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Usain Bolt is back in another BBH ad for this site’s least favourite media owner Virgin Media (if we were a BT customer it might be different), flogging “super fast fibre.” Saw a report the other day that compared claimed ...

Virgin Media is launching new media “bundles,” doubling broadband speeds free for some customers (I’d better get one for all that money I pay them) via a new multi-media campaign from BBH, featuring Mr Speedy himself Usain Bolt. And what ...

Sorry for the interruption to the aforementioned customer service – we’ve been off-air for part of the day. Broadband supplier Virgin Media, according to one of its multifarious call centres, decided to apply a “software upgrade” to our service today. ...

Virgin Media is taking the bull by the horns in its new campaign from BBH, claiming its fibre network is the fastest way to all the goodies on the internet and elsewhere, especially entertainment. So it has bunch of B-team ...

BT and Virgin have combined to hymn the praises of the UK’s broadband network, claiming to have invested over £15bn in five years to spruce up the creaking system. They don’t actually mention the latter. Cable outfit Virgin is the ...

Broadband operators all always getting into trouble for lying about their broadband speeds so we’d better hope that Virgin Media has its facts right when it says it’s “the fastest” just like its ad star Usain Bolt. So BBH has ...

I know you all like to hear about my problems with Virgin Media, the cutting edge of the cable revolution (nobody thinks, least of all them). Anyway, VM finally admitted today that they have a faulty cable in my area ...

It’s been interesting listening to chancellor George Osborne at the Tory party conference outlining his plans for a wonderful new age of state-of-the-art British infrastructure. He’s wheeled in Labour peer Andrew Adonis to head a commission into same. Hmm. Having ...

We had a problem with our broadband connection today; not for the first time, courtesy of Virgin Media. Anyway it was off (apologies to readers) so we rang them up. Usually if there’s a neighbourhood fault they say they’re fixing ...