BT has a long history of innovation…
1846 Electric Telegraph Company – World’s 1st telecommunications company
1926 World’s 1st transatlantic telephone call
1943 Colossus: World’s 1st digital programmable computer
1962 World’s 1st satellite telephone call
1968 World’s 1st digital exchange
1980 World’s 1st submarine optical fibre
1984 World's 1st 140 Mb/s commercial single mode optical fibre link
2014 World’s 1st 3Tb/s fibre super-channel
BT research and development activities
*Source: EU Industrial R&D Investor Scoreboard 2008-2012**Source: British Telecommunications plc Report & Accounts 2014
largest investor in R&D in the UK over past five years*
3rdlargest fixed line telecoms R&D investor in the world over past five years*
2nd
invested in R&D in 2013/14**£532m
spent on R&D over the last five years**
£3.1 billion
scientists and technologists employed worldwide**
14,000 patents in our portfolio**4300