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BT Tower marks the end of a communications era
Wednesday February 08th 2012. Posted: 09:10
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Stuart Wilding is pictured near the top of the BT Tower
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The last giant communications dish has been removed from the top of the 152-metre high BT Tower in Birmingham.
BT’s specialist rigging team defied winter weather to carry out the delicate operation to remove the 700kg four-metre wide analogue dish. It marks the end of a communications era for the tallest tower in the Midlands. Mick O’Callaghan, one of the BT engineers involved in the operation, said: “This is indeed a landmark day at a landmark building, but communications technology is moving at such a pace, there’s always something new and exciting around the corner.” Engineering life The team took several hours to unbolt the aluminium aerial and then winch it down to earth using the crane at the top of the tower. It’s the last of around 12 giant analogue dishes - previously used to transmit television signals and telephone calls - to have been taken down from the building in recent months. Around 80 smaller dishes - each measuring about half a metre in diameter - remain at the top of the tower providing a variety of communications services for customers, such as mobile operators. The BT Tower in Birmingham was officially opened in 1967.
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