The abandonment of the four digits started by 19 causes a certain technological fear. In the end nothing happened and everything ended up being a bit of an expensive scare.

It is a time when structural changes are faced in the company. The maintenance services of the Distribution Networks are grouped and the Hydraulic Power Plants work alone. The time of the optical cable has arrived. Thousands of kilometers are laid, most of it self-supporting OPGW cable. Requests for expanding bandwidth are increasing, forcing the so-called PDH technology to be abandoned in favor of SDH. Data processing will be provided by equipment with comprehensive processing of basic information until 2 Mb/s frames are delivered to the transmission equipment. They are called Newbridge.

The Communications Control Center grows in importance and symbolic language gains real importance. Words and acronyms are coined with Anglo-Saxon names that contain complicated technological philosophies: Router, Bridge, Gateway, Ethernet, PCM, RTC, ISDN, PDH, SDH, ATM, ADSL, Frame Relay, DECT, etc. Radiotelephony is integrated into the corporate network, allowing the miracle of communication between landlines, mobile phones, wireless phones, radio equipment and computers. The unification of telecommunications at the national level is a fact and what were previously competing electrical companies are now united under the same acronym: ENDESA. From here on it is no longer history, but the future, that will have to be told.