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grabbi 25-07-2008 17:01

Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Results
 
Just read that the date has been set for the Results, which come around 4 times a year.

Virgin Media will be announcing its Second Quarter 2008 results on Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 8am UK time, 3am ET.

Just for everyone who shows an interest in that stuff.

tvtimes 25-07-2008 17:50

Re: Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Reusults
 
Interesting, let's see how the credit crunch is affecting them and how hard they have been hit, my guess is that they won't be posting as good a results as the last few quarters. I expect new subscriptions to be down aswell as over all revenue.

eth01 27-07-2008 07:47

Re: Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Reusults
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by grabbi (Post 34608410)
Just for everyone who shows an interest in that stuff.

:welcome: and :LOL:

tvtimes 28-07-2008 10:23

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Originally Posted by eth01 (Post 34609288)
:welcome: and :LOL:

Welcome? He has over 1,000 posts on this forum.:confused:

arcamalpha2004 30-07-2008 08:36

Re: Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Reusults
 
Notification of second quarter 2008 Results?
I will merely say two words, " Severn trent " ;)

lostandconfused 30-07-2008 11:52

Re: Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Reusults
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by grabbi (Post 34608410)
Just read that the date has been set for the Results, which come around 4 times a year.

snip.

Don't most quarterly things come around 4 times a year?:D

xspeedyx 30-07-2008 14:37

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Originally Posted by lostandconfused (Post 34611061)
Don't most quarterly things come around 4 times a year?:D

Not in leap years lol

eth01 01-08-2008 08:50

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Originally Posted by tvtimes (Post 34609832)
Welcome? He has over 1,000 posts on this forum.:confused:

it's called being polite? sigh.

tvtimes 01-08-2008 10:25

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Originally Posted by eth01 (Post 34612473)
it's called being polite? sigh.

But what was you welcoming him too exactly? If anything he should be welcoming you because he made the thread and joined him:D

BexTech 06-08-2008 23:08

Re: Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Reusults
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tvtimes (Post 34608438)
Interesting, let's see how the credit crunch is affecting them and how hard they have been hit, my guess is that they won't be posting as good a results as the last few quarters. I expect new subscriptions to be down as well as over all revenue.

Revenue may well have dropped as they are having to offer many a retention deal to keep people as people are trying to cut back.

I know they gained a few phone customers back, but surely losing thousands of phone customers per month must have hit quite hard over the last few years, surely they knew if the priced themselves as the dearest phone provider many people would have to move elsewhere either back to a BT line or use a mobile. They have had to try and force a phone line onto people by now offering deals - whereas if they had simply had stayed at offering a cheaper phone service than even BT they wouldn't have kept hold of the many thousands of phone customers.

Sirius 07-08-2008 05:51

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Originally Posted by BexTech (Post 34616238)
Revenue may well have dropped as they are having to offer many a retention deal to keep people as people are trying to cut back.

I know they gained a few phone customers back, but surely losing thousands of phone customers per month must have hit quite hard over the last few years, surely they knew if the priced themselves as the dearest phone provider many people would have to move elsewhere either back to a BT line or use a mobile. They have had to try and force a phone line onto people by now offering deals - whereas if they had simply had stayed at offering a cheaper phone service than even BT they wouldn't have kept hold of the many thousands of phone customers.

The phone is not my main product. Its the broadband i use the most and they make nearly nothing from me on the phone.

xspeedyx 07-08-2008 07:13

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 34616290)
The phone is not my main product. Its the broadband i use the most and they make nearly nothing from me on the phone.

Same here mate

BexTech 07-08-2008 07:37

Re: Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Reusults
 
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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 34616290)
The phone is not my main product. Its the broadband i use the most and they make nearly nothing from me on the phone.

I'm tight-fisted and know mobiles are a rip-off, so haven't had a contract mobile for many years. I do have a phone line but was part of a deal to keep me. Most of my calls are on the landline to other landlines as the people I know are tight-fisted too and don't like rip-off mobiles either and are fooled into paying stupid monthly payments for a mobile to get a few hundred 'free' minutes - we have sense. We make many a call in the evening and weekend - so getting the landline and evening and weekend calls package thrown in with the heavily discounted package makes great sense - I was VoIP only for 3 years or so. I also use VoIP for other calls and have a Vodafone mobile with 6 of us on the Vodafone family so we pay £1.17 each per month for 'free' calls between us at any time.

You see when you are bought up in a family that has always done all they can to spend the least they can, it does rub off on you, plus you have more money left for better things / better days.

So maybe it's a combination of poor Virgin Media landline phone costs and people fooled into paying silly money for contract mobiles that hasn't helped, saying that, the vast majority of people who dumped cable phone went back to a BT network landline.

Toto 07-08-2008 08:14

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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004 (Post 34610982)
Notification of second quarter 2008 Results?
I will merely say two words, " Severn trent " ;)

Take off those goggles and remind yourself that VM are listed in the states, with considerable more regulation than the UK :)

spankysmagicpian 07-08-2008 10:04

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They are out now. They made a profit!


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