Virgin Media O2 is agonisingly close to doing something significant

UK converged operator VMO2 is so excited about the near completion of its network upgrade that it has started the celebrations early.
According to today’s press release the company is ‘within touching distance of upgrading entire network to gigabit speeds’. Of course an upgrade is not, in and of itself, a tangible thing, but VMO2 isn’t afraid to employ a metaphor or two to illustrate a worthy point. In this case there is a temporal character to the term ‘touching di