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BT Group plc (also known as British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (and previously as British Telecom) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications provider in the United Kingdom. Citytv Breakfast Television logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by a relatively few individuals. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , also nicknamed the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world in dollar volume and second largest by number of companies listed. ... (Redirected from 1 October) October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland (born circa 1939), known as Christopher Bland is a British businessman and politician. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Bernardus Johannes Maria Ben Verwaayen (born Driebergen, February 11, 1952) is a Dutch businessman. ... Chief Executive may refer to: Chief Executive of Hong Kong Chief Executive of Macau Chief Executive Officer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... MOLO is an acronym for Mobile Other Licensed Operator. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... GBP redirects here. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ... Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ...

BT works in more than 170 countries and approaching a third of its revenue now comes from its Global Services division.

Businesses

BT runs the telephone exchanges, trunk network and local loop connections for the vast majority of British fixed-line telephones. Currently BT is responsible for approximately 25 million telephone lines in the UK. Apart from Kingston Communications who serve Kingston-upon-Hull, BT are the only UK telecoms operator to have a Universal Service Obligation (USO) which means it must provide a fixed telephone line to any address in the UK. It is also obliged to provide public call boxes. A Verizon Central Office in Lakeland, Florida at night. ... In telecommunications, the local loop is the wiring between the central office (telephone exchange in British English) and the customers premises demarcation point. ... Kingston Communications PLC is a telecommunications provider based in Kingston upon Hull serving primarily the East Yorkshire area. ...

BT's businesses are operated under special government regulation by the British telecoms regulator Ofcom (formerly Oftel). BT has been found to have Significant Market Power in some markets following Market Reviews by Ofcom. In these markets, BT is required to comply with additional obligations such as meeting reasonable requests to supply services and not to discriminate. The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ... Ofcoms logo The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ...

Syntegra is the name of the former consulting and systems integration arm of UK telecommunications company, BT. Originally known simply as Syntegra it was renamed first as BT Syntegra and then BT Consulting and Systems Integration before finally being consumed back into the main BT business in 2004. ...

History of BT

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A number of privately owned telegraph companies operated in Britain from 1846 onwards. Among them were It has been suggested that Electrical telegraph be merged into this article or section. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The Telegraph Act of 1868 passed the control of all these to the newly formed GPO (General Post Office)'s "Postal Telegraphs Department" Electric Telegraph Company was the worlds first public telegraph company founded in the United Kingdom in 1846 by Sir William Cooke and Joseph Ricardo. ... The term General Post Office is or has been used by a number of postal and telecommunications governmental administrations worldwide, including: United Kingdom until 1969, see Post Office UK. After 1981 see Royal Mail for a continuing history of the British Post Office. ...

With the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 the GPO began to provide telephone services from some of its telegraph exchanges. However in 1882 the Postmaster-General, Henry Fawcett started to issue licences to operate a telephone service to private businesses and the telephone system grew under the GPO in some areas and private ownership in others. The GPO's main competitor the National Telephone Company emerged in this market by absorbing other private telephone companies, prior to its absorption into the GPO in 1912. The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 â€“ August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A Postmaster General is the national politician in charge of the postal system of a country. ... Company logo in porch of 17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham (former Central exchange) The National Telephone Company (NTC) was a British telephone company from 1881 until 1911 which brought together smaller local companies in the early years of the telephone. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

The trunk network was unified under GPO control in 1896 and the local distribution network in 1912. A few municipally owned services remained outside of GPO control. These were Kingston upon Hull, Portsmouth and Guernsey. Hull still retains an independent operator, Kingston Communications, though it is no longer municipally controlled. 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ... Portsmouth is a city of about 196,000 people located in the county of Hampshire on the southern coast of Great Britain. ... Kingston Communications PLC is a telecommunications provider based in Kingston upon Hull serving primarily the East Yorkshire area. ...

In 1969 the GPO, a government department, became the Post Office, a nationalised industry separate from government. Post Office Telecommunications was one of the divisions. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Royal Mails logo Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. ... Post Office Telecommunications was set up as a separate department of the UK Post Office, in October 1969. ...

Formation of British Telecom

On 1. October, 1981, Post Office Telecommunications was renamed British Telecom and became a state-owned corporation independent of the Post Office. In 1982 BT's monopoly on telecommunications was broken, with the grant of a licence to Mercury Communications. (Redirected from 1 October) October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Post Office Telecommunications was set up as a separate department of the UK Post Office, in October 1969. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Telecommunications stubs ...

