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Virgin Media comments on BSkyB losing Court bid over ITV stake
Posted : Jan 22, 12:18 AM by Mick
Just a short news piece. Earlier today we reported how BSkyB lost it’s court appeal on it’s bid attempt to block a forced 10.4% sale of it’s 17.9% stake in ITV, we approached Virgin Media and wondered what they had to say on the matter..
Read MoreBSKYB Loses ITV Stake Court Appeal Bid
Posted : Jan 21, 03:45 PM by Mick
Interesting news just out, BSKYB this morning, has lost it’s court appeal bid to block a forced 10.4% sale of the broadcasters 17.9% stake in ITV. BSKYB acquired it’s 17.9% stake in ITV in November 2006, a move which thwarted a takeover attempt by Virgin Media (ntl:Telewest – as it was known at the time).
Read MoreVirgin Media Digitial TV Outage Multiple areas
Posted : Dec 3, 12:50 AM by Mick
Reports are coming in from our Cable TV forum, that there is a major Digital TV outage in multiple areas tonight. The outage happened after 6pm. Areas so far which Virgin Media have confirmed are currently experiencing outages are Birmingham and the Midlands.
Read MoreVirgin to trial filesharing monitoring system
Posted : Nov 26, 03:59 PM by Stuart
Is “Phorm” coming back?
Read MoreThird Quarter Results puts Virgin Media in Good Shape
Posted : Nov 2, 02:58 PM by Mick
Virgin Media reported last week that it saw a year-on-year increase in operating cash flow as it beat analysts forecasts for the third quarter, analysts had predicted OCF to be at £337m when it was actually £348m. In the third quarter, average revenue per user rose to a record 44.24 pounds from 42 pounds a year earlier. The Cable Co, sees its Broadband customer numbers increase by 39,000, VM now has 3.77 million Broadband customers. Meanwhile, 37,000 new customers joined its TV service, taking total TV customer numbers to 3.71 million.
Read MoreCable comes out ahead in speed test.
Posted : Jul 28, 01:38 PM by Stuart
Cable has highest average speed according to Ofcom. Virgin’s 10 meg product had an average speed of nearly twice that offered by 8 Meg ADSL ISPs. VM’s 20 meg product was fastest overall.
Read MoreVirgin Media: Put your broadband to the test
Posted : Jul 22, 09:29 PM by Mick
Virgin Media have contacted us as they want to invite Cable Forum users to participate in a Broadband Quality Trial which has just started this month. The purpose of the tests are that over the next year, Virgin Media want to be measuring the performance of their broadband, from things like how fast a customers average download speeds are to how reliable their network is.
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