Tag: Virgin Media

February 16, 2024

U.K. telco Virgin Media O2 said its 5G network reached a coverage of 50% of the country’s population as of the end of 2023, the company said in its earning statement. The company also noted that its fixed network serviceable […]

August 30, 2022

U.K. telco Virgin Media O2, NEC and Rakuten Symphony have announced that their joint multi-vendor Open RAN deployment is entering the field phase, starting with the activation of the first live sites in Virgin Media O2’s commercial network. In a […]

November 30, 2021

O2 is offering free SIM cards to Big Issue vendors as part of its National Databank intiaitve, hoping to address the challenges of digital poverty and enable contactless payments. The Big Issue was founded three decades ago as a non-profit […]

August 11, 2021

More than half of premises connected to Virgin Media O2’s fixed broadband network can now receive gigabit speeds as the company continues with plans to cover its entire footprint by the end of the year. An additional 1.5 million properties […]

March 9, 2021

Infinera on Monday announced that Virgin Media has trialed innovative network technology which provides new ways to roll out multi-gigabit speeds to consumers and businesses. The trial, delivered on the operator’s network in Reading, UK, saw Virgin Media install prototype […]

September 12, 2016

Virgin Media, which is owned by Liberty Global, has entered into a deal reported to be worth tens of millions of pounds to buy UK-based Arqiva WiFi, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arqiva Group. Upon the closure of the deal, Arqiva WiFi will become […]