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[dee.jay]

O2 has terrible coverage for me, so I doubt I'll be going there.

[Ronski]

When I looked a week or so ago you could get a SIM for £6, could be a cheap speed upgrade, no one says you have to use it 

[dee.jay]

When I looked a week or so ago you could get a SIM for £6, could be a cheap speed upgrade, no one says you have to use it 

OK, you make a compelling argument

[S.Stephenson]

Rang up asking about 2Gbit got told the 14th is when it’s live and they offered to call me back on the 14th so I can order it.

Do phone sales offer better deals than online I don’t know how bothered I can be ordering over the phone.

Mainly due to me being in Portugal on the 14th…

With 1Gb being £45 and 2Gb being £84 I can’t see them doubling the speed for O2 customers.

It mentions being able to get a unlimited sim for £6 on the press release.

[dee.jay]

You could probably BS a sales agent on the phone and say you could get a better offer somewhere else... Where you can't do that online.

[Chrysalis]

Here OR is just flat dead, they seem to be barely responding to FTTP competition and officially have no plans.  Although I have been given an opinion they likely doing works based on roadworks checker and they just for whatever reason not wanting to announce its planned.  I have not witnessed any OR works though other than cabinet stuff.

VM as far as I am aware have not started FTTP works either, although of course VM will at some point.

The new symmetric VM FTTP stuff I think is not on all of their FTTP footprint, just the nextfibre areas.

[Ronski]

With 1Gb being £45 and 2Gb being £84 I can’t see them doubling the speed for O2 customers..

Unfortunately they have limited it, highest boost is to 1Gb.

https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-media-o2

Broadband speed boost
A broadband speed boost to the next available level of Virgin Media fibre broadband (up to a max of 1Gbps).

[Chrysalis]

Wait, has this made the standard price of gig1 cheaper, even in cable areas? That would be a bigger boon than gig2 itself I think.

[dee.jay]

I’m going for 2Gbps symmetric either way

[S.Stephenson]

Gig2 ordered install on the 17th.

No good volt deal on it either just doubles data as far as I can see.

[dee.jay]

Gig2 ordered install on the 17th.

No good volt deal on it either just doubles data as far as I can see.

Excellent!

[biohead]

Also updated to show Gig2 availability here just down the road. Nice to see them finally taking advantage of the XGS network.

Fortunately for me Zzoomm also deployed at the same time and VMO2 just aren't price competitive with them (although until the home network is suitably updated - hopefully this year, I'm sticking with 1Gb).

[S.Stephenson]

Excellent!

The outdoor stuff from pole to house needs to be done before I can book an install apparently so a  delay.

Attached what order shows for speed ranges.

[Alex Atkin UK]

That minimum guarantee is curious, surely they don't only have 10 customers per PON?  I guess they are counting on the odds of having more than one or two high-end users on the same PON?

Even then, its not like VMO have the best reputation for keeping up with backhaul capacity, though granted that's likely mostly down to the mixed legacy network and hopefully this switch to a entirely modern system will solve that.

[dee.jay]

I think the maximum is even more curious. Is it actually a 2.5Gbps product being sold as 2000? But that can't be - we've seen triallists showing us 2000mbps speedtests.