Engadget - While it's been in the pipes for a while, and some lucky stations got an early arrival, Virgin Media has confirmed that 41 stations in total are now lapping from the bowl of sweet, sweet free WiFi. Considering that a million tweets, Facebook updates, and emails were delivered in the first week, and over 100,000 commuters have logged on in the last four, appetite for the service is high.
With the continued home isolation and a gigantic update for Warzone to deal with, Virgin Media Ireland customers have broken another data usage record
Paul Higgins must be obsessed with CoD seeing as it's to blame for every spike in data usage :-D
Virgin Media attributes November's spike to being stuck at home during the pandemic as well the release of PS5, Xbox Series S|X and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Virgin Media Ireland has just announced that 1GBlb broadband is being made available from today for all Virgin Media customers.
Switching on 1Gb for almost 1 million households is quite the announcement! The price is fairly steep though so not sure how many homes will sign up!
In defence of bb providers in IE, not just Virgin, they have to eat hectares of hugely unprofitable space to bring them up to speed.
