Energis Communications Limited, briefly Telecom Electric, or more usually just Energis, was a 'technology driven communications company' based in the
United Kingdom
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and
Ireland
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. The company was once a constituent of the
FTSE 100 Index
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, but subsequently went into
administration
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Management of organizations
* Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal
** Administrative assistant, Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an admini ...
, and then became a subsidiary of
Cable & Wireless, in turn acquired by
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Public limited company, plc () is a British Multinational corporation, multinational Telephone company, telecommunications company. Its registered office and Headquarters, global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It ...
.
History
The company was formed in July 1991, as
Telecom Electric by way of a demerger from the
United Kingdom
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's
National Grid Company
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.
Its national
optical fibre
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network was partially deployed via the overhead power transmission network of the grid. The company was first listed on the
London Stock Exchange
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, and the
NASDAQ
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, in October 1997.
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Energis acquired a number of companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, including ]Planet Online
Planet Online was a UK business-to-business Internet Service Provider. Based in Leeds, it was started by local businessman and multi-millionaire Peter Wilkinson and Paul Sykes in July 1995.
Managed from a purpose-built NOC in Leeds, Planet's n ...
, ISION AG and others. At one point its Market capitalization
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Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by t ...
was over £10 billion making it one of the largest companies by market capital. However, in the process the company over extended itself with borrowings to fund these acquisitions.
Planet Online, by then a subsidiary of Energis, worked with its new parent to help Dixons launch the Freeserve
Freeserve was a British Internet service provider, which was founded in 1998. At its height, the company became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, before merging into the Wanadoo group in 2000. It then became a subsidiary of France Telecom, ...
ISP. Energis provided the telephony services and Planet Online
Planet Online was a UK business-to-business Internet Service Provider. Based in Leeds, it was started by local businessman and multi-millionaire Peter Wilkinson and Paul Sykes in July 1995.
Managed from a purpose-built NOC in Leeds, Planet's n ...
provided the e-mail
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, Internet access
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etc.
Energis plc was placed in administration
Administration may refer to:
Management of organizations
* Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal
** Administrative assistant, Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an admini ...
in July 2002, with its operations in the United Kingdom immediately being transferred to ''Energis Communications Ltd'', a wholly owned subsidiary of a new holding company owned by the banks, and known as ''Chelys''. Archie Norman was hired as chairman to revive the business.
In November 2002 the Ision parts of the energis group were sold onto NDO
NDO Limited was an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United Kingdom. Originally established in 1995, originating from NetDirect which was one of the first ISPs in the UK.
History
Founded as NetDirect Internet Ltd in November 1995 by Andr ...
with the remainder, mostly made up of Planet Online continued as''Energis Communications Ltd'' until August 2005. Cable & Wireless then made an offer to acquire the company for £594 million.
The bid was accepted by a binding majority of Energis debt holders, and the company became part of ''Cable & Wireless'' on 11 November 2005.
Operations
In its final form, Energis provided a number of services based around its core platforms of ISP, transmission, IP networking (Energis had a Nortel SDH network with Internet access provided via Cisco routers
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using MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels rather than network addresses. Whereas network addresses identify endpoints the labels identif ...
technology), contact centre solutions and voice (traditional switched telephony).
Energis provided services to a number of businesses, a few of the more interesting were:
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branch and central network services.
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based network for its editorial to printing process.
* Provided network services to support the
offering.
s during its existence.
* Mar 1993 – Dec 1995: David Dey
* Dec 1995 – Aug 2001: Mike Grabiner
* Aug 2001 – Jul 2002: David Wickham
* Jul 2002 – November 2005: