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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: The mySAP Supplier Relationship Management Application Helps Global Telecom Drive Purchasing Efficiency, Compliance, Savings
White Papers Cable & Wireless is a global telecommunications provider that is leveraging the functionalities of the mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (mySAP SRM) application to: Download this case study to read more about mySAP SRM and the role it has...
[July 25, 2007, 14:10]
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 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 & 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 launches enterprise VoIP service
Talkback I hate to rain on Cable & Wireless' parade but it is not the first company in the UK to offer converged voice and data in the UK. Cable & Wireless is also not the first company to deliver IP voice and IP telephony to enterprises over converged IP...
[July 6, 2004, 23:50]
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 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 gets ever smaller
Blog As if axeing half its staff and 90 percent of its customers was not enough, now Cable & Wireless is shedding its capabilities as well. Out of the door this week has gone Allnet, its systems integration division.
[April 5, 2007, 13:12]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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]
Adobe Systems Case Study: Cable & Wireless
White Papers As a major global supplier of communications infrastructure and solutions, Cable & Wireless regularly requires e-learning solutions for its employees. The company recognised that a rapid development solution would be needed to enhance its...
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
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 & Wireless Implements Asset4000 to Provide Functionality Lacking in Accounts System
White Papers Cable & Wireless is a leading international telecommunications company with customers in 80 countries. The finance team in the Seychelles faced various issues with regards to the management of fixed assets.
[March 9, 2009, 0:22]
