£30bn Cost For Nationwide Fibre Optic Broadband

Virgin don't have to offer anything more than a tiny speed bump over the best DSL speeds. It means they are always the "fastest" while keeping costs down. In reality they could probably offer everyone 100Mbit up and down tomorrow if they wanted.

I really hope they get a move on with delivering fibre, we are a small country, there's no reason why we can't have a network on par with Japan or Korea. BT's "21st Century Network" is a frickin joke. Maybe if they went with VDSL for it we would catch up to countries like France, but the fact they choose to do no upgrades at all then give it that name is just pathetic.

bah Virgin are bastards, you barely get what you pay for from them with their stupid shoot-themselves-in-the-foot throttling policies! I moved off Virgin because of this, and I know a lot of other people doing the same.

If you pay for these broadband speeds, you should have these broadband speeds at all times. Full stops, no questions, no throttling, no caps.

Yes, there's no way in hell I would go back to VirginMedia, even if/when they roll out 50Mbit. Like ChaosDefinesOrder said, you barely get what you pay for with them. Like him, I moved away from them to O2, as I was constantly getting throttled down to 1Mbit speed, which is diabolical- you couldn't even rent a film from iTunes without it slowing to a crawl halfway through the download. They can't cope with the traffic at the moment- how do they think they will cope when they promise 50Mbit speeds? They can't- that's the answer. They advertise it, but they won't be able to deliver, not without severely throttling traffic, perhaps even more than what they are now.
I only get 7Mbit speed with O2, but I am paying for 8Mbit, so I am almost getting what I am paying for at £7.50p/m, and at least the speed is constant.
I do wish there were more options than VirginMedia cable or BT line though.