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The Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) (the telecommunications regulator) was a department in the United Kingdom government, under civil service control, charged with promoting competition and maintaining the interests of consumers in the UK telecommunications market. It was set up under the Telecommunications Act 1984 after privatisation of the nationalised operator BT.

Oftel was accused by critics such as Freeserve of having been "captured" by BT, and of giving the dominant operator too much freedom to leverage its monopoly status in fixed line telephony into other markets such as ADSL.[1]

On 29 December 2003, the duties of Oftel were inherited by Ofcom, which was the result of the consolidation of five separate British telecommunications, radio spectrum and broadcasting regulators.

Director-General of Oftel

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  • Bryan Carsberg 1 August 1984 – 12 June 1992
  • Bill Wigglesworth (acting) 13 June 1992 – 31 March 1998
  • Donald Cruickshank 1 April 1993 – 31 March 1998
  • David Edmonds 1 April 1998 – 29 December 2003
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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Tim Richardson (2002-05-20). "Freeserve slams Oftel over BT Broadband". The Register. Archived from the original on 2002-06-06. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
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List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Oftel (1 June 1999). "Numbers Used For Drama. ca. 1999". Oftel Numbering Bulletin 38. Office of Telecommunications

Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom

Erdunast, Howard (16 May 2003). "BT's Response to the Consultation by OFTEL on Proposals to Publish a National Telephone Numbering Plan" (PDF). British

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direct government control, with the foundation of regulatory bodies such as Oftel (1984), Ofgas (1986), and the National Rivers Authority (1989). There was

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from the award of digital terrestrial television multiplex licences". UK: OFTEL. 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 4 July 2011. Retrieved

Big Number Change

Independent Print Limited. Retrieved 2012-11-11. Oftel (1999-06-01). "Numbers Used For Drama. ca. 1999". Oftel Numbering Bulletin 38. Office of Telecommunications

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service of follow me numbers, on area code 700. After protracted lobbying of Oftel throughout 1992, FleXtel launched the UK's first Personal Telephone Number

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Stanford White – a former AT&T executive – brought this to the attention of Oftel. After the Duopoly Review White Paper in 1991, it was clear that there was