Mercury Communications was a national telephone company in the United Kingdom, formed in 1981 as a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless, to challenge the then-monopoly...

Italy Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s Mercury Corporation, an American aircraft manufacturer Mercury Cyclecar...

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its...

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United...

the granting of a licence for a UK telecommunications network, Mercury Communications Ltd, as a rival to British Telecom. It was established as a subsidiary...

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead...

First launched as Mercury One2One (stylised one2one) on 7 September 1993, the network was originally operated by Mercury Communications. one2one was purchased...

alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, but it sold...

The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-300. The original E-6A manufactured...

Mercury (/ˈmɜːrkjʊri/; Latin: Mercurius [mɛrˈkʊrijʊs] ) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient...

services did not then exist. The civil telecoms monopoly ended when Mercury Communications arrived in 1983. The Post Office system evolved into British Telecom...

switch supplier role in the public telephone network. In 1996, Mercury Communications Ltd, subsidiary of UK-based Cable & Wireless, pulled out of the...

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in...

"Fibre optic technologies", Mercury Communications Ltd, August 1992. "Photonics & the future of fibre", Mercury Communications Ltd, March 1993. "Fiber Optic...

The Mercury Tracer is an automobile manufactured and marketed by Ford's Mercury division for model years 1987 through 1999, over three generations in...

Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson, also appeared in commercials, for Mercury Communications. Also in 2004 Enfield provided the voice of "The Roaming Gnome"...

of the split, there were five local exchange codes assigned to Mercury Communications and numbers in these ranges could be assigned to either code. This...

The Mercury Montego is a nameplate that was applied to three separate generations of vehicles marketed by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company....

The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and...

Company to expand into the satellite communications (SatCom), datalinks and space launch markets. In July 2017, Mercury Systems acquired Richland Technologies...

(JAXA) to the planet Mercury. The mission comprises two satellites launched together: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mio (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter...

telecommunications was broken with the granting of a licence to Mercury Communications. On 19 July 1982, the Government announced its intention to sell...

are sold through mobile aggregators. 0500 numbers, introduced by Mercury Communications (later known as Cable & Wireless, now Vodafone) in 1982, were also...

sleep. The characters also appeared in a series of TV adverts for Mercury Communications. The sketch Women: Know Your Limits! was plagiarised by a Danish...

disappeared over the horizon. Between ground stations, Mercury spacecraft were out of communications, except for an occasional unreliable HF message. In...

planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for Mercury Surface...

UK – on 8 September 2009. T-Mobile's UK unit had its origins in Mercury Communications, formed in 1989, and Orange had launched its services in 1994 while...

(ICSTIS) at the request of three network operators (British Telecom, Mercury Communications, and Vodafone) as a response to public criticism of their profiting...

Stromberg-Carlson from The Plessey Company plc. In 1996, the PBX businesses of Mercury Communications, a subsidiary of UK-based Cable & Wireless were also acquired. In...

under Margaret Thatcher's government at the start of the 1980s, Mercury Communications also provided a telex network, based on T200-series switching equipment...