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Old 16-06-2020, 02:25   #1
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ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...band-tier.html

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Cable and full fibre ISP Virgin Media UK could be about to make a number of significant service changes for July 2020, such as making their existing 516Mbps (36Mbps upload) broadband bundle available to non-TV (standalone) customers and then boosting their TV Oomph plan to a top download of 600Mbps!
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Old 16-06-2020, 07:13   #2
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

Interesting, I wonder if the lower tiers will receive a speed bump.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

Would be nice, though I doubt it'd happen at the same time. Still Virgin doesn't like having too many different broadband speed packages available and this would be number 6 - so it's possible. I believe the current speeds would be 50, 100, 200, 350, 500, 600 and 1000.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

Honestly can't see the lower tiers getting a bump, guess it could make sense to make the 350 package 400 to streamline them a bit more though.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

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Would be nice, though I doubt it'd happen at the same time. Still Virgin doesn't like having too many different broadband speed packages available and this would be number 6 - so it's possible. I believe the current speeds would be 50, 100, 200, 350, 500, 600 and 1000.
I'd like to see, 100, 300, 600, 1000.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

The article mentions that 600 is going to be like the 500 today, you can only get it as a bundle, so it seems as though 500 will be one of the new "normal" tiers. Could be 100, 200, 500, 1000.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

I'm interested in an upload increase, 350 > 500 (or 600) is not really worth paying more.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

Phoned in to see about our contact as we are coming to end of it we are on ultimate oomph bundle and pay £99 the best they can do was £110 he confirmed 500Mbps would be available for sale on its own from the 29th

But for us it’s time to move we are taking 910Mbps broadband home phone plus 2 SIM cards from bt at £69.99 Dropped TV completely
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

£70 a month is a steal for that deal. No brand loyalty, go where your wallet takes you.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

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The article mentions that 600 is going to be like the 500 today, you can only get it as a bundle, so it seems as though 500 will be one of the new "normal" tiers. Could be 100, 200, 500, 1000.
Definitely get rid of the 50.
For the future, I quite like the neatness of them all doubling eg after entry level of 100 they go 250/500/1,000.
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I'm interested in an upload increase, 350 > 500 (or 600) is not really worth paying more.
I have been saying that for donkeys. I have been able to get 500mbits for a while now but I haven't got it because I don't need the extra download speed and would only be getting it for the upload speed which is the same as what I have got on 350mbits. I would be interested in 1gbit purely for the upload speed but it isn't available yet.
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Definitely get rid of the 50.
For the future, I quite like the neatness of them all doubling eg after entry level of 100 they go 250/500/1,000.
It’s an embarrassment of riches. I’m over the moon if I get 15Mb from my sky FTTC connection. It varies between 7Mb to 17Mb.

VM’s road map has 2.5G slated for 2025
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VM’s road map has 2.5G slated for 2025
hopefully we'll be well on the way to fttp by then
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hopefully we'll be well on the way to fttp by then
Nope, will still be using HFC. The HFC will good for 10G, so FTTP will be Continue to be new build areas Only.
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK to Launch Surprise 600Mbps Broadband Tier

I'd settle for a hub with a 2.5G port. Though by 2025 that'll have to be 5G or even 10G if the service does 2.5G.
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