BNET Industries
Market Cap:$5.5B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$4.0B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
We are a leading broadband communications and media group in the UK. Our business is divided into two segments: cable and content. The cable segment is further subdivided into a consumer sales division and a business sales division. The consumer sales division provides consumer television, telephony and internet access services to residential customers. Our business sales division focuses on a wide range of voice, data, and managed solutions services for businesses. Our content segment supplies basic television channels and related services to the UK pay-television broadcasting market. Our cable segment includes a broadband, local access broadcasting network covering approximately 4.7 million homes and consists of local distribution networks, our "national network" and an internet protocol, or IP, services platform, which allow us to handle the voice, video and data needs of our customers. Our broadband, local access network and architecture provide us with high-speed interconnection and two-way interactivity with directly connected residential and business customers. We had approximately 1.8 million residential customer relationships as at December 31, 2004, comprised of consumer television, telephony and internet services customers.
Contact Information
909 Third Avenue
Suite 2863
New York, New York 10022
00441256753762
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NAICS Code Wired Telecommunications Carriers: 517110
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Sky outbids rivals for Virgin channels
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- 2009-05-28
BSkyB is reportedly outbidding its rivals by 60% with a GBP160m (USD259m) offer forVirgin Media’s TV channels. The figure is GBP60m (USD97m) more than currently on offer from rival bidders such as Channel 4, Time Warner, RTL and NBC Universal, according to the Financial Times FT. ...
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- 2009-05-11
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Virgin sells home shopping channels
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- 2009-04-01
UK cable TV provider Virgin is selling its Sit-up home shopping division to German restructuring firm Aurelius. The deal, worth an estimated GBP500m (USD732m), will see Sit-up’s Bid TV, Price Drop TV and Speed Auction TV channels transferred to Aurelius,...
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- 2009-01-21
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