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• Reversal as London Overground ticket offices to remain open

  18-04-2019 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although earmarked to be closed, most of London Overground ticket offices are to remain open, after the Mayor of London diverted an additional £5m funding from London’s business rates.
  Last year it was announced that 51 ticket offices on the Overground would be closed, with a public consultation. In response to the consultation, London TravelWatch stated that 24 ticket offices should remain open, but 27 would still have been permanently lost.
  Of the new £5 million being provide
  
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• Nokia downplays report claiming it’s struggling to deliver 5G kit in South Korea

  18-04-2019 17:38
  A report has alleged that Nokia is struggling to fulfill its 5G commitments to the three South Korean MNOs, but Nokia sort of insists everything’s cool.
  Now it must be stressed this is just one report from a website called Business Korea that we’re not familiar with and we have yet to see the same claims made independently anywhere else. Having said that, if there is some substance to it then that’s not great news for Nokia and could have brand as well as financial consequences
  
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• Reviewers report major faults with Samsung’s new foldy screen

  18-04-2019 14:28
  A number of tech reviewers have reported the screens of their Galaxy Fold review units breaking soon after they started using them.
  Reviewers for The Verge, CNBC and Bloomberg all had major problems with the groundbreaking foldable screen soon after they got their hands on it. The Bloomberg case seemed to result from the removal of a protective film over the screen, which it wasn’t made clear shouldn’t be done. The other two don’t seem to have made that mistake, however, and re
  
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• FCC is likely to deny China Mobile’s licence application

  18-04-2019 14:00
  Ajit Pai, Chairman of FCC, has called on his colleagues to vote against granting a licence to China Mobile, citing national security concerns.
  In a public statement tilted “FCC Chairman Opposes China Mobile’s Telecom Services Application”, Pai said that he believed, after reviewing the relevant evidence, “China Mobile’s application to provide telecommunications services in our country raises substantial and serious national security and law enforcement risks. 
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tutankhamun tickets on sale soon

  18-04-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After it was announced, people wanted to book tickets to the forthcoming Tutankhamun London exhibition – but they are not on sale yet.
  The exhibition opening later this year will show off 150 original artefacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb, with 60 on their first journey outside Egypt.
  Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be housing the artifacts in a new gallery that’s under construction, and they are expected to never leave again – so the visit to London is likely to be
  
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• Huawei responds to study questioning who really owns it

  18-04-2019 11:32
  A recent academic study cast doubt on Huawei’s claim to be owned by its employees, but Huawei itself says the conclusions are “completely unsubstantiated”.
  The study, which Telecoms.com reported on earlier this week, is called “Who Owns Huawei” and is written by a couple of Professors. It claims to use publicly available data to call into question Huawei’s ownership and therefore who ultimately controls it. In the context of all the heat Huawei is getting from
  
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• Europe approves new internet rules designed to rein in Amazon and co

  18-04-2019 10:22
  As part of the overall Digital Single Market programme, the European Parliament has voted to approve new regulations claiming to protect European businesses and consumers when using online platforms to trade.
  The “Regulation on platform-to-business trading practices” has been almost two years in the making since the publication of a document titled “Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market: Opportunities and Challenges for Europe” by the European Commission in May 2
  
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• Westminster Abbey’s Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries

  18-04-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  High up above the Nave of Westminster Abbey is a new exhibition space, with incidentally, what has often been described at the “the best view in Europe”.The new Galleries are set more than 50 feet above the Abbey’s floor in the medieval triforium, an area that has never been open to the public before.
  Apart from the galleries themselves, the other exciting thing to see is the staircase to get up to them, the first major addition to the ancient church since Nicholas Hawksmoor&rs
  
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• FCC chair opposes China Mobile’s effort to enter US market

  18-04-2019 07:59 via ft.com
  Ajit Pai urges telecoms watchdog to vote against company’s application next month
  
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• Huawei promises a $600 5G smartphone

  18-04-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Chinese group throws down challenge to rivals with cut-price handset
  
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• Three UK asks Ofcom to drop costly rural connectivity initiative

  18-04-2019 02:00
  Three UK has called on the UK’s telecoms regulator, Ofcom, to ditch a scheme intended to boost connectivity in the country’s hard to reach rural locations…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei sharpens its commitment to R&D with the launch of Innovation 2.0

  18-04-2019 02:00
  Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has launched its Innovation 2.0 initiative, which will see the company double down on research and development and innovation.Through the initiative…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson well positioned to cash in on 5G, as Q1 revenues jump by 7%

  18-04-2019 02:00
  Swedish network equipment provider, Ericsson, has posted revenues of SEK 48.9 billion ($5.27 billion) in the first quarter of 2019, an increase of 7 per cent on Q1 2017.
  The company attributed its strong performance to increased revenues in the US and said that it was well positioned to reap the financial benefits of its investment in 5G over the next year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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