Greenwich and Woolwich along the River Thames began was is now the global network that lets people communicate by phone, WhatsApp, Facebook and other platforms. Even watch YouTube videos.
Alan Burkitt-Gray, a telecoms and technology journalist who lives in south-east London, tells the story, in this 2020 talk to the Greenwich Industrial History Society, about why the global telecoms industry began here in the 1850s -- partly thanks to the research done at the Royal Institution and at Kings College London by people who set up the world's first telecoms industry.
Today, more than 170 years later, there is still a telecoms factory in Greenwich. Alcatel Submarine Networks is on the site of the factory that has been building subsea telecoms cables since 1850.

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