In message , at 16:47:51 on Sun, 11 Apr
2021, Sam Wilson remarked:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:42:30 on Sun, 11
Apr 2021, Marland remarked:

I think it was the 1970’s when the lightening protection cable
linking the pylons out of Fawley was replaced by a new combined cable
developed by BICC as one of the first experimental links to use it.

The Energis Internet backbone.

And later similar techniques by Scottish Power/Scottish Telecom/

That's right, the Scottish Equivalent of Energis.

thus/

Mainly the old Demon empire, bought by ST; rebranded.

Cable & Wireless/Vodafone. I think the rump is still in the Vodafone
empire.

C&W bought Energis and thus; and later Vodafone bought C&W.

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Roland Perry