Mass produced telecommunications cable - has warp threads holding wire pairs together to form group in multi-group core

The mass-produced telecommunications cable consists of several conductor groups each comprising several twisted pairs of insulated wires. The pairs in each group are joined together by a flexible retaining element lying at right angles to the longitudinal axes of the pairs. Each flexible retaining element comprises a warp (15) loope din and out along the parallel coplanar pairs, which act as wefts, before they are brought together to form a group. Alternatively, the pairs may be held together by thread-like retaining elements.