X-TANT
Formed: December 1998.
History: formerly AT&T Istel’s travel services division, it was acquired in a joint buyout by key AT&T management and communications company NTL.
Managing director: Dave Osborne.
Key personnel: sales and marketing director and director of travel services Kerry Wilce; operations director Gail Osborne; deputy managing director Daman Singh; director network operations Dave Harwood; director network engineering and design Greg Dening.
Based: Redditch, Worcestershire.
Plans: X-TANT will roll out an alternative to viewdata, using Internet technology, in the summer.