Equity	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Equity [Abstract]
Equity	Equity Share Repurchases During the nine months ended September 30, 2014, we purchased a total of 8,062,792 Liberty Global Class A ordinary shares at a weighted average price of $42.19 per share and 14,581,019 Liberty Global Class C ordinary shares at a weighted average price of $41.82 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $949.9 million, including direct acquisition costs and the effects of derivative instruments. At September 30, 2014, the remaining amount authorized for share repurchases was $2,577.2 million. Acquisition of Interests in VTR GlobalCom and VTR Wireless On March 14, 2014, a subsidiary of VTR Finance acquired each of the 20.0% noncontrolling ownership interests in VTR GlobalCom and VTR Wireless (the VTR NCI Acquisition) from Inversiones Corp Comm 2 SpA, formerly known as Corp Comm S.A. (the VTR NCI Owner). The consideration for the VTR NCI Acquisition was satisfied by the allotment and issuance of 10,091,178 Liberty Global Class C ordinary shares to the VTR NCI Owner. The VTR NCI Acquisition has been accounted for as an equity transaction, the net effect of which was to record the issued Liberty Global Class C shares at the $185.4 million carrying value of the acquired noncontrolling interests.

Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Share Repurchases

During the nine months ended September 30, 2014, we purchased a total of 8,062,792 Liberty Global Class A ordinary shares at a weighted average price of $42.19 per share and 14,581,019 Liberty Global Class C ordinary shares at a weighted average price of $41.82 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $949.9 million, including direct acquisition costs and the effects of derivative instruments. At September 30, 2014, the remaining amount authorized for share repurchases was $2,577.2 million.

Acquisition of Interests in VTR GlobalCom and VTR Wireless

On March 14, 2014, a subsidiary of VTR Finance acquired each of the 20.0% noncontrolling ownership interests in VTR GlobalCom and VTR Wireless (the VTR NCI Acquisition) from Inversiones Corp Comm 2 SpA, formerly known as Corp Comm S.A. (the VTR NCI Owner). The consideration for the VTR NCI Acquisition was satisfied by the allotment and issuance of 10,091,178 Liberty Global Class C ordinary shares to the VTR NCI Owner. The VTR NCI Acquisition has been accounted for as an equity transaction, the net effect of which was to record the issued Liberty Global Class C shares at the $185.4 million carrying value of the acquired noncontrolling interests.