Virgin Media has reiterated that it will be able to provide speeds in excess of 100Mb from its fibre optic service long before BT can roll out its projected 40-60Mb service.
Chief Executive Neil Berkett reiterated the stance that Virgin could ramp up its speeds well beyond the current top UK package of 50Mb when the market was right.
"When we look at the market I don't see us getting the returns right now for 100 or 150Mbps," he told the BBC.
"As we work with application providers, and content providers... there will be a natural point where we upgrade from 10, 20 and 50Mbps to something more.
"If BT were to meet the time frame they have suggested - of finishing by 2012 - I would see us as having much, much faster upstream speed, running at a minimum of 100Mbps downstream and possibly more. You can see a real opportunity there."
Not for the first time
In truth, Berkett's claims are nothing new; as TechRadar reported, right back at the launch of the 50Mb service Berkett was already talking about the potential for much faster services.
"We could have launched 100Mb today if we'd wanted," he said back in December, "we're not capacity constrained.
"We believe that 50 is the right step in the way in which next generation broadband is launched.
"We will always lead the way in terms of upgrades going forward and we will facilitate this change in customers' behaviour, which will itself precipitate the need to move to 100Mb broadband."
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gandharva81
May 26th 2009
3. Wow, what a nice job. And tension free internet Speed.
U will try this...
It is possible to connect my PC Via OFC at my home...
Thanx
Gandharva
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opaque
April 2nd 2009
2. What they mean is, we can do 100mb. For one person. In the labs at Virgin. 2 foot away from the dedicated system hub.
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anon654
March 24th 2009
1. If Virgin Media has the capability for 100Mb+, why does my connection of 2Mb get throttled when I download over 500MB in a five hour period 16:00-21:00.
Also, why are the upload speeds so slow? If I upgraded from 2Mb to 20Mb the maximum potential download speed would increase 10x but the upload speed would only increase 3x.
Virgin Media needs to stop with all the hype about their 'fibre optic backbone' and start taking down the artificial limits they put on their service. After all, if their 'fibre optic backbone' is so good, then why do they need to put limits on it?
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