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Latest stock prices
| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VMED | Virgin Media | 21:00 GMT | 25.30 | -0.09 | -0.35% | 2352630 | 66.82 | 0.38 | 7.254B |
Latest Virgin Media news
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Virgin Media in Oxford: down for two weeks
I live in Oxford now - strangely Virgin Media has been down here for two weeks so I am using my T-Mobile dongle to connect to the interweb. -
Watchdog tells ISPs to pull their socks up
Apparently Mr Ofcom is jolly cross that BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, restrict the speed of some bandwidth heavy services such as peer-to-peer file sharing without making it clear enough what they are doing. -
Virgin Media hit by engineer shortage
RumourDespite lengthening dole queues snaking across the country, the rumour mill suggests that Virgin Media is still struggling to attract enough engineering staff. -
Global broadband digital divide widens
While those at the top of the pile can afford to pay exorbitant prices, which put even Virgin Media’s top prices to shame, it means that broadband access for the average person is woefully out of reach. -
Virgin wants to give free public wi-fi to London
If it all works, Virgin Media's network would be free to anyone at 0.5Mbps, and to subscribers at speeds up to 10Mbps. -
IEEE publishes long range wireless standards
Virgin Media told us that while it was looking to support access in rural communities, it places more emphasis on the higher speeds of cable broadband, with the IEE spec not necessarilty high enough for a full range of services. -
Businesses use Advertising Standards to grass each other up
We noticed that too, as the comments follow yet another potshot at Virgin Media from its nemesis Sky, which managed to get BT on side too. -
Talk Talk tops Ofcom's crap list
Next up on the worst list was BSkyB. BT also proved that sometimes it wasn't good to talk, coming in at third. The least complained about provider over the same period was Virgin Media with 0.21 complaints per 1000 customers. -
Fujitsu builds superfast broadband for Nowhereville
Fujitsu's open access wholesale network will be powered by Ciscoand will be used by Virgin Media and TalkTalk to help the five million households who would have otherwise been left behind in next gen broadband plans. -
Broadband operators won't tell people lies any more
BSkyB, BT, O2, TalkTalk, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone will all supply information to the Broadband Stakeholder Group, which is spearheading the initiative, so that traffic management techniques can easily be read and compared by users of both fixed line and mobile broadband. -
British ISPs are not shy about two-tier internet
BT, Sky and Virgin Media have sat down and worked out an industry-wide "code of practice" on how they explain selling "two-speed internet" policies to punters. -
Virgin starts throttling customers
Blighty ISP Virgin Media has decided that it is a wizard wheeze to start throttling punters' P2P and Newsgroup traffic. -
UK ISPs only supply half broadband speeds they promise
For example Virgin Media’s highest speed 50Mbit/s deal, gave an average download speed of 46Mbit/s. -
Virgin Media signs fibre optic deal with Cabinet Office
Virgin Media Business has announced today that it is to provide its fibre-optic network to the UK government as part of the Public Sector Network (PSN), after it signed a Deed of Undertaking with the Cabinet Office. -
ASA tells off Virgin Media after Sky grasses it up
Virgin Media has been given a rap on the knuckles after the ASA partly upheld a claim from BSkyB. -
Telco customers owed £10 million in unclaimed credit
Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile will refund customers in amounts over £1 if they terminate their contracts before 28 days, a process that will be automated from December of this year. -
LG reveals world's largest 3D TV
Sky and Virgin Media have launched their 3D TV stations recently, and there are Blu-rays and games on the market or on the way, but we're not convinced it's worth forking out the money for one of these at such an early stage in the 3D TV's lifecycle. -
Disabled people still suffer at hands of phone firms
To see if these rules were put in place the watchdog undertook some research asking mystery shoppers, calling under the guise of "realtives" of those with disabilities, to test out companies including BT , Virgin Media , TalkTalk , T-Mobile , Vodafone , Orange , O2 and Three UK.
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