The UK cellular marketplace is the most de-regulated and buoyant telecommunications market in Europe, enjoying a significant share of the total European market. Cellnet was formed in 1983 as a joint venture between BT (60%) and Securicor. Cellnet was originally given one of the two licenses issued by the Department of Trade and Industry to operate cellular radio services in the UK, the other being given to Vodafone. As part of that agreement, both companies were assigned 300 radio channels for operation. This was called TACS (Total Access Communications System).

Inspec keywords: cellular radio; telecommunication network management; wireless channels

Other keywords: cellular network management centres; telecommunications market; UK cellular marketplace; TACS; cellular radio service; radio channel; European market; total access communication system

Subjects: Mobile radio systems