NTL Ireland
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| Private limited company by shares | |
| Industry | Communications |
| Founded | Dublin, Ireland (1970) (as RTÉ Relays Limited). |
| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
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Ireland |
| Products | Cable television, communications |
| Parent | UPC Communications Ireland Ltd. |
| Website | upc.ie |
NTL Communications (Ireland) Limited was a cable television and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS) company in Ireland. As of 2005 it was owned by Liberty Global Europe (see history, below), having been divested by NTL. It was rebranded as UPC Ireland (now called Virgin Media Ireland).
The company held cable television licences for Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cities (with the Dublin licences also covering Leixlip, County Kildare, Dunboyne, County Meath, and Bray, County Wicklow). It also held MMDS franchises for cells covering the above counties, as well as County Mayo. It provides an analogue cable television service (with a very high take up in its areas passed), which provides the Irish terrestrial channels, plus BBC One, BBC Two, UTV, Channel 4, Sky1 and a small number of other channels. It also provides a digital television service, with over a third of its customer base taking a digital service. The company has also converted its entire MMDS network to digital, with an offering of approximately seventy TV and radio services. MMDS is now switched off.
Over the past two years the company has been aggressively rolling out broadband and have enabled one third of its Dublin and 100% of its network in Galway and Waterford for broadband. The company is rapidly becoming a major broadband provider in Ireland.
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