Virgin Media Announces 100Mb Broadband Service

Virgin Media will begin the rollout of 100MB broadband by the end of 2010.  This will be the fastest commercially available broadband in the UK, the company is claiming.

The announcement by Virgin Media will mean that some of their customers will start to receive broadband speeds up to 24 times the average for other ISPs by the end of the year.

This high speed broadband from Virgin Media comes hot on the heels of BT’s super fast broadband service which will deliver speeds of up to 40 Mb.

In offering this 100Mb service, Virgin Media broadband will be utilising its cable and fibre optic network to deliver high speed broadband to 12.6 million households.

The 100Mb service will allow users to download a music album in as little as 5 seconds, an hour long TV show in 31 seconds and an HD movie in 7 minutes 25 seconds. This is significantly faster than the time it would take a person using the fastest speeds on offer from other service providers where a music album could be downloaded on average in 1 minute 15 seconds, an hour long TV show in 7 minutes 18 seconds and an HD movie in 1 hour 44 minutes.

Broadband users will also be pleased to hear that Virgin Media is also trialling a 200Mb service, however these trials are in the very early stages with no release to market currently anticipated.