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Associated Press Finance 1 hour ago Stock market today: Wall Street recoils after good news on the economy raises inflation worries. U.S. stocks are falling sharply on worries that Friday’s good news on the job market may be too good and prove to be bad for Wall Street by keeping inflation and interest rates…
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Cable & Wireless plc was 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). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, but it sold its cable assets to NTL in 2000.
NTL Incorporated, branded as ntl:, was a United States-listed British company founded in 1992, which provided cable television, cable internet and fixed-line cable telephone services. While NTL had its headquarters in New York City , the company's activities focused heavily on the United Kingdom, with operational headquarters in Hook, Hampshire .
Even though the FTSE All-Share Index is more comprehensive, the FTSE 100 is by far the most widely used UK stock market indicator. Other related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which includes the next largest 250 companies after the FTSE 100), the FTSE 350 Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250), FTSE SmallCap Index and the ...
For telecoms, the Group produces copper cables, optical cables and optical fibre cables for the transmission of data, video and sound. On the customer's request, Prysmian also Designs and produces key systems and takes care of post-installation maintenance. Every year, Prysmian invests more than EUR 100 million [20] in research and development.
Rediffusion, a supplier of cable radio services since 1928, starts providing "Pipe TV" to customers, to coincide with the BBC's launch of the world's first regular high-definition television service. [2] 1950. A cable network is launched in Gloucester, to provide better television reception than is possible at the time via a rooftop aerial. [3]