Virgin Media 20Mb Cable customers Free upgrade to a new 30Mb Tier

[Jabbs]

Virgin Media is poised to announce a free upgrade for all its 20Mb broadband internet customers to a new 30Mb service tier.

The plans, which have been subject to intense speculation for months, were accidentally leaked yesterday when the ISP started updating terms and conditions published on many of its web pages.

Under the heading “The Legal Stuff”, in a section explaining which customers can get a free Superhub router, comes the giveaway text: “Free Virgin Media Superhub for XL and XXL: Available to all new Broadband customers taking our Size: XL, Size: XXL and Size:100 Broadband services, and to existing customers upgrading to 30Mb, 50Mb and 100Mb broadband (subject to status and credit checks).”

An insider yesterday confirmed that Virgin Media’s new service tier will replace the 20Mb offering and will come with a 3Mb upload speed. It has been in the planning for some time, he added.

He declined to give a launch date, although several other sources have suggested an official announcement may come within a week.

Source
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/448/virgin-media-lets-slip-its-30mb-plans

If its been posted sorry.

 

[thepeganator]

Oooo yay more speed for meee

 

[KIA]

Lucky gits.

 

[yashiro]

Price rises incoming about a month later then.

 

[Duke]

Cool

 

[Jabbs]

Price rises incoming about a month later then.

I wouldn't think so as its a free upgrade, maybe they just want to say are slowest broadband is 30mb and faster than any of the competition, matters not to me I got 50mb @ 20mb prices for as long as I keep it.

 

[Duke]

I wouldn't think so as its a free upgrade, maybe they just want to say are slowest broadband is 30mb and faster than any of the competition, matters not to me I got 50mb @ 20mb prices for as long as I keep it.

They still have 10mbit though I think?

 

[deuse]

(subject to status and credit checks)

That's a new one for VM. And what do we 50Mb people get?

 

[shine]

They still have 10mbit though I think?

They do, my parents have 10mbit. Although if they gave all 10mb customers a free upgrade to 20 then they could claim to be faster than all their rivals! I think it would be a smart strategy in the Virgin v Sky battle.

 

[dbmzk1]

Yea they still have 512kb, 1mb, 2mb and 10mb

 

[Jabbs]

They still have 10mbit though I think?

Oh didn't think they did 10 still.

 

[Knubje]

Yoink.

Thanks VM!

 

[mrk]

Hooray!

So my 20MB/768KB becomes 30MB/3MB soon

 

[axer]

That's a new one for VM. And what do we 50Mb people get?

We'll get 5Mbit upload (10% of downstream).

 

[Duke]

Hooray!

So my 20MB/768KB becomes 30MB/3MB soon

Not had the upload increase yet? On 2mbit upload here.

 

[mrk]

Fareham exchange (where I'm on) goes live in July. Cosham has already been upgraded.

That's a new one for VM. And what do we 50Mb people get?

Obviously this is for new customers, not existing.

 

[axer]

Not had the upload increase yet? On 2mbit upload here.

They're rolling out the upstream updates gradually, I was told mine would be upgraded Dec 2010 but according to a roll out document I found I'm down for July 2011

 

[Duke]

Oh right, thought they had done them all.

 

[janp]

Fareham exchange (where I'm on) goes live in July. Cosham has already been upgraded.



Obviously this is for new customers, not existing.

I'm on 50mb (Cosham exchange) no upload increase yet, and I'm sure I saw in the "Upgrade Plan" PDF that it wouldn't be upgraded untill July 2011.

 

[mrk]

Cosham is upgraded and marked as Available Now on the upgrade schedule.

Reboot your router.

http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/dam/allyours/pdf/uploadschedule2012.pdf