[Merged] Virgin Media & Fuel too?
 

Looks like Richard Branson wants to have your gas and electricity go through your media services bill aswell, actually thinking about it, it does sound really cool. keep everything in one bill I would be up for it.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...utilities.html

Re: Wtf Virgin Electric and Gas?
 

LOL That does actually sound quite good, but it will be at least a couple more years before we start to see different services included in one bill.

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More on it here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...3/cnvirg13.xml

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Link doesn't work for me...? :confused:

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So why did he sell off Virgin Energy ?

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"Hello, thank you for calling Virgin Wantitall, you will now be presented with 246 options...."

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Link works for me. From the article it's just talk.

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It's working now. :)

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This is nothing new. I recall Branson saying about 10-15 years ago that he wanted Virgin to provide utilities to the home. He basically wants a Virgin branded product in all areas of industry and with trains, planes, holidays, financial services, telecoms/media etc he's well on the way of achieving his goal.

I'm surprised that the first few posters seem so keen on this. Would people really want all services/products from one company? The information that the company would hold on individuals would be scary and open to abuse and not something that I would personally welcome.

Re: Wtf Virgin Electric and Gas?
 

It would be a huge advantage to have all of your services from one provider, the chance that they would give you bonus stuff just having lots of stuff them would be cool.

Re: Wtf Virgin Electric and Gas?
 

pmsl

:D

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virgin water sounds good to me

Re: Wtf Virgin Electric and Gas?
 

My (limited) understanding of Virgin Energy is that it wasn't really a utility/energy provider. Virgin Energy was using the services of another energy company. Virgin just provided a internet access portal to a customers accounts, but didn't provide customer services or even buy electricity or gas. So in other words, it was a complete waste of time and that's probably why Branson sold out. But don't really know much about it. Not all Branson ventures are successful - eg Virgin Cola etc...

Re: Wtf Virgin Electric and Gas?
 

We had Virgin home energy for duel fuel. It was keenly priced and customer services were excellent. I was disappointed when they sold it all to EDF.

However as a mere user I couldn't say where they were getting my gas and electricity from!

Re: Wtf Virgin Electric and Gas?
 

Can I sign up for the 7 for £70 pack?

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Well, I think you answered your own query there. I would think Virgin got the energy off EDF, though it used to be London Electricity back then, wasn't it?

Perhaps now that Branson has a link into a potential 50% of homes via "his" cable network, he might be more confident of getting back into this sector again. It's not as if Virgin will have to produce gas/electricity or maintain networks, that would be the Grid and Transco. All he's got to do is buy the stuff wholesale off the market and resell it to customers and provide the billing/customer services part of it.

By the way, there is still a Virgin company dealing in energy called Virgin Fuels. They deal with green fuels, but I don't know whether they sell that to residential customers or not. Is there anything that Branson doesn't get involved in? If he had the money he would buy Tescos no doubt!

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True. But, I swear, were being invaded by Tescos - they're EVERYWHERE! There's 3 of them within 2 miles of me. Even the new naming rights to the East Stand at Coventry City's Ricoh Arena have been sold to you-know-who. I now sit in The Tesco Stand! :shocked:

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You mean the Super-XL Sized VIP package. :)

Branson mulls over Virgin Media supplying utilities
 

Sir Richard Branson has floated the idea of Virgin Media eventually branching out into utilities, with customers receiving a single monthly bill for all services to their homes.

The Virgin founder, who owns almost 11pc of Virgin Media, said adding utilities to its current "quadplay" offering of cable television, fixed and mobile telephony and broadband internet could prove attractive to customers.


"Now we've got a billing system for all that, it might make sense for Virgin Media to finish off and sort out gas, electricity and water as well. But I haven't spoken to anyone about it," he said.

Virgin once previously licensed its brand to an electricity utility, France's EDF,

but Sir Richard said: "We regretted it and took it back."

A more pressing issue for the rebranded Virgin Media, formerly NTL-Telewest, is to renegotiate a new contract with rival BSkyB to show the Sky One channel on its cable network.

Talks over the contract descended into a fractious row yesterday after BSkyB took out advertisements warning Virgin Media's cable viewers that some Sky channels could "disappear" unless negotiations could be concluded.

News from Daily Telegraph.

Re: [Merged] Virgin Media & Fuel too?
 

From PrestonToday: (http://www.prestontoday.net/ViewArti...9&SectionID=74)

:shocked:

Re: [Merged] Virgin Media & Fuel too?
 

Wouldn't the trailing cable get snagged as they went through the points?

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Heh, not if they're beaming it/transmitting it (over DTT?)

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They've got wifi on all GNER trains...