Kiosk No. a record / answer machine, became the first such device to be available in BT introduced further cuts to the cost of many overseas calls on 19th February, with some of the biggest reductions coming on calls to the most popular destinations, including key business routes. 120,000. The first standardisation rural automatic exchange was opened at Haynes near Bedford on 4th February, a 100-line unit (No. The UK telephone system was now fully automatic. The Postmaster-General, Ernest Marples, announced the new Datel services subsequently became available to a number of European countries and the United States. TXE2 reed relay exchange. Customers could also combine The The new National Long Distance Call charge band was introduced in September, abolishing the most expensive long distance charge rate and saving customers overall Among other services offered by EuroTel were virtual private networks, satellite communications, network management, and the supply of hardware products, including Nortel switching equipment based on ATM. The Act introduced an independent approval regime for CPE. 355 in the first year and changes to 230 per year thereafter. These permitted any position and any cord circuit to be used to handle any type of trunk circuit. An agreement between the Postmaster-General and the National Telephone Company fixing the conditions for the transfer of the company's undertaking in 1912, was signed on 2nd February and came into force on 1st September, having been ratified by the House of Commons on 9th August. audio conferencing 'conference communication' system composed of transmitters and loudspeakers was used on 23rd October to connect audiences in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Cardiff, Southampton and Portsmouth with the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London. TouchTone dialling, fast call connection, fully-itemised bills, and selective pricing discount schemes, as well as per second pricing. Call Sign: a new service launched in December 1998 and aimed at busy households, homeworkers, and small businesses. The September Saver every local and long distance UK call made on business lines during the working day, between 8am and 6pm, Mondays to Fridays, received a 10 per cent discount on the normal price. [41][42] Between 1971 and 1973, Bell combined MOS technology with touch-tone technology to develop a push-button MOS touch-tone phone called the "Touch-O-Matic" telephone, which could store up to 32 phone numbers. The new, more open and fairer policy allows customers to acquire telecommunications services from competing providers using a variety of technologies. 150 million over the next two years to March 2000. These could be combined with other discount regions to make even more substantial savings. There was now a single 20p-a-minute rate for all inland direct dialled calls, regardless of time of day and distance. IDD (International Direct Dialling) was made available throughout the United Kingdom. British Telecom's first satellite coast station came into service with the opening of a new dish aerial at Goonhilly. objectives. The experience of Highgate Wood showed that TDM techniques were uneconomic and difficult to achieve with the technology and components then available. sent. The U.S. became the world leadership in teledensity with the rise of many independent telephone companies after the Bell patents expired in 1893 and 1894. British Telecom's In 1992 the Internet Society was chartered, triggering the World Wide Web phenomenon. Telephone Calls - Inland Originally available in MS-DOS, a Windows based version of all three options was launched in September 1996. Described by Flowers as a "string and sealing wax affair", it nevertheless could do in hours what otherwise could have taken weeks, being able to process 5,000 characters a second to run through the many millions of possible settings for the code wheels on the German enciphered teleprinter system. The Martlesham switched star cable TV and interactive services network was introduced in Westminster. Slimtel was launched, the first telephone instrument designed and manufactured by British Telecom. Monarch digital telephone systems was launched with GEC-Plessey Telecommunications They were intended to be a miniature Post Office, located where no such facilities existed or where expense prevented a sub-post office from being built. The ten per cent discount applied to all local, regional, national and international calls. The The outbreak of war on 3rd September 1939 heralded six years of hugely increased activity and demand for the Post Office, placing great strain on its resources. New dialling codes, preliminary to the start of subscriber trunk dialling in London, were introduced in the London Director Area on 6th April. These reductions were followed by a series of further price cuts . Worldwide Network Management Centre at Oswestry, Shropshire, was opened on 5th September at a cost of The Corporate Choices benefited companies which operate over several sites with phone bills of more than For strategic reasons it was felt necessary to retain the cables under British control and the solution settled upon by the Conference was to merge the British wireless and cable interests. 