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Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Company nameCable & Wireless Worldwide PLC
Company typePublic limited company
IndustryTelecommunications
Foundedcirca 1860
HeadquartersBracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Key peopleJohn Pluthero (Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director) John Barton (Chairman and Chairman of the Nomination Committee)
Revenue£2,265 million (2010)
Operating income£148 million (2010)
Net income£1 million (2010)

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For the company with operations mainly in the Caribbean see Cable & Wireless CommunicationsCable & Wireless Worldwide PLC (Lse - CW.) is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. Cable & Wireless specialises in providing communication networks and services to large corporates, governments, carrier customers and resellers. Its services include managed Voice, Data and IP based services and applications across the UK, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East & Africa, Continental Europe and North America.

In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C&W in 1997). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, but it sold its cable assets to NTL in 2000.

It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

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C&W reassures about official contracts - Financial Times Tweet this news
Financial Times---Cable- & -Wireless- Worldwide sought to reassure investors by saying it had retained its existing telecoms contracts with the government ... - Date : Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:41:38 GMT+00:00
C&W Communications results disappoint - Financial Times Tweet this news
Financial Times--By Mark Wembridge Shares in -Cable- & -Wireless- Communications fell 13 per cent after the telecommunications provider said dwindling tourist numbers in the ... - Date : Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:55:57 GMT+00:00
C&WC unveils first post-demerger results; Caribbean-wide IPTV rollout under ... - TeleGeography Tweet this news
TeleGeography--UK-based -Cable- & -Wireless- Communications (CWC) is considering the launch of IPTV services across a number of the countries in which it operates in the ... - Date : Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:17:02 GMT+00:00
C&W Knocks on the Middle East's Door - TMCnet Tweet this news
TMCnet--The growing customer base in the Middle East and Africa was a Call Alert for -Cable and Wireless- Worldwide, -C&W-, ... - Date : Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:19:01 GMT+00:00
Talk of Home Retail falling out of FTSE 100 - Telegraph.co.uk Tweet this news
Telegraph.co.uk--Traders reckon the Argos-owner could be relegated to the FTSE 250 alongside -Cable- & -Wireless- Worlwide, down 0.6 to 67.3p, at the next quarterly reshuffle on ... - Date : Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:01:27 GMT+00:00
Cable & Wireless Jersey to build new fibre-optic network - International Finance Centre (press release) Tweet this news
International Finance Centre (press release)---Cable- & -Wireless- Jersey is investing £2.4 million in a new fibre-optic telecoms network for St Helier. Preliminary work has already begun and once complete, ... - Date : Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:45:41 GMT+00:00
Cable & Wireless Cloud Goes with newScale - SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Tweet this news
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)--newScale, the guys with the self-service IT storefronts for the enterprise, says that -Cable- & -Wireless- Worldwide is going to use its portal-based ... - Date : Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:02:51 GMT+00:00
Cable & Wireless launches early adopters cloud computing scheme - V3.co.uk Tweet this news
V3.co.uk--Telecoms giant -Cable- & -Wireless- has announced the start of an early adopters programme (EAP) for a forthcoming enterprise cloud computing product. ... - Date : Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:18:59 GMT+00:00
Cable & Wireless twins top the leading fallers - The Guardian Tweet this news
The Guardian--It's not often a demerged business tops the fallers in the FTSE 100 and the FTSE 250 at the same time, but -Cable- & -Wireless- has managed it. ... - Date : Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:29:10 GMT+00:00
C&W discloses pay rewards - Financial Times Tweet this news
Financial Times--Jim Marsh, chief executive of -Cable- & -Wireless- Worldwide, received £7m ($10m) from a controversial long-term incentive plan in 2009 and then ... - Date : Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:11:23 GMT+00:00



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