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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.
Who owns Virgin Media? Not Richard Branson. He never really has. In 2003, Telwest bought British cable television rival NTL. Two years later that merged company announced another merger with Branson’s mobile telephone business, Virgin Mobile. The new company was eventually christened Virgin Media and Branson retained a 10% share in the new ...
He does not own any part of Virgin Media. [ 59 ] In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.
In June 2013, Liberty Global acquired British cable group Virgin Media for $24 billion in cash and stock. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The acquisition was noted by The New York Times as one of the 10 largest cable deals of all time. [ 19 ]
Virgin Active is majority owned by a South African billionaire. Virgin Active was founded in the late 1990s by Sir Richard Branson and Matthew Bucknall, who stepped down as CEO in 2022. The...
Why are Virgin Media and O2 merging? Virgin Media owner Liberty Global, owned by John Malone in the US, has wanted to get the business ready to cope with the new 5G world for its mobile...
Liberty Global and Telefónica have struck a landmark deal to combine their British operations O2 and Virgin Media in a £31.4bn agreement that will reshape the UK’s telecoms market.
On 7 June 2013, pursuant to a series of mergers, Virgin Media Inc. ("Virgin Media") merged into separate wholly-owned subsidiaries of Liberty Global plc ("New Liberty Global").
Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, and Spain's Telefonica, which owns O2, said they had agreed terms for joining forces.
Liberty Global and Spanish group Telefónica, the respective owners of Virgin Media and O2, struck a deal to combine their UK operations in May 2020, which will unite the country’s...