"They used to be separate franchises until ntl swallowed them all up"
Indeed, but they were geographic franchise areas, so they were only ever competing as smaller entities against BT, not significantly enlarging customer choice.
I was assimilated by ntl: , then went on to assimilate a couple of other sites. Now Virgin are national, it's perhaps time to look local loop unbundling for them too, seems unfair BT have to allow resellers on their infrastructure, but VM don't.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
