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In late 2004, NTL purchased the remaining shares of the Internet service provider (ISP) virgin.net, originally a joint venture between NTL and Richard Branson's Virgin Group. [ 3 ] By 2005, its UK network consisted of a 7,800 km fibre backbone with the potential to reach 8.4 million residential homes and around 610,000 businesses.
In December 2005 NTL:Telewest and mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile UK announced that talks had taken place regarding a merger. [10] Virgin Mobile's independent directors rejected the original bid of £817 million ($1.4 billion), taking the view that NTL's bid "undervalued the business".
The island remains the only part of the UK's cable network not to be owned by Virgin Media. 1 February – NTL launches movie channel The Studio in conjunction with Vivendi Universal. [48] 2002. May – Less than a year after being founded and less than six months after launching, [49] Omne Communications enters administration.
From 2008, Virgin Media functioned as a single company; however, it relied on its three existing infrastructures: the Langley-based NTL, Bromley-based NTL (infrastructure bought from Cable & Wireless plc in 2000, but not yet integrated with NTL's original network) and Knowsley-based Telewest platforms.
Telewest purchased the remaining 50% stake in Cable London from NTL in August 1999, adding 0.4 million franchise homes in North London. [8] Telewest merged with Flextech in April 2000, [9] and in November, extended its cable network with the acquisition of Eurobell, taking the total number of homes passed to 4.9 million. [10]
There are four major forms of digital television (DTV) broadcast in the United Kingdom: a direct-to-home satellite service from the Astra 28.2°E satellites provided by Sky UK, a cable television service provided by Virgin Media (known as Virgin TV); a free-to-air satellite service called Freesat; and a free-to-air digital terrestrial service called Freeview.
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In September 2010, Virgin Media Business launched Big Red Internet, a business Internet service, without constraints or extra charges. [10]In September 2011, the organisation signed a deal with Mobile Broadband Network Ltd to provide a synchronous Ethernet mobile backhaul network – expanding the bandwidth available to Hutchinson 3G UK and EE for their 3G and 4G network requirements with 1 ...