各国电信商介绍-英国BT
各国电信商介绍-英国BT
BT Group plc 阅读提示:英国电信股份有限集团公司是家私人公司,其前身是英国国有电信运营商。它仍旧是英国固定固定线路业务的主要服务提供商。
BT Group plc (formerly known as British Telecommunications which trades as BT (and previously as British Telecom is the privatised former UK state telecommunications operator . It is still the dominant fixed line telecommunications provider in the United Kingdom. Businesses BT owns and 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. BT is still 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. It is officially designated the dominant operator in British telecommunications market. BT's businesses are operated under special government regulation by the British telecoms regulator Ofcom (formerly Oftel. BT Group has been organised into four business divisions: BT Global Services: Business services and solutions (formerly BT Ignite and BT Syntegra BT Retail: Retail telecoms to consumers BT Wholesale: Wholesale telecoms core trunk network BT Exact / One IT: Research and Development, and consultancy BT Openreach: fenced-off wholesale division, tasked with ensuring that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's own local network. History of BT A number of privately owned telegraph companies operated in Britain from 1846 onwards. Among them were The Electric Telegraph Company, British and Irish Magnetic
Telegraph Company, British Telegraph Company, London District Telegraph Company, and the United Kingdom Telegraph Company The Telegraph Act of 1868 passed the control of all these to the newly formed GPO (General Post Office's Postal Telegraphs Department 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 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. 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. Formation of British Telecom On 1st July, 1981 Post Office Telecommunications was renamed British Telecom and became a state-owned