Virgin Media - Uktv Channels, List of Channels on Virgin TV, V+, Gold, Dave, Watch, Yesterday, Virgin Mobile UK, Alibi, Filmflex, Home (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: UKTV channels, List of channels on Virgin TV, V+, GOLD, Dave, Watch, Yesterday, Virgin Mobile UK, Alibi, FilmFlex, Home, Good Food, Blighty, Play UK, UKTV Bright Ideas, Eden, UKTV Gardens, UK Horizons, Really. Excerpt: Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VMED) is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to domestic and business customers in the United Kingdom. Its executive office is in New York City, United States and its operational headquarters are in Hook, United Kingdom. The company was formed in 2006 by the merger of NTL Incorporated and Telewest Global, Inc., which created ntl: Telewest. A further merger with Virgin Mobile UK later in 2006 created the first "quadruple-play" media company in the United Kingdom, bringing together television, internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services. Virgin Media owns and operates its own fibre-optic cable network, the only national cable network in the United Kingdom. As at 31 December 2010 it had a total of approximately 4.8 million cable customers, of whom around 3.78 million were supplied with television services, around 4.01 million with broadband internet services and around 4.16 million with fixed-line telephony services. As at the same date it had around 3.07 million mobile telephony customers. It competes primarily with British Sky Broadcasting, BT Group, Everything Everywhere, O2, TalkTalk and Vodafone. Virgin Media has a primary listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Virgin Media shop on Commercial Street in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The broadband division combines NTL's cable-broadband operations (broadband Internet access connections through cable), Blueyonder (Telewest's cable-broadband operations) and Virgin.net (ADSL; broadband internet access through a non...