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• Plans shown off for a bridge across the Thames at the Barrier

  03-06-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Thames Barrier could get a pedestrian bridge next to it under plans that have been shown off by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
  The proposed 530-metre long “Barrier Bridge” is a multi-span, double-leaf bascule bridge that would be situated immediately upstream or downstream of the Thames Barrier.Yellow steel box girders support an aluminium mesh deck and with a clearance of 15 metres above high water spring tides, most boats will be able to pass underneath. However when larger boa
  
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• Trump tweets anti-AT&T tirade

  03-06-2019 16:37
  Its often said the pen is mightier than the sword, but President Donald Trump seems to think his twitter account is the literary version of a dirty bomb.
  In the latest example of the flurry of tiny hands scampering across the keyboard of an unsecured iPhone, the Commander in Chief has taken aim at AT&T, suggesting US citizens should turn elsewhere for their daily fix of connectivity.I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN
  
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• St Paul’s Cathedral drops photography ban

  03-06-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  St Paul’s Cathedral has decided to allow photography within the building, overturning a ban that was often surreptitiously ignored anyway.
  Their instagram account said that from 1st June, non-flash photography for personal use inside the Cathedral will be allowed outside service times.
  The details are now on their website – stating that “respectful” photography is permitted during sightseeing hours (usually 8.30am-4.30pm), Monday to Saturday, and in a restricted area at t
  
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• Finland’s Uros flies Europe’s flag in Qualcomm smart city program

  03-06-2019 15:34
  Qualcomm launched its Smart Cities Accelerator Program with over 40 partners, but fast-growing Finnish company Uros is the only European representative.
  Qualcomm recently joined hands with 45 companies that have been using its technologies to set up a community called “Smart Cities Accelerator Program”. The program aims to provide cities, municipalities, government agencies, and enterprises around the world with ecosystem solutions for Smart Cities applications. The member companies
  
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• Veea Systems and Angel Trains Collaborate to Provide Advanced Digital Functionality for UK Rail Operators and Passengers

  03-06-2019 15:11
  Companies Conclude Department for Transport (DfT) Funded Project as Part of ‘First of a Kind: Demonstrating Tomorrow’s Trains Today’ SchemeBath, UK – 3rd June 2019 - Veea Systems, the company powering an intelligently connected world with a universal platform for IoT and smart edge solutions, and Angel Trains, one of Britain's leading train leasing companies, today announced the successful completion of a joint project demonstrating Smart Rail Edge Computing and Mesh Wire
  
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• What does the future hold for the Open RAN initiative?

  03-06-2019 14:36
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this article Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President Global Marketing and Sales Strategy at Radisys, peers into her crystal ball to see what lies ahead for O-RAN.
  The telecom industry has been undergoing a significant transformation for the last several years as mobile operators seek to address the bandwidth demands of the 4th Industrial Revolution – as they move from connecting d
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: EE 5G, TMUS/Sprint and cryptocurrency

  03-06-2019 14:14
  Now with added video!
  
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• UK CSPs sign-up to empty Ofcom ‘fairness’ initiative

  03-06-2019 13:46
  Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, has persuaded all major UK communications service providers to promise to ‘put fairness first’.
  As far as empty, ill-defined and vacuous statements of intent goes this is right up there. Ofcom drafted a bunch of commitments under the heading ‘Fairness for Customers’, and got CSPs to sign on the dotted line. Of course they had no choice but to go along with the scheme as failure to do so would have resulted in catastrophic publicity, but t
  
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• BT looks to Juniper to trim the network bloat

  03-06-2019 13:28
  BT has opted for Juniper Networks to deliver its Network Cloud infrastructure initiative, paving the way for BT’s Network Cloud roll-out.
  The platform itself is designed to offer BT a number of different upgrades to its current position, including improvements to converged fixed and mobile services rollout to consumers and businesses, faster time-to-market for network services and improved voice and video deliverability and scalability.
  The initiative will hope to roll BT’s networks
  
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• Ambulance chasers are readying themselves for GDPR assault

  03-06-2019 13:26
  While getting a firm ready for the introduction of GDPR was a frantic period, the last 12 months have been relatively quiet period for the rules. However that might all be about to change.
  At the European Data Protection Summit in London, a few points were raised which should put the fear back into executives. It does appear the ‘sex appeal’ of data protection and privacy has been eroded, but just wait until the summer is over. It might well be dominating the headlines again.
  There s
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to showcase dedicated solutions for the Connected City at ANGA COM 2019

  03-06-2019 13:23
  On display at the show will be the company’s latest connectivity solutions for smart cities illustrated by its exciting Connected City project HUBER+SUHNER, a leading manufacturer of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, will present its latest smart city connectivity solutions including FTTx, Big Data and Small Cells with its innovative Connected City project. The company will also introduce for the first time in Europe the newly launched SENCITY® Urban MIMO
  
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• 5G NR Network Measurements Using Network Scanners and Advanced Data Analytics

  03-06-2019 13:03
  Discover results from 5G NR network analysis in pre-commercial trials and early deployments and learn how the functionality of network scanners together with ROMES4 and SmartAnalytics software can acquire test data and deliver insight into 5G NR network performance and quality.
  AppNote highlights include:Where users of network scanners will benefit and what can be analyzed
  5G NR use cases for wireless mobile communication
  Multi-technology measurements
  5G NR post processing 
  
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• 150th anniversary of the repeal of the wig powder tax

  03-06-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This month marks 150 years since a legacy of war with France was dropped – the government stopped taxing perfumed powders used to decorate Georgian wigs.The first tax on hair powder was a stamp duty applied in 1786 and applied to packets of hair powder for wigs and on perfumes and cosmetics. The tax was set at 1d on packets costing up to 8d, rising to 1s on items over 5s.
  Over the next few years a range of taxes were introduced, such as carriages (1776), servants (1777), houses (1778), win
  
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• Can the Ark carry Huawei through the smartphone OS chaos?

