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Inside BT

We’ve all heard of BT, if you haven’t, British Telecommunications (BT for short) is a global communication operator, who inherited a nationwide copper landline network from the General Post Office back in the ’80’s, Providing a perfect network for telephone calls, however, when the first internet products were launched, the dial-up based network soon became congested. […]

BT Widemouth

This is BT’s Widemouth exchange, it serves less than 800 properties so it’s size and unusual features give’s away its history and its role in UK’s telecommunications. Construction was begun with the General post office in 1962 and finished a year later, designed to withstand nuclear fallout. The above ground building serves as a local telephone […]