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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
The answer to that question is that Mercury was never part of GEC/Marconi and has been owned by Cable and Wirless (1984-1999), NTL (1999-2006) NTL:Telewest (2006-2007) and now Virgin Media (2007-)
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You are wrong, Mercury Communications is still Cable and Wireless, the network 'Mercury' and 'Energis' as well as Thus and Your Communications are all Cable and Wireless.
Only the residential business of Mercury/Cable and Wireless was sold to NTL. The none Cable services like the Mercury 131 and 132 service was sold by NTL to Npower who then sold that to Tiscali.
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
So who was it who started putting phone boxes in streets (quite a few years ago now), in competition with BT?
I may be wrong, but I'm sure I recall the name on them being Mercury, but they were actually Marconi.
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Marconi manufactures payphone and payphone equipment for both Mercury and BT.
IPM a competitor of Marconi acquired Mercury sites and turned them into interphone telephone boxes with there own corporate design.
Interphone went through various ownerships and were left in a very shoddy state, a majority of the sites were sold to Spectrum Interactive and the other sites were refurbished to a new kiosk design and is called Infocus public networks. All the former Mercury and orange Interphone kiosks have nearly all gone.