BNET Industries
Market Cap:$5.4B
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
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Wired Telecommunications Carriers: 517110
Recent Events
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'Virgin Media to launch HD Living in Oct'
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Updated: Virgin Media Enlists Cisco For IP Video Project
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Virgin Media Names Tesco's Eamonn O'Hare As New CFO
News & Analysis
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BBC Worldwide gets go-ahead for UKTV deal
BBC Worldwide is allowed to acquire the remaining 50% stake in the UKTV network it jointly owns with Virgin Media thanks to the granting of exceptional permission by its regulator, the BBC Trust. The trust has given permission for the deal in a bid to secure the future of...
Virgin and Universal to offer unlimited music downloads
Virgin Media and Universal Music are teaming up to offer a music service that could be the first to let users download an unlimited number of songs without digital rights management DRM restrictions. The service will only be available to Virgin Media broadband subscribers. ...
Virgin sells home shopping channels
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,...
Virgin Media content chief quits amid sale reports
Virgin Media's head of content, Malcolm Wall, will leave the company next month, sparking reports that Virgin has opted to sell its entire content division, which includes its 50% stake in UKTV. Following months of speculation about a sale, company...
BSkyB eyes UKTV stake
CEO of BSkyB, Jeremy Darroch, says he is interested in buying UKTV and claims BSkyB is looking broadly at acquisition targets. The comments come a week after it emerged that Virgin Media is considering selling its 50% stake in UKTV, which it co-owns with BBC Worldwide. ...
Virgin Media signs content partnership with ITV
Virgin Media is set to offer ITV on-demand content, through a new partnership with the broadcaster. As part of the deal, ITV programming will be offered via the cable network both through catch-up TV and VoD, including more HD content. In total, over 40 hours of programmes will be...
Virgin Media Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionThank you. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes through from Nick Lyall of UBS. Please go ahead. Nick Lyall - UBS Hi there. This is Nick Lyall for UBS. I just take two questions, if I could. The first one was on the cost price. I think the...
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