Virgin Media talks up 400Mbps broadband

Virgin Media has started talking up the prospects of providing all its customers with 400Mbps broadband, which would outstrip BT's fastest Internet connections by a factor of four. The next generation of Virgin's customer premise equipment (CPE) will be capable of supporting the faster speeds, the cable operator said. However, it stopped short of saying it would definitely roll out the service. "We are making moves to make sure our equipment is capable of 400Mbps. We are not saying we are looking at 400Mbps, but that our equipment is prepared for the future," a Virgin Media spokesperson said.