An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

This was later renamed BT-CORAL when British Telecom was spun off from the Post Office.

The base unit and handset of a British Telecom DECT cordless telephone

DPNSS was originally defined by British Telecom.

Digital Access Signalling System 1 ( DASS1 ) is a proprietary protocol defined by British Telecom to provide ISDN services in the United Kingdom.

Digital Access Signalling System 2 ( DASS2 ) is an obsolescent protocol defined by British Telecom for digital links to PSTN based on ISDN.

British Telecom used the term ISDN when

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

Category: British Telecom buildings and structures

By 1985 the privatised British Telecom had inherited the telephone operations of the GPO, including those on the Isle of Man.

As part of this process, in 1986 British Telecom created a Manx-registered subsidiary company, Manx Telecom, to bid for the tender.

In the United Kingdom, British Telecom ( BT ) provides ISDN2e ( BRI ) as well as ISDN30 ( PRI ).

Some, primarily producing telephone bills, were still in commercial use with GPO Telephones, forerunner of British Telecom, until 1981, which remained usable through parts cannibalised from redundant LEOs purchased by the GPO.

The United Kingdom's largest public-share offerings were privatizations of British Telecom and British Gas during the 1980s under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, when many state-run firms were sold off to the private sector.

The QL's CPU, ZX8301 and ZX8302 ULAs and ZX Microdrives also formed the basis of International Computers Limited's ( ICL's ) One Per Desk ( OPD )-also marketed by British Telecom as the Merlin Tonto and by Telecom Australia as the Computerphone.

The result of a three-year collaboration between Sinclair Research, ICL and British Telecom, the OPD had the intriguing addition of a telephone handset on one end of the keyboard, and rudimentary Computer-Telephony Integration ( CTI ) software.

The Post Office system evolved into British Telecom and was privatised in 1984.

* Cellnet was originally jointly owned by British Telecom and Securicor.

Post Office Telephones was reorganised in 1980 – 81 as British Telecommunications ( British Telecom, or BT ), and was the first nationalised industry to be privatised by the Conservative government.

** British Telecom is privatised.

* January 17 – British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.

To this end, in the early 1880s, he purchased numerous newspapers in England, all of which were to advocate the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of " the British Republic ".

Brazil's push for nationalization of the computer-related industry in the 1970s also began with the navy, which could not decipher the " black box " computerized range-finding and firing mechanisms on the British frigates they had purchased, and did not want to be dependent on imported maintenance.

Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.

Most of the antiquities Salt collected were purchased by the British Museum and the Musée du Louvre.

The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

Accounts of the Ethiopian artillery deployed at Adwa differ ; Russian advisor Leonid Artamonov wrote that it comprised 42 Russian mountain guns supported by a team of fifteen advisers, but British historians suggest that the Ethiopian guns were Hotchiss and Maxim pieces captured from the Egyptians or purchased from French and other European suppliers.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

In 1962 the Chagos Agalega Company of the British colony of Seychelles purchased the Societe Huiliere de Diego et Peros and moved company headquarters to Seychelles.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago were administered by the colonial government on the island of Mauritius until 1965, when the United Kingdom purchased them from the self-governing government of Mauritius for £ 3 million, and declared them to be a separate British Overseas Territory.

* Dunbee-Combex-Marx Ltd, a former British toy manufacturer which purchased Lines Bros and Schuco Modell

On 15 July 1955, the Government purchased British Guiana Airways.

Often the technology was purchased from Britain or British engineers and entrepreneurs moved abroad in search of new opportunities.

Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.

No reliable German design was available by 1903, so British Parsons turbines were purchased.

Weapons supplies were made available to the Mujahideen through numerous countries ; the United States purchased all of Israel's captured Soviet weapons clandestinely, and then funnelled the weapons to the Mujahideen, while Egypt upgraded their own army's weapons, and sent the older weapons to the militants, Turkey sold their World War II stockpiles to the warlords, and the British and Swiss provided Blowpipe missiles and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns respectively, after they were found to be poor models for their own forces.

" The British settlers, especially those in the southern colonies, purchased or captured Native Americans to use as forced labor in cultivating tobacco, rice, and indigo.

In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phosphate Commissioners, and in June 1970, control passed to the locally owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation.

Argentine, Brazilian, and British companies in the late 1800s purchased some of Paraguay's best land and started the first large-scale production of agricultural goods for export.

Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador in Naples, purchased it in 1778 from James Byres.

Andrew Millar, a British publisher, purchased the rights to James Thomson's The Seasons in 1629, and when the copyright term expired, a competing publisher named Robert Taylor began issuing his own reprints of the work.

Such systems were used for coastal defence of the British homeland and colonies from 1887 to 1903 and were purchased by, and under the control of, the Army as opposed to the Navy.

The main purpose of the arbitration treaty was to remedy the damages done to American merchants by three Confederate war ships built by or purchased from the British.