What They Say
Virgin Media posted data about its success in 2020 in the UK, despite, or because of the pandemic. When it came to upload traffic, Virgin Media’s network saw data use jump up by 64 per cent across the year, driven by people working from home, connecting with loved ones on video calls and playing online video games.
The nation turned to the small screen, with households spending an extra 21 hours on average watching TV each month – equivalent of 10 full days per year and enough to watch all four series of The Crown six times over.
During November, customers downloaded an average of 17.3GB per day – enough to stream six hours of HD TV, send and receive 900 emails, play three hours of online games, as well as spending hours browsing the web and social media channels – all in the space of 24 hours.
The busiest day ever was on Tuesday 10 November when a total of 108 Petabytes of data was consumed, linked to the launch of the Xbox Series X/S consoles and games including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
What We Think
I confess that the headline caught my eye as I switched my TV viewing to Virgin Media this year and now rely on the firm for all my broadband, which is mostly very good, but very occasionally horrible! However, I decided to run the story when I saw the daily download number. I remember, only a few years ago, switching to a new ISP because it would give me 1GB per month of downloads for my business! (BR)
