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The business district of Canary Wharf is covered by:

Verizon Business (Formerly MCI Worldcom) has its own phone lines and network infrastructure also working its way around the UK and Europe.

Colt (City of London Telecom) also has its own phone lines and network infrastructure and also working its way around the UK and Europe but has a smaller coverage than Verizon.

Cable and Wireless infrastructures which consist of Mercury(Orginal Cable and Wireless network)Energis and Thus which were acquired by Cable and Wireless over the past few years, they are the largest out of the above 2, and cover most of the world,Cable and Wireless shows businesses that it is able to offer an internation presence.

All of the above are able to offer decent internet speeds ect... through there own networks without the need of BT and Virgin Media.

Virgin Media still offer its telephone service in this area to businesses, it is not impossible to offer ADSL and IPTV over its telephone network, the original Cable TV cabling remains and the network just needs upgrading, a few streets would need digging up for new builds, there is a small housing estate nearby which featured in the papers about NTL pulling out and offering residents aerials ect.... however some contractor was called by someone else and installed satellite dishes without notifying residents in shoddy state, with a high penetration level, i'm really suprised that NTL didn't upgrade this patch.