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Virgin Media Broadband & Phone

Fibre optic broadband, free wireless router & unlimited weekend calls.

EXCLUSIVE uSwitch deal! FREE INSTALLATION worth £49.95

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up to 10Mb unlimited 18 months £4.00 price details

First 3 months £4.00, £14.50 thereafter. Line rental £13.90

Buy now 0845 834 1128
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Virgin Media XL Broadband & Phone

Fibre optic broadband with free wireless 'N' router & unlimited weekend calls.

New! Low-cost 30Mb deal + FREE INSTALLATION worth £49.95

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up to 30Mb unlimited 18 months £5.00 price details

First 3 months £5, £18.50 thereafter. Line rental £13.90

Buy now 0845 834 1128
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Virgin Media Broadband, TV & Phone

Fibre optic broadband, 65+ TV channels (including Sky), home phone & wireless router.

New TV bundle deal: 3 MONTHS FREE + FREE INSTALLATION worth £49.95

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up to 10Mb unlimited 18 months £20.00 price details

Free for first 3 months, £20 thereafter. TiVo £3 extra a month Line rental £13.90

Buy now 0845 834 1128
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Virgin Media Broadband, L TV & Phone

Fibre-optic broadband, 100 digital TV channels and free unlimited weekend calls.

New TV bundle deal: 3 MONTHS FREE + FREE INSTALLATION worth £49.95

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up to 10Mb unlimited 18 months £26.00 price details

First 3 months free, £27.50 thereafter. Line rental £13.90

Buy now 0845 834 1128
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BT Infinity - More Broadband and Calls

Free Wireless Infinity Home Hub & basic McAfee security. Calls and & free engineer installation included.

New! £9 for 3 MONTHS fibre optic fast broadband from BT

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up to 40Mb 40GB 18 months £9.00 price details

9 for first 3 months, £18 thereafter. Line rental from £10

Buy now 0800 328 1587
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Virgin Media XXL Broadband & Phone

Fibre optic broadband with free wireless 'N' router.

New! FREE INSTALLATION + SPOTIFY PREMIUM FREE for 6 months.

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up to 50Mb unlimited 18 months £12.00 price details

First 3 months £12, £25.50 thereafter. Line rental £13.90

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BT Infinity Unlimited Broadband & Calls

Free Wireless Infinity Home Hub & basic McAfee security. Unlimited calls and & free engineer installation included.

New! £20 for 3 MONTHS fibre optic fast broadband from BT

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up to 40Mb unlimited 18 months £20.00 price details

£20 for first 3 months, £28 thereafter. Line rental from £10

Buy now 0800 328 1587
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Virgin Media XL Broadband

Fibre optic broadband with free wireless Virgin Media Hub router.

NEW! FREE INSTALLATION + FREE Spotify premium account. Super-fast 30Mb standalone broadband, no phone line required

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up to 30Mb unlimited 12 months £22.50 price details

First 3 months £22.50, £27.50 thereafter.

Buy now 0845 834 1128
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Virgin Media Broadband & TV

Fibre optic broadband, 100+ TV channels (including Sky), free modem & PCguard

New! Broadband & TV special deal, no phone line required

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up to 10Mb unlimited 18 months £36.50 price details

No need for phone line.

Buy now 0845 834 1128
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Virgin Media Bundle + Sky Sports (TV)

Free HD activated V Box with full Sky Sports Collection & 65+ TV channels. Free wireless router & weekend calls included.

NEW! Add Sky Sports package to your broadband, calls & TV bundle for just £22.50 per month

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up to 10Mb unlimited 18 months £42.50 price details

Sky Sports £22.50. Line rental £13.90

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Cable broadband explained

Unlike the majority of broadband connections in the UK, which use telephone lines or mobile networks, fibre-optic broadband is transferred along special cables under the ground. The signals move a lot faster than they do along copper cables and offer speeds of up to 100Mb.

Find out about Virgin Media at our dedicated Virgin Media page

Find out about BT Infinity at our dedicated BT Infinity page

In the UK the service is not available everywhere, and is mostly on offer in urban areas. Virgin Media provides approximately 12.6 million UK homes with fibre-optic cable access and offers speeds of up to 100Mb.

BT offer their Infinity service to around 4 million homes, offering speeds of up to 40Mb. BT aims to have 66 per cent of UK homes covered by 2015. Because BT allows its fibre to the premises network to be used by other broadband providers such as TalkTalk, Plusnet and Eclipse, you can also get cable broadband from them too.

Fibre-optic speeds

If you're an area where Virgin Media has completed its upgrade, you can expect speeds of up to 100Mb with a regular fibre-optic connection. The fibre-optic line runs from the provider to the junction box outside your house, at which point regular copper cables run it inside your home.

If you are lucky enough to have an FTTH (fibre to the home) connection, the fibre-optic cables run all the way into your house.

What does 100Mbps broadband mean to the user?

At 100Mbps, you can:

  • Download an entire music album in as little as 5 seconds
  • Download a TV show in around 30 seconds
  • Stream HD video straight to your computer without buffering
  • Host multiplayer games with dozens of players
  • Download games in under 2 minutes
  • Download a high def movie in around 7 minutes or standard high quality movie in 1 and a half minutes

For more information about speeds and download times, read the uSwitch guide to broadband download times

Types of fibre-optic connection

The speed of your fibre broadband connection can vary between 30Mb and 100Mb. The types of fibre available are:

FTTH (fibre to the home) – fibre-optic cables run all the way to the outside of your house. This is the quickest possible but is not widely available.

FTTB (fibre to the building/basement) – fibre-optic cables run all the way to your premises. If you are a flat in a large bilding, the fibre terminates at the building, rather than your individual living space.

FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) – fibre-optic cables run all the way to the cabinet in the street, which can be up to 300m away. This is the most common connection.

FTTN (fibre to the node) – roughly the same as above, only the street cabinet can be further away (up to several km away) with the rest of the distance to your house being covered by regular copper wiring.

The benefits of fibre-optic broadband

  • A fast, sustained and reliable connection which results from transmission through fibre-optic material rather than ordinary copper wires.
  • Options to receive cable TV, phone deals and excellent product bundles with packages such as Virgin Media’s XL and BT’s Infinity.
  • Lightning speeds of up to 100Mb downstream

Compare all our fibre deals at our dedicated fibre-optic broadband page.

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