BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$5.6B
- Public
- UK
Dow Jones Description
This company gives you ways to always keep in touch! Cable and Wireless plc (London:CW) is an international telecommunications company that provides voice, data, broadband, Internet protocol and mobile services. Its clients are business and residential customers, fixed and mobile telecoms carriers, mobile operators, and content, application and Internet providers. It has a presence in 80 countries in the United Kingdom, Caribbean, Panama, Macau and Monaco. Founded in 1860 and based in Bracknell, England, the company employs about 15,200 people. It has revenue of $6 billion. In October 2005 the company sold its entire shareholding in Mobile One Limited for about $77 million and also completed its acquisition of Chelys Limited ('Energis') for a cash consideration of approximately $1.1 billion.
Number of Employees 13,510
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Wired Telecommunications Carriers: 517110
Recent Events
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British shares edge lower, broker changes eyed
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Tesco Sees Services Profits More Than Doubling
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Cable & Wireless Panama selects Gilat to provide SkyEdge II network
News & Analysis
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BSkyB and Cable & Wireless sign IP-VPN QoS contract
- 2005-04-12
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-12 April 2005-BSkyB and Cable & Wireless sign IP-VPN QoS contractC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Digital satellite television company BSkyB has signed a new three-year IP-VPN quality of service QoS deal with UK-based telecomms company Cable & Wireless (C&W). The contract will see C&W consolidate BSkyB's separate wide...
BSkyB signs IP-VPN QoS contract with Cable & Wireless; Cable & Wireless today (12 April 2005) announced that it has won a three-year contract with British Sky Broadcasting ("BSkyB").
- 2005-04-12
M2 PRESSWIRE-12 April 2005-CABLE & WIRELESS: BSkyB signs IP-VPN QoS contract with Cable & Wireless; Cable & Wireless today (12 April 2005) announced that it has won a three-year contract with British Sky Broadcasting ("BSkyB")C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12042005 The contract...
In Brief
- 1999-12-13
* Cable & Wireless has completed the sale of its 19.5% stake in Bezeq, the Israeli telecoms group, to Zeevi Communications Holdings, for $630m. * Wind River Systems has received clearance from the US department of justice to acquire rival embedded software firm Integrated Systems. * The EU...
British Trade Secretary Order Probe of Broadcasting Acquisitions.
- 1999-11-12
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 13 -- Trade Secretary Stephen Byers dramatically slammed the brakes on two major media deals by ordering a three-month Competition Commission probe. He kicked French utility Vivendi's purchase of 24.5 percent of BSkyB into touch, expressing...
Cable & Wireless sets July for digital roll-out.
- 1999-05-01
Cable & Wireless Communications CWC, UK's biggest cable company, will roll out its digital television offer 1 July 1999 to selected franchises in North-west England and plans to have 50 per cent of its customers converted to digital by year end. Company has earmarked L60m for...
Free Internet and cheap calls with Sky Digital.
- 1999-05-01
BSkyB is to introduce a free Internet service called SkyNow (available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike), as well as offering customers cut-price telephony (via re-seller Broadsystems). This is in addition to the free set-top box offer starting 1 June 1999 (see BSkyB free box raises UK...
UK broadcasters to unite over sports rights?(BSkyB and Cable & Wireless Communications)(Brief Article)
- 1997-12-01
Rising cost of sports rights (see Deals prove sports rights still hot property under Finance & Business) is reported to have prompted BSkyB and leading UK cable operator Cable & Wireless Communications CWC to discuss presenting united bid for rights to Premier League soccer matches in...
Cable & Wireless to use BSkyB
- 1997-09-01
Cable & Wireless Communications, the UK's largest cable company, is understood to have signed a deal with BSkyB to use the satellite broadcaster as its pay-per-view supplier instead of developing its own service. Neither CWC nor Sky would comment, but an announcement is expected within weeks. The news coincides...
