Virgin Media to trial 50mbps broadband over telegraph poles

209PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Virgin Media believes an one more million homes could embrace high-speed internet entrance if services are delivered over telegram poles Photo Virgin Media

Residents of Woolhampton, a small encampment in Berkshire, will embrace ultra-fast broadband for the initial time, after Virgin Media denounced plans to broach internet entrance at speeds of around 50 megabits per second around telegram poles.

Homes in the farming village have traditionally relied on BT"s copper network for their web access, since they were over the reach of Virgin"s existent wire network. Delivering the use over telegram poles involves installing a new pole, digging up existent cable, and utilizing it over the pole, without delay in to people"s homes.

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Virgin Media believes around one million UK homes could good from the supposed "aerial deployment" of high-speed web access.

"This singular hearing will concede us to assimilate the possibilities of aerial deployment and might yield an sparkling new approach to magnify next-generation broadband services," pronounced Neil Berkett, arch senior manager of Virgin Media. "With all from BBC iPlayer to YouTube increasingly perfectionist arguable ultrafast broadband speeds, were penetrating to safeguard that all communities, in towns, cities and villages right opposite the UK, mount to benefit."

Virgin Media is overseeing an desirous roll-out of next-generation web services. It not long ago voiced plans to magnify the 100 megabits per second use to 12.6 million homes opposite the UK, enabling users to download song and movies in seconds.

Around 18.3 million households in the UK have internet access, with 90 per cent of those utilizing a broadband connection, according to the Office for National Statistics. The Government has affianced concept internet entrance for all, at smallest speeds of dual megabits per second, by 2012.

Virgin Media pronounced the hearing would yield "valuable insight" in to the technical, operational and blurb viability of aerial deployment. The association believes that a multiple of aerial deployment and twine ocular cables run by subterraneous ducts to BT travel cabinets, could assistance to dilate entrance to faster internet services.