BT is the world’s oldest telecommunications company, with its
origins in the Electric Telegraph Company in 1846. Today BT is one
of the UK’s largest companies. It employs around 75,000 people
in the UK and is one of the world’s leading providers of
communications solutions and services, serving the needs of
customers in more than 170 countries. Its principal activities include
the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and
international telecommunications services to customers for use at
home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products
and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services.