| Full name | Virgin Media Limited |
| ASN | AS5089 |
| Type | Cable ISP |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | Reading, Berkshire, UK |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Website | virginmedia.com |
| Registry | RIPE |
| Total IPs | ~5 million (IPv4) |
| Upstream | Tier-2 — purchases transit from Telia, Lumen, and Cogent |
| IPv6 | 2a02:c7d::/32 |
| RIR | RIPE |
| Abuse email | abuse@virginmedia.co.uk |
| Abuse form | Report abuse → |
AS5089 is Virgin Media's primary ASN for its cable broadband service — the largest cable ISP in the UK with approximately 5.6 million broadband customers. Virgin Media was acquired by Liberty Global and later merged with O2 to form VMO2 in 2021. Virgin Media uses a hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network offering speeds up to 1Gbps in many areas.
Every time you visit a website, your IP address — and therefore your ISP (Virgin Media Limited) — is visible to that site. Virgin Media Limited as your ISP can see all unencrypted traffic passing through their network, including the domains you visit. This is standard practice for all ISPs and is typically used for network management, legal compliance, and in some cases targeted advertising.
If your device is assigned an IP in Virgin Media Limited’s ranges, websites you visit will identify your connection as coming from Virgin Media Limited. To prevent this, a VPN replaces your ISP-assigned IP with the VPN server’s IP, making your traffic appear to come from a different provider entirely.
AS5089 is registered with RIPE — the Regional Internet Registry responsible for IP allocations in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The ASN is used to announce IP prefixes to the global BGP routing table, allowing other networks to route traffic to Virgin Media Limited’s infrastructure.
Virgin Media Limited peers with major transit providers and internet exchanges to ensure global reachability. BGP peering relationships determine how traffic flows between Virgin Media Limited and the rest of the internet.
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