Virgin Media

This article is about the UK subsidiary of Virgin Media O2. For the Irish company also known as Virgin Media, see Virgin Media Ireland.

Virgin Media Limited
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry
Predecessors
Founded8 February 2007; 17 years ago (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 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.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Annual report pursuant to section 13 and 15(d) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012". Virgin Media. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  2. ^ "UPDATE UK Cable Provider Virgin Media Gobbles Rival Smallworld Fibre – ISPreview UK". ISPreview. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  3. ^ "StackPath". Choose. Retrieved 21 May 2020.