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Over 2,000 years we have learned to communicate over land, sea & space. How did it start? What might the future hold?
Early technologies of the telegraph, telephone, wireless, video and satellites brought new possibilities to connect with wider horizons.
From 1945 communications expanded and matured into microwave, satellite, mobile and internet technologies, a true digital revolution.
Overground and underground, telecommunications networks, buildings and equipment has changed our built environment.
The world we live in has been transformed by the discovery and development of the telegraph, telephone, wireless and video.
Technologies like the telephone, radio and mobile have changed the way we live our lives. Once regarded as miracles, they are now part of our daily lives.
The ways that companies communicated with the world and their own people provide us with voices and images from the past.
Over the last 160 years ownership and control over UK telecommunication channels has swung from private enterprise to public control and back again.
