Cable & Wireless Plc and British Telecommunications Plc won’t be meeting head to head in Hong Kong after all: the Hong Kong Cable Communications Ltd consortium, which includes US West Inc, beat the Hutchison CableVision Ltd consortium that included British Telecom to the franchise to build and operate a cable television network in the Crown Colony over which telecommunications traffic will also be carried, breaking the monopoly held by the Cables controlled Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd.
