Liberty Global Buys NTL Ireland

DENVER -- Liberty Global, Inc. ("Liberty Global") (Nasdaq: LBTYA - News, LBTYB - News, LBTYK - News) today announced that UPC Ireland B.V., following the approval by the Minister of Enterprise Trade and Employment last week, has completed the acquisition of NTL Ireland through its acquisition of MS Irish Cable Holdings B.V. NTL Ireland was subsequently contributed to UPC Broadband, our primary European borrower group.

NTL Ireland is the largest cable operator in the Republic of Ireland, offering cable television and broadband services to residential customers and managed network services to corporate customers. At September 30, 2005, NTL Ireland had approximately 375,100 revenue generating units ("RGUs") including 358,700 video RGUs and 16,400 broadband Internet RGUs. In the Republic of Ireland Liberty Global also owns cable operator Chorus, which served 201,100 RGUs at September 30, 2005.

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