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Department of Industry and successors: Posts and Telecommunications Division and...
Catalogue reference: PV 8
What's it about?
PV 8
The files in this series relate mainly to the liberalisation of the telecommunications market culminating in the Telecommunications Act 1984 which permitted the licensing of more than one public telecommunication operator thus ending British...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PV 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Industry and successors: Posts and Telecommunications Division and successors: Registered Files (TELS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1975-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series relate mainly to the liberalisation of the telecommunications market culminating in the Telecommunications 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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The files are arranged in file number order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- TELS
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 49 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2006 Department of Trade and Industry
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1975-1994 and possibly later
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- About 37 metres to be reviewed between 2006 and 2017 - about 40-50% may be selected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The selected files fall within collection theme 2.2.1.2 Management of the economy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16263/
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Department of Industry and successors: Posts and Telecommunications Division and successors: Registered Files (TELS Series)
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