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...Steffen Leiwesmeier, head of digital infrastructure financing at Hamburg Commercial Bank, is a long-term alt-net investor having funded Deutsche Glasfaser and UK players Hyperoptic and Trooli among others...
...It was acquired by NTL for almost £1bn in 2006 and the cable company rebranded itself as Virgin Media as a result....
...He saw it as “a great way of getting a window on to different worlds and businesses”, moving eventually to run NTL (now Virgin Media) in the UK and Ireland....
...He was joined by Graham Sutherland, head of the business division, a non-board post....
...Thwarted in the UK a decade ago when his efforts to buy both NTL and Telewest, the struggling cable groups, fell through, Malone now has an eye on adding Virgin Media to a stable that includes stakes in...
...I suspect people at head office are more systematic,” he said....
...Accenture executive Youssef Tuma has been seconded to a new role of head of technical delivery, while Andrew Burdess, who previously worked at BT and NTL, is joining as director of operations, another new...
...The new network is also enabling provider ntl:Telewest Business to address pent-up demand in the area, says Paul Lawrence, the company’s head of business markets in south Wales....
...Andrew McGrath, commercial director for the communications group ntl:Telewest Business agrees that the benefits andefficiencies of cloud computing and server virtualisationcould prove too good to ignore....
...“NTL is a shining example of how well Chapter 11 can work. “It was in and out in 10 months, it secured $700m of DIP (debtor in position) financing in two weeks....
...A new year – and Gordon Brown, the prime minister, brings a new private sector chaos-buster into Number 10 in the form of Stephen Carter, former head of Brunswick, Ofcom, NTL and J. Walter Thompson....
...The new head of Orange has hired three senior managers who worked at his old business as he seeks to revive the fortunes of the UK’s third-largest mobile phone operator....
...If I’m particularly bewildered I’ll head out to Muriwai, one of the west coast beaches, and walk my dog....
...They also say his time as acting managing director of NTL, the cable operator, coincided with it filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2002....
...It plans to offer a mobile business service through its Global Services division in multiple markets, in effect going head-to-head with international mobile operators targeting business users....
...France’s leading telecoms company said on Monday it was important to appoint a Briton to head Orange UK....
...That would be a gratifying byproduct of the whole affair from ITV’s point of view, (although the cost to BSkyB would have been greater had it not bought the stake and NTL, now Virgin Media, had swallowed...
...Gordon Brown is being urged by British Sky Broadcasting to head off regulatory action over its shares in ITV, as part of an escalating lobbying campaign by the satellite broadcaster and its rival NTL that...
...But neither Barclays’ “practice makes perfect” model, nor the consortium’s “three heads are better than one” approach can wash away the vast uncertainties represented by this deal....
...The rationale presumably is that a deal would give NTL real content to distribute in addition to the Flextech operations. Malcolm Wall joined NTL from ITV this summer as head of the Flextech business....
...NTL is understood to have lined up media executives to head ITV if it succeeds in a takeover....
...The appointment of Michael Grade, the former BBC chairman, followed the shock move by BSkyB and ended NTL’s plans to buy ITV....
...NTL has lined up media executives to head ITV if the takeover succeeds....
...It is understood that NTL has approached Michael Jackson, the former Channel 4 chief executive, to run ITV should its bid succeed, with support from Malcolm Wall, head of its content business....
...NTL should head for AA – Acquirers Anonymous – says James Harding in the Times. The company is a deal junkie. This could be a long-running soap, he adds....
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