Project Lightning aims to expand cable coverage from around half to two thirds of the country by 2020.
In March staff were suspended over concerns they may have exaggerated the progress of the £3bn project. Virgin found evidence that 142,000 homes and businesses in line to be connected required more work than reported.
Virgin’s parent company Liberty Global thought construction work to lay new cables was substantially complete and that new lines only required power and plugging into its street cabinets, work it told investors would be complete in the first quarter of this year. Instead, further construction had been required, and new homes and businesses will not be able to subscribe to cable broadband until summer.
Liberty Global also overhauled Virgin Media’s senior executive team, including appointing a new chief operating officer as well as a managing director for Project Lightning.
