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C&W message is getting lost

Cable & Wireless announced that its long-planned demerger was back on, but disappointingly provided no further details

Cable & Wireless to demerge amid profit warning

Shares in the telecoms company plunge as it cautions that falling Caribbean revenue will hit the bottom line

Comcast switches on with 22% rise in profits

America's largest cable operator, which is in talks over NBC, beat analysts' forecasts in its third quarter

Job cuts at Nokia Siemens and Johnson & Johnson

Johnson and Johnson is likely to cut as many as 8,190 people while Nokia Siemens Networks is set to shed up to 5,700

Orange avoids iPhone price war

Orange will provide the 3G iPhone free on a two-year contract but the new 3GS model will remain an expensive option

Orange avoids price war with its iPhone launch

Mobile operator vows to compete with O2 on network quality, despite customers' hope of a big saving in their pockets

In a world of warcraft, there’s much to play for

Jean-Bernard Levy, chief of Vivendi, explains how he holds together an empire stretching from pop to telecommunications

118 118 enquiry line dials up £58.6m profits

The Number UK, which owns the 118 118 directory enquiries line, has made a giant profit - despite a decline in calls

Orange gains in mobiles, loses in broadband

More and more people are taking contracts with the network, but at the same time they're deserting its fixed-line service

France Télécom to set aside €1bn to try to halt suicides

Company hit by 25 deaths says it may let older staff work part-time to ease stress and announces decline in profits

France Télécom to invest €1bn to prevent suicides

Telecommunications giant said it might enable staff aged over 57 to work part time under a stress-reduction programme

Google beats Microsoft to LA deal

Los Angeles City Council has approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to use Google’s office products for 30,000 workers

Indian officials accused of mobile scam

Investigators found licences had been granted in 2007 to ‘friendly companies’ at implausibly low prices set in 2001

Sky launches on-demand service via Xbox Live

Verizon profits drop on AT&T's iPhone deal

America's second biggest phones group suffers from its rival's exclusive contract to sell Apple's popular phone