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Originally Posted by keithwalton
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NTL only acquired Cable and Wireless communiations which were the Cable franchises and residential customer base, NTL then sold off its CPS customer base to Npower for £7 Million in 2001, Tiscali became the new owners of that in 2004.
Cable and Wireless provide infrastructure for Bulldog,Tesco,Post office homephone and Lloyds TSB. Take a look at
www.cw.com and take a look at there clients.
This is what was sold off to NTL in 2000:
Videotron Cable franchise covering:
Barnet&Edgware
Harrow
Brent
Ealing
Greenwich
Barking&Dagenham
Lambeth
Westminster
Leyton
Bexley
Malden/Merton and Morden
Wimbledon
Hammersmith&Fulham
Bushey
Bromley
Northern Hampshire
Southampton
Nynex Cable Franchise covering:
Portsmouth
Brighton
Bognor Regis
Bolton
Blackburn with Darwen
Liverpool
Manchester
Nuneaton,Stafford,Tamworth & Burton-on-trent
BellCable Media,Comtel and Cablecomm franchises covering:
Tower Hamlets
Hemel Hempstead
Watford
Hatfield
Norwich
Oxfordshire
Manchester-Small part Cabled by other than nynex.
Colchester-East Coast Cable
Cambridge
Edinburgh
Newcastle
NTL also acquired Diamond Cable which I think was owned by ITV and Channel 4, this means that NTL became the Cable franchise for Nottingham and East Midlands.
Cable and Wireless retained:
Mercury Communications infrastructure
Acquired Guernsey Telecoms 2001
Acquired Bulldog Communications 2004
Cable and Wireless disposals:
Mercury Payphones- Sold to IPM Communications-1995
Mercury Paging-Now called Page One-1997
Mercury One2one 50% stake-1999
Cable and Wireless Communications-2000
Bulldog Communications 2006
1,000+ Small Business customers 2006
Other things that NTL acquired and disposed of:
Telewest Communications 2006
Virgin Mobile Telecoms 2006
NTL Broadcast
(Disposed)
Mercury residential 131 and 132 CPS service
(Disposed)
Telewest franchises cover:
Camden
Islington
Harringey
Enfield
Hackney
Camberwell
Uxbridge and Hillingdon/Ruislip/Hayes
Hounslow
Slough
Langley
Windsor
South Eastern Kent
Exeter,Bristol,Newton Abbot and Plymouth
Birmingham
Yorkshire-Bradford,Sheffield,Leeds and York
Harlow
Crawley
St Helens
Yeovil
Trowbridge
Livingstone
Northern Glasgow???
SmallWorld Media-Yet to be swallowed up by Virgin covers:
Lancaster
Carisle
Morecombe
Southern Glasgow
Ayrshire
The only thing that Cable and Wireless provides for Virgin Media and T-Mobile customers is Operator services and Emergency services via shortcodes 100,155 and 999.
So hope this gives you an insight to how Cable and Wireless operates and where the Cable franchises are. Cable and Wireless find it more profitable to sell its services to consumers via resellers and use the Tesco and Post Office brand to do so. They also provide Tesco Directory Enquires via 118321.