Virgin Media has announced it's best quarterly growth for seven years, and said that it should be able to hit 5 million UK customers by the end of the decade.

The telco added a total of 24,000 new customers in the last quarter of 2007, nearly twice as many as the same time the previous year. This brings it's total number of customers to 4.8 million of which 3.7 million also take advantage of their broadband services. Customers who take advantage of more than one service rising from just over 40 per cent last year to just under 50 per cent.