Cable&Wireless Worldwide Wins Best Asian Wholesale Offering Award

Award is a strong testimony to the company's track record in building a reliable network with good reach for the wholesale telecoms business in Asia

SINGAPORE, Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Cable&Wireless Worldwide won the Best Asian Wholesale Offering at Capacity Awards 2010 in Amsterdam last week.

Given out annually, the awards have been created to recognise market players who have applied effective business techniques and strategies to their wholesale businesses and have established themselves at the forefront of the wholesale telecoms industry.

"The judges chose Cable&Wireless Worldwide because of the company's good coverage in the region and its partnership arrangements to extend its areas of coverage. Its partners tell us the company is good at building relationships with other carriers and that it has a diverse network which is very reliable," said Angela Partington from Capacity Media, organisers of the awards.

Diarmid Massey, Vice President International Carrier Services, of Cable&Wireless Worldwide said: "In today's competitive environment, it is imperative that we establish solid relationships with other carriers and build out our infrastructure in a strategic and cost-effective manner to meet the customers' needs. This Award is a strong validation of the quality, performance and reach of our network as well as our strategy in becoming a key player in the ever evolving wholesale carrier market."

Cable&Wireless Worldwide is one of the world's largest voice carriers globally.  Its partnership approach to business is also why the company's global IP network now provides Ethernet, MPLS and IP Transit services to over 500 national and international carriers globally.

About Cable&Wireless Worldwide

Cable&Wireless Worldwide (LSE: CW.) is one of the world's leading mission critical communications providers, delivering a range of high-quality managed voice, data and IP-based services and applications to large multinational companies, governments, carrier customers and resellers across the UK, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East & Africa, Continental Europe and North America.

Reaching 20,500km in length, Cable&Wireless Worldwide owns the UK's largest fibre network dedicated to business users of telecoms, and provides ubiquitous nationwide access through a combination of fibre, digital, microwave, radio and leased circuits. The network has presence in over 400 towns and cities in the UK, with 802 unbundled exchanges covering 55% of the population.

Internationally, Cable&Wireless Worldwide's global next-generation network (NGN) stretches to more than 500,000km, including interests in 69 global cable systems, and provides connectivity to 153 countries. The Group's IP-based Multi-Service Platform, operates across the NGN, offering a single environment on which voice and data applications can be converged to drive business efficiencies. Cable&Wireless Worldwide's network is uniquely designed with inbuilt resilience and the capability to re-route traffic in the event of failure of one or more paths, particularly at the international level.

With more than 6,200 colleagues globally, Cable&Wireless Worldwide is committed to delivering exceptional customer service and developing long-term partnerships with its customers.

To find out more, visit www.cw.com.

Media Contacts:

Jasleen Kaur Makker
Head of Corporate Affairs - India and Asia Pacific
Cable&Wireless Worldwide
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Switchboard: +91-80-4038-3434
Handphone: +91-99-7232-6326
Email: jasleen.makker@cw.com

Angela Tan
Vice President
Financial Dynamics
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Mobile: +65-9005-2068
Email: angela.tan@fd.com

Kelly Nguyen
Consultant
Financial Dynamics
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Mobile: +65-9766-9834
Email: kelly.nguyen@fd.com