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Responsible for more than 28 million telephone lines in the United Kingdom, British Telecoms , besides Kingston Communications, is the only telecoms operator in the United Kingdom to have an Universal Service obligation. British Telecoms is divided into a number of business divisions :

•  British Telecoms Retail

•  British Telecoms Wholesale

•  British Telecoms Openreach





•  British Telecoms Global Services

•  British Telecoms Exact / One IT

•  R&D functions are no longer handled by British Telecoms Exact.

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British Telecoms

British Telecoms is one of the leading communication solution providing companies of the world and it operates in over 170 countries around the globe. It is from here that it earns almost one third of its total revenue. Way back in the year 1981, Post Office Telecommunications became an independent state owned corporation and was renamed British Telecoms . Privatization of the organization occurred in the year 1984 and 50% of the shares of the British Telecoms was bought by the public. British Telecoms is still the most dominant and fixed line telecommunications provider in the whole of the United Kingdom.

The principal services or activities of British Telecoms include:

•  IT services

•  Local telecommunications services,

•  National telecommunications services

•  International telecommunications services

•  Higher-value broadband and Internet products and services.

•  Mobile services



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