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Catalogue description Department of Industry and successors: Posts and Telecommunications Division and successors: Registered Files (TELS Series)
| Reference: | PV 8 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Department of Industry and successors: Posts and Telecommunications Division and successors: Registered Files (TELS Series) |
| Description: |
The files in this series relate mainly to the liberalisation of the telecommunications market culminating in the Telecommunicatoins Act 1984 which permitted the licensing of more than one public telecommunication operator thus ending British Telecom's monopoly. Other subjects covered are:- the activities of Cable and Wireless plc, proposals for the appointment of the Director General of OFTEL and the development of cordless phones. |
| Date: | 1975-1994 |
| Arrangement: |
The files are arranged in file number order. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | TELS |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of Industry, Posts and Telecommunications Division, 1974-1983 Department of Industry, Telecommunications Division, 1983-1983 Department of Trade and Industry, Telecommunications and Posts Division, 1986-1994 Department of Trade and Industry, Telecommunications Division, 1983-1986 |
| Physical description: | 49 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2006 Department of Trade and Industry |
| Accumulation dates: | 1975-1994 and possibly later |
| Selection and destruction information: | The selected files fall within collection theme 2.2.1.2 Management of the economy |
| Accruals: | About 37 metres to be reviewed between 2006 and 2017 - about 40-50% may be selected |
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