BRITISH TELECOM

Specialty Definition: BRITISH TELECOM

Domain	Definition
Computing	British Telecom (BT) The largest telecommunications provider in the UK. Due to regulatory issues, BT had to sell off its interest in McCaw Cellular. BT sold it to AT&T for something like 4B$. BT then invested that in MCI. As a part of the deal, MCI was given BT North America, which was the old Tymnet. MCI laid off about 40% of the Tymnet staff. Home (http://www.intervid.co.uk/) (1995-05-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: British Telecom

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

BT Group plc (commonly known as 'British Telecom' or BT) is the privatised former British state telecommunications operator.

History of BT

private National Telephone Company
absorbs other private telcos
nationalised in 1912 as part of the General Post Office
GPO broken up into British Telecom and Post Office
privatised again as British Telecommunications plc
BT split into group companies, new holding company name
mmO₂ demerged

BT as it is today

BT owns and runs the telephone exchanges and local loop connections for the vast majority of British fixed-line telephones.

As the dominant operator in British telecommunications, BT's businesses are ostensibly operated under special government regulation by the British telecoms regulator Oftel.

The collapse of the alternative telco market in Britain has had adverse consequences for Oftel's strategy for telecoms deregulation in the UK, and leaves BT as the unchallenged dominant operator in ADSL connections, as well as traditional fixed-line telephony. As of February 2002, just 200 local loop connections have been 'unbundled' from BT operation under local loop unbundling.

BT Group has these main businesses:

BT Global Services: business services and solutions (formerly BT Ignite)
BT Openworld: retail Internet
BT Retail: retail telecoms
BT Wholesale: wholesale telecoms network
BT exact: Research and Development, and consultancy

The former mobile telecommunications business of BT ("BT Cellnet") has now been demerged into a separate business named "mmO₂". 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.

BT's "Web patent"

BT has a controversial patent, US patent number 4873662, which it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web. Opponents of BT's claims hold that the patent is not valid, due to prior art by both Douglas Englebart and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu. On February 11, 2002, a court case relating to BT's claims started in a US federal court against Prodigy Communications Corporation. Whilst the UK license has long since expired, the US patent is not due to expire until 2006.

A U.S. court ruled on August 22, 2002 that the BT patent is not applicable to Web technology, and granted Prodigy's request for summary judgment.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "British Telecom."

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Crosswords: BRITISH TELECOM

Specialty definitions using "BRITISH TELECOM": 431A ♦ Administration Management Domain ♦ British Telecom Research Laboratories, BTRL ♦ MCI ♦ Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration ♦ SuperJanet ♦ Tinkerbell program ♦ Vodafone Air Touch. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: BRITISH TELECOM

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This corporation maintains a strategic agreement with British Telecom. (references)
		British Telecom (BT) is first to market with its ADSL offering, but the cable companies, NTL and Telewest are close behind with cable modem technology. (references)
		In April 1998, the government awarded licenses to the Starhub consortium (Singapore Technologies, Singapore Power, British Telecom, and NTT) to provide basic telecommunications services and mobile phone services. (references)
Economic History	Israel	Siemens, DaimlerChrysler, Volvo, Cable and Wireless, Baan, Volkswagen, Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, Danone, Ares Sereno, Unilever. (references)
	United Kingdom	Since 1979, the British Government has privatized most state-owned companies, including British Steel, British Airways, British Telecom, British Coal, British Aerospace, and British Gas, although in some cases the government retains a "golden share" in these companies. (references)
	Portugal	DTS, excluding Internet services, accounted for 95% of Telepac's business in 1996. However, Telepac has started to face some competition from other operators offering DTS. The most important is Comnexo with a market share of 9%. Comnexo maintains a strategic agreement with British Telecom. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: BRITISH TELECOM

Expression using "BRITISH TELECOM": british Telecom Research Laboratories. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRITISH TELECOM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
british telecom	521
british telecom uk	4
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Anagrams: BRITISH TELECOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-h-i-i-l-m-o-r-s-t-t"
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