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• There’s a 155 million year old dinosaur inside Heathrow Airport

  03-04-2019 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you go down to Heathrow today, you’re sure of a big surprise — because there’s a 13 metre long dinosaur in a Terminal building.It’s not a traveller who got stuck in the immigration queue, but a 155 million year old relic that’s being sold off by the French auction house, Aguttes in June for an expected £2 million.
  Nicknamed Skinny, this cousin of the diplodocus which is still to be given a scientific name, is 13 metres long and 8 metres high (with his base)
  
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• Could Orange’s CEO end up in prison?

  03-04-2019 18:29
  Orange CEO Stephane Richard is widely respected throughout the telco industry, but he is also currently embroiled in a legal battle which could land him behind bars.
  For his alleged role in the misuse of public funds while he was working for the Finance Ministry, French prosecutors have called for Richard to be sentenced to three years in jail. He would only spend half this time in prison, but this would be 18 months too long for almost everyone you ask.
  The trial itself is drawing to a clo
  
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• Trade union slams BT restructuring plans

  03-04-2019 17:22
  Trade union Prospect has hit out at BT’s drawn out plans to cut 13,000 staff as part of a restructuring plans to cut £1.5 billion a year from the spreadsheets.
  Holding an open ballot to measure the reception of BT’s ‘People Framework’, the proposed organizational structure following the restructure, BT employees represented by Prospect have overwhelmingly rejected the proposal. 96.3% voted against the proposal.
  While former CEO Gavin Patterson spent years forking ou
  
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• The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance brings together government and industry leaders to discuss the future of spectrum management at its Global Summit 2019

  03-04-2019 16:52
  The International Telecommunication Union will be joined by leading wireless industry players as demand for spectrum resources continues to riseWashington D.C, 03 April 2019: Representatives from Microsoft, Google, Cisco Systems, HP Enterprise, Broadcom, Mimosa, and Ruckus Networks will join the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and many other speakers at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance’s (DSA’s) upcoming seventh annual Global Summit. Taking place in Washington D.C, June 25-2
  
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• SK Telecom is bolstering 5G launch with rich content

  03-04-2019 16:28
  South Korea’s largest mobile operator will switch on 5G service for consumers on Friday and has plenty of goodies for consumers to fill the bandwidth with.
  After publishing its 5G service packages for consumers, SK Telecom (SKT) announced that it is beefing up content, from streamed games to HD and VR videos, that the 5G users can choose from. In a press release the company claimed it has secured around 8,000 different content titles.
  A special section for 5G called “SKT 5GX” i
  
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• Events to mark the Didcot to Oxford Railway’s 175th Anniversary

  03-04-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year marks the 175th anniversary of the railway between Oxford and Didcot, and they’re having a special day of celebrations on 15th June 2019.
  There will be events at or near all five stations along the line – Didcot, Appleford, Culham, Radley and Oxford – and you’ll be able to buy a special “hop-on/hop-off” GWR ticket to take you from one station to the next
  The ticket will also include entry to the Didcot Railway Centre.
  On the day, the Flying Scotsman
  
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• Spurs and HPE hope to show how stadium wifi should be done

  03-04-2019 14:33
  The long-awaited new Tottenham Hotspur stadium hosts its first Premier League match today and fans might even be able to get on the wifi for once.
  Stadium connectivity has long been a signature connectivity challenge, thanks mainly to the exceptionally high density of population. Despite numerous claimed advances in high capacity routers, base stations, etc, user experience in high density environments such as stadia, airports and conference venues etc has generally been rubbish.
  In an attempt t
  
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• Verizon’s new mobile tariff for kids falls short of European equivalents

  03-04-2019 13:20
  Dubbed “the first smartphone plan designed for kids,” Verizon’s new package will also come with tools for parents to track and control children’s online life, but Europe has been there for a while.
  While there may still be debate over the pros and cons of early mobile phone ownership by children in certain quarters of the world, Verizon is looking beyond this and offering a new tariff package called “Just Kids” that the company says will make it “easier
  
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• A “steampunk” exhibition by a Victorian eccentric

  03-04-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An exhibition is opening soon showing off rediscovered and restored photographic work of one the 19th century’s strangest characters, Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson. The photos look like modern day steampunk, but are all over a hundred years old.
  (c) Nick Simpson
  Actually, scratch that – they are modern day steampunk — being the work of artist Nick Simpson.
  However, unlike some, he has also woven a fantastic tale of a Victorian eccentric who made these photographs on glass p
  
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• Apple fights back in China with iPhone price cuts

  03-04-2019 12:34
  Apple has taken advantage of a reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) to cut the price of some iPhone models as it attempts to recapture the attention of distracted Chinese consumers.
  What used to be a profit machine for Apple is now proving to be a difficult market. During the most recent financial results, sales in Greater China declined to $13.1 billion, 15.6% of total revenues, compared to $17.9 billion, or 20.3% in the same period of 2017. The overarching smartphone segment in struggling, but i
  
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• Taking advantage of intent-based networking automation

  03-04-2019 12:19
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece David Erickson, co-founder and CEO of Forward Networks, makes the case for intent-based networking and its use in existing networks.
  Perhaps the most exciting network evolution in recent years is intent-based networking (IBN). IBN is a visionary approach to network automation and management that aligns the intended high-level behavior and policies of the network w
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks, Bernays Gardens, HA7

  03-04-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hidden behind a high way away from the main town centre is a garden that sits on the site of an old Manor House.The Manor House was built in 1930 by the local property developer Samuel Wallrock on the site of an older building, and done in a mock Tudor effect, and the gardens were also laid out in a similar style. The grounds included an alpine garden and caves based on those at Cheddar Gorge; apparently unusual for the time, mature trees were brought in to give the gardens a more mature appeara
  
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• SK Telecom rolls out 34,000 base stations ahead of Korea's 5G launch on Friday

  03-04-2019 02:00
  SK Telecom has claimed it will offer the most comprehensive network services in the country, ahead of South Korea’s 5G launch later this week.  As of close of play on Tuesday SK Telecom had completed the rollout of 34…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Global fixed line broadband subscriptions to hit 1.3bn by 2025

  03-04-2019 02:00
  As the telecoms sector goes in search of its next billion subscribers, global fixed line broadband subscriptions will hit 1.3 billion by 2025, according to a panel of industry experts…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European regulator warming to Vodafone’s Liberty Global deal

  03-04-2019 02:00
  The European Commission has reduced the number of objections it has registered against Vodafone’s proposed €18.4 billion acquisition of a string of Liberty Global&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G is big business but only if we hurry up

  03-04-2019 01:01
  A report from Barclays Corporate Banking suggests 5G could add £15.7 billion to the UK economy by 2025 but only if network deployment is done faster.
  While progress is being made, the Barclays team forecast the current rate of deployment would add £13 billion to UK businesses, though any hurdles could drop this figure to £8.3 billion. By 2030, the size of the UK economy could be increased by between 0.88% and 1.54% compared to a situation where no national 5G network. The middl
  
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