BBC NEWS | Technology | History lessons for wireless networks Rabbit? I guess I’m on an “old technology” kick today.

Barnet in North London has much to recommend it but few would associate it with the history of UK technology.

Yet Platform 1 of New Barnet station is home to a relic of an almost forgotten technology whose demise may hold lessons for anyone cashing in on the current craze for all things wireless.

On the platform is a sign showing that it was once possible to use the Rabbit phone service on the station.

Subscribers to the service, backed by Hutchison Whampoa, could make mobile calls when they were within 100 metres of a Rabbit transmitter.

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Guy Kewney on the Rabbit Phone