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National Grid Wireless
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National Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle UK) is a company which provides telecommunications infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the UK. Its main customers are broadcasters and mobile phone network operators, and its main asset is a network of over 1,000 radio and television transmission sites. It is owned by the Australian investment house Macquarie Bank [1], which also owns former competing broadcast company, Arqiva.
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Crown Castle UK was formed from the domestic transmitter network of the BBC, which was privatised in 1997.
It was a subsidiary of Crown Castle, but since 31 August 2004 it was owned by National Grid plc. On 11 October 2005 the company was renamed National Grid Wireless.
On 3 April 2007 National Grid Wireless was acquired by Arqiva for £2.5 billion [2].
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- Arqiva (National Grid Wireless' former competitor, formerly known as NTL Broadcast)
- Freeview
- VT Communications (Formerly Merlin Communications, formed from privatisation of BBC World Service transmitter sites.)
- RTÉ Network Limited in the Republic of Ireland
- ^ Macquarie buys digital bidder. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
- ^ Arqiva and National Grid Wireless to create unfied UK communications infrastructure - Arqiva.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
- Pawley, Edward (1972). BBC Engineering 1922-1972. London, BBC. ISBN 0-563-12127-0
- Shacklady, Norman and Ellen, Martin (2003). On Air: A History of BBC Transmission. Wavechange Books. ISBN 0-9544077-1-7 (paperback) ISBN 0-9544077-0-9 (hardback).
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