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Virgin Galactic unveils mirrored space craft, VSS Imagine
Virgin Galactic has unveiled its third-generation spacecraft, the VSS Imagine. Finished in an entirely mirror-like material, the craft is designed to reflect the surrounding environment, allowing it to change colour and appearance as it travels from Earth to space. Virgin Galactic said the third generation of spaceships was “built to enable improved performance in terms…
Virgin TV adds Sky shows and movies in Ultra High Definition
Sky's Seal Team is now available in Ultra High Definition on Virgin Virgin TV is adding thousands of hours of Sky TV shows and films in Ultra High Definition (UHD), which it claims boasts four times the clarity of standard HD content. From today (Thursday 25 February), all Virgin TV customers…
Broadband users overpaying by ‘up to £27 a month’, claims research
Compare Fibre has found that millions of households are overpaying for broadband paying as much as £44.99/month for equivalent services on offer at £17.99/month - costing them £648 over a 24-month deal. There are huge variances in speeds too. Virgin offers superfast 350Mbps broadband for £39.99, the same price as Sky charge for a 60Mbps…
Ofcom proposes ‘one touch’ broadband switching
Residential broadband and home phone customers would benefit from quicker, simpler and more reliable switching, under Ofcom's plans to introduce a new ‘one touch’ process. Following an Ofcom rule change in 2015, customers switching between providers such as BT, Sky and TalkTalk on Openreach’s copper network can already follow a process where their new provider…
Greater broadband competition needed to improve service, claims survey
The majority (81%) of UK households use four broadband providers to connect their home Nearly four in five (78%) households have not switched provider in past year, despite increased internet usage since the start of the pandemic 82% of broadband customers would switch to a lesser-known provider if it was cheaper or better quality The…
Virgin Media switches on Wales’ fast home broadband
Thousands of homes in Cardiff and across South Wales can now benefit from Wales’ fastest home broadband offering average speeds of 1,140Mbps - 18 times faster than the average connection speed in Cardiff Locations across South Wales including Barry, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Port Talbot, and Rhondda Cynon Taf can now access Virgin Media’s Gig1 service More…
Virgin Media sees record-breaking traffic on Xbox launch
Tuesday 10 November was Virgin Media’s busiest day of broadband traffic on record – 30% higher than October’s average This was linked to the launch of Xbox Series X/S consoles and games including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Destiny 2 Blue Light, a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare update and pre-download of Call of Duty: Black Ops…
Virgin Media adds preschool app Hopster to TV platform
Virgin Media has added the award-winning kids app, Hopster, to its TV platform to help parents keep pre-schoolers entertained at home. Designed for kids aged two to six, Hopster provides a safe, ad-free environment for youngsters to learn through the stories they love – featuring family-favourite classics such as Pingu and Sesame Street, educational shows like Monster…
Virgin Media reveals lockdown leap in broadband traffic
Virgin Media households have downloaded an extra 325GB on average during lockdown so far making use of their ultrafast speeds Customers now using enough extra data to watch 3.5 hours more Netflix and send tens of thousands of emails every single day Northern Irish customers are downloading the most and Scottish customers the least in…
Sir Richard Branson announces Virgin Galactic move to New Mexico’s Spaceport America
At a press conference today at the New Mexico State Capitol Building in Santa Fe, Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic’s development and testing program is to move from Mojave, California to Spaceport America, New Mexico. Virgin Galactic has partnered with New Mexico in an agreement which saw the state complete construction…