Virgin Media’s Q3 results
Followed by Citigroup’s forecast, the financial results released by Virgin for the three months ended on 30, September, 2007 show the cable broadband provider now has 3.3 million customers connected by cable and 0.3 million customers by ADSL. Virgin touched this figure as 115,800 new cable broadband connections were established during this quarter compared to [...]
Growth in broadband uptake in the UK is sluggish
Point Topic released an update of new broadband connections made during the third quarter of this year. According to its survey, the last quarter saw 470,000 new customers hooked to broadband which is nearly 10 percent decline compared to the new connections made by the end of second quarter. We have already come across such [...]
Predictions show the come back of Virgin Media
Virgin Media, the major cable broadband supplier in the UK, at last, has something to cheer. The first ISP that launched the quadplay in the UK, Virgin Media, is reported to have checked the decline of its customer base from 70,000 to 31.000 as its financial report shows the numbers after the end of third [...]
Virgin Media apoligizes for the blackout of its services
It was believed that the air conditioners of Virgin’s servers which went out of power were behind the blackout of the Virgin Media broadband & TV services in areas like Manchester, Wigan, Bury and Safford for the entire night on 1st of this month. According to a report, a suspected arson attack was behind the shut [...]
Sky broadband users number crosses 1 million!
With its advent just 14 months ago, Sky broadband has managed to achieve 1 million users for its broadband services alone. It is now UK’s most rapidly growing broadband service supplier, linking one new customer every 40 seconds! Despite the disagreements with Virgin and complaints about poor connectivity about 30% are entirely new customers and [...]

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