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NTL Telewest is to shed 21 jobs at its residential field sales operation in Stockton. 26-Jan-2007 NTL Telewest is to create 90 new jobs at its customer service call centre in Birmingham, as part of a £5.3m investment that will create 300 jobs across the country. 12-Dec-2006 NTL is to shed 125 jobs at its office in Coventry, in order to transfer the customer relations department to Stockton-on-Tees and the remaining jobs to Gateshead. 28-Nov-2006 NTL Telewest has appointed GVA Grimley to rationalise its portfolio of more than 700 properties. 15-Nov-2006 NTL Telewest is planning to open a network of stores next year, in order to improve its customer service reputation and benefit from a relaunch under the Virgin brand. 23-Oct-2006 NTL is creating 200 new jobs at its customer care call centre in Swansea over the next few months. 16-Oct-2006 NTL Telewest is to shed 62 jobs at its call centre in Glenrothes by early next year, as part of a recently-announced reorganisation that will cut 750 jobs across the country. 21-Sep-2006 NTL Telewest is to close its customer care centre at South Gyle in Edinburgh early next year, with the loss of up to 150 jobs, but 70 new jobs are being created at its site in Stockton. 07-Sep-2006 NTL is to transfer up to 70 customer relations jobs from Coventry to sites in Manchester, Gateshead and Sheffield. 03-Jul-2006 NTL is creating 50 new jobs at its faults management call centre in Swansea. 16-Jun-2006 NTL has announced plans to shed 6,000 jobs from its 17,000-strong workforce, including the outsourcing of 1,500 staff in Liverpool, Swansea and Teesside to IBM. 10-May-2006 NTL has agreed to acquire Virgin Mobile for £962m, in order to create a Virgin-branded group offering cable TV, internet access, fixed line telephony and mobile phone services. 05-Apr-2006 NTL is said to be planning to shed more than 1,000 jobs from its 18,000-strong workforce, following its merger with Telewest. 27-Mar-2006 NTL is in discussions to acquire Virgin Mobile for about £817m, in order to create a combined Virgin-branded group offering mobile services, fixed-line telephony, TV and broadband. 05-Dec-2005 NTL has reached agreement to acquire rival cable TV and telecoms company Telewest for £3.4bn, which could result in thousands of job losses through office rationalisation. 04-Oct-2005 NTL is to sell its Irish cable TV operations to UnitedGlobalCom for £221m, which is expected to help clear the way for a merger with Telewest later this year. 10-May-2005 NTL is to sell its Broadcast TV picture transmission division to Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group for £1.27bn. 06-Dec-2004 NTL is planning to expand its customer relations centre in Coventry, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 21-Oct-2004 NTL is to invest up to £65m in the installation of equipment in about 300 BT telephone exchanges, in order to offer broadband services to households not connected to its cable network. 21-Sep-2004 NTL has appointed Goldman Sachs to advise on strategic options for its TV and radio broadcasting business, which could lead to a £1.2bn sale. 13-Sep-2004 NTL is shedding up to 90 jobs on Teesside, as part of previously-announced plans to rationalise its network of call centres. 16-Aug-2004 NTL, the cable TV operator, is to close call centres in Belfast, Glasgow, Brighton, Cambridge and Reading with the loss of 1,500 jobs, in order to consolidate the work in Manchester, Swansea and Bellshill. 08-Apr-2004 NTL is to relocate its customer accounts department from Stockton to Nottingham, which could lead to the loss of up to 40 jobs. 11-Dec-2003 NTL, the cable operator, is to reduce its headcount from 14,000 to 12,000, as part of a strategy to integrate its eight billing systems and 28 customer management databases. 21-Nov-2003 NTL is to close its office in Huddersfield town centre in May and relocate the 39 staff to other sites. 24-Apr-2002 NTL is creating a further 70 call centre jobs in Swansea and 30 in Cardiff to cope with rising demand for its broadband internet service. 08-Apr-2002 NTL has announced plans to shed a further 2,000 jobs, with the sales, marketing and back-office operations being hardest hit. 11-Dec-2001 NTL is to close a telecoms call centre in Huddersfield with the loss of up to 160 jobs. 04-Oct-2001 NTL has shed about 60 of the 700 jobs at its call centre in Cardiff Bay, in order to transfer some work to Belfast. 27-Sep-2001 NTL is to close its cable TV and telecoms call centre in Newport with the loss of up to 134 jobs, although some staff will relocate to its Swansea office. 