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Originally Posted by Pierre
Nope, just an ad.
For Mercury which is now Cable & Wireless, One of Virgins main wholesale competitors.
Funny how times change
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Mercury's 131 and 132 service was joined with the merger of Nynex,Videotron,BellCable Media and Cable and Wireless and then when the sale of the residential arm including Cable franchises which also included businesses using the cable franchises was sold to NTL, the residential 131/132 service also went across to NTL.
NTL kept it for a short while and then sold it off to Npower for £7 Million, shortly after, Tiscali acquired Npower's telephone base and was called Tiscali Smart Talk, Tiscali is now owned by TalkTalk, So the amount of hands that customer base has gone through since the late 80's is incredible!
Between 1986 and 2009, Mercury's operations:
Mercury Residential: Acquired by NTL in 2000
Mercury Paging: Demerged in 1997 (Now PageOne)
Mercury One2One: Rebranded 1997 Acquired by Deutsche Telekom 1999
Mercury Payphones:Sites Acquired by IPM/Interphone/Infolines 1995/2000
Virgin Media and Cable and Wireless to this date maybe slight competitors but they still do work together, in terms of sharing LLU network. Cable and Wireless still provide Operator Assistance,International Operator Assistance and Emergency Services as well non-Emergencies via 101 to Virgin Media lines and T-Mobile/Virgin Mobile phones. Probably a long term contract.
And who's to say Cable and Wireless will never take over Virgin Media again, it would make sense in terms of cost reduction.