I'm sending this through Virgin Media cable and I've had no outage issues all week.
In fact, of the entire year or so I've been with them (out in the sticks), I've not had more than 15 minutes of outage. Maybe this is just a regional thing?
Having originally written the Escapist article, it's quite gratifying that it was picked up. I've had no further comment from any of the involved companies but I will be watching this with some intrepidation.