14-Aug-2001 NTL has received two approaches for the sale of its broadcast transmission business, and has also announced plans to shed a further 5,000 jobs over the next two years. 27-Jul-2001 NTL has won a £25m contract to provide digital radio transmission services to MXR, which will involve the creation of a new distribution network using both the internet and radio frequencies. 21-Jun-2001 NTL has announced a £1.4bn deal to outsource its IT operations to IBM, which will involve the immediate transfer of about 500 staff. 25-May-2001 Telewest and NTL are to combine their advertising sales activities in order to offer a one-stop shop for companies looking to advertise on cable TV, and further alliances are being considered in the procurement of goods and services. 10-May-2001 NTL, the cable TV operator, is considering plans to shed hundreds of jobs in an effort to make cost savings of £200m over the next two years. 03-May-2001 NTL is creating 100 new jobs at its customer call centre in Nottingham, due to rising demand for its digital TV services. 30-Apr-2001 NTL is planning to outsource its IT operations to IBM, which will involve the transfer of about 600 staff. 12-Jan-2001 NTL is planning to cut 1,300 of its 22,000 UK jobs over the next 15 months, in order to achieve annual cost savings of up to £90m. 03-Nov-2000 NTL, the cable operator, is planning to transfer its listing from Nasdaq to New York in order to make it easier to raise funds and make acquisitions. 20-Oct-2000 NTL is forming a joint venture with Universal Studios Network of the US to launch a UK movie channel called The Studio. 02-Oct-2000 NTL is planning to float off its nationwide network of television transmitters later this year, with an estimated value of about £2bn. 17-Jul-2000 Leicester City is to sell a 9.9% stake in the football club to NTL, in a £12m deal that will raise funds for new players and improved training facilities. 09-Jun-2000 NTL is to create 500 new jobs at its call centres in south Wales, following the announcement of plans to launch a new service providing free internet access. 08-Mar-2000 ITN is to launch a 24-hour news channel later this year in partnership with NTL. 21-Feb-2000 NTL is to set up a customer management centre in Waterford with the creation of 250 jobs, having recently acquired Dublin cable provider Cablelink. 09-Feb-2000 Aston Villa has sold a 9.9% stake to cable operator NTL for £17m, as part of a £26m media partnership deal. 26-Jan-2000 NTL has won a £10m contract to build a new radio communications network for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 17-Jan-2000 Aston Villa is in negotiations that could result in NTL acquiring a 10% stake in the football club. 13-Jan-2000 NTL is considering plans for a stock market listing in London, following its acquisition of the Swiss cable company Cablecom. 14-Dec-1999 NTL's Premium TV subsidiary has won a contract to manage the media interests of Newcastle United football club. 10-Dec-1999 NTL is considering plans to launch its own mobile phone service, having approached the existing operators with an offer to buy capacity on their third-generation networks. 12-Nov-1999 France Telecom is planning to bid for one of the UK's next-generation mobile phone licences, in partnership with NTL. 21-Oct-1999 NTL is to launch the first commercial video-on-demand service early next year, providing access to about 350 films. 22-Sep-1999 NTL is to acquire Workplace Technologies for £81m, in order to improve its networking capability and offer a one-stop communications service to corporate clients. 20-Aug-1999 NTL is buying Cable & Wireless Communications' residential cable assets for £8.2bn, while Cable & Wireless is buying the remaining 47% of CWC in a £6.5bn deal. 27-Jul-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 NTL is to set up a 63,300 sq ft office and R&D building at the Cambridge Research Park at Landbeach. 01-Jul-1999 NTL is acquiring the field services operations of Simoco, the professional mobile communications company, for £10m, which will involve the transfer of about 150 engineers. 30-Jun-1999 NTL is to create about 900 jobs over the next four years at various sites across Northern Ireland, in order to provide support to customers of its telecoms and TV businesses. 22-Jun-1999 NTL is planning to set up a joint venture with Real Media of the US to sell interactive television advertising. 17-Jun-1999 NTL is to launch the UK's first digital cable TV service in September, and is also aiming to become a national telecoms operator by reducing its telephone tariffs. 