1990's CableTel Promo. became NTL then Virgin Media

25 years ago (about 1995) CableTel came to town and transformed Internet and TV Subscriptions, they claimed the latest Fibre Optic cables but they only reached the box in the street, the cables to the house / router were and stll are Copper Coax. Virgin Media tried to upsell this non fibre cable by marketing it as "DOCSIS x.x" but that is not Fibre Optic. Other claims in the Promo. Like answering the phone and the Video pops up on TV screen never actually happened. Many consumers came to HATE the Cable provider (In their various disguises" and many went back to Sky one they also provided ADSL Broadband. Now skip forward to 2020 and we are now seeing City Fibre digging up our streets again and laying true fibre to the premises often along side the 25 year old CableTel infrastructure (now Virgin Media), Marketed as UpTo 1GBps it will be sold initially by Vodafone and should provide some much needed competition to the existing offerings and hopefully help to keep prices down. With the introduction of Mobile 5G things should now finally start hotting up in the broadband speed stakes.