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Virgin Media Incorporated
Public: (NASDAQ: VMED)
Industry Cable Communications
Founded NTL: 1991; Telewest: 1984
Headquarters Corporate: New York City, United States
Operational: Hook, England, UK
Key people
 James Mooney (Chairman)
Neil Berkett CEO
Richard Branson (Figurehead)
Products Cable television
Broadband
Telephone
Mobile phone
Revenue $16.5 billion (2008)
Number of employees
 22,500 (2005)

Virgin Media Inc. (formerly known as ntl:Telewest, after a merger of NTL Incorporated with Telewest Global, Inc.), became in 2006 the first "quadruple-play" media company in the United Kingdom, bringing together a service consisting of television, Internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services.

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  • Virgin Media Offices, Nottingham - geograph.org.uk - 948697

    Virgin Media's offices in Nottingham

  • VMTrowbridge

    The former headquarters of Virgin Mobile in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

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