Cable & Wireless has won a five-year multi-million pound contract with Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA). It will provide one of the UK's leading insurance groups with a complete network outsource and a transformed hosted IP infrastructure, covering all of its telecoms and network IT requirements until 2012.

Jim Williams, IS director, Royal & SunAlliance, commented: “The deal represents a major investment by R&SA and we have spent the last few months working with Cable & Wireless to determine how we can provide great service with improved telephony and web capability for our customers. The focus on customer service was the primary reason for selecting Cable & Wireless, which when combined with its market leading services will transform how we do business.“

Jim Marsh, chief executive officer, Cable & Wireless UK, said: “This is a fantastic win for us and we're delighted to have been selected by R&SA.”