What is 50Mb broadband?

50Mb broadband is currently the fastest broadband download speed available in the UK. 50Mb broadband allows you to seamlessly browse the internet as well as download movies in minutes and songs in seconds.

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We’ve come a long way since the days of dial-up when you had to wait seconds and often minutes for pages to load. Even with 'up to 8Mb' broadband packages, you must wait the same amount of time for some videos to load. Up to 50Mb broadband blows its predecessors out of the water and makes waiting a thing of the past.

What does 50Mb broadband mean to the user?

While 50Mb is a speed in itself, many people don’t understand what this high speed will mean to them in real terms. See what Virgin Media’s up to 50Mb broadband will do for your internet experience:

• Download a 60Mb album in as little as 11 seconds
• Download a 15Gb HD movie in less than an hour
• Stream HD video straight to your computer – without buffering
• Host multiplayer games with lots of players
• Download games in under two minutes

Who offers 50Mb broadband?

Virgin Media

Currently Virgin Media is the only Internet Service Provider (ISP) to offer up to 50Mb broadband. Virgin Media is able to offer these impressive speeds thanks to its next-generation fibre optic network.

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Who can get 50Mb broadband?

50Mb broadband is currently only available to 12.6 million UK households. However, with BT also adopting fibre optic technology availability will expand massively in years to come.

Who needs 50Mb broadband?

• Student broadband users
• Gamers broadband users
• Family broadband users

Virgin Media’s 50Mb broadband is appealing to individuals who live to play games online and families where more than four people want to connect to the internet at the same time without loss of speed to any users.

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