Virgin Media is rolling out 300Mbps broadband to small businesses in 30 more villages, as part of its £3bn Project Lightning network expansion for rural communities. The company said it was the first time that a new type of fibre optic cable had been deployed on such a large scale and would help deliver faster speeds than those available from existing copper networks. CityFibre hopes to establish itself as a wholesale FTTP alternative to Openreach by targeting urban areas outside London, Hyperoptic covers a number of cities including the capital, and Gigaclear is connecting rural communities to fibre. Virgin is looking to connect a quarter of those being added using fibre-to-the-premise technology. The villages are in areas including Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, the Midlands, South Wales, and the South East of England.
Virgin Media is rolling out 300Mbps broadband to small businesses in 30 more villages, as part of its £3bn Project Lightning network expansion for rural communities. The company said it was the first time that a new type of fibre optic cable had been deployed on such a large scale and would help deliver faster speeds than those available from existing copper networks. Virgin is looking to connect a quarter of those being added using fibre-to-the-premise technology. The villages are in areas including Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, the Midlands, South Wales, and the South East of England.