Telewest and NTL look well-positioned to raise their market share of UK corporate IP connections and dent those of their larger rivals ahead of their forthcoming merger. Both of the UK cable operators increased their share of primary internet connections supplied to the 350 largest businesses on the London stock exchange (the FTSE 350) in the final quarter of last year, according to figures provided by research firm BackChannel (see fig.). The companies' gains appear to have been at the expense of the UK's other major telecoms providers, almost all of which saw their market share fall or remain flat quarter-on-quarter.
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