Cable and Wireless plc News

PLANS BY CABLE & WIRELESS to close its contact centre in Barbados have been put on hold.

A Jersey mobile phone firm has written to the island's competition watchdog to ask if one of its competitors is allowed to offer 18-month contracts.

FirstCaribbean International Bank and ANSA McAL Limited led trading activity on the Barbados Stock Exchange for the month of September, with the former having the largest number of shares traded, and the latter ...

BILL Allen has quit the board of Thus, the telecommunications company that has been taken over by Cable & Wireless.

EXECUTIVES from Cable & Wireless have begun meeting staff at Thus after the London-based group effectively took control of the business yesterday.

President Bush has warned Congress that the US economy will get worse by the day unless lawmakers think again about their rejection of a $700bn emergency package to rescue the struggling banking industry ...

Profits are up at Cable & Wireless over last year, shareholders learned at the company's 23rd Annual General Meeting on Friday.

The Board of Symstream Technology Groups Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Terry Rhodes as a Director of the company.

Alireza Mahmoodshahi has been in a generous mood here in Berlin. First of all he gave a boost to the somewhat beleaguered PBT community.

Telecoms giant Cable&Wireless is considering yet another rebranding excersise for its Caribbean operations, this time mulling over the acronym, LIME, which stands for Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment.

Telecoms kit company Ericsson has inked a five-year, 30m contract with telco Cable & Wireless to supply and manage a GSM mobile network that will let C&W sell FMC services.

Cable & Wireless and the Vietnam Data Communication Company , a subsidiary of VNPT, have announced an extension to their partnership with the signing of a service agreement to deliver IP VPN services.

Under the memorandum of understanding, both companies will share their networks and other telecom infrastructure, allowing BSNL to expand its global network and giving C&W a better foothold in India.

Telecoms companies will have to foot the bill, expected to run to billions of pounds, for the next generation of super-fast broadband across the UK, according to the former boss of Cable & Wireless, who was ...

The telecoms industry, not the government, will need to stump up the billions of pounds needed to introduce the next generation of super-fast broadband networks, according to the former boss of Cable & Wireless ...

Ericsson has announced a sizeable contract with Cable & Wireless to provide kit for a world-spanning GSM network, but anyone hoping for competition in the mobe market had better get a job at the local ...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, September 11 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Ericsson has been selected as sole supplier to supply and operate a complete GSM mobile network for Cable&Wireless EAUS as it launches its new Fixed Mobile ...

Global communications major Cable & Wireless has received provisional security clearance to provide national long distance and international long distance telecommunications services in the country.

Eight Barbados Water Authority employees who worked in similar environments have died over the last 18 months, says Barbados Workers' Union general secretary Sir Roy Trotman.

Cable and Wireless plc today announces that the Pension Trustee of its main UK defined benefit scheme has agreed with Prudential UK, a 'buy-in' of the pensioner element of the Fund.