Virgin Media’s new 100 Mbps broadband service is now available in over ten million homes.
The cablenet said such speeds were now available for the first time in cabled areas of Bromley, Dundee, Norton Hawkfield (North East Somerset) and Staverton (Gloucestershire).
Work is now expected to complete in the spring, rather than mid-2012 as had been originally thought.
Jon James, executive director of broadband at Virgin Media said: “Soon half the country will be able to get superfast 100Mb broadband from us. Reaching today’s milestone puts us ahead of schedule as we help propel the UK up the global broadband rankings.”
The operator said that in peak periods internet traffic on its network exceeds over three-quarters of a terabit per second – the equivalent of downloading enough books to fill 28 miles of shelving every minute.
