Harsh!!!

Glad you liked it :-)

Popped up on my feed today. Good watch @IET

There is an element of that, a professional engineer should never damage anything intentionally without permission to be working on it, but there is also the small matter of the OBASS system electronically tracking site access. If the link is found damaged at 14:00 and you unlocked the building or room at 13:55, and nobody else was in until the next day, good luck explaining it wasn't you...

Sure way to get your company booted out from a DC if you do snoop around. There's one chinese isp device manufacturer who did get themselves banned from several around here.

Yep, very true. If you lose you job, you may be working for the other. All engineers talk to each other regardless of employer.

@@MikaelLevoniemi Huawei presumably?

Sabotage does not happen, It's more than likely an excuse not to say which rack belongs to whom, service providers always have something to hide from the public just like the government.

I worked there from 92 to 94.

PEACE AND LOVE I agree peace and love! :)

PEACE AND ulike

Glad you liked it

Glad you enjoyed it

tim bowerman You were right they did do that and still do if the queen needs to send a Christmas or birthday card out in an emergency.

European cities (up until the 1960s) didn't feel the need to 'shout' and tell people how great they were, as people already knew this. Also until the 60s cities in the UK and elsewhere in Europe didn't define themselves by how many skyscrapers they had, they defined themselves on their history and culture.

I hope they do someday!

You are right, there was a lot more rooms and items we got shown on our tour but we weren't allowed to film for security reasons

Governments love servile buffoons who don't ask questions such as yourself

​@@sharkheadism Good, bad, or indifferent, certain things are kept on the hush. If you served in the military, this concept would probably make more sense. Also, when the job is the means by which we support our families, you're motivated not to kick the hornet's nest. It's called common sense & self preservation my friend.

getting ahead of yourself saying its a "major video game" Whats the game called

It's part of the Shadow Gov spook network they're not interested in tour revenue that's small pickings for them .

More than 90 percent of the tower is still Official Secret.

Glad you like it

The Monument is still open to the public, costs a little more then 6 pence now though sadly. Maybe one day BT Tower will open the viewing gallery up to the public again although I don't think its likely any time soon

Perhaps we should do a tour there too!

IET if you can, it would be nice to know why they decided square for that one.

All of it...

True

It is still completely operational. In fact we made a film about one of the apprentices who work there kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLediKR6r628iXU.html

Ah that's a real shame!

I went up there in the days when it was open to the public. My folks were not wealthy and consequently could not afford it but a friend of mine had a meal with his folks in the revolving restaurant which was also open to the public. It was a very fashionable spot.

Not included in this tour I'm afraid. However we did shoot a profile video on an awesome engineering apprentice who does work on those floors you mentioned kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLediKR6r628iXU.html

This is where the BT money (in used notes) is stored in cardboard boxes, that they overcharged customers and don't put onto account books. 🤣

It's near the right side of the frame, halfway between the top and bottom.

A likely story. It won’t.

This is the UK, and everyone knows how iconic the BT Tower is. Besides I believe it has 'listed status'. This means that technically it cannot be dismantled or even altered (updated) as this would ruin its listed status, and it would no longer represent a classic piece of post-war British architecture. If it were in an American city, it would probably have been dismantled years ago. Of course it can updated on the inside (but with guidance), but cannot be altered on the outside.

@@handsoffmycactus2958 More than likey not as its UK slow can't decide Government. Its more than likely we be having in 2030 clockwork windup Broadband so over capacity the speed won't be a factor, it be the Server capacity at the other end that can't supply and bad latency.... Google properly will be a subscription service, it nearly is at the moment with KZfaqRED and GoogleONE; and the GoogleTV project starting up again soon. My assumption is the Internet will be come a fragmented Extranet with some connections being subscription. Ie, we be going back to AOL and Compuserve-GO days. Www. format we be old hat, browsers hardly being used, and we all be using Internet by Apps (Billy Gates (who said publically he doesnt use Windows but uses Linux) predicted this in 2015).

2019 was a crazy year but i don't think that's happened.....at least not yet

@@theiet It was in a "Goodies" episode back in the day...

Well the Doctor did a good job, we didn't see any when we were there

And giant cats of the Goodies?

There was a lot we couldn't show unfortunately, all very hush hush in there

Understand, was a cable jointer for many years, trunk junction, mains cable,loading pots, pcm routes, transverse screen etc.

He probably didn't have his GDU with him

@@dav01kar Did you work on the 60mz route... London - Birmingham - Manchester?

@@hooper7735 no

Sounds like a good video idea for this year...

London, UK

@@theiet Yeah sorry I reacted too soon, but there is much of Australia in it lol.

You are confusing Telecom Tower (AKA Post Office Tower) with Sydney Tower which is observation only - no communication.

Why would the building supposedly need an underground pendulum ?

klanza dumas not a clue

@@WillyJunior I heard of a building in Taiwan where a pendulum is used to counteract the wind force on the tower. I think it might be the same principal for the BT tower.

Its probably a small pendulum hanging against a wall, it shows the tilt/sway of the building on windy days.

He did seem like a bit of a bulls#itter, however there is something called a tuned mass damper which counteracts the movement of tall buildings, not quite a pendulum under a building.

4 years later, and FTTC and FTTP is really taking over. The backhaul needed doing first...

Unfortunate not, they closed it in 1980 because of security threats. They do hold the occasional corporate function up there though

Not sure if it was revolting, but revolving it was..

It’s not that interesting Ste, but the tower is.

Ste Uk.. That's alright. Don't feel bad about it. It's not a crime.

BT couldn't possibly have stolen the Post Office Tower because it was 20 years old before the Government sold off BT

I think we met a couple of people who agreed with you when we filmed this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd9imbaVqtbTn5s.html

photosphotos ... That is demonstrably untrue. The real question is... who's bullshiting who?

what did you come here to see?

He’s explaining a very complicated subject in reasonably simple terms for his audience although he himself was a very intelligent man. If you are half the man he was you wouldn’t have made that comment.