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BGonaSTICK · 06-02-07, 12:44 PM

Richard Branson will lift the curtain on Virgin Media on Thursday, backed by a £20m (Eur30m) advertising campaign and fronted by film star Uma Thurman.

The campaign will see the launch of cable company NTL Telewest as a quadruple-play UK operator offering TV, internet and fixed and mobile phone services following its £1bn merger last year with Virgin Mobile.

Steve Burch, president and chief executive officer at NTL, will be joining Branson on stage at the Royal Opera house, London, to launch the new brand.

Over the past few days, the Virgin Media logo has cropped up here and there on the internet. Depending on how you look at it the new motif either resembles an '8' on its side [Virgin Media is launching on February 8], the mathematical symbol for infinity, or a Pringle.

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... backed by a £20m (Eur30m) advertising campaign and fronted by film star Uma Thurman.

Anything fronted by Uma Thurman has got to be worth buying, at any price

Unknown user #1 · 06-02-07, 02:26 PM

Jeez, for 20M they could fire all those shitheads from their CS department and hire people with brains. NThell customer service sucks big time and chances for them to get job done are below zero. It took'em 3 (three!) months to enable caller ID on my NTL line.

Jimdefruit · 06-02-07, 03:21 PM

Hey, just think, from Thursday I will be a virgin.

diapason · 06-02-07, 05:23 PM

Well, life's not perfect and conception might not be immaculate!!

jontydog · 06-02-07, 05:55 PM

Hopefully things will improve then

Hope they are going to add more newsgroups. BT has over 130 000 newsgroups but NTL only has 30 000.

Unknown user #1 · 06-02-07, 06:44 PM

I am fairly sure that now even Virgin Mobile will go downhill

BGonaSTICK · 06-02-07, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimdefruit

Hey, just think, from Thursday I will be a virgin.

Oh no, not again... :roflmao:

Most people lie about their age Jim

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Unknown user #1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 536 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Virgin Media to launch this week Jeez, for 20M they could fire all those shitheads from their CS department and hire people with brains. NThell customer service sucks big time and chances for them to get job done are below zero. It took'em 3 (three!) months to enable caller ID on my NTL line.

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Unknown user #1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 536 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Virgin Media to launch this week I am fairly sure that now even Virgin Mobile will go downhill