British Telecommunications Act 1981

British Telecommunications Act 1981
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to establish a public corporation to be called British Telecommunications; to make provision with respect to its functions and to transfer to it certain property, rights and liabilities of the Post Office; to make further provision with respect to the Post Office; to provide for dealings by the Treasury in the shares of Cable and Wireless Limited; to amend the Telegraph Acts; and for connected purposes.
Citation	1981 c.38
Introduced by	Keith Joseph
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Royal assent	27 July 1981
Commencement	1 October 1981
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted

The British Telecommunications Act 1981 (1981 c.38) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that transferred the state-owned telephone network from the Post office to a new statutory corporation, British Telecommunications, branded as "British Telecom".^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

References

↑ "The historical development of BT". BT Group. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
↑ "Events in Telecommunications History 1981-1983". BT Archives. BT Group. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
↑ "British Telecom". The Times. 1 October 1981. p. 9.

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Companies

Infrastructure
providers

Service
providers

Current	Andrews & Arnold Asda Mobile BT Group BT Global Services BT Business BT Consumer EE Plusnet Claranet Colt Group The Co-operative Cable & Wireless Communications Delight Mobile Family Mobile Inmarsat KCOM Group Eclipse Internet Lebara Mobile Lycamobile Mapesbury Communications O2 UK Giffgaff Origin Broadband Sky Sky Broadband Talkmobile TalkTalk Group AOL Broadband TalkTalk Business TalkTalk Mobile TalkTalk TV Telecom Plus Tesco Mobile Three Tru Virgin Media Virgin Media Business Virgin Mobile UK Vodafone Vodafone UK Voipfone WightFibre Zen Internet

Defunct	Atlantic Telegraph Company Be Un Limited Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company Cable & Wireless plc Cable & Wireless Worldwide Dolphin Telecom Electric Telegraph Company Energis General Post Office Ionica London and Provincial District Telegraph Company Mercury Communications Mobile by Sainsbury's National Telephone Company NTL Ovivo Post Office Telecommunications Pipex Priyo Mobile Rabbit Stan Mobile Tiscali UK Universal Private Telegraph Company

Suppliers

Current	ARM Holdings Artevea CSR Icera Metaswitch Pace Sarantel Spirent Telent

Defunct	GEC Plessey Telecommunications Marconi Company Marconi Communications PicoChip Standard Telephones and Cables

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