10-Jun-1999 NTL is to acquire Cablelink, the Irish cable TV provider, for £438m. 07-May-1999 NTL has dropped plans to bid for Newcastle United, apparently due to government concerns about football clubs being owned by media companies. 22-Apr-1999 NTL is to buy Australia's broadcasting transmission network for £250m, and is now seeking to bid for similar privatisations in other countries. 20-Mar-1999 Microsoft has announced a strategic alliance with NTL, in which it will invest $500m to help the UK cable TV operator build high speed voice and data services. 26-Jan-1999 NTL is launching an interactive internet service called TV-Internet for its cable TV subscribers, and it will use software supplied by NCI of the US. 20-Jan-1999 NTL is acquiring the telecommunications business of Eastern Group for £91m, which will give it a fibre optic network covering the south and east of England as well as 121 mobile phone radio masts in East Anglia. 23-Dec-1998 NTL has bought a 6.3% stake in Newcastle United football club for £10m, and will decide whether to bid for the remainder once the Monopolies & Mergers Commission has ruled on the BSkyB bid for Manchester United. 18-Dec-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications, Telewest, and NTL are said to be preparing to start negotiations about swapping their local cable TV franchises. 02-Nov-1998 NTL Telecommunications has acquired CymruNet, the Welsh internet service provider. 29-Oct-1998 Digital One, a consortium of GWR, NTL and Talk Radio, has won a licence to broadcast 10 commercial digital radio channels across the country. 13-Oct-1998 NTL is in discussions with 35 companies about the launch of home shopping and banking services via interactive TV from next March. 06-Oct-1998 NTL is to invest £25m setting up internet-based home banking and shopping services for its forthcoming digital TV service. 27-Aug-1998 NTL is bidding for Cablelink, the Irish cable TV company that is being offered for sale by public tender and is expected to fetch £175m. 05-Aug-1998 The Digital One consortium, which includes GWR, NTL and Talk Radio, has presented an unchallenged bid to run national digital radio, and is aiming to set up a 10-channel service. 24-Jun-1998 NTL has acquired two cable TV operators - ComTel and Diamond Cable - for a total £1.4bn, in a further rationalisation of the sector that has seen the number of companies fall from 24 to five in the past five years. 17-Jun-1998 S4C Digital Networks is expected to win a licence over the next few weeks to set up a digital terrestrial TV service, and shareholders in the consortium include United News & Media, NTL, and S4C. 11-May-1998 NTL, the cable TV company, is launching a national telephone and internet service, and also has plans to introduce internet over the television and a digital TV service. 24-Apr-1998 NTL is to acquire NetChannel UK, the interactive TV business, for about $1m in order to offer home shopping services and internet access to cable TV subscribers. 16-Apr-1998 NTL has made a £550m paper offer for General Cable, the cable TV operator. 24-Mar-1998 A number of cable companies including Cable & Wireless Communications, Telewest and NTL are in discussions with At Home Network of the US to set up a new service offering high-speed internet access over cable TV networks. 12-Jan-1998 Telewest, NTL, Diamond Cable and General Cable have signed an agreement with Warner Brothers for the supply of movies for a pay-per-view cable service that will be launched next year. 22-Oct-1997 Telewest and General Cable are said to have pulled out of talks with NTL to create the UK's largest cable company, following a disagreement over price. 28-Aug-1997 Telewest is considering a proposal from NTL that they should merge to form an enlarged cable TV group. 04-Aug-1997 NTL is planning a £100m fibre optic network across the UK for the benefit of mobile phone operators, broadcasters, and possibly cable operators. 12-Jun-1996 International CableTel is acquiring NTL, the IBA transmission operation, for £235m, in a move which should enable it to become a major force in telecommunications. 29-Mar-1996 Channel 5 Broadcasting has signed contracts of about £100m with NTL, the broadcast transmission and telecoms concern. 11-Jan-1996 The Performance channel is to be shown on satellite from March, following a distribution deal with NTL. 04-Jan-1996 News International has acquired NTL's compression technology business, which will be called Digi-Media Vision. 19-Oct-1995
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