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Vodafone buys Cable & Wireless for enterprise boost

...Vodafone has signed a deal to buy communications provider Cable & Wireless Worldwide for just over £1bn. Vodafone has announced plans to buy... Read more

23 April, 2012 by David Meyer
BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

...how it all began, with men in class-defining headgear pushing thick cable into a suburban hole. Replace the horse-drawn cart with a Ford... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
Alcatel-Lucent shows off undersea <endeca_term>cable</endeca_term> ship

Alcatel-Lucent shows off undersea cable ship

...cut off from the world's internet infrastructure until now. A big cable deployment can be worth around half a billion dollars, so telecoms operators... Read more

27 August, 2010 by David Meyer
Submarine <endeca_term>cables</endeca_term> tie the world together

Submarine cables tie the world together

...Cable & Wireless Worldwide estimates that its submarine network now stretches to around 500... Read more

22 January, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

ISP refuses to give details of alleged 'Avatar' porn pirates

...Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's largest internet service providers, has refused to... Read more

29 December, 2010 by Greg Sandoval

Super-fast broadband bolsters Virgin Media revenue

...Virgin noted that the number of people choosing to unsubscribe from its cable services in the quarter — covering the three months to 31 March — reached... Read more

25 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

Photos: From transatlantic telegraph cables to modern fibre optics

...shot of the deck of a ship collecting an out-of-service cable from a deep-water site for reuse in a new location. One... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Nick Heath
BT chases <endeca_term>cable</endeca_term> thieves with RABIT

BT chases cable thieves with RABIT

...BT is going after cable thieves with a new technology capable of spotting a break in a... Read more

26 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

US cables found on Bradley Manning's computer

...at a hearing revealed that a computer used by Manning contained diplomatic cables and other sensitive information. According to the Associated Press, which first reported... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Don Reisinger

Police and BT target cable thieves

...The Metropolitan Police has launched a unit to tackle copper cable theft following a spate of robberies that have caused telecommunications and rail... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Virgin Media pulls out of Westminster area

...rents from BT there is insufficient to allow for super-fast broadband, cable TV and telephone services. Virgin Media has withdrawn services from an area... Read more

9 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Researchers develop USB 'attack cable

...a way to attack laptops and smartphones through an innocent-looking USB cable. Angelos Stavrou, an assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University... Read more

20 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Google to fund power cable for wind farm

...turbines several miles off the east coast of the US. The underwater cable, "a superhighway for clean energy" in Google's words, is designed to... Read more

12 October, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

One in four state IT contracts to go to SMEs, says Cable

...are to be awarded to small businesses, according to business secretary Vince Cable. Cable told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the government recognised it was... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

BT rivals drop out of Scottish broadband pilot

...Cable & Wireless has pulled out of a pilot scheme to supply broadband to... Read more

28 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

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