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Cable & Wireless Communications Telewest Communications has acquired the remaining 50% of Cable London from Cable & Wireless Communications for £428m. 26-Aug-1999 NTL is receiving a $1bn investment from France Telecom to support its planned £8bn bid for the residential cable activities of Cable & Wireless Communications. 16-Jul-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is creating 100 jobs at a new call centre in Waterlooville. 09-Jul-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is to set up a call centre in Swansea with the creation of 1,200 jobs, in order to deal with the anticipated demand for digital TV. 23-Jun-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is to create 2,000 jobs as part of its digital TV plans, including 740 technical staff in Manchester and London and 1,200 call centre staff. 07-May-1999 Vodafone and Cable & Wireless Communications are to integrate their fixed and mobile services for business customers in order to provide single billing and a number of added-value services. 16-Apr-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications and Telewest are in discussions to merge their cable TV operations. 07-Apr-1999 Scoot is to develop a digital TV version of its business directories for Cable & Wireless Communications. 02-Apr-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is considering plans to drop BSkyB's pay-per-view sports and film channels from its cable TV service in favour of the rival offering from Front Row. 27-Mar-1999 Vodafone has awarded a £100m contract to Cable & Wireless Communications for the supply of a backbone network to link up its core sites and improve nationwide mobile phone coverage. 04-Jan-1999 Cable & Wireless Communications is acquiring the Irish business of Cable & Wireless, its majority shareholder, as part of a £30m infrastructure programme that will help it benefit from the liberalisation of the Irish market. 20-Nov-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is to include the new ITV2 channel as part of its analogue pay-TV service, which will make it immediately available to 850,000 cable subscribers. 04-Nov-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications, the cable TV company, has agreed a deal that will enable it to offer four Flextech channels and five channels from UKTV. 03-Oct-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is launching a package of 10 TV channels, a telephone line, and access to pay-per-view sports and movies, for £9.99 a month. 28-Sep-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications has awarded a £1.8bn 10-year deal to IBM for the outsourcing of its central management systems, which will involve the transfer of about 950 staff and the creation of an additional 400 jobs. 03-Sep-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is planning to launch its own interactive TV service, having signed deals with companies such as British Airways and Barclays Bank to offer home shopping and banking. 19-Aug-1998 Bell Atlantic of the US is to dispose of its 18.5% stake in Cable & Wireless Communications through an exchangeable bond issue, and the announcement caused a 10% fall in C&WC's share price. 04-Aug-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications has awarded an initial contract to Pace Micro Technology to make 100,000 set-top boxes in preparation for next year's launch of its digital cable TV service. 31-Jul-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications has won a three-year network management contract from the UK subsidiary of America Online, and aims to become a key supplier to all internet service providers. 27-Jul-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is launching a new mobile phone service aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, which will use the existing One2One network and offer savings of up to 20%. 20-Jul-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is planning to strengthen its ties with Telewest Communications, which could involve the swapping of local cable TV franchises. 14-Jul-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is acquiring a 50.1% stake in Two Way TV for £13m, which will enable it to offer interactive games on its digital TV service. 06-Jul-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is to cut 1,500 jobs over the next nine months, in order to make unspecified savings following the creation of the group 18 months ago. 03-Apr-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications has placed an order with Oracle for operating software for set-top boxes, which will enable it to offer internet access and video on demand when it launches its digital TV service in the autumn. 11-Mar-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications is to invest £400m upgrading its telecoms network to enable it to keep up with demand and introduce digital TV and interactive services. 19-Feb-1998 BICC has won two contracts worth a total £100m to provide cabling for Cable & Wireless Communications' TV and telecoms networks and for ESAT Telecom's network in Ireland. 15-Dec-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications is planning to offer internet web television and home shopping services to its 3.8m cable customers, and is in discussions with a number of US software and internet service companies. 11-Nov-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications has won a contract from the Education and Research Network Association to set up a new network to link up universities and polytechnics, which will be called SuperJANET 3. 10-Nov-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications and BSkyB have agreed to co-operate on the launch of the UK's first digital television services next spring with joint promotional and marketing activities. 07-Nov-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications is planning to spend about £1bn a year until 2001 on the development of its cable network and the modernisation of Mercury's long-haul telephone network. 16-Sep-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications is launching a mass consumer survey to determine what channels and services are most in demand by cable TV subscribers. 10-Sep-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications is negotiating an exclusive programme supply deal with BSkyB, a move which is likely to disrupt attempts by the cable industry to develop their own programme supply business and a movie channel. 04-Sep-1997 Cable & Wireless Communications is planning a £50m marketing campaign aimed at establishing its reputation as the largest cable company, a move which will end hopes for a generic all-industry campaign. 03-Sep-1997 BSkyB is in discussions with Cable & Wireless Communications, the largest cable group in the UK, about the launch of joint pay-per-view television services. 06-Jun-1997 Telewest is linking up with Cable & Wireless Communications to revolutionise the marketing of cable TV channels by persuading channel owners that subscribers should be able to choose exactly which channels they want to receive. 09-May-1997 France Telecom says it is interested in acquiring a stake in Cable & Wireless Communications in order to set up a UK relay station for its alliance with Deutsche Telekom and Sprint. 20-Mar-1997 Cable & Wireless has merged Mercury with three cable groups - Nynex CableComms, Videotron, and Bell Cablemedia - to create Cable & Wireless Communications, which will have access to 6m homes in four major franchise areas for cable TV. 23-Oct-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007