Basil Binyon formed the Radio Communication Company Limited 1919 to produce radio equipment for use on board merchant and naval vessels. The radio sets were manufactured under the Polar Bear brand name. The polar bear was also the company trade mark.

In 1922, the Radio Communication Company Limited was one of six major telecommunications companies involved in setting up the British Broadcasting Company, later the British Broadcasting Corporation. Radio Communication Communication Company Limited worked alongside the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd, General Electric, Western Electric Co and British Thomson-Houston to decide how UK broadcasting should develop.

Radio Communication Company Limited merged with the Marconi Company in 1929. Binyon had worked with Guglielmo Marconi on the early development of the first transatlantic Morse code transmissions.