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Written by Peter Henry on 2024-11-09 at 08:01

[#]Broadband water pipe - first? nearly

!n 1977, my company HQ was in Great Portland Street, London. Mild panic when I got a letter from LHW Co Ltd. saying they would no longer supply power for £13/pm. It was the London Hydraulic Power that had supplied power from the Tower Bridge engines to run lifts and heavy stuff in the surrounding few miles. 1877-1977.

A couple of weeks later Mercury Communications bought the assets for 1p and cabled The City with a fast digital network = master stroke

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