Information society : agenda for action in the UK : evidence received after 31 March 1996 / Select Committee on Science and Technology.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Science and Technology Committee.
- Date:
- 1996
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Information society : agenda for action in the UK : evidence received after 31 March 1996 / Select Committee on Science and Technology. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![23 April 1996] [Continued Annex A 1 TRANSMISSION or business premises. cable TV networks. two-way telephony. 2 SWITCHING which are used extensively within the Internet. 3 DATA STORAGE 4 BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG). March 1996 Chairman 501. Good morning, Dr Rudge, thank you very much for coming. Would you like to begin by introducing yourself and your colleagues and then making any sort of preliminary statement that you think would be most helpful to us? (Dr Rudge) Thank you very much. Thank you for the invitation to come here today. First of all, on my right is Rupert Gavin, whom some of you have met, he is in BT the Director responsible for our multimedia service provision activities. John Butler, on my left, is a Director of our Regulatory Affairs activity and he is an expert in the regulatory areas of BT. Behind me I have my colleague, Dr Rowbotham, Director of Technology Strategy, and some other colleagues who will provide support to us if your questions demand it. Thank you for the opportunity to say a few words in advance. I would like to start by stating perhaps the obvious: that BT is a major United Kingdom company and it is operating in what is the most open telecommunications market in the world. We have currently 150 licensed operators to compete against so we are not short of competition. We do believe in fair competition and competition has helped to shape the BT of today.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32218631_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
