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Cable & Wireless drops BT charge dispute
News Cable & Wireless has dropped the complaint it had lodged with Ofcom regarding BT's unbundling charges. At the time, a spokesperson for Cable & Wireless said that extensive negotiations had failed, so Cable & Wireless was "using the regulatory...
[April 24, 2007, 12:27]
Cable & Wireless launches enterprise VoIP service
News Cable & Wireless is widening its range of corporate Internet telephony products by launching a voice over IP (VoIP) service for UK businesses. It will be called Cable & Wireless IP Voice and the company says it will offer a better quality of...
[June 17, 2004, 15:25]
Cable & Wireless may buy Thus
News Cable & Wireless has approached the network operator Thus to discuss a possible takeover. On Thursday, Cable & Wireless issued a statement to its investors in which it said it "notes the recent movement in the share price of Thus Group and confirms...
[May 29, 2008, 15:44]
Cable & Wireless to snap up Energis?
News Cable & Wireless (C&W) is once again the subject of consolidation speculation - although this time, the telco looks ready to buy rather than be bought. Cable and Wireless will be able to strengthen its presence in the corporate space.
[July 18, 2005, 17:10]
Cable & Wireless, Orange join forces on FMC
News Cable & Wireless has picked Orange as its fixed-mobile convergence bedfellow. Cable & Wireless's FMC system will use low-power GSM spectrum for in-building coverage, powered by picocells (the big brother cellular tech of femtocells), rather than Wi...
[March 6, 2008, 8:00]
Cable & Wireless switches chiefs
News The chief executive responsible for issuing four profit warnings and cutting thousands of staff at troubled telecom group Cable & Wireless is to leave the company on 4 April. Also appointed to the Cable & Wireless board is Kevin Loosemore, formerly...
[April 2, 2003, 17:58]
Cable & Wireless surges back into broadband unbundling
News Cable & Wireless opened up a new assault on BT on Friday by purchasing Bulldog Communications for £18.6m. This acquisition will give Cable & Wireless a foothold in the UK local-loop unbundling (LLU) market, letting it create and sell businesses...
[May 28, 2004, 13:40]
Cable & Wireless, Ericsson seal FMC deal
News Telecoms-kit company Ericsson has signed a five-year, £30m contract with telco Cable & Wireless to supply and manage a GSM mobile network that will let Cable & Wireless sell FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) services.
[September 15, 2008, 8:23]
Cable & Wireless axes 3,500 jobs
News Troubled telecoms giant Cable & Wireless is cutting 3,500 jobs from its loss-making global division, which provides Web site hosting and telecoms services for companies worldwide, and which accounts for more than two-thirds of Cable and Wireless's...
[November 13, 2002, 14:19]
Cable & Wireless buys Thus
News Cable & Wireless has bought the Thus Group, after the Office of Fair Trading cleared the acquisition in mid-September. The company is now known as 'Thus, a Cable & Wireless business'. Cable & Wireless first approached Thus in May to discuss a...
[October 2, 2008, 13:01]
Cable & Wireless cuts go deeper
News Cable & Wireless is to sack 1,500 staff, take a £6.5bn hit on its accounts and has joined the long line of companies beating a retreat from the US market. The group's actual operating losses were £244m.The £6.5bn is an admission of failure and a...
[June 5, 2003, 9:57]
Cable and Wireless teams up with PC World
News This time the catch is that customers must buy a computer from PC world and subscribe to the Cable and Wireless telephone service. Alternatively, to qualify for cheaper calls, Cable and Wireless users must make at least £4.50 of local, national and...
[July 28, 1999, 17:02]
Cable firms snub wireless broadband auction
News Neither of the UK's cable companies are likely to take any part in the government's forthcoming 3.4GHz wireless broadband auction. See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable modems, ADSL, satellite and other high-speed access...
[February 13, 2003, 16:18]
Cable firms launch wireless broadband home networking kit
News Cable customers are being offered the chance to build their own high-speed wireless home network, by signing up for trials being operated by ntl and Telewest. This kit plugs into the cable set-top box or cable modem to create a wireless broadband...
[January 30, 2002, 16:40]
Cable & Wireless mocked by hacker
News Nothing personal but this has been done to expose Cable & Wireless's poor security. The hacker also announced that he had the personal details of 150,000 Cable & Wireless customers. Cable & Wireless, which is currently investigating the situation...
[October 26, 1999, 8:46]
Cable and Wireless on the ropes?
News There is mounting speculation that telco Cable and Wireless will have to make cuts following the imminent conclusion of a review into its operations. The stuttering telecoms market has meant C&W Global, which includes the former assets of web...
[October 28, 2002, 16:40]
New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless
News A chipset that can simultaneously support gigabit wireless, gigabit cable access and 200-megabit networking over power lines has been announced by Pulse~LINK. We can use any of the proposed wireless ultrawideband (UWB) standards, at the same time...
[May 11, 2004, 15:20]
France Telecom tipped for Cable & Wireless takeover
News Speculation is growing that UK telecommunications operator Cable & Wireless (C&W) could be the subject of a multi-billion pound takeover bid. Bulldog was itself taken over by Cable & Wireless in May 2004, after being one of the few companies to...
[June 20, 2005, 11:30]
No spoonful of sugar for Cable & Wireless staff
Leader John Pluthero, the new head of Cable and Wireless, certainly knows how to get the attention of his staff. "Congratulations, we work for an underperforming business in a crappy industry and it's going to be hell for the next 12 months.
[February 28, 2006, 14:40]
Wallace walks from Cable & Wireless
News Graham Wallace chief executive of troubled telecoms firm Cable & Wireless is to leave the company. The announcement comes 10 days after Richard Lapthorne, the former chairman of healthcare firm Amersham and former British Aerospace finance director...
[January 21, 2003, 13:56]
