Virgin's 50Mb broadband arriving December 15? - Page 10

UnReaL · 10-12-2008, 03:22

We have always been ripped off in this country when it comes to broadband, we pay so much for less and this will be no exception, bring on STM forever!

telfordcable · 11-12-2008, 11:46

Yep I agree .... I am been rip off with VM poor speed on 20Mb for Â£26 a month before downgrade to 2Mb speed and the speed lots faster than 20Mb but paying only Â£10 a month.

This country love 2Mb broadband not the 20Mb or 24Mb !!! Back to old day.

11-12-2008, 11:55

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

Virgin Media looks set to launch its 50Mb broadband on December 15 after inviting journalists to a mystery event.

Although the company has thus far declined to give a firm date for the launch of its 50Mb service, it has always maintained that it would be before the end of the year.

Now, journalists have been told to 'hold the date' on December 15 â€“ where the company will almost certainly show off the fastest broadband in the UK.

http://www.techradar.com/news/networ...dec-15--490060

Info from Techradar.

do not think it is 50 meg broadband , just enquiryed about it and mention
the 15th , they told me there no plans to launch it for sometime ,that was from uk call centre

General Maximus · 11-12-2008, 13:17

I know that websites and journalists are free to say/report whatever they want but there is too much hype around for it not to be true. If you google virgin 15th december and see all the results for everyone claiming the 15th will be the release date, although they are all reporting the same thing, there are too many of them doing it and if virgin arent planning to launch on Monday they would have said something by now so that we all don't get our hopes up.

It is like news people saying Tescos are giving a free bottle of wine to everyone customer tomorrow, it might not be true but Tescos would have to let everyone know that to avoid disappointment.

Cableminow · 11-12-2008, 13:54

*rushes off to the Tesco store aimlessly*

BenMcr · 11-12-2008, 14:28

The thread title is............TRUE

zing · 11-12-2008, 14:32

Is that nationwide? and if so does the roll out come with STM as that was said to be implemented once full rollout is done

**Stephen** · 11-12-2008, 14:35

Hmmmm.........

YES ITS TRUE

Aparently the STM will not be applied for the first few months of the launch.

BenMcr · 11-12-2008, 14:35

Unlikely to be nationwide, will be staged rollout.

AFAIK STM is not on at lauch. Is going to be considered once rollout is complete

11-12-2008, 14:42

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

The thread title is............TRUE

i have just had a phone call from VM about another matter , and spoke
to 2 people and they both said that 50meg is not launching on the 15th
they have no idea when it will be and the one was from techincal support
think he was from secondline support as he knew more that the usual people
that answer

General Maximus · 11-12-2008, 14:52

as much as I want 50mbit asap i dont see how they can do a nationwide rollout on the 15th unless they are expecting a very small % uptake. The thing which you have got to think about is how they are going to manage things from their end with regards to shipping new modems and stuff to people. If i remember correctly only something like 9% of virgin customers are 20mbit users so maybe they think only 3% will be 50mbit which will be alright i suppose, it might not be too much work for them.

Realisitcally though, if you were planning to release a new service you would do it area by area (as much as i hate the thought of waiting) because it is the only way you can manage equipment demand and monitor the level of service and load on the ubrs etc etc.

So as much as i would love them to announce 50mbit on Monday (early xmas present

) I cant see them doing it. If they do the whole thing is going to be one big mess and we'll be waiting for our modems to arrive this time next year.

BenMcr · 11-12-2008, 14:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by ufitm

i have just had a phone call from VM about another matter , and spoke
to 2 people and they both said that 50meg is not launching on the 15th
they have no idea when it will be and the one was from techincal support
think he was from secondline support as he knew more that the usual people
that answer

I'm special

Seriously, I know what I'm on about

---------- Post added at 13:54 ---------- Previous post was at 13:53 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by General Maximus

So as much as i would love them to announce 50mbit on Monday (early xmas present

) I cant see them doing it. If they do the whole thing is going to be one big mess and we'll be waiting for our modems to arrive this time next year.

No-one has said it is going to be a full national launch. I would expect it to be confirmation of the price, bundles and initial avaliable areas

Fatec · 11-12-2008, 14:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Unlikely to be nationwide, will be staged rollout.

AFAIK STM is not on at lauch. Is going to be considered once rollout is complete

To be fair, it's not going to be *considered* once rollout is complete.

STM has always been on the table for 50Mbit, it will come, they are doing it once rollout completes to make sure there wont be problems and so they can work out some sort of data usage survey, of course none of that matters if they just go for the 10GB limit b/w 4-9 as planned.

BenMcr · 11-12-2008, 15:02

Sorry, I did mean considered as in considered what rules of STM to apply.

zing · 11-12-2008, 15:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fatec

To be fair, it's not going to be *considered* once rollout is complete.

STM has always been on the table for 50Mbit, it will come, they are doing it once rollout completes to make sure there wont be problems and so they can work out some sort of data usage survey, of course none of that matters if they just go for the 10GB limit b/w 4-9 as planned.

that is tolerable enough