BNET Industries
Market Cap:$5.2B
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
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IBC 2009 headlines
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Sprint's Virgin Mobile Deal To Expand Prepaid Division
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Customer Spending Boosts Virgin Media
By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters UK) - Cable operator Virgin Media VMEDVMED added 8,100 net users in the third quarter and pushed its customer's average spend to a record high, boosting its operating cash flow ahead of forecasts.Virgin Media, which competes with pay-TV company BSkyB BSY and broadband providers such as...
BSkyB Lures Customers With HD
By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters UK) - Strong demand for high definition TV and entertainment at home enabled firm BSkyB BSY to lure a better-than-expected 94,000 new customers in its first quarter and extract more money from each user.BSkyB, which offers premium sports, news and movies with broadband and telephony services,...
Short Interest in Virgin Media 'Rises Significantly' Since LSE Announcement
Jessica Johnson submits: Virgin Media Inc VMED is announcing a secondary listing on the London Stock exchange. It is expected that the primary listing will continue to be the NASDAQ. This structure means that it is ineligible for U.K. Index inclusion unlike some other dual listed companies. There has...
Disney signs content deal with Virgin Media
Walt Disney Studios has signed a three-screen deal with Virgin Media to provide content via digital TV, the internet and on mobile platforms. Virgin Media will offer over 300 hours of children's TV on-demand via the Disney XD channel, as well as feature-length films such as High School Musical...
Sex Sells - But Sometimes It Shouldn't
Yesterday I was emailed out of the blue by someone from an agency working with Virgin Media VMED on its "Powerful Stuff" campaign, and asking for feedback on the commercial embedded below. I personally think that with reviews it always pays to be careful what you wish for. As a...
Research: Young Folks Don't Care About Paid Music Streaming
Spotify, beware! Consumers' willingness to pay for unlimited streaming music is waning because people want to "own" and copy their tunes, according to new research in UK.Unauthorised downloading has fallen slightly in the last year - but 14-to-24-year-olds still say they want free, permanent MP3 downloads, according to a...
Virgin Media Benefits from U.K. Broadband Cluelessness
It's front page news in the Financial Times today. Ed Richards of OFCOM droned on about it somniferously on Radio Four this morning, while interviewer Sarah Montague sounded very irritated with him. OFCOM's latest update on broadband speeds is going to be picked apart by the media ad nauseum, and...
Virgin Media puts News Corp clause into vmTv sale
Virgin Media is inserting a clause into the sale of its three vmTv channels which prevents any buyer from selling the units on to a company which is fully or partly owned by News Corp. The deal also extends to Virgin’s 50% share in UKTV. News Corp is still...
F-Secure buy storage startup Steek
Online security firm F-Secure is buying storage management startup Steek for EUR27.5m (USD38.7m), with the possibility of a further performance-based payment of up to EUR2.5m (USD3.5m) next year. Steek manages online multimedia data storage, file sharing, and automated backup solutions for...
Virgin Media signs VoD film deal with Universal
Virgin Media has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to launch an on-demand film service in the UK called PictureBox. The service will be available for GBP5 (USD8.27) and will allow Virgin's 3.6m subscribers to access a catalogue of 28 films. The 28 film selection will be refreshed each...
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