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saabmania2 27-06-2008 05:19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by moaningmags (Post 34581812)
Dunno about the NTL but I'd love Telewest back.
Yeah but they are ntl with a differant name, anyway i thought the word Virgin meant never before, but ntl seemed to have changed the meaning to never again :confused:;)

Kellargh 27-06-2008 08:04
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We don't get many discounts :( We're on recruitment agency contracts, not Virgin ones...sadly :(

whydoIneedatech 27-06-2008 08:11
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Quote:
Originally Posted by saabmania2 (Post 34585540)
Yeah but they are ntl with a differant name, anyway i thought the word Virgin meant never before, but ntl seemed to have changed the meaning to never again :confused:;)
They may both be under the Virgin Media Banner but the Telewest side is still quite different to the NTL side, similar systems is the only comparison and separate networks as well.

moaningmags 27-06-2008 22:50
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Quote:
Originally Posted by saabmania2 (Post 34585540)
Yeah but they are ntl with a differant name, anyway i thought the word Virgin meant never before, but ntl seemed to have changed the meaning to never again :confused:;)
Exactly, whereas Telewest were brilliant and I'm not saying that cos I work for them. I've been a customer since 31st Dec 2000 and none of the hassles people have had with NTL.

saabmania2 28-06-2008 06:11
Re: Can someone confirm this...
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by moaningmags (Post 34586139)
Exactly, whereas Telewest were brilliant and I'm not saying that cos I work for them. I've been a customer since 31st Dec 2000 and none of the hassles people have had with NTL.
yeah but saying that i've been with ntl since 1997 and it was fine until it went under the virgin banner, apart from either upgrading or downgrading channels with ntl i never had to contact them, that's not the case with virgin i have probably been on the phone at least once a month since then with either a tv fault, poor broadband or just billing problems,and i've still yet to ask for a discount for anything as i beleaved like others on here that virgin needed full paying customers to be able to afford to upgrade the network.
virgin media has certainly not taken a leaf from richard bransons buisiness book on how to look after it's customers and still make money.:)
personally i think telewest and ntl where as bad as each other and now they have merged it like a marrage made in nthell.:angel:

monkey2468 28-06-2008 08:12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by saabmania2 (Post 34586230)
yeah but saying that i've been with ntl since 1997 and it was fine until it went under the virgin banner, apart from either upgrading or downgrading channels with ntl i never had to contact them, that's not the case with virgin i have probably been on the phone at least once a month since then with either a tv fault, poor broadband or just billing problems,and i've still yet to ask for a discount for anything as i beleaved like others on here that virgin needed full paying customers to be able to afford to upgrade the network.
virgin media has certainly not taken a leaf from richard bransons buisiness book on how to look after it's customers and still make money.:)
personally i think telewest and ntl where as bad as each other and now they have merged it like a marrage made in nthell.:angel:
Indeed, most if not all of the current processes, proceedures, billing, and middle managment are ex-telewest, not ntl. So when people moan about wanting telewest back, well, we are all telewest now as far as I can see.

eth01 28-06-2008 09:29
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Richard Branson remains the majority shareholder...

whydoIneedatech 28-06-2008 10:17
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Quote:
Originally Posted by eth01 (Post 34586293)
Richard Branson remains the majority shareholder...
As per my post below

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Quote:
Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech (Post 34581751)
Your Security Guard is quite right, NTL and Telewest are there but with a new name, Virgin Media lease the use of the name from Virgin and Richard Branson owns only 10% of the business but it is the biggest single owned portion.

Remember when a Snickers bar used to be called a Marathon bar its just a re branding exercise.
As above

Womble 28-06-2008 11:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by monkey2468 (Post 34586252)
Indeed, most if not all of the current processes, proceedures, billing, and middle managment are ex-telewest, not ntl. So when people moan about wanting telewest back, well, we are all telewest now as far as I can see.
here here and what a shower of poo those systems are!!!

IMHO, the last time the company was run correctly was under Cable and Wireless! (awaits the the flak!!)

saabmania2 28-06-2008 12:04
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Womble (Post 34586370)
here here and what a shower of poo those systems are!!!

IMHO, the last time the company was run correctly was under Cable and Wireless! (awaits the the flak!!)
:clap::clap:
being a womble you must go around picking up litter and rubbish? how many VM shares have you picked up recently :naughty:

Womble 28-06-2008 12:30
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Quote:
Originally Posted by saabmania2 (Post 34586395)
:clap::clap:
being a womble you must go around picking up litter and rubbish? how many VM shares have you picked up recently :naughty:

lol :-)

Trying to fit the whole company in the bin is proving a tad difficult

dodgem22 29-06-2008 12:28
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i never had any problems with ntl so yeah come back:)

Stephen 29-06-2008 12:55
Re: Can someone confirm this...
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by willas00 (Post 34581761)
Cheers and I guess because 10% of the business is owned by Richard Branson its also why staff get discounts on all Virgin Products I guess :LOL:

Thanks
Well its more to do with using the Virgin name for the company rather just Branson owning 10%

tvtimes 11-07-2008 09:21
Re: Can someone confirm this...
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech (Post 34584853)
I said single owned percentage not company owned which does make him personally the biggest single stakeholder in the company.

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You will soon be offered the option of a virginmedia.com addy as will all blueyonder.co.uk customers, and you will still receive emails from your original addy if you take one.
Don't Virgin group own the shares? Hence that's a company too! He just happens to be the founder and chairman of Virgin group.

Here's a link for you to read http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/...ortune/18.html

Branson's Virgin group is the largest shareholder. That article is old now and riversource and the largest shareholders.

chuzzlemonkey 11-07-2008 13:26
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Quote:
Originally Posted by willas00 (Post 34581761)
Cheers and I guess because 10% of the business is owned by Richard Branson its also why staff get discounts on all Virgin Products I guess :LOL:

Thanks
AMEN! Although i'm not sure why we get 25% off at the RAC???

Big up Dickie B! =]


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