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Virgin Media is the UK's leading entertainment and communications company. Virgin Media are the first people in the UK to offer TV, Broadband, Phone and Mobile - all from one place.

In cabled areas, they use advanced fibre-optic cable network to reach 12.5 million homes and outside cabled areas their services are delivered via the BT network.


Virgin Media are opening up the TV schedules, giving customers access to a vast library of films, allowing customers to roam freely on the internet and download without limits, and pay one price for calling anywhere in the world.


Services:

  • Virgin Media Television - Virgin Media Television has seven wholly owned TV channels (plus timeshifted services).
    • Virgin 1
    • LIVING
    • LIVING 2
    • Bravo
    • Bravo 2
    • Challenge

Virgin Media Television is also BBC Worldwide’s joint venture partner in UKTV.

  • Sit-up - Virgin Media's other content business is sit-up, whose channels include bid tv, price drop tv and speedauction tv
  • ntl: Telewest Business - a leading communications provider to businesses, public sector organisations and service providers in the UK. It delivers a complete portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions nation-wide.


Almost 10 million customers (5m cable, 4.5m mobile, 250,000 virgin.net) choose Virgin Media, making them:

  • the most popular residential broadband provider in the UK
  • the UK's largest mobile virtual network operator
  • the second largest home phone and pay TV provider

History

In February 2007, they brought together ntl, Telewest, Virgin Mobile and Virgin.net to form a brand new entertainment and communications company

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