Readers who have been following ABTN”s battles with BT might like to hear this story which recently came via BBC Newsnight.
After digging to a depth of 100m last year, Russian scientists found traces of copper wiring dating back 1,000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.
Not to be outdone, German experts soon dug 200m, and headlines in the newspapers of the fatherland read: "Berlin historians have found traces of 2,000 year old optical fibres, and have concluded that their ancestors already had high-tech digital telephones 1,000 years before ze Russians.”
One week later, the Irish press reported that "After digging as deep as 500m, Irish explorers have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5,000 years ago, their ancestors were already using mobile phones."