Cable & Wireless (LSE: CW.) is a British telecommunications company. 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 remains a significant player in the UK telecoms market and in certain overseas markets, especial...
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Cable & Wireless (LSE: CW.) is a British telecommunications company. 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 remains a significant player in the UK telecoms market and in certain overseas markets, especially in the former British colonies of the Caribbean, where it was formerly the monopoly incumbent. It is also the main supplier of communication in the British South Atlantic, including Saint Helena and the Falkland Islands. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Cable and Wireless traces its history back to a number of British telegraph companies founded in the 1860s, and cites Sir John Pender as the founder. In 1869, Pender founded the Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Cable Company and the British...
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