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Cable & Wireless is to acquire Energis, the telecoms network operator with 1,550 staff in Leeds, London, Reading and Dublin, in a deal worth £837m, and is planning to shed 700 jobs across the combined group by 2008. 17-Aug-2005 Energis, the telecoms company with 1,200 staff, has warned that it may quit its Reading headquarters if Kier proceeds with plans for a new development on an adjacent site. 13-Sep-2004 Energis has won a £40m contract from the Office of Government Commerce to provide a new internal network linking 200,000 central and local government workers on the Government Secure intranet. 14-Aug-2003 Viridian has sold its 50% stake in Nevada tele.com, the provider of telecoms and internet services throughout Ireland, to joint venture partner Energis for a nominal sum. 04-Nov-2002 Energis, the telecoms carrier, has secured a further £150m from its bankers, as part of a restructuring that will pass control of the group to a new shell company called Chelys. 17-Jul-2002 Energis is to close its Ision web-hosting business in Germany, having dropped plans to find a buyer. 13-May-2002 Energis is to close its Swiss communications business with the loss of about 130 jobs, prompting speculation over the future of its operations in France, Italy and Poland. 05-Apr-2002 Energis is planning to sell its loss-making overseas telecoms business and shed a further 400 jobs in the UK. 21-Feb-2002 Energis is conducting a strategic review of its telecoms business, which could lead to a rights issue, the closure of some overseas operations or the entire group being put up for sale. 25-Jan-2002 Energis is to shed 250 jobs at offices in London, Reading and Leeds, and has also announced new bank facilities of up to £850m that could be used for the acquisition of smaller telecoms companies. 14-Nov-2001 Energis is seeking permission to build three office blocks on the site of the former Metal Box building in Reading, in order to accommodate more than 2,000 staff. 25-May-2001 Energis is planning to create a consortium of telecoms companies to provide local broadband links to homes and businesses in direct competition with British Telecom. 08-May-2001 Energis Interactive, the joint venture between Energis and Graham Technology of Glasgow, is to launch a new interactive digital satellite channel called BrightBlue, which will include shopping, travel, banking and recruitment. 29-Jan-2001 Energis is to acquire a 75% stake in Ision, the German web hosting company, for £496m. 20-Dec-2000 Energis, Norweb Telecom, Chorus, Eircom, Faultbasic and Broadnet have paid a total £38m for 16 of the 42 available government licences to provide high-speed internet access over the airwaves, while the other licences remain unsold. 21-Nov-2000 Energis is planning to set up a 60,000 sq ft data centre in Watford next year, and will also expand its centre in Leeds. 20-Nov-2000 Energis is planning to raise £400m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its DSL telecoms network in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. 21-Sep-2000 Energis is creating 200 jobs at its newly-opened Leeds office, including human resources, sales, and technical roles for its telecoms division. 07-Aug-2000 Energis has bought the remaining 25% stake in Business Online, the German internet service provider, for £1.2m. 23-Jun-2000 Energis is to acquire Stentor, the Irish telecoms provider, for £36m, through its Nevada joint venture with Viridian. 31-May-2000 Energis has announced plans to further expand its telecoms business in continental Europe, including three new Dutch city networks and a £200m DSL network in Germany. 17-May-2000 Energis has bought a 45% stake in Eurocall, the reseller of telecoms services, for £20m. 09-May-2000 Energis is acquiring Carrier24, the German supplier of broadband telecoms capacity, for £20m. 13-Mar-2000 Energis is forming an alliance between its Planet Online division and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, in order to provide hosting services to internet-based application service providers. 31-Jan-2000 Energis and National Grid have won a licence to supply fixed line telecoms services in Poland, as part of a consortium with the Polish Railway Company and Poland Telecoms Operator. 28-Jan-2000 Energis is acquiring a 75% stake in German-based internet service provider Business Online for £5m, as part of a strategy to expand its European customer base and network reach. 17-Dec-1999 Energis has announced a £30m plan to build five new metropolitan telecoms networks in Reading, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Edinburgh and Glasgow. 