Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 (11:55 am) – Score 785
UK ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today announced that a further 6,000 premises have been connected to their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit-capable broadband and TV network, which follows the completion of a deployment in Manchester’s inner city area of Longsight.
As usual this effort forms part of the operator’s £3bn Project Lightning build, which originally aimed to add an additional 4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they’ve done c.2.2 million) by using a mix of both FTTP via Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFoG) and Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) technology. Both methods make use of the DOCSIS standard so as to harness the same consumer hardware.
At present the announcement states that locals can access a top (average peak time) download speed of 516Mbps via the new network, which has us a bit confused since Manchester was one of the first UK urban areas to benefit from their DOCSIS 3.1 upgrade (here). As such they should in theory already have access to the latest 1Gbps tier (due to cover their entire network by the end of 2021), but in this case it appears as if they’ve yet to upgrade some of even their latest premises.
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