2010. Virgin Media unveils
plans to shake up the UK business telecoms market with the launch
of Virgin Media Business. The company pledges to deliver the basics
of business, customer service and value for money, brilliantly —
and so become the clear alternative to BT. Mark Heraghty, MD,
says: “Over the last three years we’ve invested heavily to put the
building blocks in place that mean we’re more than fit to wear the
Virgin badge.”
2009. An important year: we
give our customers a National Ethernet VPN service. This improves
network control, makes businesses more responsive, and helps drive
efficiencies by matching bandwidth capabilities to business
requirements.
Joel Stradling, Senior
Analyst, Business Telecom Services at Current Analysis comments:
‘The launch of a national VPLS-based Ethernet VPN service
puts ntl: Telewest Business in a solid position to meet
growing demand among UK businesses for Layer 2 any-to-any
connectivity. Customers seeking to migrate from less scalable
legacy technologies can get a flexible multi-protocol solution
backed by CoS and maintain IP routing control, if they so desire.
Finally ntl:Telewest Business’ Ethernet VPN is part of a broad
portfolio backed by their own national infrastructure, which is
difficult for rivals to match.’
2009. More great news
for customers with remote workers. We introduce a brilliantly
simple two-factor authentication service to improve positive
identification when connecting to corporate networks.
2008. Another first. We
extend our IPVPN Class of Service offering from four to eight —
more than any other UK network provider. Which means our customers
can apply far more sophisticated prioritisation to key data, voice
and video traffic. We also offer an unrivalled seven Classes of
Service on our UK wide Ethernet services.
2007. February sees a
big leap forward. Telewest, ntl and Virgin Mobile combine and
relaunch as Virgin Media. With 10 million customers and 13,000
employees across the UK, this creates the largest Virgin company in
the world. The Business Division continues to be known as
ntl:Telewest Business.
May 2007 sees us pick up the ‘Best Security
Project’ award at the 2007 IFSEC Security Innovation Awards, for a
ground-breaking IP CCTV project with North Lanarkshire Council. And
in June, another excuse to break out the bubbly. ntl:Telewest
achieves MEF 14 certification. This means our Ethernet product
portfolio is still the UK’s industry leader.
2006. March sees ntl
Incorporated and Telewest Global merged into ntl:Telewest. July
brings another meeting of hearts and minds: ntl Incorporated
acquires Virgin Mobile. It’s a particularly exciting development
for UK customers because, for the first time ever, they can buy TV,
internet, fixed and mobile telephony from a single operator — the
first UK quad-play offering. And right at the end of the year comes
proof that the customer is always right — ntl:Telewest Business is
voted ‘Best B2B Service Provider for Customer Service’ by the
Communications Management Association.
Pre-merger.
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