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.

Historically, the telephone system on the Isle of Man had been run as a monopoly by the British General Post Office, and later British Telecommunications, and operated as part of the Liverpool telephone district.

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.

The following year, British Telecommunications launched the " Stay in Touch " campaign, with E. T.

# REDIRECT Telecommunications in the British Virgin Islands

* BT Group, short for British Telecommunications Group ( Also referred to as British Telecom )

* British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.

* In 1983, Labour MP John Golding talked for over 11 hours during an all-night sitting at the committee stage of the British Telecommunications Bill.

In 1990 the Academy invested the capital accrued from the Shaw bequest in the freehold of 18 Chenies Street, with the help of donations from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts and British Telecommunications.

In 1991, British Telecommunications PLC purchased 20 % of the company and later made an offer to purchase the rest in 1996.

* Capital Region Emergency Service Telecommunications, the wide-area radio network used in the Capital Regional District, British Columbia

In the early 2000s, the British government, in a White Paper, declared its intention to merge the ITC with the Radio Authority, Office of Telecommunications, and Radiocommunications Agency.

** Vicary v British Telecommunications plc IRLR 680, per Morison J

* BT Wholesale, a division of the company formerly known as British Telecommunications.

** a British trade union, a forerunner of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union

* British Rail Telecommunications

In the United Kingdom, Packet Switch Stream ( PSS ) was an X. 25-based packet-switched network, provided by the British Post Office Telecommunications and then British Telecom starting in 1980.

This was before privatization and the creation of British Telecommunications plc ( BT ) in 1984.

* 1981: Post Office Telecommunications services split out as British Telecom.

It took over nearly all of Britain's municipal telephone companies ( the sole exception being Kingston Communications in Hull ) and was responsible for the resultant telephone network until British Telecommunications ( BT ) was demerged by the British Telecommunications Act 1981.

In 2004 he was given the Internet Hero Award by the British ISP Association ISPA.

nthellworld was one of the first mainstream independent consumer lobby groups in the United Kingdom, whose main focal point was British ISP and Cable television company ntl Group.

In 2000, Wanadoo also took over the major British ISP Freeserve, which had previously been part of the Dixons Group ( now DSG International plc ).

He worked for the UK edition of Wired, as well as for Channel 4 and the British ISP Virgin. net.

While working at an ISP joint venture between British Telecom and Marubeni, Ishiguro encountered venture capitalist Yoshinari Yoshikawa.

In late 2009, British ISP Andrews & Arnold is still reporting severe issues with 21CN, citing multi-hour outages due to single points of failure, and opining that 21CN is still not " fit for purpose " due to this and numerous other problems.

* 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

While the passes were at best a dubious defence of his capture, British admiralty and vice-admiralty courts ( especially in North America ) heretofore had often winked at privateers ' excesses into piracy, and Kidd may have been hoping that the passes would provide the legal fig leaf that would allow him to keep the Quedagh Merchant and her cargo.

* 1948 – The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.

British representatives were installed in Kabul and other locations, British control was extended to the Khyber and Michni passes, and Afghanistan ceded various frontier areas and Quetta to Britain.

* 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

* 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

* 1765 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

* 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.

* 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.

; 1867: The Constitution Act, 1867 passes and British North America becomes Dominion of Canada.

* January 25 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

* November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.

* November 1 – 2 – WWII: Physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer writes the Oslo Report on German weapons systems and passes it to the British Secret Intelligence Service.

* July 5 – The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act passes the British Parliament.

** MP Sydney Silverman's bill for the abolition of the death penalty in the UK passes the British House of Commons.

** The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

* August 2 – Irish War of Independence: The British Parliament passes a bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials.

** The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom ( enacted 1834 ).

* May 22 – WWII: The British Parliament passes a further Emergency Powers ( Defence ) Act, giving the government full control over all persons and property.

* July 27 – The British Parliament passes an act that permits bicycles on the road, on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway.

* October 25 – An abortion bill passes in the British Parliament.