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On 19 July 1982, the Government announced its intention to sell
shares in British Telecom to the public. On 1 April 1984, British
Telecommunications was incorporated as a public limited company (plc) in
anticipation of the passing of the Telecommunications Bill. This Bill
received Royal Assent on 12 April, and the transfer to British
Telecommunications plc from British Telecom as a statutory corporation
of its business, its property, its rights and liabilities took place on 6
August 1984.
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According to Jacob Ward, the privatization of British Telecom was
a "landmark moment for neoliberalism." It became a model for other
countries that sold their state utilities. Planners in the Long Range
Planning Department used new computer models to support the transition
of telecommunications and more generally the dramatic move from social
democracy to neoliberalism, from monopoly to market. The
telecommunications network was essential to plans for the digitalization
of the economy. Computer simulations were needed to support
neoliberalism, both as a managerial tool that could simulate free
markets, as well as a technology that enabled the contraction of the
government’s role in the private sector
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