Cable Broadband Usage Allowances Raised by Virgin Media

Virgin Media has reportedly raised their usage allowances regarding cable broadband service, much to the delight of the customers of the UK internet service provider as well as TV operator. Even though, the changes are not that huge to be addressed tremendous, are definitely noticeable while differing from the Virgin Media’s trial of Traffic Management policy that it had started trialing from February.

The Traffic Management policy of Virgin Media functions by the allocation of a maximum download, a user can do during different times of the day. The exceeding of this limit by customers for any fixed period, would invite an automatic reduction in the speed rate enjoyed by them. The UK ISP has also issued a statement of relief for the apprehended customers that the policy that was fair for everyone, only affected the creamy 5 percent of users who are generally heavy downloaders.

The customers who would be at advantage are naturally the broadband XL 20Mbps users who can presently enjoy an increase of allowances from six to seven Gigabytes from 10 am to 3 pm. During 4pm to 9 pm period the increase of allowances is 3.5GB from 3GB, as the offer stays at 1.4GB for the period between 3 pm to 8 pm. This nevertheless, does not apply to the Virgin.net ADSL customers. Moreover, Virgin Media has also not announced any plans to bring forth restrictions on its 50 Mbps customer group.