Virgin Mobile UK
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Mobile phones |
| Founded | November 1999 |
| Founder |
Richard Branson Thomas Alexander |
| Headquarters | Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Tom Mockridge (Managing Director) |
| Products | Mobile telephony |
| Revenue |
 £563 million (2006) |
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£66 million (2006) |
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| Owner | Liberty Global |
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Number of employees
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1,700 |
| Parent | Virgin Media |
| Website | www |
Virgin Media, also known as Mobile from Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile UK, is a mobile phone service provider operating in the United Kingdom, and a subsidiary of Virgin Media. The company was launched by Virgin Group in 1999 as the world's first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). As a virtual network operator, Virgin Mobile does not maintain its own network, but instead has contracts to use the existing network of EE (originally One2One at the time Virgin launched).
NTL:Telewest bought Virgin Mobile on 4 April 2006 and rebranded itself as Virgin Media on 9 February 2007. Virgin Mobile became part of the quadplay of Virgin Media services and received a new logo in-line with its parent. Virgin Media was subsequently purchased by Liberty Global in 2013.
Virgin provide pay as you go and contract mobile packages, as well as mobile broadband services. It sells its services directly, as well as through Virgin Media's retail stores.
On 7 November 2016, Virgin Media launched 4G to all their regular customers with new tariffs and an unused monthly data rollover announced, also they would allow users on 4G plans free access to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger apps by "zero-rating" until their data allowance is used in full.
Virgin Mobile was launched in November 1999 as a private joint venture between One2One (later T-Mobile) and the Virgin Group. The joint venture involved leasing network bandwidth from One2One and re-selling it under the Virgin Mobile brand, making it significantly cheaper to run than if Virgin operated its own network infrastructure.
The company reported its first annual profit in 2003, following successful Christmas sales.
In 2004 Deutsche Telekom sold their 50% holding in Virgin Mobile to the Virgin Group, with the agreement that if the company were to become public in the following two and a half years they would receive 25% of the proceeds. The two companies had previously argued over the terms of the agreement made in 1999 and Richard Branson had filed a High Court action against T-Mobile.
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