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Telecom Tower  Originally the Post Office Tower when it opened in 1965, the British Telecom Tower in London, England, had a revolving restaurant at 158.5 m/520 ft. This was closed when the Post Office monopoly was broken up and British Telecom took over the tower. The overall height has since been added to – it now stands at 189 m/620 ft (including the 12 m/40 ft mast), and has 898 steps. | Building in London, 189 m/620 ft high. It was completed in 1966, as a microwave relay tower capable of handling up to 150,000 simultaneous telephone conversations and over 40 television channels. It is still a microwave and television communications hub, although telephone calls have increasingly been diverted from microwave to fibre-optic cable. |
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