144 trunk circuits and 274 junction circuits were transferred. A system of regulation in the field of telecommunications had been recommended the previous year in the Littlechild Report. The Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index was introduced on the Telephone Information Service. Adastral Park from 1999, the Martlesham facility replaced the previous research station at BT Internet services and applications. 607 million. Nineteen countries established the European Combined with BT's new International Weekend rate, these reductions meant that the cost of a call to the USA or Canada on a Saturday or Sunday had fallen by 31 per cent since the beginning of September 1996. LineOne, the brand name given to the service, delivered entertainment, information, home shopping and education to UK homes via the Internet. The findings contained in this report led to the introduction of the British Telecommunications Act, 1981 and the creation of Anglo-Belgian submarine co-axial cable laid. Of even more immediate concern to the Post Office was the increasing competition of the telephone which was now markedly affecting revenue from the telegraph services. A working replica of Colossus has been constructed in recent years and housed at Bletchley Park. A new transatlantic fibre optic cable (TAT 9) came into service linking the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. 29.38 conversion fee was waived during a special six-month offer from 16th September. The BXB (TXK3) crossbar exchange, a derivative of the ITT Pentaconta crossbar system developed in France, was made by STC for larger installations in director area and trunk-transit exchanges. For a few years in the late 1800s, acoustic telephones were marketed commercially as a competitor to the electrical telephone. Lewis Coe (1995), "The Telephone and Its Several Inventors", Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy, coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone, Thomas Edison's carbon telephone transmitter, An Early History of the Telephone: 1664-1866: Robert Hooke's Acoustic Experiments and Silent Inventions. An industrialist at work appeared on the 13p stamp. London Toll system was divided between Toll 'A' and Toll 'B' exchanges because of the increase in Toll traffic which made it necessary to divide the direction of originated traffic. The contract was awarded through Thorn Ericsson. Together with the fixed licence awarded the previous year, the mobile licence now enabled the company to develop integrated communications solutions tailored to the Dutch residential and business markets. Mercury, originally owned by a consortium of Cable & Wireless, British Petroleum and Barclays Merchant Bank, was later a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable & Wireless, and in 1999 was part of Cable & Wireless Communications, formed from a merger with Nynex of the United States, Bellcable Media and Videotron. Brian Cobby replaced her. Key Cities and Key Regions, when combined with Business Choices and Key Numbers, produced savings of up to 42 per cent. Telephone Calls - Trunks Alongside push-button telephones, which replaced the old fashioned rotary or dial phones, the 60s introduced the answer machine, making it possible for callers to leave short verbal messages if the phone wasnt picked up. London - Swansea route. Phone Disc in March, an electronic phone book, as an alternative to directory enquiries and phone books. From 1974 the company was allowed rather more commercial freedom, so long as it agreed to consult with the Government over any major programmes which might be politically or financially sensitive. Radiopaging was extended to give a virtually nationwide service. Flowers was consulted by Max Newman (later Professor of Mathematics at Manchester) who was responsible for the automation process. 1961 The Syntegra helped its customers change the way they ran their businesses, advising on business processes combined with the latest IT and communication systems to give a competitive edge. 4) between White Bay, Newfoundland, Canada and Oban, Scotland, as the first section of the submarine telephone cable network linking the Commonwealth. Changing to 071 and 081 doubled the number of available London numbers. LineOne. These improvements were estimated to save business customers recipe telephone information service was opened in Birmingham. BT Phonecards and credit cards. The telephone also had an integral bell, which was always external on the machine until 1958. 1922, and many of its features were reproduced in the design of standard circuits. New Telex network opened for Government departments only. Because of its cast iron construction it weighed approximately 1.5 tons and had more interior space than its predecessor. A Welsh bilingual version became available from August 1992. Around 40 per cent of Fortune Global 500 companies used Concert services, accounting for nearly $2.75 billion in committed contract revenue. Constructed in a variety of designs they were hardwearing and contained paint-free finishes of anodised aluminium and stainless steel. A further half dozen were commissioned in cast iron, but it is not known where they were erected, if anywhere. British Telecom had publicised the code changes over the previous year through television, radio, newspapers, poster sites, mailings and so forth. The trial was completed in July the following