NEWS ANALYSIS - NTL's boat comes in

NTL's announcement that it has lined up an£8.2 billion takeover of Cable & Wireless took everyone by surprise, not least digital TV rivals BSkyB and On Digital. Alice Macandrew on the repercussions.

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