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• Tickets Alert: The Clangers on IMAX, introduced by Sir Michael Palin

  01-07-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Science Museum is celebrating the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a special screening of The Clangers – in its huge IMAX cinema.
  Sir Michael Palin, the narrator of this much-loved series, will introduce the 1969 episode ‘The Tablecloth’, which sees the Clangers encounter a human astronaut.
  We’ll also be joined by Sue Horne from the UK Space Agency who will showcase some exciting scientific experiments.
  Plus, be one of the first to see an exclusive episode fr
  
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• NTT invests in the UK by combining several companies into NTT Ltd

  01-07-2019 18:17
  Japanese telecoms and IT giant apparently didn’t get the memo that the UK isn’t worth investing in anymore because it’s basing an $11 billion business here.
  NTT Ltd has been formed by combining networking and data centre company NTT Communications, South African IT services firm Dimension Data and the self-explanatory NTT Security into one great big IT firm. It actually brings together 28 different sub-brands in an act of consolidation that was clearly overdue and will employ 4
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Khadija’s Garden, N1

  01-07-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When out for a walk, I often take photos of things then research them when I get home. Here is a pocket park that I was to learn comes with a tragic ending.This is pocket park in Hoxton was orchestrated by a woman who died on the other side of London, in the Grenfell Tower disaster. Khadija Saye was a a Gambian-British photographer who worked in a gallery next to the garden, at the art charity PEER, and played a significant role in the creation of the pocket park, with new trees, seating and the
  
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• Ofcom introduces text-to-switch

  01-07-2019 15:34
  Thanks to Ofcom the days of being passed around a call-centre should theoretically be over, as new text-to-switch rules come into play.
  Starting today (July 1) customers will be able to end mobile contracts simply by texting their provider. It’ll end an incredibly frustrating process used by all mobile operators to keep valuable post-paid customers from leaving their grasp.
  It has been one of the biggest complaints against the telcos over the years; ending contracts is an incredibly painfu
  
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• What can Western businesses learn from China’s digital innovators?

  01-07-2019 14:44
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this article Angus Ward, CEO, Digital Platform Solutions, BearingPoint//Beyond, takes a look at some of the ways in which China is more innovative than the West.
  Over the past five years, China and its internet-born businesses have become a globally recognised force for digital innovation. This year, China’s retail market is set to become the largest in the world, exceeding
  
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• Trade wars, 5G wins and phone bills

  01-07-2019 14:12
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• Telecoms industry shocked as Glotel Awards entry deadline extended

  01-07-2019 13:38
  Marketing departments across the telecoms world have been caught flat-footed with the shock decision by the industry’s flagship awards event to extend its entry deadline.
  The maverick team running the Glotel Awards have once more proved they don’t play by nobody’s rules and will roll the dice whenever they damn well feel like it. If you ignore the previous five years there’s literally no precedent for this   move and we can only assume it was prompted by despera
  
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• Google Maps to start predicting crowdedness on public transport

  01-07-2019 13:36
  Google Maps is already one of the most popular ways to plan the comings and goings of daily life, but a new update makes it just a little bit better.
  Launched at the end of last week, Google Maps will now tell users how busy public transport is likely to be and whether users should anticipate delays on a journey. It’s a simple upgrade, but this extra little bit of information is an example of why Google Maps is such a popular application around the world.
  “On days when everything run
  
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• US consumers need more than incremental gains from 5G

  01-07-2019 13:11
  The last few years has seen an increasing number of consumers hold onto devices for longer, and the trend does not seem to be changing right now.
  According to research from NPD, the second-half of 2018 saw the number of consumers in the US holding onto devices for longer increase yet again. The global slowdown in the handset market has been well documented, and this report demonstrates the difficulties users are having to dig deep into pockets to fork out for much the same.
  “Rising price t
  
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• Understanding the collateral damage from Trump’s trade aggression

  01-07-2019 13:10
  President Donald Trump might be back on friendly terms with China’s President Xi Jinping, but his efforts to kill Huawei’s business produced friendly fire, hitting companies based in allied nations.
  This is the unintended and unavoidable consequence of a targeting a single company or country with sanctions and tariffs, the US’ version of an economic dirty-bomb; such are the complexities and wide-spread nature of today’s global supply chains, you are going to cause damage
  
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• Trump makes minor Huawei concession following pleading from US tech sector

  01-07-2019 13:07
  Following talks with the Chinese leader, US President Trump has announced US companies will be able to flog Huawei some gear if they really must.
  It looks like Trump got the memo that the collateral damage from his decision to ban US companies from doing business with Huawei was starting to mount up. As part of trade talks with Xi Jinping Trump announced on Twitter, as it his wont, that US companies can resume selling Huawei stuff, so long as it doesn’t cross some arbitrary, unspecified &l
  
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• Tickets Alert: A light, smoke and sound display at Crossness