year. The new BT was launched with a new corporate identity suitable for a quality company in a highly competitive world marketplace. Any subsequent breach of the restraining order could have resulted in imprisonment for a term of up to five years. The task of these committees was to scrutinise annual estimates, compare actual with estimated expenditure, and to study performance statistics. It opened for full commercial operation on 20th August the following year. BT Business Choices Level 1 and Key Numbers schemes, national daytime calls would have cost just 3.9p per minute with either Trainphone, the first public payphone on a train, was introduced on a trial basis on services from Paddington to South Wales and the West Country. Rugby still transmits the Greenwich Time Signal, which is derived from the National Physical Laboratory's atomic resonance standard. The Birmingham Director Area was opened encompassing the Harborne, Northern and Victoria exchanges. In 1997, BT decided to grant licences for other competitors to use its trademark K6 kiosks, in order to help promote customer choice. An Also in July, Bell and his financial backers - Thomas Sanders and Gardiner G Hubbard - formed the was launched on 8 September, offering the world's largest on-line network providing a dedicated service for education. The minimum charge remained at 50p. TAT 10 transatlantic telephone cable was laid, linking the USA, Germany and Holland. It ran from Boxing Day until midnight on 6th January 1997. Syntegra was merged in May 1999 with BT's equally successful telecommunications outsourcing business, Syncordia to form a new division, BT Solutions, to sit alongside the other recently created divisions, BT UK and BT Worldwide. Telephone service opened with Japan. In March the long wave building ("C" Building) at EuroTel Bratislava was a joint venture company involving Slovak Telecommunications and Atlantic West BV. Business, a concession which continued until 1969. British Telecom launched the M6000 family of business computers, designed and made by the company at its Fulcrum factories in Birmingham. 1966 All Figure Numbering Home phones may seem old fashioned compared to our internet-based lifestyles, but we believe in their enduring value for meaningful conversations and crucial situations. 1 billion during the same period, and met its obligation to reduce prices by about No. EuroTel Bratislava was a joint venture company involving Slovak Telecommunications and Atlantic West BV. The new company, now controlling Bell's and Edison's patents, reflected the situation in the United States. Since early 1996 the Bureaux had extended their work to handle malicious and hoax calls to the 999 operators and to the emergency services. Phonepoint service, using the cordless (CT2) handsets. Phonepoint service, using the cordless (CT2) handsets. This could be added to discounts of up to 15 per cent available on BT's other residential schemes, giving a possible 25 per cent saving on those calls. After a number of experiments, red proved to be the colour that best met the required criteria, with the added advantage that it reflected something of the character of the traditional red K6 kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s. Only five aluminium examples entered service, four in London and one in Coventry. CampusWorld optical fibre submarine cable, a five nautical mile test loop, was laid in Loch Fyne, Scotland in January. There were no connection or rental charges, and the customer paid for the cost of the call over the network. It was completed to its original specification in 1969. It was also the first Telephone Act passed by Parliament, 75 years after the invention of the telephone. Labour / Le Travail. This meant that the Post Office had now standardised on the basis of two forms of equipment: non-director for use in provincial areas and director for use in exchanges in large cities (see 1924 entry). Standard Telephones & Cables Limited. Much larger than the building it replaced, BT Centre now completely covers the route of the old Bath Street, closed in 1934, and the site adjoining the old CTO. 120,000. From 1st November 1998, BT reduced the quarterly fee for BT charged by the second, and there was a 5p minimum charge for all calls. Select Services were marketed as early as January 1982 as Star Services following the opening of the first System X digital exchange at Woodbridge , Suffolk in 1981. Business Choices savings for ten nominated numbers (and later a 10 per cent discount on an eleventh key contact number). Western Union, already using telegraph exchanges, quickly extended the principle to its telephones in New York City and San Francisco, and Bell was not slow in appreciating the potential. Option 40, Option 50 and Option 70, which it largely replaced. Friends & Family to five million in fewer than three months. 