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We use the power of communications to make a
better world.

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Every day we connect millions of people to the
things that matter most to them.

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We were there right at the start of the age of
telecommunications.

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In 1846, our earliest ancestor, the Electric
Telegraph Company,

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started building the world's first national
telecommunications network.

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The telegraph became the telephone. 
"Trying to connect you."
Undersea cables, first in copper

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later in fibre and satellites, connected us to
the outside world.

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"This control room has tonight made history.
This equipment received perfect pictures from Telstar."

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We move the telephone into people's homes,

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into our communities, into our cars and into
our pockets.

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In 1943 British Telecommunications engineer
Tommy Flowers built the world's first

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programmable electronic computer.

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The 60s saw us pioneering the development
of fibre optic cable and opening the world's

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first digital exchange.

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In the 70s, we gave Britain its first
foretaste of the Internet age to come. 

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"At the end of March 1980 the Prestel computers will be
capable of supplying this service to 50% of

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telephone subscribers."
And in 1984 we developed and laid the world's first commercial single

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mode fibre system.

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"British Telecom's glass fibre light lines give
clearer communications and require less maintenance."

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Our leadership in fibre continues today, with

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record breaking transmission speeds over our network.

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Now, after 170 years of continuous
innovation, always reaching further and faster,

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we've become a truly global player, serving
customers in 180 countries.

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Our innovations have transformed the world we
live in,

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letting us connect people, businesses and
communities in ways previously thought

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impossible.
We've made telecommunications a fundamental

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part of human life and the connected world we
all share.

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The technologies we pioneered are central to
how we care for the sick,

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educate our children, keep our country safe and
deal with emergencies when they happen.

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"Emergency which service please?" 
From the telephone lines that carried John Logie Baird's

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first TV experiments, to the first outside broadcasts - 
"That's a man's face - there it is." -

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To today's interactive on demand world,

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we've transformed how we share news and events,
entertainment and sport.

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Today we help entrepreneurs start up, employees
collaborate and businesses reach their

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customers and manage complex global supply
chains.

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The UK is the largest digital economy in the G20 
and the rollout of ultrafast broadband has begun.

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In 2016, EE joined the BT family, bringing
together the UK's biggest,

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fastest mobile network with our own fibre network.

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The history of telecommunications is
inextricably linked with the story of

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innovation at BT.

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We've invented the future for over 170 years, transforming society,

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bringing people closer together and creating
new possibilities.

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We intend to be at the forefront of innovation
for a long time to come.

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It's where we've come from.

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It's where we belong.

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Our history of innovation is still being made.

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"Well, there you are.
That's the picture of modern telecommunications."

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