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Virgin cable services are available throughout Northern Ireland in most cities. Derry has had cable since the mid-1990s when CableTel installed the infrastructure, later adopting NTL as its name, and then 2006 merging with Telewest becoming NTL:Telewest, and again later that year merging ultimately with Virgin, and then re-branding as Virgin Media in 2007.
Television in Northern Ireland is available using, digital terrestrial (known as Freeview), digital satellite (from Sky & Freesat) and cable (from Virgin Media). Analogue terrestrial used UHF 625 lines, in common with the rest of the UK, although transmission ceased in October 2012, as part of the UK Digital Switchover. Northern Ireland was the ...
Contemporary map of the 1858 transatlantic cable route. Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. . Telegraphy is a largely obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunication
While "cable" television generally refers to services provided by cables, as the name might suggest, legally MMDS television distribution systems, which were widespread in some regions of rural Ireland, were classified as a form of 'cable' television. MMDS rollout began in 1989, with the network of 29 cells forming a "national grid" being ...
The club was formed as Standard Telephones & Cables (S.T.C.) in 1964 by workers in the company's factory in Monkstown. [1] The factory had only recently opened and the workers decided to form a team which they could enter in the junior ranks of Northern Irish football. [ 2 ]
NVTV, also known as Northern Visions Television, is a local community television station based in the city of Belfast.It is operated by the Northern Visions media and arts project, and although some staff are employed by the station, most involved are volunteers.
British Insulated Callender's Cables (BICC) was a major British cable manufacturer and construction company of the 20th century. It has been renamed after its former subsidiary Balfour Beatty . BICC was created via the merger of two long established cable firms, Callender's Cable & Construction Company and British Insulated Cables , in 1945.
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