Bid rigging, ‘car-clocking’ and selling of crashed cars were among the offences investigated, and in some cases prosecuted, by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, in its first two years of work.

Television, phone, and broadband provider Virgin Media has announced that from August it will no longer broadcast the BT sports or Eir sports channels to its customers.

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Three Ireland has brought a €65m partner on board to help overhaul its IT infrastructure and integrate O2’s systems following Three’s takeover of its rival in March 2015.

Telecommunication companies Virgin Media Ireland and Meteor Mobile have avoided criminal convictions for over-charging customers.

Fledgling broadcaster UTV Ireland’s news staff in the Dublin Docklands were assured yesterday that their jobs were safe after Britain’s ITV confirmed it will buy all of the UTV Media Group’s television operations, but the £100m (€135.9m) deal still faces regulatory hurdles.

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has vowed to fight for the next 40 days to save the life of a US death row inmate whose execution was postponed at the last minute.

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Virgin Media, formerly UPC, will launch its new Virgin Mobile brand in Ireland on October 5th.

Work has begun to deliver the country’s fastest-ever broadband to a Co Cork town in a reversal of the digital divide between Dublin and regional towns.

Congolese war lord Bosco Ntaganda pleaded not guilty to crimes including the rape of child soldiers in a campaign of pillage and murder in north-east Congo’s Ituri province in the early-2000s.

Communications group UPC Ireland is to formally rebrand as Virgin Media, across all of its offerings, in the coming months.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

The owner of UPC in Ireland, Liberty Global, has reported a decline in second-quarter revenue as its Dutch unit Ziggo lost customers, highlighting the difficulties for billionaire John Malone’s European cable company in its hunt for growth.

TV3 could bid against RTÉ for Irish TV rights to the Olympic Games if, as expected, free-to-air rights are sub-licensed to an Irish broadcaster.

European cable operator Liberty Global said yesterday it had raised its stake in ITV to 9.9% through a hedging deal — but still had no intention of taking over Britain’s biggest free-to-air commercial TV firm.

The impact of austerity cuts and the State’s contractually driven approach to the healthcare professions must change if hoped-for improvements are to be realised, writes Ray Kinsella

Global communications giant Liberty Global, owner of television cable company UPC Ireland, has struck a deal to buy broadcaster TV3 for €87m, a development that will stiffen competition for RTÉ and the troubled fledgling station UTV Ireland.

Fledgling station UTV Ireland has increased its estimates for losses for a third time in less than a year, and now predicts it will post losses of £11.5m (€16.2m) in 2015 — its maiden year of operation.

Four of the country’s largest telecoms companies have been slapped on the wrist by the consumer watchdog for failing to inform customers of their right to cancel their contracts as well as misleading consumers, in certain instances.

TV3 may be be valued at well over €100m if US cable giant Liberty Global decides to follow through and acquire the Irish television channel, according to senior sources.

Eircom is on track to issue an IPO of its shares in the next two years after figures showed that the company’s fixed-line revenues had stabilised while sales from its mobile operations had increased.

There has been an alarming rise in the volume of child sexual abuse content online, with reports of illegal material by members of the public at an all-time high.

UPC Ireland’s acquisition of wifi provider Bitbuzz helped the teleco to achieve 8% revenue growth in the first quarter of the year.

Fears that a new crackdown on TV licence fee dodgers could breach data protection laws have been dismissed by Communications Minister Alex White.

The disparity between consumers’ feelings towards the economy generally and their own financial position persists despite recent indications that people are beginning to feel the recovery in their pockets.

A company should be allowed track the movement of its van drivers by satellite, the Labour Court has ruled.

O2 customers in Ireland will notice a change if they look at their network provider’s symbol on their phone; they are now officially a Three customer.

Carphone Warehouse Ireland has staged a remarkable turnaround in the past 12 months, turning a near €10m loss in 2013 into a €2.1m profit last year.

Telecoms company UPC Ireland is to shed as many as 170 jobs across its facilities as part of a cost-cutting programme.

One hundred and 70 jobs are to go at UPC.

Fears about what is happening on the Dark Web has prompted a debate worldwide about whether ordinary users should be allowed to use bitcoin and encryption, writes Michael Moynihan

Claims by the GAA’s hierarchy that the Sky Sports deal has been good for the association have been contested by a leading sports academic, says John Fogarty.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

Three music companies claim UPC Communications, the country’s second largest internet service provider (ISP), must be forced by court order to move against it subscribers who illegally download music and other copyrighted material.

UPC customers are facing price increases from February 1.

Former billionaire Tony O'Reilly's Castlemartin estate is to be sold to a US media mogul for €28m.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

An unwillingness to adapt to new technologies or a general level of ignorance to them may be holding businesses back from their full potential.

UPC has further strengthened its product offering with the acquisition of Ireland’s leading WiFi operator, Bitbuzz.

UPC Business has acquired wi-fi operator Bitbuzz, it was announced today.

Carphone Warehouse is targeting a 6% share of Ireland’s mobile phone operator market by 2020.