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News BT said it now has a team of advisors set up to "help" the customers ditched by C&W "consider their options" - that is, BT's business packages. A BT spokesman said the telco has already picked up ex-C&W customers "in the normal course of business...
[09 Mar 2006]
News C&W has been a fierce critic of BT in the past but until now it has made little progress in actually competing with the company in the broadband market. Hewett added that C&W's backbone network passes close to BT local exchanges in many UK cities...
[20 Sep 2004]
News In an interview with silicon.com, Marsh said C&W is keen to reduce its dependency on BT Wholesale - which, he says, puts the telco in a tricky position. BT is not working in the interests of one of its biggest customers by launching its 21CN...
[14 Sep 2006]
News C&W and BT are two of the main providers of IP VPNs. The deal replaces networking provided by BT, which is a major partner of BSkyB's in the provision of interactive services to customers and other parts of the broadcast business, for example...
[13 Apr 2005]
News The UK Inland Revenue has chosen telecoms company Energis over BT and Cable & Wireless Communications (C&WC) to monitor and revamp part of its phone system. The contract will replace BT and C&WC services - the incumbent suppliers for the...
[10 Sep 1998]
Comment BT and C&W are the obvious choices here. Today, the NHS Information Authority has announced it is upgrading NHSnet, with the help of two giant and well-known companies - BT and Cable and Wireless.
[16 Jan 2003]
News Cable & Wireless opened up a new assault on BT on Friday by purchasing Bulldog Communications for £18.6m. This acquisition will give the telco a foothold in the UK local-loop unbundling (LLU) market, letting it create and sell businesses broadband...
[28 May 2004]
News Cable & Wireless has snatched a massive £350m contract from under the nose of arch-rival BT to provide network services for CGNU, the UK's largest insurance house. Cable & Wireless provided telecoms for Norwich Union, while BT served CGU.
[19 Jul 2001]
News UK insurance firm Direct Line has replaced its BT and Cable and Wireless leased line circuits with an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) managed network from Fibernet. He said the number of problems on the network has been reduced, while the final...
[16 Jun 2000]
News BT and Cable & Wireless have been left to fight for the £700m NHS 'N3' broadband network - one of the key infrastructure components of the £5bn health service modernisation programme - following EDS's withdrawal from the bidding.
[06 Feb 2004]
News Cable & Wireless (C&W) and Thus have clashed in a battle to buy fellow telco Energis, as both strive to compete more effectively against industry leader BT. C&W is reported to be offering around £710m for Energis, which is the third largest UK...
[15 Aug 2005]
News Cable & Wireless Communications (C&WC) has stolen a march on BT in its effort to attract first-time Internet users. A BT spokesman accepted the C&WC service offers technical support where BT Click doesn't, but stated the BT service is still...
[02 Sep 1998]
News Cable & Wireless (C&W) will tomorrow submit a detailed complaint to the EC about the proposed tie-up between BT and AT&T. According to Stephen Pettit, executive director of C&W global business, BT and AT&T account for more than...
[25 Nov 1998]
News The Post Office is to use its strong brand, and C&W's network, to take on BT in the residential phone market with its HomePhone service. In 1982, C&W became the first operator allowed to challenge the BT's previous monopoly in the UK.
[01 Jul 2004]
News C&W beat off competition from BT, MCI and Siemens for the deal and Didcock said the main reason for choosing C&W was that it was the "lower risk option" because of the Energis connection (C&W having bought the telco for £674m last year).
[28 Jun 2006]
News The AA was running an old BT frame-relay network for its data and wide area network and using Energis for its voice network and call centre management but has now switched to a three-year managed services deal with Cable & Wireless (C&W).
[17 Jul 2007]
News Ian Butterworth, Scottish & Newcastle's information services director, said: "Historically, we've used C&WC and BT [for fixed lines services], and for our mobile needs, Cellnet and Orange in addition to Vodafone.
[14 Jul 1999]
News C&W is now focusing on its own fixed-mobile converged (FMC) service, taking on BT's Fusion in a bid to get users making both mobile and landline calls from a single phone. The hostility between C&W and BT is clear: in an interview with silicon.com...
[01 Nov 2006]
Comment C&W's war chest would only make a minor dent in the BT debt mountain, but its execs showed business acumen to sell off assets at the market's peak and confidence they were doing the right thing at the right time.
[21 May 2001]
News Energis beat off competition from 24 other companies, including BT and C&W, after the contract was put out to tender by the commercial procurement arm of the Office of Government Commerce last year. My observation it has been winning these deals...
[13 Aug 2003]
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