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• Marble and Mosaic – design tours of Westminster Cathedral

  29-07-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Westminster Cathedral is the building that’s NOT Westminster Abbey, but IS the building with a stunning mosaic covered interior to see.
  Being a modern Catholic Cathedral it’s ram packed with gold and marble and all the trappings of a high religion, and is still unfinished. That gives it a rather odd appealing appearance almost as if it’s a massive soot coated railway tunnel, with decoration at the bottom.
  For a few days in September, they will be giving guided tours as part of
  
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• The battle for Premier League subscribers is about to kick-off

  29-07-2019 18:15
  Most might have already declared a time of death on linear TV, but for sports fans there is nothing better. Over the next couple of weeks prepare to see some aggressive ads and deals to secure subscriptions.
  With the rise of content platforms like Netflix, short-form videos on YouTube and the decreasing price of mobile connectivity, linear TV has faced its challenges. It is still alive, but the digital economy is a different world and does not seem to be welcoming for traditional TV.
  That said,
  
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• European court rules websites are equally responsible for some shared data

  29-07-2019 18:14
  If you’ve got Facebook ‘like’ functionality on your website then you could be held responsible for any misuse of user data by the social media giant.
  The court of Justice of the European Union made this judgment as part of an ongoing action brought by a German consumer rights group called Verbraucherzentrale NRW against German clothing etailer Fashion ID. It turns out that merely having the ‘like’ button embedded on your site results in personal data being automatic
  
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• Tickets Alert: The XKCD author is visiting London

  29-07-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re the sort of person who reads this blog, then the thought of the XKCD author, Randall Munroe coming to London probably made you let out a little squeak of excitement.He’s giving a 90-minute talk at the Southbank Centre in October, were you will be invited into his mind-bending and entertaining world, where cutting-edge science meets the things we do everyday.
  Drawing on the cartoons in How To, Munroe shows us highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to d
  
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• Justice Department green-lights T-Mobile US/Sprint merger

  29-07-2019 13:48
  This might sound like the end of the road for one of the most protracted merger processes in recent memory, but T-Mobile US and Sprint will still have to deal with the backlog of legal challenges.
  Although this is certainly a win for the duo, it did look ominous for quite a while and there are still a few legal challenges which will have to be dealt with. That said, this is a victory for T-Mobile US and Sprint, and a positive step-forward in the ambition to tackle the market dominance of AT&
  
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• Europe opens consultation on uniform termination rates

  29-07-2019 13:15
  The European Commission has opened up a new public consultation which eases the bloc towards more regulation and towards a maximum EU-wide mobile voice termination.
  While it might not be the sexiest aspect of the telco world, termination rates is an issue which has yet to disappear despite efforts of the European Commission to create a bloc where all the member states get along.
  In short, maximum EU-wide mobile voice termination, both fixed and mobile, are necessary when an operator needs to con
  
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• Reliance Jio becomes India’s number one mobile operator

  29-07-2019 13:14
  Less than three years after launching Reliance Jio has overtaken Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel to become India’s biggest MNO by subscriber.
  Jio announced it had hit 331 subscribers last week as part of its quarterly numbers announcement but, according to Ovum’s WCIS, that would still have left it just behind the recently combined Vodafone Idea group if the latter had even held onto its existing punters. Jio overtook long time Indian market leader Bharti Airtel in the first quarter
  
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• London Underground gets approval for Colindale station rebuild

  29-07-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A radical rebuild of Colindale tube station on the Northern line has been approved by Barnet Council.
  The old “shed” of a ticket hall will be demolished, and completely new station building with an substantially enlarged ticket hall – around double the size of the existing space.Although it be surrounded on both sides by two tall towers, the station itself will be freestanding, and the design, by BDP of the curved wooden roofline takes its inspiration from early aircraft design
  
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• Vodafone Italia and TIM join the network sharing bonanza

  29-07-2019 12:07
  Vodafone’s Italian business and Telecom Italia are the latest pair to join the sharing euphoria which seems to be sweeping the Vodafone group.
  After network sharing agreements were signed in Spain with Orange and O2 in the UK, Vodafone has swept across to Italy to join forces with market leader, albeit a stressed business currently, Telecom Italia.
  “This agreement will enable us to step up the rollout of 5G for the benefit of our customers and the community as a whole,” said Al
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cranbourn Alley, WC2

  29-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This short alley next to Leicester Square is undeniably the underbelly of the glitzy lights of the West End. A dingy space of back doors and air conditioning units, of dubious smells and garish signs. It’s perfect.It links two old roads that were built in the 1670s as the area built up from the fields it had always been, and is named after Cranbourn Street to the north side — the main road in and out of Leicester Square from the tube station.
  Cranbourn Street and the Alley were both
  
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• Virgin Media chief looks to take on BT with bigger war chest

  29-07-2019 05:00
  ‘We have a Porsche. We would be fools not to leverage that,’ says Lutz Schüler
  
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• Vodafone Idea loses over 14m subscribers, as share price tumbles on Q1 results

  29-07-2019 02:00
  India's biggest telco, Vodafone Idea, has shed 14.1 million subscribers in the first quarter of the current financial year, with the company's share price plummeting on some challenging financial results.
  Vodafone Idea blamed the decline on the introduction of service validity vouchers in the previous quarter…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TIM and Vodafone buddy up on 5G in Italy

  29-07-2019 02:00
  Telecom Italia and Vodafone have signed a network sharing agreement for their forthcoming 5G launches in Italy. The two companies will also collaborate to upgrade their respective fibre transmission networks, which take care of mobile backhaul functionality…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dish aims for US 5G launch in 2020

  29-07-2019 02:00
  America's newly formed telco, Dish, is aiming to have its first 5G network sites live by the end of 2020.Dish Network's chairman, Charlie Ergen, said that his company would focus on building out its 5G networks as soon as possible…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Apple lines up three 5G compatible iPhones for release in 2020

  29-07-2019 02:00
  US tech giant Apple is reportedly mulling the idea of releasing three 5G compatible iPhones next year, according to reports in the press.
  A report in the Tech Times suggested that 2020 could be the year that Apple finally gets its 5G act together…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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