What the world's oldest telecommunications company looks like today
Engadget | 16.08.2026 01:00
BT Group is best known today for broadband, mobile service and the infrastructure running underneath much of the UK's communications network. Its history, however, starts long before the telephone was a household fixture. BT's lineage reaches back to the Electric Telegraph Company, founded by William Fothergill Cooke and businessman John Lewis Ricardo in 1846 to commercialize electric telegraph technology developed by Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
