Cable and Wireless Cable and Wireless , a British
telecommunications company, of Electra House, Victoria
Embankment, London, WC2. Telephone: Temple Bar 1222. Cables:
"Empiregram, Estrand, London". (1947) 1869, Sir John Pender
founded the Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Cable Co and the
British-Indian Submarine Telegraph Co, which connected the
Anglo-Mediterranean cable (linking Malta to Alexandria using a
cable manufactured by one of Pender's companies) to Britain and
India, respectively. 1870 The London to Bombay telegraph line
was completed in 1870 The Eastern Telegraph Co expanded the
length of its cables from 8,860 miles on its founding to 22,400
miles just 15 years later. The Company steadily took over a
number of companies founded to connect the West Indies and South
America, leading to a name change to The Eastern and Associated
Telegraph Companies. 1928 With increasing competition from
companies using radio communications it was decided to merge the
communications methods of the British Empire into one