Britain’s Invisible Infrastructure: Why One Network Is No Longer Enough
Most people only think about the network behind their phone or laptop when it stops working — when a video call freezes, a train tunnel goes silent, or a storm knocks out the router. Yet behind that everyday convenience sits one of the most consequential engineering stories in modern Britain: a decades-long shift from a single telephone system to a patchwork of overlapping networks, each built to solve a problem the others cannot.