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demonstrated that light rather than electricity could be used to transmit speech and (more importantly) data accurately at very high speeds. Again materials technology took time to catch up, but by 1977 a commercial
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in London, in 1898. In addition to making lead-sheathed cables, the factory started assembling equipment from components imported from
Belgium and the US, and subsequently introduced manufacturing. The company was
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telephone switching system and sold off all but a minority shareholding of STC between 1979 and 1982.
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multiplexes between several other exchanges. Until 1980, STC's
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in the City of London. It was a tandem exchange, switching
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needed to raise cash to fund continued development of its
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cabling (1936), the entire radio systems for the liners
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switch which is still in service in the UK as of 2005.
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the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
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link had been installed in England. Within ten years
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3264:Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom
536:"Standard Telephones and Cables - Graces Guide"
2032:British Approvals Board for Telecommunications
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626:. New York: Oxford University Press. p.
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16:British manufacturer of telecom equipment
3309:British companies disestablished in 1991
1999:South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
933:Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company
622:City of Light, The Story of Fiber Optics
2077:Interception of Communications Act 1985
958:Standard Telecommunication Laboratories
525:, Harper and Row, New York (1975) p.170
514:
401:Standard Telecommunication Laboratories
218:technology was commercially exploited.
1865:Internet Service Providers Association
3304:British companies established in 1883
1834:International Telecommunication Union
144:International Telephone and Telegraph
7:
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1559:British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
1554:Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company
858:Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company
853:American Cable and Radio Corporation
3269:Defunct computer hardware companies
2037:British Telecommunications Act 1981
898:Exelis Visual Information Solutions
427:) controlled telephone exchange at
192:as a British legal entity in 1910.
1048:ITT: The Management of Opportunity
256:Within a few years, multi-channel
114:Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd
14:
3329:1991 disestablishments in England
3299:Defunct companies based in London
792:"STL Harlow Quarter Century Club"
210:with its competitors, set up the
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2822:Free-space optical communication
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2107:UK telephone code misconceptions
883:Commercial Pacific Cable Company
711:ITT to sell STC stake to Telecom
699:Disconnecting a Telephone Empire
365:in the North and South boxes at
725:New York Times, 9 November 1990
587:"Doncaster PSB 23rd April 2013"
361:; for the 1949 installation of
306:Emergence of telecommunications
3324:1883 establishments in England
1944:British Indian Ocean Territory
1569:Cable & Wireless Worldwide
963:Standard Telephones and Cables
713:New York Times, 7 October 1987
447:, developed the fully digital
236:Standard Telephones and Cables
175:, which also had a factory in
1:
1844:Phone-paid Services Authority
1258:BT Business and Public Sector
1135:Economy of the United Kingdom
735:Nortel History - 1980 to 1989
523:Telephone—The First 100 Years
3208:Telecommunication portal
2989:Telecommunications equipment
1906:British Overseas Territories
481:market with the takeover of
276:(1936–39), the patenting of
212:British Broadcasting Company
136:the Western Electric Company
2725:Alexander Stepanovich Popov
1928:British Antarctic Territory
1819:Broadband Stakeholder Group
1669:Universal Private Telegraph
953:Sheraton Hotels and Resorts
477:". An attempt to enter the
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2429:Telecommunications history
1614:National Telephone Company
1574:Electric Telegraph Company
1544:Atlantic Telegraph Company
701:Time Magazine, 7 July 1986
473:of the late 1980s became "
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3037:Public Switched Telephone
2849:telecommunication circuit
2810:Fiber-optic communication
2555:Francis Blake (telephone)
2350:Optical telecommunication
2120:
2042:British telephone sockets
1175:BT Wholesale and Ventures
1130:
903:Federal Telegraph Company
740:30 September 2009 at the
318:, Norway-facility in 1965
26:
2948:Orbital angular-momentum
2385:Satellite communications
2224:Communications satellite
2052:BT site engineering code
2004:Turks and Caicos Islands
1880:London Internet Exchange
1564:Cable & Wireless plc
878:Commercial Cable Company
771:George Allen & Unwin
2827:Molecular communication
2650:Gardiner Greene Hubbard
2479:Undersea telegraph line
2214:Cable protection system
2102:Telephone numbers in UK
2062:Communications Act 2003
928:ITT Technical Institute
314:Manufacturing at STC's
2969:Communication protocol
2755:Charles Sumner Tainter
2570:Walter Houser Brattain
2515:Edwin Howard Armstrong
2323:Information revolution
1949:British Virgin Islands
1757:Marconi Communications
1004:William Henry Harrison
723:Telecom bid to buy STC
550:"Corporate Milestones"
319:
2943:Polarization-division
2675:Narinder Singh Kapany
2640:Erna Schneider Hoover
2560:Jagadish Chandra Bose
2540:Alexander Graham Bell
2271:online video platform
1914:Akrotiri and Dhekelia
1482:Virgin Media Business
1170:Babcock International
765:• Peter Young, 1983,
313:
278:pulse-code modulation
264:transmission (1934),
148:London Stock Exchange
125:pulse-code modulation
2785:Vladimir K. Zworykin
2745:Almon Brown Strowger
2715:Charles Grafton Page
2370:Prepaid mobile phone
2298:Electrical telegraph
2067:Earth stations in UK
1594:Gutta Percha Company
1316:Cable & Wireless
1235:Andrews & Arnold
618:Hecht, Jeff (1999).
488:Sir Kenneth Corfield
3314:Radar manufacturers
2735:Johann Philipp Reis
2494:Wireless revolution
2456:The Telephone Cases
2313:Hydraulic telegraph
1654:Submarine Telegraph
1589:General Post Office
1041:The Sovereign State
1014:John William Mackay
888:Creed & Company
607:on 2 February 2017.
154:. It was bought by
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2933:Frequency-division
2910:Telephone exchange
2780:Charles Wheatstone
2710:Jun-ichi Nishizawa
2685:Innocenzo Manzetti
2620:Reginald Fessenden
2355:Optical telegraphy
2188:Telecommunications
2112:Web blocking in UK
2097:Telegraph Act 1885
2092:Telegraph Act 1868
1901:Crown Dependencies
1890:Symbian Foundation
1792:Carphone Warehouse
1265:BT Global Services
669:on 23 January 2009
479:mainframe computer
375:began to supplant
373:Digital technology
328:Queen Elizabeth II
320:
291:: communications,
249:, adjacent to the
204:radio broadcasting
50:Telecommunications
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2984:Store and forward
2979:Data transmission
2893:Network switching
2844:Transmission line
2690:Guglielmo Marconi
2655:Internet pioneers
2520:Mohamed M. Atalla
2489:Whistled language
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841:Related companies
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504:Alcatel Australia
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3077:Notable networks
3067:Wireless network
3007:Cellular network
2999:Types of network
2974:Computer network
2861:Network topology
2775:Thomas A. Watson
2630:Oliver Heaviside
2615:Philo Farnsworth
2590:Daniel Davis Jr.
2565:Charles Bourseul
2525:John Logie Baird
2234:Data compression
2229:Computer network
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1934:Ascension Island
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363:power signalling
359:British Railways
284:'s development.
222:Inter-war growth
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173:Western Electric
105:Kenneth Corfield
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1190:Nexfibre
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