Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 10-09-2009, 12:39   #3500
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Post Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Very interesting.

Branson always said he wanted to be in every home in the country via owning utilities (gas, electricity,water), but I never realised he was also interested in telecoms at such at early stage. Well it took a long time, but he finally got his hands on Mercury.
I remember the Harry Enfield series of adverts but I'm strangely having difficulty remembering Sir Richard. Maybe vaguely.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'finally got his hands on Mercury' as the consumer division of Cable & Wireless was sold on by NTL to NPower and is still in operation. The VM telephony service may run on legacy Cable & Wireless exchanges and infrastructure backbone but I don't think that is really the Mercury side of the business that we knew.

See Mercury Communications for a brief history.
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