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In late 2004, NTL purchased the remaining shares of the Internet service provider (ISP) virgin.net, originally a joint venture between NTL and Richard Branson's Virgin Group. [ 3 ] By 2005, its UK network consisted of a 7,800 km fibre backbone with the potential to reach 8.4 million residential homes and around 610,000 businesses.
Virgin.net was an Internet service provider (ISP) operating in the United Kingdom. It launched in November 1996. It launched in November 1996. Once a joint venture between NTL and the Virgin Group , the ISP became wholly owned by NTL in September 2004.
Telewest (previously Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications) was a cable internet, broadband internet, telephone supplier and cable television provider in the United Kingdom. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange , and was also once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
NTL Incorporated and NTL Internet, later Virgin Media, communications media company NTL Ireland , later Virgin Media Ireland Arqiva , UK company formerly NTL Broadcast and National Transcommunications Limited
Virgin cable services are available throughout Northern Ireland in most cities. Derry has had cable since the mid-1990s when CableTel installed the infrastructure, later adopting NTL as its name, and then 2006 merging with Telewest becoming NTL:Telewest, and again later that year merging ultimately with Virgin, and then re-branding as Virgin Media in 2007.
Virgin Media has said there are no ongoing outages or issues to report on its network in Northern Ireland. Openreach said they "know how frustrating it is to lose your broadband and phone services ...
The rules would reclassify broadband access as an essential service on par with other utilities like water or power. “For everyone, everywhere, to enjoy the full benefits of the internet age ...
Virgin Broadband in cabled areas is marketed as "fibre optic broadband". It is a Hybrid fibre-coaxial network, where fibre optic trunk lines are used to connect the area's headend to cabinets on the street. [citation needed] In July 2009 and 2010, Virgin Media Broadband came first in an Ofcom broadband speed test in the UK.