Virgin Media Broadband

About Virgin Media Broadband

Virgin Media was born when NTL, Telewest, Virgin Mobile and Virgin.net merged in 2007. They have now become of the largest home entertainment and communications companies in the UK. Virgin Media offer a comprehensive choice of services and enable you to bundle a variety of services including broadband, TV, talk, line rental and mobile phone.   

Virgin Media is now the largest Virgin company in the world with 10 million customers and 13,000 employees across the UK. Virgin Media were the first company in the UK to offer TV, Broadband, Phone and Mobile - all from one place. Their service is very highly acclaimed and has received many industry coveted awards. In 2008 Virgin Media received the Readers Digest award for most trusted ISP (internet service provider) and in 2007 they received the award for most popular ISP by PC advisor. 

Virgin Media offer Cable Broadband Services (up to a blistering 50Mb broadband) to people in the areas where NTL and Telewest existed with quad play bundles including Broadband, TV, Phone and Mobile for just £42 per month. Currently there is approximately 55% coverage of the UK. They also have a non-cable Broadband offering delivering standard broadband to much of the rest of the UK. 

The cable services are now delivered largely by Fibre Optic which dramatically increases the speed of the broadband internet connection. People say once you go fibre you will never go back. The only downside is that Virgin Media’s fibre optic broadband internet service is not available to the whole of the UK. It is only available where Virgin have their infrastructure laid. 

Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information.  

The process of communicating using fiber-optics involves the following basic steps: Creating the optical signal involving the use a transmitter, relaying the signal along the fiber, ensuring that the signal does not become too distorted or weak, receiving the optical signal, and converting it into an electrical signal.

Demand for ultra fast broadband connection speeds such as the 50Mb Virgin Media offering is expected to rise dramatically in the coming future. With a huge increase in content rich high media internet browsing consumers are demanding faster speeds. Virgin Media will certainly lead the way to help fulfilling these insatiable appetites.

Virgin Media are instantly recognisable due to their aggressive marketing campaigns. 2008 saw the launch if their “Hate to Wait” and “Mix it up TV” campaigns which were a huge success. Their TV advertising regularly feature top world wide celebrities like Samuel L Jackson.

Virgin Media’s digital TV service is heavily promoted as a service that gives customers control of what they watch. They have a vast library of on demand programmed and film meaning their customer can basically watch whatever they like whenever they like. No more being dictated by the TV content providers. How often have you said “there’s nothing on TV tonight?” 

You can check whether you have availability for any of the virgin media internet services via any of the products links above.

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