Virgin Media Covers 4,000 Rural Test and Dun Valley Premises
More evidence of useful but piecemeal connectivity coming to parts of rural England. This story tells us:
Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has completed their community driven project to roll-out a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 12 rural villages in the Test and Dun Valleys of Hampshire and Wiltshire, which since starting in 2018 (here) has now covered a total of 4,000 local homes and businesses.
As first reported in 2017 (here), local residents had spent years campaigning to get Virgin Media’s broadband network into the area (TVNeed4Speed) and that was partly because the operator already owned an old cable duct along the Test Way, which is now being used as a springboard to provide a “genuine all-fibre network” via their latest FTTP infrastructure.