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Virgin Media

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Virgin Media
IndustryCable Communications
Key peopleJames Mooney (Chairman)
Neil Berkett CEO
Richard Branson (Figurehead)
ProductsCable television
Broadband
Telephone
Mobile phone
Revenue$16.5 billion (2008)
Number of employees
22,500 (2005)

Virgin Media Inc. (formerly known as ntl:Telewest, after a merger of NTL Incorporated with Telewest Global, Inc.), became in 2006 the first "quadruple-play" media company in the United Kingdom, bringing together a service consisting of television, Internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services.