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Cable & Wireless

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Cable & Wireless

Summary

Cable & Wireless is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (460 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cable & Wireless is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Cable & Wireless is in the country of GB[4].
  • Cable & Wireless's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Cable & Wireless's instance of is recorded as organization[6].
  • Cable & Wireless's headquarters location is recorded as London[7].
  • Cable & Wireless's headquarters location is recorded as Bracknell[8].
  • Cable & Wireless's child organization or unit is recorded as PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited[9].
  • Cable & Wireless's child organization or unit is recorded as HKT[10].
  • Cable & Wireless is part of Imperial Wireless Chain[11].
  • Cable & Wireless's Commons category is recorded as Cable & Wireless[12].
  • Cable & Wireless's industry is recorded as telecommunications[13].
  • 1860 marks the founding of Cable & Wireless[14].
  • 1928 marks the founding of Cable & Wireless[15].
  • 1929-04-08 marks the founding of Cable & Wireless[16].
  • Cable & Wireless was dissolved in 2013[17].
  • Cable & Wireless's parent organization or unit is recorded as Cable & Wireless (Holding), Ltd.[18].
  • Cable & Wireless's described at URL is recorded as http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/cable-and-wireless-plc-history/[19].
  • Cable & Wireless's replaces is recorded as Imperial and International Communications[20].
  • Cable & Wireless's replaced by is recorded as Cable & Wireless Worldwide[21].
  • Cable & Wireless's replaced by is recorded as Cable & Wireless Communications[22].
  • Cable & Wireless's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Imperial and International Communications Ltd'}[23].
  • Cable & Wireless's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Cable and Wireless Limited'}[24].
  • Cable & Wireless's legal form is recorded as public company[25].
  • Cable & Wireless's legal form is recorded as H0PO[26].
  • Cable & Wireless's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Cable & Wireless'}[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800TYR4O65QAW2H36[28]

  • Registered legal name: Cable & Wireless Limited[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): H0PO[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[34]

  • Entity created: 1929-04-08[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-02-12[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-05-16[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-07-11[38]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[40]

  • Authority entity ID: 00238525[41]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[42]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1860[14], 1928[15], and 1929-04-08[16].

Identity

Official names include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Imperial and International Communications Ltd'}[23] and {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Cable and Wireless Limited'}[24]. Cable & Wireless is part of Imperial Wireless Chain[11].

Operations

Headquarters locations include London[7], a metropolis[43], in Roman Empire[44], founded in 0047[45] and Bracknell[8], a town[46], in United Kingdom[47]. Cable & Wireless's parent organization or unit is recorded as it (Holding), Ltd.[18]. Subsidiaries include PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited[9], a business[48], founded in 1925[49], headquartered in Hong Kong[50] and HKT[10], a business[51], in British Hong Kong[52], founded in 1987[53], headquartered in Hong Kong[54].

Industry

Cable & Wireless's industry is recorded as telecommunications[13].

Dissolution

Cable & Wireless was dissolved in 2013[17].

Why It Matters

Cable & Wireless ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (460 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]

Related Entities

business Liz Truss London organization public company telecommunications United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Grace's Guide. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . fundinguniverse.com. fundinguniverse.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Grace's Guide. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Grace's Guide. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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