Virgin to Deliver Rural Broadband

Virgin to Deliver Rural Broadband

Rural communities are in luck because of the fact that IT company Virgin will deliver a very important IT service by using telegraph poles. This way, these IT connectivity users will have broadband speeds of up to 50Mbits/sec. This move comes as an experiment made on a six months basis and the poles will be the connection to some areas that were out of reach. Virgin had been in contact with the Government over these trials.

A spokeswoman from Virgin said that "If you are on a copper network getting speeds of two or three meg on average you notice the difference [on things like iPlayer]. The debate about getting ultra-fast broadband to rural communities is growing. Groups like the Countryside Alliance and the Country Land & Business Association are calling for [high-speed broadband] to come to rural areas.” The interesting thing is that these fibre optic cables are the same with the underground networks when talking about broadband speeds.