What is 50Mb broadband?

50Mb broadband is one of the fastest broadband packages available in the UK, and refers to Virgin Media’s 50Mbps fibre-optic service. BT offers a product called Infinity, which offers speeds of up to 40Mbps depending on connection type.

A 40Mbps or 50Mbps broadband connection allows you to seamlessly browse the internet, as well as download movies in minutes and songs in seconds.

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We’ve come a long way since the days of dial-up when we had to wait for pages to load. But with 'up to 8Mbps' broadband packages, you must wait a fair amount of time for some videos to load. Fibre-optic connections blow their predecessors out of the water and make waiting a thing of the past.

What does 50Mbps broadband mean to the user?

• Download a 100MB album in as little as 16 seconds
• Download a 10GB BluRay movie in less than 27 minutes
• Stream HD video straight to your computer – without buffering
• Host multiplayer games with dozens of players
• Download games in under 2 minutes

Who offers 50Mbps broadband?

Currently Virgin Media is the only Internet Service Provider (ISP) to offer up to 50Mbps broadband. Virgin Media is able to offer these impressive speeds thanks to its next-generation fibre-optic network.

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BT's fibre service, called Infinity, offers speeds of up to 40Mbps

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Who can get 50Mbps broadband?

50Mbps broadband is currently only available to 12.6 million UK households. However BT has also adopted fibre-optic technology, providing speeds of up to 40Mbps as part of a planned roll-out to 10 million UK homes.

Who needs 50Mbps broadband?

• Student broadband users
• Gamers broadband users
• Family broadband users

Virgin Media’s 50Mbps broadband is appealing to individuals who live to play games online and families where more than four people want to connect to the internet at the same time without loss of speed to any users.

Compare all "up to 50Mbps" broadband packages on our 50Mbps broadband comparison page.