Telecom Éireann

Telecom Éireann (; meaning "Telecommunications of Ireland") was an Irish state-owned telecommunications company that operated from 1983 to 1999. Prior to then a telephone and postal service was provided by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (known as "P and T" or "P⁊T" in Gaelic script), as part of the civil service. Telecom Éireann was established by the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983; its full formal title was "Bord Telecom Éireann or, in the English language, The Irish Telecommunications Board". "Bord Telecom Éireann" is misspelled "Board Telecom Éireann" in the relevant clause in the online text; it is spelled correctly in the printed text and elsewhere in the online text.|group="nb"}} "Telecom Éireann" may be translated as "Telecom of Ireland". In 1999, the company was privatised and renamed as ''eircom''. Provided by Wikipedia