Virgin Media Using Poles For Broadband Expansion

Virgin Media is set to use the good old telegraph poles (no not the other Poles) to bring high speed internet to scattered rural communities. It will begin a trial later this month that will last till the end of September in Woolhampton in Berkshire, a small village located near Reading. Households in the area can expect to get speeds of up to 50Mbps, which is an order of magnitude higher than what they can expect from BT's traditional copper network infrastructure. It...