Cable & Wireless signs BSkyB carriage deal.
- 1997-09-01
Cable & Wireless Communications, UK's largest cable operator, has signed channel carriage deal with BSkyB, despite apparent shift among other operators towards alternative channels from BBC and Flextech. BBC has been furiously signing carriage deals for its new 24-hour news channel, which will be offered free...
Climbing the heights with cable
- 1997-05-04
When students all over Europe were going on demos in the late 1960s, the man who is the new chief executive of the equally new Cable & Wireless Communications was head down getting his engineering degree from Imperial College. A few years later Graham Wallace qualified as a cost and...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Francesco Caio | CEO |
| Rodney Davis | CEO, Jamaican Unit |
| Jacqueline Holding | President, Cable & Wireless Jamaica |
| George Battersby | Executive Director & HR |
| Harris Jones | Executive Director, Intl Business |
| Stephen R. Pettit | Executive Director |
| Mark Davis | Director, Corp Communications |
| Mike Fay | Reg Director |
| Katherine King | Manager, Investor Relations |
| Andrew Garard | General Counsel |
| Charles Herlinger | |
| Robert Lerwill |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| George Robertson | Deputy Chairman |
| Richard Lapthorne | Chairman |
| Robert Rowley | Executive Deputy Chairman |
| Agnes Touraine | Board of Directors |
| Anthony Rice | Board of Directors |
| Bernard Gray | Board of Directors |
| Clive Butler | Board of Directors |
| Graham Howe | Board of Directors |
| John Pluthero | Board of Directors |
| Kasper Rorsted | Board of Directors |
| Kate Nealon | Board of Directors |
| Simon Ball | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | CEO | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Equant | Non-executive Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | CEO, Jamaican Unit | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | President, Cable & Wireless Jamaica | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | Executive Director & HR | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | Executive Director, Intl Business | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
Stephen Pettit was appointed to the Board following the merger of National Grid Group plc and Lattice Group plc, having been appointed to the Lattice Group plc board in 2001. He is a Non-executive Director of National Air Traffic Services, Halma plc and is Chairman of ROK Property Solutions plc. Stephen is also a member of BT plc's Equality of Access Board. He is a former Executive Director of Cable & Wireless plc. Before joining Cable & Wireless, he was Chief Executive, Petrochemicals at British Petroleum. Stephen was previously a Non-executive Director of KBC Advanced Technologies plc and Norwood Systems Limited.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | Executive Director | Current |
| Halma plc | Non-Executive Director | Current |
| Rok Stonecare | Chairman | Current |
| Rok Property Solutions Plc | Chairman | Current |
| National Grid plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Halma plc | Director | Current |
| Lattice Group Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| KBC Advanced Technologies plc | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | Director, Corp Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Reg Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Manager, Investor Relations | Current |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | General Counsel | Current |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Current | |
| Lor Corporation | Assistant Controller | Former |
| Siemens Corporation | Controller | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Chairman | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Oasis International Leasing Co | Non-executive Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Executive Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Unilever Plc | Development Director | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Unilever U.K. Central Resources Ltd. | Director, Corp Development | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| C&W Plc | Executive Chairman | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Energis LLC | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Energis LLC | Chief Executive | Former |
| Mastercare | Managing Director | Former |
| Holiday Inn Worldwide | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | Chief Executive Officer, Human Resources / Infrastructure Services | Current |
| Henkel of America Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | Executive Vice President, Human Resources / Infrastructure Services | Former |
| Hewlett-Packard Company | Senior Vice President & General Manager, EMEA | Former |
| Compaq Computer Corporation | Vice President & General Manager, EMEA | Former |
| Compaq Computer Corporation | Head, Enterprise Business Group, EMEA | Former |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | Management, Marketing and Distribution | Former |
| Oracle Corporation | Management, Marketing and Distribution | Former |
| Copenhagen Business School | Graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Cable & Wireless plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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