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General Cable General Cable has awarded a £4.8m contract to PS Turner for the construction of a call centre in Sheffield. 16-Apr-1999 Telewest Communications has finalised terms for the £649m acquisition of General Cable, the fifth largest cable TV operator. 16-Apr-1998 NTL has made a £550m paper offer for General Cable, the cable TV operator. 24-Mar-1998 General Cable is in discussions that could lead to an offer being made for the company. 24-Feb-1998 General Cable and Telewest Communications are said to be planning a merger to create the largest cable company in the UK, although any such move would depend on the outcome of negotiations over the restructuring of shareholdings in Telewest. 12-Feb-1998 BSkyB is undergoing a European Commission investigation into the way it supplies programmes to the cable industry, following a complaint from General Cable about the pricing for sport and movie channels. 19-Jan-1998 Telewest, General Cable, Diamond Cable and NTL are planning to offer a pay-per-view movie channel to telephone-only cable subscribers using a set-top box, in sharp contrast to BSkyB's policy of insisting that customers subscribe to premium channels before receiving pay-per-view. 12-Nov-1997 General Cable is substantially increasing prices for new cable TV customers and will only accept subscribers that also order its telephone service, in order to stem losses. 16-Oct-1997 Four cable companies - Telewest, General Cable, NTL and Diamond - are close to agreeing a deal with Warner Brothers about setting up their own movie channels in competition with BSkyB. 04-Oct-1997 General Cable is planning to offer small packages of cable TV channels to its subscribers later this year, and hopes that the channel owners will agree to these more flexible arrangements. 22-May-1997 General Cable has acquired Imminus, the data networking group, for £33m, and aims to win a national telecoms licence in order to expand beyond its franchise areas. 14-Mar-1997 General Cable has acquired the remaining 50% of Yorkshire Cable Group for £131m. 02-Aug-1996 General Cable is said to have become the first cable TV company to become cash positive, although its penetration rate fell from 25% to 23% in 1995. 05-Mar-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007