Virgin Media facts for kids

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Virgin Media Incorporated
Type Public: (NASDAQ: VMED)
Industry Cable Communications
When it was created 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)
Things made Cable television
Broadband
Telephone
Mobile phone
Money earned $16.5 billion (2008)
Employees 22,500 (2005)
Website virginmedia.com

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.

Images for kids

  • 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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