Virgin Media has connected 3,500 additional homes in Hackney, London, to its broadband network, bringing next-generation gigabit speeds to the area. As part of its ‘Project Lightning’ network expansion programme, Virgin Media is expanding its broadband network across the UK, bringing ultrafast speeds to residents and small businesses. Hackney is the latest area to benefit […]
Industry trade bodies the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI) have launched what they say is the biggest ever cross-category marketing campaign with Unforgettable Entertainment, driving engagement from new, lapsed and existing digital transactional customers. Building on the success of the BASE/DEGI New Release-focused Mega Movie Week campaigns of […]
Virgin Media’s WiFi has been down this morning (March 10th) causing serious disruption to the masses working from home throughout the UK. Stats from a Quadient survey of 2,000 UK adults explained the wider problem for remote workers: 8.5 million UK households have experienced broadband problems, disrupting their work or personal lives over the course […]
Virgin Media has announced that the latest update in its TV line-up, Virgin TV 360, is now available to all of its customers. Virgin TV 360 offers modern menus, quick navigation and a whole host of popular apps and channels all in one place. This includes Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and BBC iPlayer – all […]
Virgin TV is now offering customers thousands of hours of Sky TV shows and films in 4K. All Virgin TV customers can now add Sky Entertainment and Sky Cinema Ultra HD to their current package. All new customers that sign up to Virgin Media’s Ultimate Oomph package – its most premium TV service which comes […]
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries has revealed during an analyst call that pursuing mobile deals in Europe was “high on our list” of priorities. Liberty already has about one million cable and 120,000 mobile subscribers in Ireland through its Virgin Media unit. In Poland, its UPC Poland operation has about 3.3 million video, internet and […]
In reporting its FY numbers, Virgin Media revealed it is now delivering broadband, video and fixed-line telephony services to 6.1 million cable customers and mobile services to 3.5 million subscribers as of December 31st 2020. The cable operator has delivered a full year net customer gain of 102,000 as demand for, and usage of, its […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is extending its free TV offering by making a variety of entertainment, lifestyle and learning-based programming available for all 3.5 million TV customers, at no extra cost. The move coincides with the midterm academic break for many UK schools. From February 15th until March 16th, all Virgin TV customers in […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is to hire more than 400 new employees in graduate, intern and apprenticeship roles in 2021, marking a 163 per cent increase from 2020. New roles are being created throughout the business in areas such as operations, finance, marketing, project management, sales, construction and network engineering, helping individuals to build […]
Virgin Mobile is giving all customers using one of their smartphones access to unlimited data. All customers in Ireland who have a data limit on their plan will now become unlimited and all those on unlimited plans will have the 80GB Fair Usage Policy removed. In 2020, Virgin Mobile customers relied on their smartphone plans […]