More homes to get broadband by year end, says ‘Virgin Media’

Virgin Media is hopeful of providing fibre optic network to 100,000 UK homes by the end of the year, with the work to start in Southampton very shortly. 73.000 homes were already benefited during the first half of the year. The average data downloaded by its users have been rising by 43% every year from 2007. This equals more than 25 GB a month. This equals 30 minutes of music streaming per day, 30 hours of TV watching, 2 hours of watching YouTube clips etc apart from a number of views of emails and web pages. Jon James of Virgin Media is pleased that his company is doing a good service to the society by the installation of fibre optic network. It also fulfils the dream of the government in establishing  broadband to most of the regions of the country. Virgin Media recently experimented a broadband connection of speed up to 1.5 Gbps, with the help of four firms in London in an area known as ‘Silicon Roundabout”. Download speeds 240 times more than national average could be attained, to the entire satisfaction of the company.