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• UK wants to force internet companies to think of the children

  15-04-2019 18:52
  A UK regulator has drafted 16 things internet companies need to do to help protect children online or else.
  To be precise it has launched a consultation of a document called ‘Age appropriate design: a code of practice for online services’, but there is little precedent for these consultations resulting in anything other than plan A being fully implemented. It lays down a bunch of rules that anyone providing online services that could be accessed by children – i.e. nearly all of
  
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• There are now more churches in the UK than pubs

  15-04-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Timely news from the National Church Trust which has been watching the demise of the local pub for the date that the number of pubs sinks below the number of churches.
  There are around 39,000 pubs in the UK, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, with more than 11,000 pubs having closed in the UK in the last decade – a fall of almost a quarter (23%).
  By comparison, there are around 40,300 church buildings in the UK that are open to the public and/or being u
  
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• Trump calls for US 5G leadership once more

  15-04-2019 14:57
  At a press conference the US President endorsed FCC plans to improve the country’s position in the global 5G race.
  President Trump likes to cherry-pick the people who stand behind him when he is public speaking and, as well as FCC Chaiman Ajit Pai, on first glance he seemed to have some kind of Village People tribute band in attendance. As you can see from the video below, however, they turned out to be telecoms engineers and some kind of rural broadband lobby group.
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• How will we know if early 5G deployments are successful?

  15-04-2019 13:49
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece telecoms industry consultant William Webb offers some tips on how to track the success of 5G rollouts.
  The first 5G networks are just getting deployed now with emerging rivalry between the US and South Korea. Operators talk of the blazingly fast speeds that might be delivered, but while impressive, is that how we should judge success when it comes to rolling
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: AI, regulation and 5G spectrum

  15-04-2019 13:46
  Now with added video!
  
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• As Facebook fails once more Zuck faces rebellion from activist investors

  15-04-2019 13:04
  All Facebook sites were down once more yesterday, which coincides with Facebook shareholders calling for its founder to have less control over the company.
  According to Bloomberg this marked the third time this year the social media giant has suffered a major outage. Not just Facebook, but Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger were all affected by the outage, reminding everyone just how much social goodness is controlled by just one company. Facebook doesn’t seem to have said anything other th
  
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• Verizon strengthens commercial messaging platform

  15-04-2019 13:01
  After providing call filtering features for free, Verizon is going to update its commercial messaging platform to better protect customers.
  Verizon announced that an updated commercial messaging platform will be launched within a month to improve the protection of users. “This new platform will improve spam protections while continuing to enable commercial providers of SMS text messages capacity at scale,” the carrier said in a statement.
  The platform refers to Verizon’s &ldquo
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cockpit Steps, SW1

  15-04-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Named after an inn and a dark period of history, this rather posh passage and charming steps can be found just around the corner from Parliament.While most tourists use a main gate just down the road, the Cockpit Steps are used by local workers heading to the posh offices that surround St James.It is however named after the Royal Cockpit which used to be next door, which was an inn that also carried out the barbaric — if at the time very popular — sport of cock fighting. Despite it&r
  
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• An exhibition of railway footbridges at Waterloo Station

  15-04-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The mezzanine at Waterloo Station has been filled with photographs of railway footbridges — as part of the Network Rail retrospective study.
  Wylam (c) Luke O’Donovan
  Railway footbridges range from the ornate iron of Victorian times through simple concrete structures at rural stations and the municipal steel of the 1970s. They are often one of the defining features of railway stations, even more so than the ticket hall, which may look grand (sometimes) from the street, but is often ba
  
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• Huawei in Germany, ECB pressure, Apple v Qualcomm

  15-04-2019 06:01
  Germany’s telecoms regulator says Huawei can stay in the 5G network race
  
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• Do telcos need a 5G timeout?

  15-04-2019 02:00
  Delaying the role out of 5G mobile network services could help operators to make a better return on their investment, according to industry experts. Speaking exclusively to Total Telecom last week, Angus Ward, CEO of BearingPoint, said that telcos were being rushed into rolling out 5G services by their consumers, despite the fact that 5G use cases in the consumer sector have not yet been proven to be profitable…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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