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Originally Posted by Hugh
Point of Information - C&W Comms bought out Bell CableMedia (who I used to work for), until NTL bought them out.
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C&W bought BCM, Nynex and Videotron. It didn't work out and NTL bought them, now under the umbrella of ConsumerCo for £8 Billlion in 1999.
C&W in the UK then bought Energis, Thus, Fibrenet, Yourcoms.
The company then split it operations into CWC which was the Caribbean and other small operations such as the channel islands and far east. (Which recently also bought Columbus Networks in the same region.)
And Cable and Wireless Worldwide which was the UK operation and the Submarine cable network which is what Vodafone bought.
If this deal does go ahead, contrary to the suggestion it will be a step closer to a Vodafone/VM merge, it will actually be a many steps farther away.