24-Nov-1999 Energis has acquired EnerTel, the Dutch telecoms operator, from WorldPort of the US for £352m. 12-Nov-1999 Energis is buying a 5.6% stake in Geo Interactive Media of Israel for £7.5m, in order to gain European-wide rights to Geo's audio and streaming technology. 11-Nov-1999 Racal Electronics is in negotiations to sell its telecoms business to Energis for about £750m. 13-Sep-1999 Energis is acquiring Unisource Carrier Services of the Netherlands for £60m, in order to gain a pan-European telecoms network that can be integrated with its UK network. 03-Aug-1999 British Telecom has been told by the industry regulator to allow competitors to install their own equipment in BT's exchanges, which will enable companies such as Energis to offer higher bandwidth services over the local loop to customers. 07-Jul-1999 Energis is to raise £250m in the bond market in order to fund the expansion of its telecoms network in the UK and abroad. 25-May-1999 Energis and Siemens are linking up with a company called Freedom to launch an advertising-sponsored free telephone service called Free-to-Talk. 29-Apr-1999 Scoot has formed an alliance with Energis in which customers of its online services directory will be linked directly to advertisers via Energis leased lines, and advertisers will pay Scoot a fee for each introduction. 23-Mar-1999 Energis is forming a joint venture with Viridian to invest £20m setting up a telecoms network along power lines in Northern Ireland, and about 200 jobs will be created. 04-Mar-1999 National Grid is said to be close to agreeing the acquisition of a second large US electricity company in New England, and is also planning to sell a third of its 74.3% stake in the Energis telecommunications business for over £1bn. 20-Jan-1999 National Grid is looking to sell its 74% stake in its Energis telecoms business within the next five years, and is also seeking partners to set up similar telecoms operations in other countries. 25-Nov-1998 Energis is in discussions with a number of companies, thought to include Vodafone and Orange, to form a consortium to bid for the next generation of mobile phone licences. 18-Nov-1998 MetroHoldings, the joint venture between Energis, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, has completed its first local fibre optic networks in London and will set up similar networks in other UK cities. 22-Sep-1998 Energis is to acquire Planet Online, the internet service provider, for up to £85m, in order to expand its corporate customer base and offer more internet services. 29-Aug-1998 Energis is introducing a new service called "virtual private data networking" which it claims will enable business customers to cut their network management costs by doing away with the need for equipment to be kept on their premises. 28-May-1998 Energis is to set up a £100m joint venture with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, which will involve the formation of a new company called Metro-holdings and the building of telecoms networks in major UK cities. 03-Apr-1998 Energis has won a £4m contract to supply telephone services to Lunn Poly, the travel group, over the next three years. 13-Jan-1998 Vodafone has finalised a deal to offer fixed-line phone services provided by Energis, giving Energis access to 3m Vodafone customers. 14-Nov-1997 National Grid has announced plans to float Energis, its telecommunications business, and is rumoured to be considering a £1bn bid for PowerNet, the Australian electricity company. 25-Sep-1997 Energis has awarded Northern Telecom of Canada a £63m contract for the supply of telecommunications switches, in a flexible agreement that is designed to smooth Nortel's manufacturing cycle and ensure that Energis can quickly increase transmission capacity. 15-Sep-1997 National Grid is considering plans to float a minority stake in Energis, its telecoms business, later this year. 18-Aug-1997 Vodafone is planning to offer fixed telecoms services to its mobile phone customers by selling the services of Energis, while Energis is negotiating a similar deal in which it would offer Vodafone mobile services to its corporate customers. 28-Jul-1997 Energis has won a £27m five year contract to provide a data transmission network linking the 1,300 locations of Boots' retail outlets and warehouses. 25-Jun-1997 National Grid has decided against selling a large stake in Energis, its telecommunications business, having now set up a series of commercial arrangements with other telecoms companies. 04-Jun-1997 Energis has announced price cuts on international calls, making them at least 15% cheaper than British Telecom and Mercury to 18 countries. 08-Mar-1996 Firecrest has made a deal with Energis which will allow Nethead subscribers access to the internet at local-call prices. 18-Nov-1995
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