| Short Title: | Telegraph Act 1899 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to make further Provision for the Improvement of Telephonic Communication, and otherwise with respect to Telegraphs. |
| Year: | 1899 |
| Citation: | 62 & 63 Vict. c. 38 |
| Territorial Extent: | United Kingdom |
| Royal Assent: | 9 August 1899 |
| Original Text: | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/62-63/38/enacted |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | yes |
The Telegraph Act 1899 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that allowed urban district, borough and burgh councils to construct and operate telephone exchanges, on a similar basis to the then-usual municipal provision of other utilities.
Licences were granted to Glasgow, Belfast, Grantham, Huddersfield, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Chard, Portsmouth, Hull, Oldham, Swansea, Scarborough and West Hartlepool. Six of these licences were used to provide a telephone service:
Of these, only the Hull service remains as an independent operation and is now known as KCOM.