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No Details on Virgin Media’s SuperHub Public WiFi Sharing Until 2017

Cable operator Virgin Media has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that their on-going efforts to turn existing SuperHub broadband routers into public WiFi hotspots, which would allow people outside your home to access the Internet when nearby, won’t be launching in 2016 as hoped.

The new feature, which is similar to BT’s embedded and widely used FON technology in their HomeHub and SmartHub routers, was first revealed in July 2016 as part of a trial that was focused upon the Thames Valley (England) areas of Reading, Bracknell, Basingstoke, Newbury and Marlow.

Once enabled the new feature creates a separate Internet connection to the SuperHub, which is offered to the public via WiFi via its own separate IP address. At the time we were told that there would be “no bandwidth impact on customers” because those who consent to trial will have “additional, separate, bandwidth allocated” to their hub for the public access.