753 million, then the largest cheque ever written in the UK, as part of the company's corporation tax payments for the 1987/88 financial year. The first new-style British Telecom shop opened in Southend-on-Sea High Street on 3rd January, selling a wide range of telephones, business equipment and telephone accessories. Confravision (video conference) link was set up by the Post Office between London and Sydney, Australia. BT Commitment built on the success of the Customer Service Guarantee first launched in 1989. Automatic metering up to 3d (just over 1p) was introduced on director exchanges. PremierLine cost 24 a year, initially payable annually, although from July 1st 1996 it could be paid in four quarterly instalments of Furthermore, more than His ideas were well in advance of his time, but the technique could not be economically realised until suitable components, particularly transistors, were available. These are Elliott 503 models. The K2 had not penetrated far outside London, but the 'Jubilee' model became the first genuinely standard kiosk and was installed all over the country. By combining with BT, MCI would gain access to BT's technical expertise in the provision of local market products and services, and the substantial financial resources and global position of BT. Telecom Gold electronic mail service. International telephone services were suspended on 30th August (with a few exceptions) and not restored until 23rd June 1945 with the reopening of the service to the USA, Canada, and Kenya. 'Demand' trunk service was extended to group centres. Payroll and Statistics. first director exchange in Europe was opened at 270 High Holborn, London and was known as Holborn Tandem. Textdirect, an enhanced telex service, was launched in April. fraud prevention by enabling plastic credit cards to be checked via the data network. 1.3 billion over the previous three years and was committed to cutting at least By 1877, construction of the first regular telephone line between Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts had been completed. 4). There was a single joining fee of An Telephone service opened with Eastern Zone of Germany. The special offer applied to the second business line provided to customers at the same address, and covered installations made between May 1st and 31st July this year. The first AXE 10 exchange was opened the following year at The ISDN access option was halved at the same time to 355 in the first year and changes to 230 per year thereafter. Leeds automatic telephone exchange was opened on 18 May in Basinghall Street - a The new clock was digital and, with no moving parts, more reliable and accurate than the old equipment. BT and NS (Nederlands Spoorwegen) - the Dutch national railway network operator - celebrated the launch in September of their joint venture company in the Netherlands, formed in March the same year. The 1984 Act, in fact, made running a telecommunications system without a licence a criminal offence. They were manufactured for public service in exchanges handling 3,000 to 40,000 lines to gradually replace the existing Strowger and crossbar electromechanical exchanges. The parallel space division approach, using reed relays for switching, proved more promising and development was concentrated in this area, leading eventually to the successful TXE2 and later the TXE4 systems. A strategic collaboration with Microsoft was announced in August under which customers of BT's mass market dial-up Internet service - BT Internet - would be offered Internet Explorer 3.0, then the latest Internet browser from Microsoft. Syntegra in 1993 as its systems integration business to address the opportunity offered by the convergence of the worlds of IT, telecommunications and consulting. United Telephone Company This system provided automatic calling clearing and supervisory conditions over long-distance circuits. Telex service extended to China and Mongolia. The award was for a national DCS 1800 mobile licence and was the result of a Government-conducted auction. The rapid growth in international traffic necessitated other centres being opened, resulting in the opening of Mondial House in London. The licence was based on the high capacity DCS- 1800 standard. Weather Forecast Service and the Test Match Information Services were introduced. 1,887,000 During that first year the lifts between them travelled nearly 70,000 kilometres. J L Baird (1888-1946) demonstrated television before the Royal Institution on 27th January. In effect, it was a summary of the 50 or so individual ISO 9000 certificates that had been granted to different parts of the business. The This was BT's biggest ever single price cut to date, saving customers an overall The development of the immersed electrode principle in transmitter design made it possible for the Post Office to introduce two new innovative telephone designs PremierLine customers could enjoy combined discounts of 25 per cent off BT's basic call prices on their calls to up to six international numbers, and a total of 15 numbers in all if they were also on BT's free This was followed by a further 10 per cent cut to national daytime calls and a 3.8 per cent cut to regional daytime calls on 29th May 1997, also simplifying charging by creating a new single rate for all long distance UK daytime calls. The last London Telecommunications Region exchange to be converted went For a connection fee of This centralisation of authority in London prevented real local responsibility, and the separate rigid hierarchies prejudiced effective co-ordination of operational and engineering effort. This was made possible by the low cost, low power requirements, small size and high reliability of MOSFETs, over 15,000 of which were contained on ten MOS IC chips, including one chip for logic, one for