Privatisation

The privatisation took place in 1984, with the sale of more than 50% of the shares in the company (incorporated in 1984 as British Telecommunications plc) to the public in November. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The company changed its trading name to 'BT' on 2 April 1991. The remaining state holdings in the company were sold in 1991 and 1993. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

In the 1990s, BT entered the Irish telecommunications market through a joint venture with the Electricity Supply Board, the Irish state owned power provider. This venture, entitled Ocean, found its main success through the launch of Ireland's first subscription-free dial-up ISP, oceanfree.net. As a telecoms company it found much less success, mainly targeting corporate customers. BT acquired 100% of this venture in 1999. Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) (Bord SolÃ¡thair an Leictreachais in Irish), sometimes called ESB Ireland to differentiate it from US utilities, is responsible for generating most of the electricity in the Republic of Ireland. ...

In 2000, BT acquired Esat Telecom Group plc, and all its subsidiary companies, and Ireland On Line. It also purchased Telenor's minority shareholding in Esat Digifone. The Esat Telecom Group was split in two: the landline and internet operations were combined with Ocean and became part of BT Ignite. Esat Group was renamed Esat BT in July 2002, and eventually BT Ireland in April 2005. Esat Digifone became part of BT Wireless. EsatBT installed the first DSL lines in Ireland, and operate one exchange, in Limerick. This article is about the year 2000. ... BT Communications Ireland Limited, (formerly Esat Telecommunications Limited), is a telecommunications and internet company in the Republic of Ireland. ... Ireland On-Line (IOL) is a large ISP in the Republic of Ireland, and is owned by BT Ireland. ... Telenor is the incumbent telco in Norway. ... O2 Ireland is a GSM mobile telecommunications operator in the Republic of Ireland. ... BT Communications Ireland Limited, (formerly Esat Telecommunications Limited), is a telecommunications and internet company in the Republic of Ireland. ... A typical DSL Modem Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ...

BT’s attempted global alliances

In June 1994 BT and MCI launched Concert Communications Services which was a $1 billion joint venture between the two companies. Its aim was to build a network which would provide easy global connectivity to multinational corporations. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... MCI may refer to the following: MCI as in Multimedia System refers to : Media Control Interface or Multimedia Control Interface. ... Concert Communications Services was a $1 billion joint venture launched June 1994 by BT and MCI. Its aim was to build a network which would provide easy global connectivity to multinational corporations. ...

This alliance progressed further on 3 November 1996 when the two companies announcement that they had entered into a full merger agreement to create a global telecommunications company to be called Concert plc, which would be incorporated in the UK with headquarters in both London and Washington DC. This would have given BT an entry into the US market and MCI a global reach. The merger proposition gained approval from the European Commission, the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Communications Commission and looked set to proceed. However on 1 October 1997 Worldcom made a rival bid for MCI which was followed by a counter bid from GTE. MCI accepted the Worldcom bid and BT pulled out of its deal with a generous severance fee of $465 million. BT made even more money when it sold its stake in MCI to Worldcom in 1998 for £4,159 million on which it made an exceptional pre-tax profit of £1,133 million. It also avoided being mired in the later Worldcom scandal. November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ... The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ... The FCCs official seal. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For a time, WorldCom (WCOM) was the United States second largest long distance phone company (AT&T was the largest). ... Categories: Corporation stubs | Communications companies of the United States | Defunct companies | Telephone companies | Public Utilities ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

BT also bought from MCI its 24.9 per cent interest in Concert Communications making Concert a wholly owned part of BT.

BT then later had a dalliance with AT&T as a possible alternative global partner but nothing came of this. AT&T Inc. ...

Yell Group sale and O2 demerger

In June 2001 BT's directory business was sold as Yell Group. A large demerger followed in November of the same year, when the former mobile telecommunications business of BT, BT Cellnet, was hived off as a separate business named "mmO₂". This included BT owned or operated networks in other countries, including BT Cellnet (UK), Esat Digifone (Ireland), and Viag Interkom (Germany). All networks now owned or operated by mmO₂ (except Manx Telecom) were renamed as O₂. Yell Group plc (LSE: YELL) is a British directory company, which is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index of leading British quoted companies. ... The O2 plc logo. ...

This was a move designed to remove the burden of debt with which the company had encumbered itself, much of which was acquired during the bidding round for the 3rd generation mobile telephony (commonly known as 3G) licenses. The de-merger was accomplished via a share-swap, all British Telecommunications plc shareholders received 1 mmO₂ plc and 1 BT Group plc (of which British Telecommunications is now a wholly owned subsidiary) share for each share they owned. British Telecommunications plc was de-listed on 16 November 2001 and the two new companies started trading on 19 November. mmO₂ plc was replaced by O₂ plc in a further share-swap in 2005, and subsequently bought by Telefonica and delisted. 3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation technology. ... 3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation technology. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The O2 plc logo. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

BT's recent developments

In April 2003, BT launched its new corporate identity. The "BT" logotype from 1991 was retained, but the piper was replaced by a "connected world". Esat BT retained the piper for nearly two years after it was dropped by its parent. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Oftel's strategy for telecoms deregulation in the UK through the 1990s was to drive down BT's market share. It aimed to achieve this by restrictions on the size of its price increases and by forcing it to allow other telcos to gain access to the connection between the exchange and the customers premises. Ofcoms logo The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ...

