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To prevent this, Telewest instead acquired NTL. The parties completed the merger on 3 March 2006, making the merged company the UK's largest cable-provider, with more than 90% of the market. Once merged, the combined company renamed itself to ntl:Telewest, [4] with ex-NTL shareholders controlling 75% of the stock and ex-Telewest shareholders 25 ...
Telewest purchased the remaining 50% stake in Cable London from NTL in August 1999, adding 0.4 million franchise homes in North London. [8] Telewest merged with Flextech in April 2000, [9] and in November, extended its cable network with the acquisition of Eurobell, taking the total number of homes passed to 4.9 million. [10]
January – Both NTL and Telewest start rolling out video-on-demand services. [53] CLS Holdings sells the assets of Wightcable to private investors in 2005, who formed WightCable (2005) Ltd and in 2012 WightCable was rebranded as WightFibre. 1 December – Telewest launches its first personal video recorder TV Drive. [54] 2006
Its origins date from NTL and Telewest, formerly two of the UK's largest cable operators, which merged on 6 March 2006. All NTL:Telewest services were rebranded as Virgin Media in February 2007. Since the acquisition of Smallworld Cable in 2014, Virgin is the sole national cable TV provider in Great Britain. [1]
NTL:Telewest's takeover of Virgin Mobile completed on 4 July 2006, creating the UK's first 'quadruple play' media company, offering television, internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services.
NTL and Vivendi Universal: 2002-12-31 Financial problems and failed contract negotiations for carriage on Sky and Telewest. [42] — — — 625 Channel One Channel One Liverpool Ltd 2002 Liverpool only. Financial problems. [43] — 434 — — F1 Digital+: Formula One Management: 2002/12 Financial problems. — — — 801 Asianet
Virgin Mobile's former headquarters in Trowbridge, England. In December 2005 it was announced that Virgin Mobile UK was in talks with NTL:Telewest regarding a sale. The combination of Virgin Mobile and NTL:Telewest would create the United Kingdom's first "quadruple play" media company, bringing together TV, broadband internet access, mobile phone and fixed-line phone services, and allowing NTL ...
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