Virgin Media presents broadband velocity enhance that BT and Sky might wrestle to match

The UK’s broadband may quickly get a much-needed velocity enhance courtesy of Virgin Media. The Internet Service Provider (ISP), has simply introduced the launch of latest expertise that’s absolutely able to blasting the online into houses at speeds of round 10Gbps. At that fast price, you’d have the ability to obtain a full HD film in below 5 seconds – that is over 138 instances sooner than the present UK common.

BT and Sky solely presently supply speeds of round 900Mbps which is nowhere near matching this improve from their arch rival.

The enhance is all due to one thing known as XGS-PON which Virgin guarantees will future-proof its service for years to come back. Along with providing a lot faster downloads, this newest fibre expertise also can address vastly improved uploads which will probably be a welcome aid to anybody who sends large information or has to attend an age to put up movies on platforms resembling YouTube.

Speaking concerning the adjustments Jeanie York, Chief Technology Officer, Virgin Media O2 stated: “Late last year, we announced an important milestone in the evolution of our broadband services when we began trialling state-of-the-art XGS-PON technology on our live full-fibre network. These trials proved successful so now we are taking the next step forward in our network evolution and starting to sell services powered by the latest fibre technology, known as XGS-PON, much more widely.

“In the long run, XGS-PON and fibre connections will present prospects with much more bandwidth because the expertise allows symmetrical add and obtain speeds. This implies that prospects could have the flexibility to add as shortly as they obtain, at speeds of as much as 10Gbps.”

Sadly, it isn’t all good news with Virgin confirming that it will not be upgrading current fibre cable. It’s solely the brand new community that will probably be handled to the replace so if you have already got quick Virgin speeds in your road it is unlikely that you’re going to get something faster within the foreseeable future.

Although 10Gbps might sound fairly exesive, Virgin says it is important for the longer term. Demand for information grew 10 % final yr and issues are solely going to worsen as extra of us stream 8K movies, obtain large PS5 video games and proceed to make money working from home.