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• Red vests for London Underground staff

  12-02-2019 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  London Underground staff are being issued with new red vests to be worn in stations from next week, so that they are more visible to passengers.
  The red tabards are reversible, pairing the standard orange high visibility vest with a red vest featuring a ‘Here to Help’ message on the back.The vests have been purchased following recommendations from London TravelWatch on how London Underground could improve customer service now that the ticket offices are closed in most stations.
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• BT manages to give Kirkby a job after all

  12-02-2019 19:34
  Allison Kirkby, the new CEO of Danish telco TDC, has found the time to become a non-executive director of BT too.
  Kirkby was thought to be one of the front-runners for the BT CEO job, following Gavin Patterson’s decision to spend more time with his yachts. But she took herself out of the running when her employer at the time of the executive search, Tele2, merged with Com Hem, and Kirkby took that opportunity to start a new gig at TDC.
  In the end BT went for former Worldpay boss Philip Jan
  
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• Democrats demand Sprint merger with T-Mobile be blocked

  12-02-2019 19:19
  Mooted telecoms deal takes political heat as presidential candidates weigh in
  
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• China at the centre of US/Hungary passive aggressive spat

  12-02-2019 16:55
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the European roadshow with the intention of lobbying other governments towards a China ban, but Hungary’s message is clear: mind your own business.
  “We Hungarians, the Hungarian Government, has based our foreign policy on mutual respect, and we think that the world is not going to be a better place if some countries do spend their times by intervening in internal political affairs of other countries or lecturing other countries,” sai
  
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• Mesh wifi goes mainstream as Amazon acquires Eero

  12-02-2019 14:08
  Amazon’s push into the connected home took another step with the acquisition of mesh wifi specialist Eero.
  Mesh wifi has been put forward as the next generation of wifi router technology, which uses multiple nodes to not only resolve coverage issues but also create an electronic map of the home such that your interaction with the network can have a positional element. Qualcomm has been bigging up mesh for a while and Samsung has gone big on it in the US, where it seems to have the greatest
  
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• Ericsson and Intel partner for 5G cloud platform

  12-02-2019 13:27
  Ericsson and Intel have announced a new partnership which is aimed at aligning the Swedes efforts for software-defined infrastructure with Intel’s Rack Scale Design.
  The resulting hardware management platform will be designed for telcos targeting 5G, NFV, and distributed cloud. In theory, the pair aims to create a common managed hardware pool for all workloads that dynamically scales. It’s the scalable and affordable dream telcos have been promised for years.
  The duo has said the new
  
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• Cryptic book illustrations go on display in Freemasons’ Hall

  12-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An exhibition of old books has gone on display in Covent Garden that seeks to explain the often cryptic messages hidden within their illustrations.Most illustrations of the time contained messages that people would recognise as providing a second layer of meaning to the educated reader — and Freemasons were no different in how their books were produced.
  In times past, books were usually sold without decorative covers, for the illustrations were inside, and if there were illustrations insid
  
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• China plummeting and India soaring but Apple just can’t get a break

  12-02-2019 12:39
  IDC had a stab at smartphone shipments in two of the worlds most lucrative markets, and it does not make pleasant reading for Apple.
  As the Apple management team has now decided against dishing out the specifics on iPhone shipments in the quarterly statements, analysts are the closest we’re going to get for sales figures. Here, IDC is suggesting a sluggish market overall in China, with iPhone sales dropping considerably, while the Indian market is booming, but Apple can’t claim a sli
  
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• AT&T claims its customers love 5GE

  12-02-2019 12:29
  In response to rival US operator Sprint suing it for deception over its 5G Evolution move, AT&T has insisted it’s just thinking of the punters.
  “We understand why our competitors don’t like what we are doing, but our customers love it, opened the AT&T statement. “We introduced 5G Evolution more than two years ago, clearly defining it as an evolutionary step to standards-based 5G.  5G Evolution and the 5GE indicator simply let customers know when their device
  
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• Blanket bans on China tech firms make no sense

  12-02-2019 12:00
  Technical judgments should be made on a clear-eyed view of the potential threat
  
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• Europe has not been great at net neutrality – report

  12-02-2019 11:33
  Nearly three years after the EU net neutrality regulations came into effect, neither service providers nor national regulators have been role models in following the rules, a new report concluded.
  The Vienna-based non-profit organisation Epicenter.works recently published a report to present its multi-year research into how the EU’s net neutrality regulation has been implemented. The report, titled “The Net Neutrality Situation in the EU: Evaluation of the First Two Years of Enforcem
  
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• New documentary about Crossrail on BBC2 this week

  12-02-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new two-part TV series about the construction of the Crossrail tunnels and their fit-out into an operational railway starts this week on BBC. With exclusive access, this returning series follows the construction workers of Crossrail as they battle to finish the final stages of the new Elizabeth line beneath the streets of London.
  The cameras follow the engineers, technicians and train staff who are under pressure to complete their section of the project, including building and fitting out 10 b
  
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• Vodafone Qatar celebrates first ever full year profit

  12-02-2019 01:00
  Vodafone Qatar has recorded its first ever annual profit, posting net profits of 118 million Qatari Riyals ($32.4 million) for the full year of 2018.During the same period, Vodafone Qatar increased its post paid customer base by 24.1 per cent.“2018 was defined by strong financial performance and a year that truly marked a significant turning point in the life of our Company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Qualcomm divests e-health division to focus on core business objectives

  12-02-2019 01:00
  US chipset manufacturer Qualcomm has divested its healthcare focussed subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, for an undisclosed fee, according to a company statement. US private equity firm Francisco Partners has acquired the business unit for an undisclosed fee…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Norway poised to become a subsea powerhouse

  12-02-2019 01:00
  Norway is becoming an increasingly prominent player in the subsea sector thanks to its role as a power generation hub, according to industry experts. Speaking at the Submarine Networks EMEA event in London today…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom reveals third 5G-City

  12-02-2019 01:00
  European Telecoms heavyweight Deutsche Telekom has named Darmstadt as its third 5G test city, according to a company release. Darmstadt follows Berlin and Hamburg in becoming one of Germany’s prime 5G trial locations…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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