50Meg broadband from Virgin
January 14, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Things are certainly speeding up in the world of broadband, with Virgin recently announcing that they are launching a 50Mbps service. This represents a huge shift in the broadband market, as most of the quickest speeds are currently advertised at just 8Mbps.
This service really stands out amongst the others currently available on the market. According to a recent report in The Guardian, it will mean that users will be able to download a whole album in 11 seconds and an entire film in just 3.5 minutes. This is inevitably causing great excitement across the country.
But, as is to be expected, it all comes at a price. The deal means that if you sign up for an £11 per month landline service, you can get the 50Mbps broadband for an extra £35 per month. Alternatively, you could subscribe to Virgin landline, cable TV, and broadband for £66 per month. However, new subscribers who are just looking for the super-fast broadband service will have to pay the price of £51 a month.
Virgin has called the release of the service a “historic moment” and the “dawning of a new era”, and has stated that it will “transform the way people interact and entertain themselves online”.
It is all part of the next generation broadband rollout across the country, and Virgin claims that it will have 40% of its network covered by the end of the year, with summer 2009 the predicted time that the fibre-optic network will be available to the whole network. There could also be more to come, with Virgin claiming that speeds of up to 200Mb could be possible in the near future.
