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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
The Marconi Telcommnuications assets are now split between Ericsson and Telent
So you are saying that Mercury Communications assets were split between Virgin Media (Cable Residential Business assets), TalkTalk (Non-Cable Residential Business assets) and C&W Worldwide (remaining assets)?
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Mercury Communications was merged with the rest of the Cable and Wireless company in 1997, Cable and Wireless Communications which formed of Cable franchises,residential 131/132 services and 50% of One2One, Cable and Wireless Worldwide is what you knew as Mercury.
They sold the Cable Franchises and the 131/132 to NTL in 2000
They sold the 50% of one2one to Deutsche Telekom in 1999
Business customers using Cable and Wireless's cable franchises became NTL Business customers obviously.
Those customers and lines who use the Cable and Wireless (Mercury) network remained Cable and Wireless customers.
NTL sold the 131/132 dialler service to Npower for £7 Million and then Npower sold it to Tiscali.
Tiscali probably upgraded them customers onto its own service abandoning the dialler equipment and the use of Cable and Wireless as it was no longer necessary to use that anymore.
Bulldog was bought by Cable and Wireless in 2004 and sold off in 2006 to Tiscali which is now TalkTalk but probably no longer use the Cable and Wireless LLU network.