Virgin Media to give a million customers free broadband speed boost

As part of the upgrades, which start today, more than half a million Virgin Media customers will see their broadband speeds double and some will see their speeds increase five-fold.

If you're one of the affected customers, you won't have to pay anything extra to get the speed boost, and you don't have to do anything – the upgrade will happen automatically and you'll be emailed a notification when it's done. Virgin says the vast majority of customers will be upgraded by the end of March.

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Whose speed will be boosted?

The speed boost will only apply to customers who joined Virgin Media before 1 December 2019, and to those on the following tariffs:

• M50

• L50

• L70

• Capped Fibre 20