Example sentences of "cable & [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cable & Wireless chairman Lord Young , the former Trade and Industry Secretary , said yesterday : ‘ We 're not attacking Vodafone and Cellnet , we 're attacking British Telecom . ’ |
| 2 | Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd seems to have run into trouble with its trial of personal numbering announced last August : at that stage it was saying that trials of the technology — which would enable subscribers to use any phone to inform the network of their whereabouts — would begin in the autumn of last year . |
| 3 | Cable & Wireless Plc said its results for the year to March 31 will show an exceptional charge of £84m and exceptional gains totalling £178m to comply with new accounting standards — there will be exceptional profits of £60m from exercise of warrants in Hong Kong and of some £118m from the sale of 20% of Mercury Communications Ltd to BCE Inc ; the charge will cover its interest in undersea cable systems — it has also decided to reduce the book life of its digital submarine cable assets to 15 years from 25 , which will lead to an additional £12m depreciation charge each year . |
| 4 | Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company . |
| 5 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 6 | Cable & Wireless Plc is exploiting its Global Digital Highway with a new Global Managed Data Service to provide data communications service in 15 countries , reaching over 100 cities in North America , Europe and Asia Pacific ; another 50 countries around the world will be able to get into the system via the local public data network , the firm said . |
| 7 | Cable & Wireless Plc has , as reported briefly ( CI No 2,118 ) , finally linked its European , US and Hong Kong-based data networks . |
| 8 | The good news for NeXT Computer Inc is that WordPerfect Corp plans to include support for NeXTstep for Intel Corp processors in the upcoming interim release of WordPerfect 1.0.1 for NeXT , the bad news is that Cable & Wireless Plc alumnus Peter van Cuylenburg is resigning as president and chief operating officer of NeXT , just one year after he joined the company — ‘ Now that NeXT is becoming a software company , NeXT and van Cuylenburg mutually agreed that the restructured 200-person company no longer requires both a chief executive and a president and chief operating officer , ’ NeXT said in a statement . |
| 9 | Tele2 AB , the new Stockholm-based telecommunications company 60% owned by Kinnevik AB and 40% by Cable & Wireless Plc , yesterday began operations in Sweden : Tele2 offers its customers domestic and international links , and aims to win a 10% share of the Swedish market , which is at present monopolised by state-owned Televerket , by 1995 . |
| 10 | The report , Global Service Provider Market Strategies , identifies five companies as ‘ truly global service providers ’ — British Telecommunications Plc and its Syncordia , AT&T Co , Cable & Wireless Plc , MCI Communications Corp and Sprint Corp . |
| 11 | Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake . |
| 12 | SoVam Teleport , now part-owned by Cable & Wireless Plc here in London , has established a new packet switching node in Ufa , Bashkirria : the new facility will enable the company to market dedicated communications lines between the city and Moscow , with connections to the rest of the public network ; Ufa is a centre of oil industry enterprises and it is at these customers that SoVam is targeting its new service ; the company also aims to set up new nodes in the cities of Chelyabinsk , Salavat and Sterlitomak in the near future . |
| 13 | Eurotunnel Plc/SA has signed agreements with British and French telecommunication groups for their use of fibre optic telecommunications links routed through the Anglo-Channel Tunnel scheduled for use in early 1994 : the agreements are with British Telecommunications Plc , France Telecom and Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd and the cables will provide an alternative to submarine cables currently used for channel traffic . |
| 14 | Cable & Wireless Plc is said to be considering adding some of its other Asian assets to its Hong Kong Telecom Ltd affiliate , in which it holds 58% : this could mean some of C&W 's existing assets in Hong Kong , China , Thailand and the Philippines being acquired by Hong Kong Telecom ; up to now , group investments in the region have been made and held by Cable & Wireless itself . |
| 15 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 16 | BCE Inc says it is ready to invest about $1,600m in telecommunications activities over the next five years in Asia , Latin America and Eastern Europe , and is interested in wireline privatisations , investment in wireless cellular licenses and joint ventures in both in different countries in those regions ; it has active negotiations with Mexico , India and Moscow for cellular licence investments , and is Cable & Wireless Plc 's partner in Mercury Communications Ltd ; BCE president L R Wilson also criticised Canada 's ‘ uncertain and confused ’ telecommunications regulatory framework , describing it as BCE 's biggest challenge , and calling for change ; at the annual meeting , he hit out at the policies of the Canadian Radio television & Telecommunications Commission , saying it is too slow in considering new products , services and rates — ‘ To be truly competitive , we need government policy and a regulatory framework which is clear , responsive and internationally relevant , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 18 | The Irish state telephone monopoly Telecom Eireann has denied a report in the Irish Times that it is up for sale , but shares in Cable & Wireless Plc were up sevenpence at 721p yesterday morning on news it is in talks about possibly buying a 25% stake in the Irish phone company . |
| 19 | Underlining the absurdity of Ireland 's proportional representation system — and make no mistake about it , if we had a proportional system in Britain , it would n't be that nice Paddy Ashdown holding the balance of power , it would more likely be the Reverend Ian Paisley and a couple of Welsh Nationalists — the issue of whether or not Cable & Wireless Plc can buy a stake in Telecom Eireann could bring the coalition government down : Fianna Fail realises that in order to bring in outside investment into the debt-strapped state phone company and increase the lamentable penetration of just 31 phone lines per 100 people , there is little alternative to privatising the company outright or at least bringing an outside investor , but Dick Spring , deputy prime minister and leader of the Labour Party , minority partner in the coalition , issued a statement saying that any privatisation ‘ would represent a breach of the programme of government . ’ |
| 20 | Announcing a 13% rise in net profit yesterday , Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd chief executive Michael Gale said that Cable & Wireless Plc had no plans to cuts its 58.5% stake in the company further , and is committed to staying after the territory returns to China in 1997 . |
| 21 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 22 | The Shell award was picked up by editor Richard Felton and the Cable & Wireless prize by editor Alan Jones , who the previous month had drawn praise for his newspaper from the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 24 | The third gold award , for newspapers , went to Cable & Wireless World , a full-colour tabloid for employees of the international telecommunications company . |
| 25 | It burst from its chrysalis in February 1992 as Cable & Wireless World , swiftly to reach such a high standard that the third edition , published in July , is a gold award winner . |
| 26 | Cable & Wireless finance director , Mr Rod Olsen , said the size of the stake being discussed was ‘ not less than 10 per cent and not more than 20 per cent ’ which would cost CITIC between £375million and £750 million . |