Oh you lucky Virgin Media customers - it looks like you'll be able to surf the interweb as blazing sppeds as the company announced plans to upgrade the network from 4Mbps to 10Mbps. 

Also on the cards are plans to give some 9m customers broadband accesss of up to 50Mbps.

Customers on Virgin Media's ‘L' tier broadband package will be upgraded for free, taking their service from 4Mb to 10Mb. The upgrade will roll out by regions from late February giving customers more than double the speed of their current package. With the new 10Mbps service, customers will be able to download music tracks in four seconds and an album in around a minute or a TV show in around five minutes.

Successful trials in Ashford, Folkstone and Dover have already taken place with Virgin Media extending its upgrade programme to 50Mbps. Virgin Media currently offers customers speed up to 20Mbps, and the new 50Mbps service will be rolled out to 9m households in the UK by the end of this year.

Neil Berkett, acting CEO of Virgin Media said “Virgin Media's cable network gives us a natural superiority over other broadband services and we're delighted to reward our customers with this free upgrade. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with our cable network, and we will continue to look for new ways to satisfy the growing demand for even faster broadband in the UK. We're proud to be leading the country's superfast broadband revolution.”

As reported by Absolute Gadget, BT is planning to install a new fibre-based network in the area that will see internet speeds of of around 100Mbps.