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• Virgin outlines its vision for deploying Hyperloop systems

  

  24 August 2021, 13:11

  Video shows maglev pods travelling at nearly 700mph, transporting tens of thousands a day.

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• Virgin Galactic completes its first crewed space flight

  

  12 July 2021, 10:11

  SpaceShipTwo reached an altitude of 53.5 miles, but the Kármán line (space) is 62 miles up.

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• Virgin Media O2 spotted running ad-funded free broadband trials

  

  9 June 2021, 11:11

  Another recent trial was doubling its 100Mbps tier download speeds from 10 to 20Mbps.

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• Virgin O2 merger provisionally approved by UK regulator

  

  15 April 2021, 13:11

  CMA looked closely at whether merger could lead to reduced competition.

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• Virgin Media UK testing 400Gbps over a single fibre

  

  5 March 2021, 11:11

  And the ISP reports a new network traffic record of 20.77GB per user on one day in Feb.

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• Ofcom says UK average fixed line broadband speed is 71.8Mbps

  

  8 December 2020, 11:11

  A decent improvement from 64.0Mbps reported in the previous biannual dataset.

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• Record UK broadband data use tied to Xbox and CoD releases

  

  13 November 2020, 11:11

  Additionally sizable downloads for Destiny 2 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla arrived.

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• Ofcom publishes fourth annual telecoms service quality report

  

  21 August 2020, 12:21

  It finds Plusnet (ISP) and Tesco Mobile (Mobile) deliver the greatest user satisfaction levels.

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• Virgin Media UK high street stores won't be reopening

  

  29 May 2020, 11:11

  It plans to offer the 341 affected staff, from 53 closed stores, new roles in the company.

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• Virgin Media and O2 merger agreed

  

  7 May 2020, 10:11

  50-50 joint venture will create a major rival to BT. Deal is valued at £31.4 billion.

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