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Virgin Media Limited
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Telecommunications
Mass media
Predecessors
NTL
Telewest
Founded
8 February 2007; 17 years ago (2007-02-08)[1]
Headquarters
Reading, England[1]
Area served
United Kingdom[1]
Key people
John C. Malone (chairman)
Lutz Schüler (CEO)
Products
Digital television
broadband internet
fixed-line telephone
mobile telephony
Revenue
£4.100 billion (2012)[1]
Operating income
£0.699 billion (2012)[1]
Net income
£2.852 billion (2012)[1]
Total assets
£10.504 billion (2012)[1]
Owner
Virgin Media O2
Number of employees
14,004 (2012)[1]
Subsidiaries
Virgin Media Business
Website
www.virginmedia.com
Virgin Media is a telecommunications company from England, founded in 2007, which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are at Green Park in Reading, England. It is owned by Virgin Media O2, a 50:50 joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica.
Virgin Media owns and operates its own Hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) and Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) networks in the United Kingdom. Although most of the network is urban focused, the new joint venture, Nexfibre (a 50:50 joint venture between Virgin Media O2 and Infravia Capital Partners) is expanding the network to more areas which never had access to the Virgin Media network before. As of Q2 2023, it had a total of approximately 5.8 million customers. Since the acquisition of Smallworld Cable in 2014, Virgin Media is the main cable provider in the UK, with the exception of WightFibre on the Isle of Wight,[2] and covers 51% of UK households.[3] Virgin Media competes primarily in broadband with Sky, BT (EE) and TalkTalk.
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^"UPDATE UK Cable Provider Virgin Media Gobbles Rival Smallworld Fibre – ISPreview UK". ISPreview. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
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£4.100 billion (2012)[1]