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• Farmers lobby group pushes for rural roaming

  01-04-2019 17:44
  The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has urged the UK Government and industry to push for a rural roaming mechanism to improve 4G coverage and close the digital divide.
  While it might sound like a good idea to bridge the economic and societal chasm created by the digital divide, it is immensely unpopular when you talk to most of the operators. It would, theoretically, improve coverage across the rural communities of the UK, though telcos have suggested it would stifle investment and d
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Carters heritage steam funfair

  01-04-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This summer there will be a chance to discover fairground art through the decades and hear the history of the vintage Carters Steam Fair.Carters Steam Fair is a unique attraction – it is an authentic travelling funfair entirely consisting of rare vintage equipment. The family that owns it live in vintage showman’s wagons and caravans, and the whole fair is moved from place to place with a classically decorated fleet of vintage lorries.
  It is now believed to be the largest vintage tra
  
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• Queen Liz set to live-stream and monetize Prince Phillip

  01-04-2019 14:33
  Tired of having to explain why Prince Philip keeps offending people and cultures, Queen Elizabeth is said to be setting up an OTT live-streaming service to monetize the gaffes.
  In between impressions of Colin Macrae, Prince Philip, the Duke of Cambridge, is well-known for unintentionally insulting anyone who didn’t gain at least three O-Levels from Eton or Harrow. According to sources, Queen Elizabeth has decided to mount the latest Go-Pro on her husband, which will be then live-strea
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Apple, Huawei and Europe

  01-04-2019 14:11
  Now with added video!
  
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• Foulness Museum reopens this weekend

  01-04-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the most difficult and inconvenient museums in England reopens this weekend, and it’s totally worth a visit. The Foulness Heritage Centre can be found deep inside a military firing range on the edge of Essex facing out to the North Sea.Being military grounds, the whole island is off-limits, save for a few farmers who still live there, save for one Sunday per month during the warmer seasons, when one road opens to the public.
  After a long 5-mile trip through the firing range, a churc
  
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• Facebook calls on governments to help control content on the Internet

  01-04-2019 13:34
  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has governments and regulators to play a more active role in developing new rules for the internet.
  In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Zuck claimed that the current rules of the internet have served his generation of entrepreneurs well, but “it’s time to update these rules to define clear responsibilities for people, companies and governments going forward.” He argued that companies like Facebook should not make daily judgments on
  
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• Insights into the Quality of Experience of Social Media Apps

  01-04-2019 12:39
  Today, there are a huge number of apps available for smartphones covering almost any use case one can think of. Network providers want to ensure that their mobile connection offers everyone a smooth usage experience, especially for the most popular smartphone apps that need Internet connectivity.
  Download this white paper to learn how the quality of experience (QoE) of social media apps such as Facebook can be tested on a smartphone including results. Please fill in the short form below to recei
  
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• Vivendi conditionally concedes defeat in TIM board battle

  01-04-2019 12:21
  French conglomerate Vivendi withdrew its bid to replace five TIM board members at the 11th hour but doesn’t seem happy about it.
  TIM shareholders were due to vote on Vivendi’s request to replace those board members it had identified as acting in bad faith last Friday. But at the meeting itself TIM CEO Luigi Gubitosi apparently had one last attempt to get Vivendi to back down and, amazingly, it did. Presumably it had realised it wasn’t going to win the vote and not to have it ra
  
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• Complacent UK telcos to be hit with compensation costs

  01-04-2019 10:53
  From today, all UK broadband and landline customers will be entitled to compensation for connectivity delays and faults.
  It could turn out to be quite a headache for the telcos, as while it will only cost £5 a day to compensate customers for any delays in providing services, the sum of the costs would have been £142 million for the industry across 2018. Today, April 1, is the first day of Ofcom’s new Automatic Compensation scheme.
  “We think it’s unacceptable that pe
  
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• FWA can be the fuel for fibre ambitions – Huawei CTO

  01-04-2019 10:52
  Fixed wireless access (FWA) should not be considered an alternative for fibre connectivity in the home, but that does not mean it should be ignored as a usecase to justify expenditure.
  “5G is not about speed but about making money,” said Paul Scanlan, CTO for the Huawei Carrier Business Group.
  Those who are basing business models around the idea that 5G will deliver faster connectivity are heading down a perilous road. There will be an opportunity to make money from faster connection
  
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• The 250th anniversary of London’s Gin Riots

  01-04-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today marks the 250th anniversary of one of London’s most destructive riots, and it all started over an attempt to stop people drinking gin.
  This was the era of the so-called Gin Craze, when the consumption of gin jumped manifold in the UK, and especially in London.
  The origins of the Gin Craze can be dated to the abolition of the monopoly held by the London Guild of Distillers, and then the relaxation of licensing, so that even small kitchens could produce gin legally.
  So popular was the
  
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• Vivendi withdraws bid to oust 5 directors from TIM's board

  01-04-2019 02:00
  Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder, Vivendi, has withdrawn its petition to remove 5 board members loyal to activist investor, Elliott Management Fund.
  TIM's boardroom is currently embroiled in the grips of a battle between its biggest shareholder Vivendi and activist investor fund Elliott Management. Elliott currently controls the fragile balance of power in the TIM boardroom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK consumers to be compensated for sub-par broadband

  01-04-2019 02:00
  Consumers in the UK who experience problems with their broadband services are to receive automatic compensation, as part of a new scheme launched by Ofcom.
  The scheme is voluntary, but the UK's largest internet service providers have all signed up, meaning that millions of customers will be offered refunds if their services fall below a certain level…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Irish government concludes there is no viable plan B

  01-04-2019 02:00
  David McCourt's National Broadband Ireland consortium looks set to win a €3 billion tender to provide superfast broadband services across the Republic of Ireland.
  According to a report in The Times, the Irish government has concluded that there is no viable plan B for the provision of 30Mbps services to some 540…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Infracapital secures 50% stake in SSE Enterprise Telecoms

  01-04-2019 02:00
  Capital investment firm Infracapital has acquired a 50 per cent stake in SSE Enterprise Telecoms, in a deal worth up to £380 million.
  Infracapital will pay an initial fee of £215 million and up to £165 million in additional performance related instalments…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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