the keypad dial interface, and eight for memory. It was extended nationwide in 1984. EuroTel maintained business relationships with a number of world-leading telecommunications and IT companies, and provided access to 160 networks across the globe. was launched on 8 September, offering the world's largest on-line network providing a dedicated service for education. In March the long wave building ("C" Building) at The Option 15, a scheme aimed at residential customers, was launched in January the following year. A The last TXK crossbar exchange, at Droitwich, was withdrawn in 1994. In 1877 and 1878, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s. Exchange line rentals were increased on 1st July. The 79 separate phrases required for a 12-hour clock were recorded as circular tracks spaced 1/16 inch apart along the length of the drum. across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK to Signal Hill, Telephone service was established with Austria, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The company's transfer into the private sector continued in December 1991 when the Government sold around half its remaining holding of 47.6 per cent of shares reducing its stake to 21.8 per cent. British Telecom International and INMARSAT started trials of the Standard C satellite system, the smallest and cheapest maritime satellite terminal up to that time. The glass was deliberately made into small panels so that breakages could be repaired with a minimum of renewal. Low Start was targeted at low users or customers who used ISDN to provide back up for private circuit services. Bridgeman Committee. It contained details of over 250 subscribers connected to three London exchanges. Speaking Clock was won by Miss Pat Simmons, a supervisor in a London telephone exchange. Postmaster-General took over the system of the National Telephone Company at a cost of This lightweight type of cable was both cheaper and easier to lay. Sir Peter, knighted in the 1996 New Years Honours for services to information technology, promised a "roller coaster ride" for BT people as BT continued its global expansion. Begun in 1961, the Tower cost It was decided that the new system would be based on the pre-payment approach with a refund of unused coins where appropriate. The last Post Office inland 474,230 is granted on 3 May 1892, after a 15-year delay because of litigation. The first all-transistor 12 MHz (2,700 circuits) coaxial cable was brought into use. The joint venture shareholding was BT 25 per cent, MCI 15 per cent and the three Israeli partners 20 per cent each. 712 - later "The Story of Telecommunications", part of the BT Museum. Siemens Brothers & Company type automatic exchange was opened at Grimsby on 14th September 1918. This was the genesis of the World Wide Web. The main users of the electrical telegraph were post offices, railway stations, the more important governmental centers (ministries), stock exchanges, very few nationally distributed newspapers, the largest internationally important corporations, and wealthy individuals.[12]. The Teleport was sited in North Woolwich because, with the Thames at its southern boundary, the site was protected from any future high rise development which might impede the clear outlook required by the antennas to transmit and receive signals to and from satellites. Confertel, a new flexible and inexpensive means of holding meetings by telephone, was introduced. These stated that any part of British Telecom involved in the production of telecommunications equipment had to be transferred to a subsidiary company by July 1986. CS Automatic Voice Response (AVR) was introduced into the directory enquiries service to give a faster response to callers. The new National Long Distance Call charge band was introduced in September, abolishing the most expensive long distance charge rate and saving customers overall A limitation was that it could not be easily adapted for an increase beyond 4d. Successive Governments left it largely to its own devices, though with strict limits on its ability to spend and expand. A new building at What year were cell phones common? This material, because of its low dielectric constant, became widely used for submarine cable insulation in place of gutta-percha and rubber, and for many other purposes in telecommunications. BT ran the trialling Wireplay, a nationwide dedicated computer games network which allowed players to compete with each other over the telephone network. 1930 A picture telegraph (facsimile) service between the Central Telegraph Office and Berlin was opened on 7th January. Telephones Stations A radio-telephone service was opened with Australia on 30th April. BT remained a major participant, and an aerial operating to the INMARSAT system came into service at Goonhilly during 1983. Since December 1993, BT had simplified charging and reduced prices by about British Telecom kits became available. It was the 3,319th local exchange to be switched over from electromechanical to digital technology. 35 each - this was reduced to 15 in following years because of demand. This was the first British Telecom supplied answerphone, although models had been available from other suppliers for some years. The Speaking Clock had accuracy to approximately 1/20 second. 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