  01-07-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Victorian sewage pumping station at Crossness is to get a very modern art installation next month — for just three days.
  Luminary will be a multi-media art installation, commissioned for Crossness Pumping Station, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Bazalgette; the engineer who built London’s sewers.The display, Luminary combines 3D laser scanning technology, video projection, sound and lighting effects to create, what they say will be an ethereal and im
  
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• Service Innovation: Accelerating 5G Development

  01-07-2019 11:13
  At MWC Shanghai 2019, Huawei Deputy Chair Ken Hu gave an update on Huawei’s progress in 5G deployment, sharing concrete examples of how service innovation and cross-industry collaboration are driving the next phase of growth in 5G.
  “The networks themselves are the foundation of everything, but the future of 5G development will rely heavily on services. 5G-enabled service innovation will help us push network performance to the next level, and help operators get greater returns on thei
  
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• Ryan Ding From Huawei: Industries + 5G, Enabling New Growth

  01-07-2019 10:51
  During MWC Shanghai 2019, Huawei held the 5G is ON Summit based on the theme of “5G-Driven Digital Upgrades.” Ryan Ding, executive director of the board and president of the Carrier BG of Huawei, delivered a keynote speech titled “Industries + 5G, Enabling New Growth” at the summit.
  “Huawei has so far gained 50 5G commercial contracts and shipped more than 150,000 base stations.” Ding said. “Globally, 5G is gaining strong momentum in its commercial adopt
  
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• China Telecom and Huawei Jointly Release 5G Super Uplink Innovation Solution

  01-07-2019 10:36
  [Shanghai, China, June 27, 2019] During MWC19 Shanghai, China Telecom and Huawei jointly release the 5G Super Uplink Joint Technology Innovation solution. A large number of new 5G services emerge in the new 2B/2C blue ocean markets, posing higher requirements on the uplink rate and latency. The 5G Super Uplink solution proposes the innovative networking technology featuring TDD/FDD coordination, high-band/low-band complementation, and time/frequency domain aggregation, which achieves an unpreced
  
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• Large-scale NB-IoT Electric Bike Management in Zhengzhou Wins the GSMA Best Mobile Innovation for Smart Cities in Asia Award

  01-07-2019 10:31
  [Shanghai, China, June 27, 2019] The NB-IoT electric bike management system jointly developed by Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau, China Mobile, Huawei and Tendency have won the GSMA Award for ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Smart Cities in Asia’ at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2019.Ritchie (Honghua) Peng(left), Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei’s Wireless Network, accepting the GSMA Award for Best Mobile Innovation for Smart Cities in Asia from John Hoffman(right), CEO, GS
  
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• London’s Alleys: Chichester Rents, WC2

  01-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This rather dramatic and modern looking alley is a modern redevelopment of an alley that can trace it’s heritage back to the original developments along Chancery Lane.The passage is named after the Bishops of Chichester whose mansion off Chancery Lane on the Lincoln’s Inn site came into the possession of Ralph Neville, the then Bishop and Chancellor in the 13th century.
  The area lining Chancery Lane was largely built up by the mid 16th century, and Ogilby and Morgan’s map of 16
  
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• Meet the ‘tossers’: the annual forum for tiny telcos

  01-07-2019 06:00
  Global gathering on remote Baltic isles to talk tactics on 5G and Huawei
  
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• NTT launches new global tech business in London

  01-07-2019 02:00
  NTT on Monday announced that it will headquarter its new international tech services business NTT Ltd in London, following reports to that effect earlier this year, as it seeks to build up its business outside its home market.The Japanese giant is creating a new, US$11 billion business with NTT Ltd, which will comprise 28 existing NTT operations…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nordic retreat continues as Tele2 sells out of Kazakhstan

  01-07-2019 02:00
  Tele2 late last week announced that it has completed the sale of its operations in Kazakhstan to business partner Kazakhtelecom, continuing its renewed focus on its Nordic and Baltic markets.The telco exercised a put option that enabled it to exit its Kazakhstan joint venture three years after it brokered the tie…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Korea's DMZ gets 5G service

  01-07-2019 02:00
  KT has launched a 5G service in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, it emerged late last week.The telco has rolled out two 5G base stations in the Taesung Freedom Village…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google seeks partners for new Europe-Africa cable system

  01-07-2019 02:00
  Google has shared details of its new subsea cable system project which will connect Europe with the West coast of Africa, and said it is looking for partners to help it link up with various countries along the route.The Equiano cable, which is due to be completed in 2021…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Czech govt aims to boost competition through 5G sale

  01-07-2019 02:00
  The Czech Telecommunication Office has published draft conditions governing its forthcoming sale of frequencies suitable for 5G mobile services, noting that reserve prices on the available spectrum mean the process should net upwards of quarter of a billion euros for government coffers and that the conditions of the sale are designed to facilitate the entry of a new player to the market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti completes Tata deal, impact on market position negligible

  01-07-2019 02:00
  Bharti Airtel has finally completed the acquisition of Tata Teleservices but the deal has little impact on its position in the Indian mobile market."We are pleased to announce that the schemes of arrangement have become effective today, i.e. 1 July 2019," Bharti said in a short statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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