The main negative is pressure on margins due to increased wholesale traffic and call prices coming down.

The reason why MCI needs BT is because it has to get beyond long distance into local telephony in the US -- that's where the growth is going to be. And the reason why BT needs MCI is because it needs to expand outside the UK.

It is seen as a sign that the new management at C&W is willing to focus the group in a way that should crystallize shareholder value.

We want to be anywhere the right people are, however, there is no point duplicating what others are doing.

The government is making the case that they're trying to protect the detainees by keeping their names quiet, when it's clear to us that ... the more that is known about them, the better they can be protected.

There are lots of formal obstacles in terms of the European Union policies, but the real barriers are cultural, ... People who have been basically fighting each other for the past 2,000 years are now expected to merge.

Content is vital but distribution is as important, If we are not available what is the point? ... We have felt that we haven't had as good distribution as we should have so we have been working on getting content to more people. We launched on UBC in Thailand in February, and in April on (Hong Kong's) PCCW's IPTV platform NowBroadbandTV.

Three of those were false alarm calls.