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Virgin Mobile's former headquarters in Trowbridge, England. In December 2005 it was announced that Virgin Mobile UK was in talks with NTL:Telewest regarding a sale. The combination of Virgin Mobile and NTL:Telewest would create the United Kingdom's first "quadruple play" media company, bringing together TV, broadband internet access, mobile phone and fixed-line phone services, and allowing NTL ...
VMED O2 UK Limited, [1] trading as Virgin Media O2, is a British mass media and telecommunications company based in London, England. The company was formed in June 2021 as a 50:50 joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica through the merger of their respective Virgin Media and O2 UK businesses. [2] [3] [4]
The merger became unconditional on 23 January 2006. Following the acquisition of O2, Telefónica undertook a corporate organisational change that saw the merging of its fixed and mobile businesses in Spain, and the transfer of Telefónica's non-Spanish European telecommunications properties into the O2 brand.
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The deal brings together two of the biggest broadband and mobile phone operators in the UK a year after plans were first revealed. Virgin Media O2 £31bn merger given green light by watchdog Skip ...
Virgin Media ran Virgin Mobile Telecoms Limited, a UK-based Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) from November 1999 using the one2one (later T-Mobile and EE) network, after the merger between Virgin Media and Telefónica it was later announced that Virgin Mobile would close and customers be moved to the O2 network. This was completed in ...
The takeover, which was completed on 4 July 2006, created the UK's first 'quadruple play' media company, bringing together television, Internet broadband, mobile-phone and fixed-line phone services. The deal included a 30-year exclusive branding agreement that saw NTL adopt the Virgin name across its consumer operations as it merged operations ...
In November 2006, after the merger with NTL, The Register reported that subscriber traffic management was being trialled in areas of northern England, and would be rolled out nationwide. [18] Blueyonder also provided dial-up internet services on a pay-as-you-go tariff, or a fixed monthly fee of £14.99 for unlimited use.