British network provider Virgin Media is trying to deliver high-speed broadband internet service using telegraph poles.

Virgin Media said that it would start delivering broadband to homes in Woolhampton in Berkshire this month. The trial is set to last for six months.

Homes in Woolhampton will be offered speeds of up to 50Mbps, which are higher than BT Group’s copper network infrastructure.

The development is expected to help the scattered rural communities to a great extent.

Virgin Media has confirmed that it would bring TiVo software to its set top boxes in the UK later this year.

The return of the vastly popular American digital video recorder to the UK will help Virgin in developing its next-generation set-top boxes.

Choosing video on demand services or boxed sets will become a lot easier with TiVo service. As the the two firms will try to combine online video on demand services like YouTube and BBC iPlayer with conventional programming and DVR capabilities.

The cable TV provider, Virgin Media, is continuing the achievements of high definition TV channels for its UK subscribers with the addition of Discovery HD by mid to late spring.

The channel will be showing around fifteen hundred hours of content in clear crisp high definition, including popular programs such as Extreme Engineering, Mythbusters and Bear Grylls: Born Survivor.

The Executive Director of digital entertainment at Virgin Media, Cindy Rose said that the company will be adding several more HD channels to its network over the next few months.

It has been reported that Virgin Media has launched its operations in the country of Wales. The beginning of the operations indicates that the organizations in Wales would definitely benefit from their strategies that were certainly ambitious when the company emerges as a definite competition to BT.

Virgin Media revealed that Discovery HD will soon become available on the cable TV platform as part of a raft of new high definition channel launches.

The announcement came just a week after posting the imminent arrival of Eurosport HD.

Discovery Networks UK executive vice president and managing director Dee Forbes added: "Virgin Media is a valued partner of ours and I am delighted that they have added Discovery's UK HD channel to their portfolio.

UK users have a reason to cheer. The cellular service Virgin Media has announced that from the 1st of April 2010, its landline users will be able to make free phone calls to any Virgin Mobile handsets as it appears to convert more of its landline customers (10 per cent of the customer database) into Virgin Mobile users.

Virgin Media has said that it would offer free calls from Virgin landlines to Virgin mobile phones from the start of April.

As per announcement, Virgin’s landline customers will be able to call the company’s mobile customers free of cost.

Virgin Media is the first UK carrier to offer such a service.