Ten 300 Mbps locations confirmed

[1andrew1]

Kirknewton (West Lothian)
Houston, Crosslee, Craigends and Brookfield (Renfrewshire)
Bridge of Weir (Renfrewshire)
Ratby (Leicestershire)
Wilsden (West Yorkshire)
Kilmacolm (Inverclyde)
Stoke Poges (Buckinghamshire)
Lightwater (Surrey)
Hartley Wintney and Phoenix Green (Hampshire)
Oakley (Dorset)
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/...-supercharged/

[Pierre]

Not just 300meg but these will all be fttp.

[Gavin78]

Wilsden (West Yorkshire)

lol so they are testing people in a village just outside of Bradford.

What do they hope to gain from testing it in a village with a small number of people

Exactly the same as if they tested it anywhere else, what diferrence does it make ?

[BenMcr]

They aren't testing anything. This is an extension to the Virgin Media network, and the areas selected were based on the number of interested people in those communities.

http://about.virginmedia.com/press-r...tainment-boost

The 10 communities, which will see fibre broadband delivered directly to premises, received the most votes as part of Virgin Media’s ‘Supercharging Local Communities’ initiative.

[Gavin78]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Exactly the same as if they tested it anywhere else, what diferrence does it make ?

Testing something on a handful of people isn't the same as testing it on a bigger town or a city. Not if those people they are testing it on are only checking emails or watching the odd netflix program.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

Testing something on a handful of people isn't the same as testing it on a bigger town or a city. Not if those people they are testing it on are only checking emails or watching the odd netflix program.

Jealous much? :P

Who are you to say what those people will do with it, just because they live in a small villiage?

There's far more to this than just the number of people served, for all you know there's a node right next to the village that would make the cost of deployment relatively cheap. For all you know, they're testing what the costs of a small village deployment will be in case it makes sense to target other villages instead of large cities. Maybe the small number is ideal for Virgin because it allows them to trial FTTP without having to serve thousands of people. For all you know, it's cheaper to deploy it to this village because there's a lot less red tape compared to some large metropolis.

Either way, they don't just throw darts at a map, you can guarantee that these 10 places have been picked for a reason.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

Wilsden (West Yorkshire)

lol so they are testing people in a village just outside of Bradford.

What do they hope to gain from testing it in a village with a small number of people

Population 4807 (thank you, Wikipedia). Not exactly a small village.

[jungleguy]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

Wilsden (West Yorkshire)

lol so they are testing people in a village just outside of Bradford.

What do they hope to gain from testing it in a village with a small number of people

because its cheap, but sounds good in the media.

[Pierre]

It's not a test. The test was done well over a year ago in Papworth, Cambridgeshire.

Since then fttp has been deployed in Leicestershire and now to these other areas.

This is to reinforce the idea that if you get enough people to sign up then they'll build it.

[pip08456]

It doesn't matter where it's deployed there will always be those that complain because they can't get it ATM.

It's the whole spoilt brat approach.

"I want it and I want it NOW!"

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

Testing something on a handful of people isn't the same as testing it on a bigger town or a city. Not if those people they are testing it on are only checking emails or watching the odd netflix program.

Given that's what most people do with their connections if this were a test it would make sense to do it in such areas.

[jungleguy]

Originally Posted by Pierre

It's not a test. The test was done well over a year ago in Papworth, Cambridgeshire.

Since then fttp has been deployed in Leicestershire and now to these other areas.

This is to reinforce the idea that if you get enough people to sign up then they'll build it.

Papwoth was a trial, it wasn't based on customer demand, and penetration was pretty poor due to BT Infinity being in the area and VM billing system being a bit of an achilles heel as offers require a phone line.

If anyone with access experience will tell you, these areas they are building are within spitting distance of their existing network. I think cable my street enquiries have little influence in where they go. More a case of finding 2 spare fibres which are less than 1km dig from core network.

[raging bull]

My younger sister living in Wilsden will not complain at all!
Currently using BT wet string.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by jungleguy

Papwoth was a trial, it wasn't based on customer demand, and penetration was pretty poor due to BT Infinity being in the area and VM billing system being a bit of an achilles heel as offers require a phone line.

If anyone with access experience will tell you, these areas they are building are within spitting distance of their existing network. I think cable my street enquiries have little influence in where they go. More a case of finding 2 spare fibres which are less than 1km dig from core network.

Surely if VM (or any other provider) has enough interest for a service which makes it financially viable they will do it.