Virgin Media will soon crank the top speeds possible on its Hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) cable broadband connections to 350Mbps, up from 300Mbps. Mention of the plans were confirmed today by parent company Liberty Global, which released its quarterly figures for the last three months of 2017. Business customers have been able to access such bandwidth for a while with the Voom Fibre service, it’s not been made available to the general public. There's no mention of exactly when this will happen other than 'Spring 2018' which could be anytime from mid-March to early June. Read next: Best Broadband Deals for February 2018 Also absent from Liberty's figures is mention if a price increase would accompany that speed boost. On its own, Vivid 300 Fibre costs £48/month, or can be had with the premium VIP Bundle, which includes pay TV and landline calls, from £88/month - see our round-up of Virgin Media deals here for more information. Bumping its top tier broadband offering up to 350Mbps sees Virgin Media inching above the recently launched G.fast services from BT, the fastest of which promises top download speeds of 314Mbps. Virgin Media has past form for almost casually nudging its top speeds above that of its main competitor. Back in 2014, it launched a new 152Mbps service to counter BT Infinity 2. Why 152Mbps? Because that's twice the top advertised speed of BT's fastest VDSL service. On the other hand, BT's new services come with a minimum speed guarantee, promising you cash if it ever dips below 100Mbps, something of an industry first. Whether Virgin Media and others follow suit remains to be seen. Read next: Uno launches up to 330Mbps G.fast broadband pilot The results also report that in the UK, Virgin Media's cable footprint passed 159,000 new addresses in the last three months of 2017, and 536,000 in total for that year. A total of 336,000 new customers joined Virgin Media last year, suggesting that the Project Lightning network expansion plan is having an effect. There's no mention anywhere in Liberty Global's figures of the current state of Virgin's Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) network. While the company typically uses HFC to reach customers, it also plans to pass 2 million new addresses with FTTP by 2020.
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Virgin Media will soon crank the top speeds possible on its Hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) cable broadband connections to 350Mbps, up from 300Mbps. Mention of the plans were confirmed today by parent company Liberty Global, which released its quarterly figures for the last three months of 2017. Business customers have been able to access such bandwidth for a while with the Voom Fibre service, it’s not been made available to the general public. There's no mention of exactly when this will happen other than 'Spring 2018' which could be anytime from mid-March to early June. Read next: Best Broadband Deals for February 2018 Also absent from Liberty's figures is mention if a price increase would accompany that speed boost. On its own, Vivid 300 Fibre costs £48/month, or can be had with the premium VIP Bundle, which includes pay TV and landline calls, from £88/month - see our round-up of Virgin Media deals here for more information. Bumping its top tier broadband offering up to 350Mbps sees Virgin Media inching above the recently launched G.fast services from BT, the fastest of which promises top download speeds of 314Mbps. Virgin Media has past form for almost casually nudging its top speeds above that of its main competitor. Back in 2014, it launched a new 152Mbps service to counter BT Infinity 2. Why 152Mbps? Because that's twice the top advertised speed of BT's fastest VDSL service. On the other hand, BT's new services come with a minimum speed guarantee, promising you cash if it ever dips below 100Mbps, something of an industry first. Whether Virgin Media and others follow suit remains to be seen. Read next: Uno launches up to 330Mbps G.fast broadband pilot The results also report that in the UK, Virgin Media's cable footprint passed 159,000 new addresses in the last three months of 2017, and 536,000 in total for that year. A total of 336,000 new customers joined Virgin Media last year, suggesting that the Project Lightning network expansion plan is having an effect. There's no mention anywhere in Liberty Global's figures of the current state of Virgin's Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) network. While the company typically uses HFC to reach customers, it also plans to pass 2 million new addresses with FTTP by 2020.