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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 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 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 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, 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 Builds Enterprise Intranet Site Using Content Management Server 2001
White Papers Cable & Wireless plc provides high-performance global IP and data services. Cable & Wireless was challenged with communicating to more than 13,000 employees worldwide and needed to consolidate 180 disparate Web sites containing 100,000+ pages...
[March 4, 2008, 23:00]
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 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 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 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 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 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]
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 Caribbean: Bringing Reliable, Seamless Roaming Services To The Caribbean Islands
White Papers Cable & Wireless Caribbean provides service to 12 countries in the Caribbean, and the company must test and localize the technology for each. The challenge for Caribbean was to provide reliable, seamless roaming services to a wide area comprised of...
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
O2 (UK) Customers Roam Far And Wide Thanks To Cable & Wireless GRX
White Papers Cable & Wireless provided a solution for O2 (UK) that gave its roaming customers an 'always on' data experience that is high-speed and secure. O2 (UK) used Cable & Wireless Global Roaming Exchange (GRX) a service that offers cost-effective...
[March 29, 2005, 0:00]
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]
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]
