Virgin Media

Virgin Media Limited
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry
Predecessors
Founded8 February 2007 (2007-02-08)[1]
HeadquartersReading, England[1]
Area served
United Kingdom[1]
Key people
Products
RevenueIncrease £4.100 billion (2012)[1]
Increase £0.699 billion (2012)[1]
Increase £2.852 billion (2012)[1]
Total assetsIncrease £10.504 billion (2012)[1]
Number of employees
14,004 (2012)[1]
ParentVirgin Media O2
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.virginmedia.com Edit this at Wikidata

Virgin Media Limited[2] is a British telecommunications company 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. Since its foundation in 2007, the company has used the Virgin branding under license from Richard Branson.[3][4]

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,[5] and covers 51% of UK households.[6] Virgin Media is one of the "big four" internet service providers in the UK along with BT (EE), Sky and TalkTalk.[7] In the past, Virgin Media also operated a mobile virtual network operator (Virgin Mobile) and operated TV channels and produced television content (Virgin Media Television).

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  5. ^ "UPDATE UK Cable Provider Virgin Media Gobbles Rival Smallworld Fibre – ISPreview UK". ISPreview. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
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