Virgin to offer 100Mb per second broadband service (Britain)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 100Mb per second broadband service will be launched by Virgin Media this year to extend its speed advantage over rivals BT and British Sky Broadcasting.

A narrowing of full-year pre-tax losses for 2009 from continuing operations from £860.2m ($1.3bn) to £337.5m has also been reported by the company. 28,600 new cable subscribers signed up the network which is the largest number of net additions since the NTL-Telewest merger four years ago.

According to Neil Berkett, chief executive, Virgin’s 100Mbps service would become available to the first customers by the end of 2010; with deployment complete a year later and he also hoped that there will be demand for a 100Mbps product as more households want to watch an internet video, play online video games and download music simultaneously.