Virgin Media

When Virgin Media Broadband recently relaunched it’s ADSL broadband service there were high hopes for the operation which is ultimately an alternative to those outside of the company’s cable network. The service was put forward as an alternative to BT, allowing customers to bundle their telephone and broadband services together away from British Telecom. With [...]

In a sign of the times, Virgin Media Broadband is offering three months free Internet access to new customers who take up the company’s Broadband L and Phone M package, although the offer will only remain open for a limited period. The initial savings, aside from the free installation available, will equate to around £45 [...]

While virgin broadband has been very prominent in the UK broadband market for some time, a bruising battle with Sky TV regarding pay-TV has impacted slightly up on the companies triple and quadruple sales packages. At this moment in time, 58% of Virgin broadband customers take out broadband, telephone and pay-TV services which is an [...]

While Virgin Broadband has been hitting the headlines for some time in relation to its ultra-fast fibre optic network there have been a significant number of complaints regarding “throttling”. This is the process by which traffic is “managed” in order to ensure as few system problems as possible and can often lead to slower broadband [...]

Building on the recent success of the Virgin Media broadband service the company is now looking to bundle together broadband, telephone and TV services with significant discounts available and free installation. There have been signs of success in this particular field and even though a recent announcement from the company suggested that the rate of [...]

In a surprise development it is being revealed that Virgin Media has seen a slowdown in broadband signups in the first quarter of 2009. New signups totalled just over 47,000 against a figure of just over 88,000 in the same quarter last year although the short-term impact of the recession could be a significant reason [...]

What is it about company names containing the word British which Virgin Group objects to?
First we had the fight between Virgin Airlines and British Airways and now we have the battle royal between Virgin Media and British Telecom. The two groups have been at loggerheads for some months now but today it was the [...]

In an excited press release Tiscali warned that if given the go-ahead, Kangaroo could destroy the entire UK pay-TV market.
Kangaroo is the project name for the joint venture between BBC Worldwide (the commercial arm of the beeb), ITV and Channel 4. However, Tiscali is argueing that if it is allowed to launch there will be [...]

Following a raft of complaints about the latest England national game only being aired on Setanta, CentreForum (backed by Virgin Media) have revealed that fans are missing out because they cannot afford the premiums for watching some matches.
86% of supporters do not subscribe because of the prohibitive price, this equates to 6 million UK football [...]

Richard Branson has hit the headlines again with news that Virgin Media expects to deliver mobile broadband with a speed of 200MB by 2012. The plan has taken some of the gloss off its recent announcement of a fibre optic network which would service 10 million homes by 2012, offering internet broadband speeds of [...]