The main telephone provider on the Isle of Man today is Manx Telecom.

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

Jointly operated by BT and Manx Telecom, it provides six channels each with a bandwidth of 140 Mb / s.

On 17 November 2001 Manx Telecom became part of mmO < sub > 2 </ sub > following the demerger of BT Wireless's operations from BT Group, and the company was owned by Telefónica.

On 4 June 2010 Manx Telecom was sold by Telefónica to UK private equity investor HgCapital ( who were buying the majority stake ), alongside telecoms management company CPS Partners

* BT-MT1 ( BT / Manx Telecom, 1990-UK )

* Manx Telecom

* Sure ( Mobiles only, Broadband and Home Phone is operated by Manx Telecom landlines )

* Wi-Manx ( Use Manx Telecom landlines )

There are more small businesses on the Isle of Man that sell Telephone Service but ( like Sure and Wi-Manx ) use the Manx Telecom phone lines.

The mobile phone network operated by Manx Telecom has been used by O < sub > 2 </ sub > as an environment for developing and testing new products and services prior to wider rollout.

Broadband internet services are available through five local providers which are BlueWave Communications, Wi-Manx, Domicilium, and Manx Telecom.

* Manx Telecom

He won four rounds, the Vauxhall Sport, Pirelli, Scottish, and Manx International, and became the youngest ever British Champion.

In the first battle the Manx won but 25 years later, they lost control to Scotland.

They have been champions of the Isle of Man League eight times, including three consecutive seasons from 1922-23 to 1924-25 and won the Manx FA Cup six timesThey are one of the most successful clubs on the island, having been League champions eight times and won the Manx F. A.

Hislop entered and finished second in a newcomers ’ race at the Manx Grand Prix in 1983-the year after Garry had won it.

The Meyers Manx received widespread recognition when it won the inaugural Mexican 1000 race, the predecessor of the Baja 1000 beating motorcycles, cars and trucks in the process.

Manx sports people have won three golds at the Commonwealth Games, the most recent being Mark Cavendish, a professional cyclist, in 2006 in the Scratch race.

At 19, riding for Altrincham Road Club, he won the season-long Star Trophy series in 1976, winning the Manx International and the Archer Pernod GP and two stages in the Tour of Malago.

The clubs highst achievement came in the 2002 – 03 season when they won the Manx FA Cup at The Bowl stadium in Douglas, beating St Georges 2 – 1.

They have been champions of the Isle of Man League eight times, including three consecutive seasons from 1922 – 23 to 1924 – 25 and won the Manx FA Cup six times.

They have won the Manx FA Cup once in 1927 – 28 They won the Paul Henry Gold Cup in 1989 – 90 beating Corinthians 1 – 0 in the final.

Formed in 1926, they have been Isle of Man Football League champions six times and won the Manx FA Cup ten times, including four consecutive FA Cup triumphs from 1964 – 65 to 1967 – 68.

They have won the Manx FA Cup ten times.

In 2005 – 06 they completed the Manx Grand Slam when they were crowned Division One champions and also won the Manx FA Cup, the Hospital Cup, the Railway Cup and the Charity Shield, while the reserve team won the Junior Cup.

In April 2006 they won the Manx FA Cup for the first time in the club's history, beating Pulrose United 5 – 0 in the final.

They also won the Manx FA Cup and the Woods Cup in 1970 – 71.

They have been crowned Isle of Man champions eleven times and won the Manx FA Cup 18 times.

They also won both the Paul Henry Gold Cup, beating St Johns United 2 – 1 in the final and the Woods Cup, beating Union Mills 2 – 0 in the final In 2003 – 04 they won the Manx FA Cup, beating Castletown in the final on penalties.

At this time the Manx Government announced that it would award a 20-year licence to operate the telephone system in a tender process.

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

This was furthermore the time the Air Kruise cross-Channel services, as well as all Dragon Airways, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and Manx Airlines operations from Newcastle upon Tyne, Blackpool and the Isle of Man were transferred to Silver City's new Northern Division to streamline BAS's fragmented airline operations.

This situation lasted until the partitioning of the Western Isles in 1156, at which time the Outer Hebrides remained under Norwegian control while the Inner Hebrides broke out under Somerled, the Norse-Celtic kinsman of the Manx royal house.

Although the Isle of Man is not an integral part of the United Kingdom, its people are British citizens under UK law-there is no separate Manx citizenship.

An early example was the Pete Manx series by Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes ( sometimes writing together and sometimes separately, under the house pen-name of Kelvin Kent ).

Restoration work began, and in 1989 it was put under the control of Manx National Heritage.

7, 000 pairs of Manx shearwaters come ashore each year, under cover of darkness, to nest on Bardsey Island.

A government Board was formed to manage the line and the Snaefell Mountain Railway, and still does so after various changes of title from the original Manx Electric Railway Board later becoming the Isle Of Man Passenger Transport Board, and it is now operated under the banner heading of Isle Of Man Heritage Railways ( the word heritage being added in 2009 ).

Following the majority of its working life being simply titled as the I. M. R., the railway is now marketed under the title of the Steam Railway to differentiate it from the Manx Electric Railway which is operated by the same department.

When nationalised in 1978 it fell under the banner of " Isle of Man Railways " ( along with the Manx Electric Railway ).

Programmes from the early festivals state that " Yn Cruinnaght Vanninagh Ashoonagh is held under the auspices of The World Manx Association and The Manx Society in commemoration of our great National Poet and with the object of preserving national sentiment.

Manx Gaelic has been officially recognised as a legitimate autochthonous regional language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, ratified by the United Kingdom on 27 March 2001 on behalf of the Isle of Man government.

The fourth is named after Matilda Bennett, a woman also of Manx descent who was the wife of John Septimus Roe, the first surveyor general of Western Australia under the first governor of the state, Sir James Stirling.