The BT Tribune Phone, 1987

The little push-button phone pictured above does not look particularly special, but it forms an important part of British Telecom's advertising history.
In 1980, the telecommunications department of the Post Office became British Telecom, and in 1981 BT became a totally separate public corporation. The 1980s saw many changes in telecommunications in the UK - with the arrival of easy plug-in phones, phonecards, portable phones and mobile phones.
Push button phones date back to at least the 1960s, but it was not until the 1980s in Britain that the button took over from the dial in popularity.
In the 1980s, BT first offered phones for sale (before that