NTL Incorporated history

1993: Blumenthal and Knapp launch International CableTel in order to acquire cable television licenses in the United Kingdom; company acquires Insight Communications, then goes public with listing on the NASDAQ.

By 1994, the company had already laid more than 1,500 kilometers of state-of-the-art hybrid fiber optic and coaxial lines.

Blumenthal and Knapp sold most of Cellular Communications to AirTouch, later known as Vodaphone, in 1996 for $2.5 billion.

The results of that test encouraged CableTel to launch the bundled service across its network by the beginning of 1997.

By then, however, NTL had stunned the U.K. cable industry by snapping up one of its major rivals, Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), then in the midst of drawn-out negotiations with another rival, Telewest, in 1999.

In 2000 the partners tendered a bid of more than £4 billion ($6.4 billion) to acquire one of the United Kingdom's "3G" high-speed mobile telephone licenses.

The company was struggling in other areas as well--by 2001, when it became apparent that its efforts to become a Premier League broadcaster could not be profitable, the company was forced to back out of its agreements, leaving a number of teams with no television coverage.

By the end of 2002, the company had grabbed nearly 50 percent of the U.K. broadband market.

The Galvanizing process involves several stages for which the company had set up two large-scale units at IDA Bollaram Industrial Estate in Hyderabad.During the financial year 2006-07 the company completed the expansion of galvanized tower facility to 128125 TPA in two phases.

The company was listed with Bombay Stock Exchange with effect from August 21 2007.

The plant would manufacture towers for Central and East Africa markets where they would be assembled.In March 2009 the company plans to diversify into designing customized products like boiler plates piping and other components for specialty projects across the sectors.