a spotter got it resolved.

It's not impossible that while the covers, etc, on street boxes say CATV there isn't actually any CATV network but an all-fibre data network in them.