Virgin Media

This week we have seen that BT had announced its new fiber optics based broadband service which will be available to almost 10 million homes by 2012 and they are investing £1.5 billion to roil out this project and virgin media who were already running a fiber optics based broadband responded towards this new project by saying that why consumers would want to wait for this service rather they are just required to come to the virgin platform.

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The new announced of BT’s broadband could be seen as a threat to virgin media which operates a broadband service that is not very much similar to the fiber optics based system. The virgin broadband 50mbps service is in its release and according to the company’s claim the £19.99 package represents ‘a saving of £7.47 per month on Virgin Media’s XXL highest speed service’. But the chief threat to virgin media is that the BT’s project is available in January to some places and it will reach its target of 10 million homes by 2012.

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