  03-06-2019 11:38
  Huawei registered “Ark OS” at the European trademark office, likely to be the name of its in-house operating system to replace Android for its future smartphones.
  It emerged that Huawei has just registered a couple of trade marks with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. These include “Huawei Ark OS”, “Huawei Ark”, and “Huawei Ark Compiler”. It looks that “Ark” could be an overarching brand that covers both the OS and the co
  
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• Google and Amazon are feeling the antitrust heat in the US

  03-06-2019 11:35
  US tech giants Google and Amazon are set to face antitrust investigations in the US according to multiple reports.
  All the usual suspects among US media seem to have got the same leak that the US justice department is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google. Bloomberg, for example, thinks it could get pretty serious for Google since the political climate has turned fairly hostile to big tech. The investigation seems likely to be a broad one, as opposed to focusing on any single alleged
  
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• NGMN Alliance and ESOA sign Co-operation Agreement

  03-06-2019 10:54
  Brussels, Belgium, Frankfurt, Germany 3rd June, 2019 - The EMEA Satellite Operators Associations (ESOA) and the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have joined forces to strengthen their relationship and to foster a closer co-operation in the area of integration of satellite solutions in the 5G ecosystem. This co-operation agreement brings together two widely recognised industry organisations in the field of 5G cellular and satellite networks, respectively. Conscious of the need to e
  
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• Huawei to offload undersea telecoms cable business

  03-06-2019 10:54
  Sale of 51% stake comes as US ramps up pressure on the Chinese group
  
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• Iskratel delivers first-of-its-kind carrier-grade software-defined PON solution

  03-06-2019 10:34
  Solution integrates Radisys’ SD-PON framework to virtualise functions that originally resided on legacy OLTs Cologne, Germany, June 3, 2019 – An important milestone in enabling operators to deploy carrier-grade, virtualised PON solutions has been reached as Iskratel, the leading European provider of broadband access solutions, has launched a complete, integrated Software-Defined PON (SD-PON) solution, leveraging Radisys’ SD-PON framework for broadband access disaggregation. Bas
  
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• SENKO Advanced Components - in the middle of the hyperscale data center and EDGE computing revolution

  03-06-2019 10:25
  Cologne, Germany, 03 June 2019: Fiber optic connectors - the nexus of all data centers - are the ideal place to start meeting the need for higher density as we move to accommodate the ultra-high density optical interconnectivity demands of hyperscale data centers and edge computing – that’s the view of David Aspray, European Sales Manager for SENKO Advanced Components.With the inexorable approach of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based services, 4K videos and 5G,...Source: RealW
  
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• INNO Instrument Inc. unveils world’s most advanced fiber optic connectivity solution

  03-06-2019 10:04
  The View 8+ premium core-alignment fusion splicer offers the world’s highest specification rates on the marketSouth Korea, 03 June – As the consumption of high-bandwidth applications and technologies continues to grow exponentially, operators are under increased pressure to enhance networks to keep up with unprecedented demand. INNO Instrument Inc, global developer of leading optical communications products and testing solutions, is addressing these challenges with the launch of its
  
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• Macquarie swoops in on telecom group KCom with £563m bid

  03-06-2019 10:01
  Group’s shares jump as board backs higher offer
  
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• London’s Alleys: Three Cups Yard, WC1

  03-06-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This short alley through a pub gateway is a pale shadow of its much larger past, where old warehouses and shops are now achingly expensive flats.The alley first appears on John Rocque’s map as Three Cups Yard, a long alley with narrow entrances at either end, and was largely unchanged until the 1880s, when a school building was added blocking off the northern half of the alley.
  The area was very badly bombed during WW2, with buildings on either side of the yard totally destroyed.
  Of much b
  
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• Top industry standards body reverses Huawei ban

  03-06-2019 07:38
  IEEE says Chinese group’s employees can participate again in research reviews
  
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• Trump calls on Americans to boycott AT&T

  03-06-2019 02:00
  US president Donald Trump has called on Americans to boycott US telco, AT&T, on the grounds that he disagrees with the news coverage he is receiving from CNN…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KCOM board backs new £563m takeover bid

  03-06-2019 02:00
  East Yorkshire based telecommunications provider, KCOM, has backed a new takeover bid from the Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) fund, which values the company at £563 million…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei to sell off its subsea division

  03-06-2019 02:00
  Huawei is set to sell off a controlling stake in its subsea telecoms cabling business, Huawei Marine Systems, according to a bourse filing…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT chooses Juniper Networks to deliver unified cloud solution

  03-06-2019 02:00
  BT has chosen Juniper Networks to deliver its Network Cloud infrastructure initiative, to underpin its 5G networks in the UK. The move will pave the way for BT's Network Cloud rollout.  The new platform will allow BT to offer an array of converged network services, combining WIFI…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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