This has been successful in the area of telephony resale through Independent Service Providers (ISPs) but has left BT as the dominant operator in ADSL connections and local loop provision. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ...

In 2003 BT resumed its participation in the UK mobile market with the launch of BT Mobile. The company denies the move is a U-turn, describing the sell-off of mmO2 as the best move for shareholders and investors. BT wishes to reach younger consumers who use BT's fixed line services less than previous generations. BT Mobile is a reseller of mobile services supplied by the UK's mobile operators and no longer owns a mobile network. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

BT has also re-entered the market for hardcopy telephone directories, an offering which it curiously classifies as 'New Wave'.

Openreach was announced in September 2005 at the instigation of Ofcom to provide an open and equal service of provision and repair in the "last mile" of copper wire. This business was formed from 25,000 engineers previously employed by BTs Retail and Wholesale divisions. It is designed to ensure that other Independent telephone service providers (ISPs) have exactly the same operational conditions as parts of the BT group. It opened for business on 11 Jan 2006. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

More recently BT has acquired Italy's second largest operator, Albacom, providing BT with another major network outside the UK. In February 2005 the Infonet acquisition was a fact, giving BT entry into geographies it had no presence yet. In April 2005, it bought Radianz (now rebranded as BTRadianz), which expanded BT's coverage, provided BT with more buying power in certain countries and importantly gave access to the financial markets. BT Radianz (formerly known as Radianz before being acquired by BT Group plc in 2005), is a secure financial extranet which connects worldwide financial institutions and stock markets together. ... BT Radianz (formerly known as Radianz before being acquired by BT Group plc in 2005), is a secure financial extranet which connects worldwide financial institutions and stock markets together. ...

Financial performance

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Market Position & Power

In 1984 the Telecommunications Act set the framework for a competitive market for telecoms services by abolishing BT's exclusive right to provide services. In the early 1990s the market was opened up and a number of new national Public Telecommunications Operators (PTOs) were given licences. This ended the duopoly that had existed in the 1980s when only BT and Mercury were licensed to provide fixed line telecom networks in the UK. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (886x612, 162 KB) Summary Original PDFs of this picture are made freely available at http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (886x612, 162 KB) Summary Original PDFs of this picture are made freely available at http://www. ...

Future

BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) is a network transformation project which will see the UK's telephone network move from the present AXE/System X Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to an Internet Protocol (IP) system. The 21st Century Network (21CN) programme is the network transformation project of the UK telecommunications company BT Group plc. ... System X was the name of the UKs first national digital telephone exchange system. ... The Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. ...

BT envisages annual savings of £1 billion when the transition to the new network is complete (the majority of customers should be transferred by 2008). Capital expenditure is put at £10 billion over the next five years.

On the 21 June 2006, BT launched BT Total Broadband - new broadband packages. In 2006 BT is introducing BT Vision a broadband Television service with the ability to watch programmes from previous weeks or months. This will be launched in the autumn. According to www.btplc.com/today, companies including BBC Worldwide, Paramount, Warner Music Group, Cartoon Network and the National Geographic Channel, have already signed deals with BT Vision.

Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the process of allowing telecommunications operators to use the twisted-pair telephone connections from the telephone exchanges central office to the customer premises. ... System X was the name of the UKs first national digital telephone exchange system. ...

BT's "Web patent"

In 2001 BT discovered it owned a patent (U.S. Patent 4873662) which it believed gave it patent rights on the use of hyperlink technology on the World Wide Web. The corresponding UK patent had already expired, but the US patent is valid until 2006. Opponents of BT's claim held that the patent had never been valid, due to prior art by both Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu. Nevertheless on February 11, 2002, BT began a court case relating to its claims in a US federal court against the Internet service provider Prodigy Communications Corporation. The U.S. court ruled on August 22, 2002 that the BT patent was not applicable to Web technology, and granted Prodigy's request for summary judgement. See BT’s “Hyperlinking” Patent Litigation Fails The issue of prior art was thus not addressed. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and... A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. ... The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a global, read-write information space. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Douglas Engelbart Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent. ... Ted Nelson at OpenTech, London, 2005 Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. ... Project Xanadu was founded by Ted Nelson in 1960 as the original hypertext project. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Prodigy Communications Corporation was a dialup service (a sort of mega-BBS) for home computers in the United States before the advent of the Internet. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Contents

Businesses

History of BT

Formation of British Telecom

Privatisation

BT’s attempted global alliances

Yell Group sale and O2 demerger

BT's recent developments

Financial performance

Market Position & Power

Future

BT's "Web patent"

See also

External links

Data

Other

Contents

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History of BT

Formation of British Telecom

Privatisation

BT’s attempted global alliances

Yell Group sale and O2 demerger

BT's recent developments

Financial performance

Market Position & Power

Future

BT's "Web patent"

See also

External links

Data

Other

Businesses