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Job cuts, lost customers and a £22bn debt pile: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2?
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a markets story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 7 Nov 2026, 11:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Job cuts, lost customers and a £22bn debt pile: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2?”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
The company has lost 182,000 broadband and 644,000 mobile customers in two years and is operating in an increasingly competitive market competition Mike Fries may be totting up swingeing job cuts, a £22bn debt pile and the loss of hundreds of thousands of customers, but he appears to be putting…
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
Job cuts, lost customers and a £22bn debt pile: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2?
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- The Guardian