Virgin Media

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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 Britain, 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.