Virgin Media is in the process of restructuring its various broadband packages towards higher speeds. The UK-based company has now announced that it is also going to make a major upgrade for existing customers. It would be shifting millions of its customers who are using the 2Mb package to a much faster broadband service that would offer speeds up to 10Mb. This major revamp of existing broadband services is beginning in the month of May this year.
The results would be mutually beneficial for both Virgin Media and its customers. While the company would benefit from potentially expanding upon its existing customer base, the users would benefit from a host of new possibilities. This would include applications that are available through greater bandwidth, including heavy-duty online games, which are notoriously bandwidth hungry. This massive upgrade would see Virgin Broadband scale-up its fibre optic portfolio, which will now offer a range of speeds starting from 10Mb up to 50Mb.
Neil Berkett, Chief Executive, Virgin Media stated that they would be offering basic packages that will have broadband speeds nearly double than those of any other provider. He further added that the new range of broadband services that would provide an option of 10Mb, 20Mb or 50Mb would help them become the best broadband service provider in the
