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Virgin Media UK Tops 4.46M Broadband Users and Sells to LGi for GBP15bn

6th February, 2013 (9 Comments)

Cable provider Virgin Media UK has today released its latest results (Q4-2012), which saw subscribers to their broadband ISP climb to total 4,465,000 (up by +51,600). But the big news is that international cable operator Liberty Global (LGi) has officially agreed to buy VM (merger) for an enterprise value of approximately $23.3 billion (£14.88bn).

UPDATE3 Liberty Global Preps Bid for UK Cable Operator Virgin Media

5th February, 2013 (10 Comments)

Virgin Media, which delivers fixed line phone, broadband and TV services to roughly half of the United Kingdom (mostly urban areas), could be sold to international cable provider Liberty Global after reports of a bid worth up to £12.7 billion began to circle the internet (enterprise value of $20bn).

UK Virgin Media WiFi Live at 103 London Underground Train Stations

29th January, 2013 (0 Comments)

Virgin Media has announced that a further eleven London underground tube stations (total 103) can now access its public wireless internet (wifi) service, which is FREE to existing Vodafone, EE, T-Mobile, Orange UK and of course Virgin broadband customers.

Virgin Media UK Cuts the Price of its Top Collections Broadband Bundles

24th January, 2013 (0 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media UK has further reduced the price of its top two triple-play VIP Collection and Premiere Collection bundles, which both combine a premium superfast broadband connection with TV and phone services.

4G Price and Coverage are More Important to UK Consumers than its Speed

17th January, 2013 (5 Comments)

A new Virgin Media Business commissioned YouGov study of 2,000 adults in the United Kingdom has revealed that 90% of people wouldn’t swap their Mobile Broadband operator based purely on the prospect of getting faster speeds from 4G (LTE). In fact price, reliability and coverage were deemed to be more important.

ISP Virgin Media Tops UK Netflix Chart of the Fastest Movie Streams

15th January, 2013 (1 Comment)

Netflix UK, the unlimited movies and TV subscription based video streaming service, has published its latest December 2012 rankings for broadband Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom. The ratings reflect the average performance of all Netflix video streams on each ISP.

Virgin Media Offer GBP50 to GBP100 Credit on its Broadband Bundles

11th January, 2013 (7 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has complimented its existing free and half-price service discounts by adding a credit worth up to £100 to its various triple-play Essential, Premiere and VIP Collections (bundles of broadband, phone and TV). Some bundles also come with free installation.

Virgin Media UK Offers 6 Months FREE Superfast Broadband and Calls

20th December, 2012 (5 Comments)

National UK cable operator Virgin Media has today launched a series of new promotions, which are headlined by an offer of 6 months free service on their 30Mbps broadband and unlimited weekend calls bundle. Meanwhile the 100Mbps package is also being offered from just £12.50 a month for the first 6 months of service.

Virgin Media WiFi Enables 20 More UK London Underground Train Stations

11th December, 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable operator Virgin Media has this morning confirmed that its FREE public wireless internet (wifi) service is now available from a further 20 London underground tube stations, which brings the total coverage to 92 stations and an additional 28 stations are due to come online in early 2013.

UPD Virgin Media UK Eye Future DOCSIS 3.1 Support and 10Gbps Broadband

10th December, 2012 (22 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s national cable operator, Virgin Media, has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that the still in-development DOCSIS 3.1 (DOCSISNG) standard, which could one day deliver cable-based broadband ISP speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second), is something they’re testing for the future. But what does it mean?

Does the City of Derry Deserve its UK UltraFast Broadband Funding Boost

7th December, 2012 (6 Comments)

This week the UK government awarded £50m to help twelve “smaller cities” expand the coverage of “ultra-fast” broadband (80-100Mbps+) and “high speed” public wifi services into neglected areas. But some of the cities, such as Derry in Northern Ireland and Portsmouth in England, already have near perfect availability of “superfast” connectivity.

Virgin Media Seek to Avoid Legal Clash Over UK City Broadband Funding

3rd December, 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable operator Virgin Media has written to the UK government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, with a series of recommendations for changing the £150m+ Urban Broadband Fund. The UBF aims to support the roll-out of “ultrafast” broadband services and fast public wifi, although Virgin and BT have already threatened it with legal action.

Virgin Media Reveals FREE City Wireless Broadband for Leeds and Bradford

30th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable ISP Virgin Media Business has this morning announced the win of a vital concession agreement that will allow it to begin rolling out a free city wireless internet (wifi) network to cover over 1.2 million citizens of Leeds and Bradford in England (United Kingdom).

UPDATE EE and Vodafone UK Confirm FREE London Virgin Media WiFi Deal

21st November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator EE appears to have accidentally leaked details that revealed the future direction for Virgin Media’s network of 72 free wireless internet access hotspots in the London underground (tube stations). UPDATE: Now it’s official.

Virgin Media UK Re-Paints its Engineer Vans to Match the Thunderbirds

21st November, 2012 (12 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media UK has moved to make the “super-vans” used by its “top performing” broadband and phone engineers look a little more colourful by re-painting their “super-fleet” with various movie-themed styles. The first one is clearly inspired by the Thunderbirds TV show.

Price Hikes Set to Hit UK Virgin Media ISP Customers on 1st February 2013

20th November, 2012 (4 Comments)

Customers of cable operator Virgin Media UK will shortly become the latest to be hit by the dreaded new year price hikes, which are set to affect their broadband, phone and TV services from 1st February 2013.

Virgin Media Failing to Fix Peak Time Broadband Latency and Peering Woes

17th November, 2012 (2 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media UK has so far failed to completely resolve its broadband peering problems, which re-emerged over a week ago and has left many customers to suffer from high latency (bad for multiplayer games) and video buffering problems during peak times.