With the BT Infinity fibre broadband service launching this week it is no surprise that BT are trying to make claims about their service being better than Virgin Medias and Virgin Media making claims that their service is better than BTs fibre broadband.

Virgin Media have been the UK’s fibre optic cable broadband supplier and have been the only ones able to push this service, that is until this week when BT officially launched BT Infinity which is their own fibre broadband service.

Virgin are not happy with claims from BT that choosing the BT Infinity service could save customer up to £7 per month compared to a Virgin Media fibre broadband service.
Virgin Media have hit back saying that BT’s claims are not strictly true as they are comparing services which are not the same.
The Virgin XXL service that BT was comparing against offers broadband speeds up to 50MB and has Unlimited usage where as the BT service offers up to 40Mb and has a 20GB download limit. Another point is that BT Infinity customers would need to take a phone line out with BT where as no phone line is required with the Virgin Media service.

A Virgin Media spokesperson said:

“We’re not sure why people in the UK would want to wait for BT’s 40Mbps service which hasn’t launched yet, when they can already get Virgin Media’s great value 50Mbps service”