Virgin Media acquires Smallworld Fibre

MoneyMate

Virgin Media on 3rd February announced it has acquired Smallworld Fibre for an undisclosed amount. The deal will see thousands of homes in western Scotland and north west England benefit from access to the UK’s fastest widely available broadband and the most advanced TV entertainment service for the first time later this year.

Smallworld’s fibre optic network currently passes 40,000 homes, delivering top broadband speeds of 100Mb, cable TV including over a hundred channels, and landline phone services to customers in Irvine, Dreghorn, Troon and Kilmarnock as well as Carlisle, Lancaster and Morecambe.

Hope this helps those who would like this provider but currently is unavailable :beer:

Buzby

I'm currently on VM's 120Mb service, soon to be 150Mb. So why they say 100Mb is 'widely available' and 'fastest' eludes me.

kk20

Bad news smallworld have been nothing short of truly excellent. I very much doubt this will continue when virgin take over the network. Time to find a new ISP.

Money-Saving-King

kk20 wrote: »

Bad news smallworld have been nothing short of truly excellent. I very much doubt this will continue when virgin take over the network. Time to find a new ISP.

Why?

I and millions of other use Virgin & it's fine.