Revenue up at cable phone company

General Cable yesterday announced sharply higher nine-month revenues from the telephone side of its business, fuelled by a 70 per cent increase in subscribers. Added to similar results last week from the other two UK-listed cable operators, TeleWest and Nynex CableComms, the news will not be welcome at BT, which is losing 30,000 phone customers every three months.

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