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Virgin Media switches on residential 2Gbps broadband service

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Kei_M
Community Manager
12 months ago
Virgin Media O2 has become the first major UK provider to publicly launch a residential 2Gbps broadband service and introduce symmetrical download and upload speeds across all of its speed tiers as a...
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nodrogd
Very Insightful Person
12 months ago

DOCSIS 3.1 is only capable of carrying symmetrical services if the broadcast TV services (V360 & V6 TiVO) are removed, as there is not enough bandwidth for both to co-exist. It's XGS-PON (Hub5x) only guys. When VM starts energising the full fibre overbuild you will be able to switch from HFC/RFoG to XGS-PON, if you don't mind losing the broadcast TV.