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• Internet 04 May 15:51

  Web censorship culture entrenches itself in Britain's parliament

  CommentCensorship does not work. Think of it in terms of prohibition. Heavy-handed enforcement that punishes large swathes of the population - nice try, RIAA, circa Napster - did little to stem piracy.
• Business 25 Apr 10:51

  Virgin Media gets its wrists slapped by ASA

  Virgin Media has had its wrist slapped yet again by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after it was found to have mislead customers by hiding important information in tiny fonts.
• Internet 25 Apr 10:13

  Whitespace internet tests declared successful by tech consortium

  Others involved in the consortium includes: Adaptrum, Alcatel-Lucent, Arqiva, BBC, BSkyB, BT, Cambridge Consultants, CRFS, CSR plc., Digital TV Group (DTG), Microsoft, Neul, Nokia, Samsung, Spectrum Bridge, The Technology Partnership (TTP) and Virgin Media.
• Security 20 Feb 10:02

  British government draws up Big Brother style communications law

  The Telegraph said that the plan has been drawn up on the advice of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. Rather than the government holding the information centrally, companies including BT, Sky, Virgin Media, Vodafone and O2 would have to keep the records themselves. This would be accessed real time by the spooks.
• Mobile 29 Nov 23:17

  Virgin Media in Oxford: down for two weeks

  I live in Oxford now - strangely Virgin Media has been down here for two weeks so I am using my T-Mobile dongle to connect to the interweb.
• Internet 25 Nov 08:31

  Watchdog tells ISPs to pull their socks up

  Apparently Mr Ofcom is jolly cross that BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, restrict the speed of some bandwidth heavy services such as peer-to-peer file sharing without making it clear enough what they are doing.
• Business 24 Nov 10:45

  Virgin Media hit by engineer shortage

  RumourDespite lengthening dole queues snaking across the country, the rumour mill suggests that Virgin Media is still struggling to attract enough engineering staff.
• Internet 15 Aug 13:24

  Global broadband digital divide widens

  While those at the top of the pile can afford to pay exorbitant prices, which put even Virgin Media’s top prices to shame, it means that broadband access for the average person is woefully out of reach.
• Internet 03 Aug 09:16

  Virgin wants to give free public wi-fi to London

  If it all works, Virgin Media's network would be free to anyone at 0.5Mbps, and to subscribers at speeds up to 10Mbps.
• Mobile 27 Jul 12:00

  IEEE publishes long range wireless standards

  Virgin Media told us that while it was looking to support access in rural communities, it places more emphasis on the higher speeds of cable broadband, with the IEE spec not necessarilty high enough for a full range of services.
• Business 29 Jun 11:59

  Businesses use Advertising Standards to grass each other up

  We noticed that too, as the comments follow yet another potshot at Virgin Media from its nemesis Sky, which managed to get BT on side too.
• Business 21 Apr 12:35

  Talk Talk tops Ofcom's crap list

  Next up on the worst list was BSkyB. BT also proved that sometimes it wasn't good to talk, coming in at third. The least complained about provider over the same period was Virgin Media with 0.21 complaints per 1000 customers.
• Internet 13 Apr 10:47

  Fujitsu builds superfast broadband for Nowhereville

  Fujitsu's open access wholesale network will be powered by Ciscoand will be used by Virgin Media and TalkTalk to help the five million households who would have otherwise been left behind in next gen broadband plans.
• Internet 14 Mar 14:44

  Broadband operators won't tell people lies any more

  BSkyB, BT, O2, TalkTalk, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone will all supply information to the Broadband Stakeholder Group, which is spearheading the initiative, so that traffic management techniques can easily be read and compared by users of both fixed line and mobile broadband.
• Internet 09 Mar 15:22

  British ISPs are not shy about two-tier internet

  BT, Sky and Virgin Media have sat down and worked out an industry-wide "code of practice" on how they explain selling "two-speed internet" policies to punters.
• Internet 08 Mar 07:46

  Virgin starts throttling customers

  Blighty ISP Virgin Media has decided that it is a wizard wheeze to start throttling punters' P2P and Newsgroup traffic.
• Internet 02 Mar 09:58

  UK ISPs only supply half broadband speeds they promise

  For example Virgin Media’s highest speed 50Mbit/s deal, gave an average download speed of 46Mbit/s.
• Internet 25 Nov 15:30

  Virgin Media signs fibre optic deal with Cabinet Office

  Virgin Media Business has announced today that it is to provide its fibre-optic network to the UK government as part of the Public Sector Network (PSN), after it signed a Deed of Undertaking with the Cabinet Office.

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