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• Capital One’s Hack with a capital H

  30-07-2019 19:26
  Huawei sales rise, grinding out an IPO, they Tink it’s all over, Google’s Pixel 4
  
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• Tickets Alert: Pennywise coming to Waterloo station’s tunnels

  30-07-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The tunnels under Waterloo station are set to be turned into an “immersive experience” based on the forthcoming sequel to IT.
  Spanning over 11,000 square feet of bespoke sets built into the vast underground maze of disused railway tunnels, the Vaults will be decorated with scenes from the movie, IT Chapter 2.
  Although details are light at the moment, the T&Cs says that it will contain themes and content similar to the film with which it is associated, and may not be suitable for
  
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• Utilities to focus on disrupting pedestrians not vehicles

  30-07-2019 18:21
  The UK Department of Transport has unveiled a new consultation which proposes new utilities infrastructure would have to be installed under pavements as opposed to roads.
  The aim is to reduce disruptions to traffic across the country. Said disruptions to people’s journeys and congestion are estimated to cost the economy around £4 billion, though the new proposition is supposedly one which can address this. This new approach will be applicable to telcos for fibre, but also electricity
  
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• Huawei pins its UK hopes on Boris Johnson’s fibre plans

  30-07-2019 18:17
  The UK’s new Prime Minister has inherited the difficult Huawei decision and the Chinese vendor has wasted no time in applying some gentle pressure.
  While campaigning for the top job, Boris Johnson pledged to deliver full-fibre broadband to every single person in the UK by 2025. Many, including this publication, scoffed at the blind optimism of it all, but Huawei seems to see it as an opportunity to demonstrate how important it remains to the UK economy.
  Speaking during Huawei’s first
  
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• Bishopsgate Goodsyard revises development plans

  30-07-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another revised planning application has been made for a housing development above Shoreditch Overground station.
  Proposals to redevelop the old goods yard after it was destroyed in a massive blaze in 1964 have been stalled for decades over what to do with the site that stretches across the borough boundary between Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
  The recent, and controversial plans for a mix of tall towers for office and residential was called in by the then Mayor of London and a formal decision defe
  
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• CALVI expands global footprint

  30-07-2019 15:48
  TORONTO, July 30 2019 – As part of its global expansion, CALVI has recently opened two new offices in The Netherlands and Canada. As the leading expert in Bill Communication solutions, CALVI’s expansion to other territories was a logical next step. These newly opened offices will help them with their great ambition to spread their expertise and solution all over the world. The move to Toronto was a logical and strategical choice to put CALVI...Source: RealWire
  
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• Huawei/trade war: undaunted by Donald

  30-07-2019 15:08
  Latest numbers will reduce fears US export bans induce in other Chinese groups
  
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• YouTube creators unionize to combat demonetization and censorship

  30-07-2019 14:35
  In its desperation to placate corporate advertisers YouTube has antagonized many of its independent creators, but now they’re fighting back.
  YouTube has to strike a delicate balance between the needs of independent creators, who generate most of its traffic, and corporate advertisers, who provide most of its revenue. For the past couple of years, whenever an advertiser has complained about a type of content, YouTube has usually moved to ensure that content has no ads served on it – d
  
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• GSMA squares up to the space industry

  30-07-2019 14:19
  The GSMA has released a statement directed at the lobby groups who are attempting to limit access to the valuable mmWave spectrum frequencies over fears it would interfere with weather forecasting.
  While the mmWave spectrum has long been heralded as the holy-grail for telcos when attempting to increase download speeds in the 5G era, the space and satellite industry has been attempting to limit access due to interference with various systems including weather forecasting.
  No decisions have been f
  
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• Sir John Soane’s Museum going tickets only from August

  30-07-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a compliment of sorts when your museum is so popular that it has to stop allowing people to just turn up and visit.
  That’s the curse of the Sir John Soane museum which has been seeing the queues outside getting progressively longer and longer, to the point where they’ve given up the unfettered access.
  From 1st August, you will nee a timed entry ticket to go into the museum.
  (c) Sir John Soane Museum
  While that pretty much kills off the “wandering around the area and
  
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• Giffgaff managed to find a way to overcharge prepaid subscribers

  30-07-2019 12:58
  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has fined MVNO Giffgaff £1.4 million for double-charging some of its pay-as-you-go customers.
  Giffgaff specialises in prepaid SIM-only mobile phone deals, in which subscribers buy chunks of data, etc, marketed as ‘goodybags’, in advance and then buy more when those are used up. Any data used when a goodybag isn’t active is charged at 5p per MB. It looks like there was some delay in properly recognising when a fresh goodybag had been purchased f
  
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• Huawei defies waves of accusations to 23% growth

  30-07-2019 12:39
  It seems not even the White House can stop the progress of Huawei as the vendor records 23% H1 year-on-year growth despite being the focal point of the US/Chinese dispute.
  It’s been banned in some market, ignored in others, entered onto the US trade Entity List, the subject of espionage accusations and faced continued scrutiny over the security credentials of its products, but somehow Huawei has managed to register another period of financial growth.
  Just to put these results into perspect
  
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• Huawei’s sales rise 23% despite US blacklisting

  30-07-2019 10:12
  Chinese telecoms giant says overseas smartphone sales are vulnerable
  
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• Huawei sales growth accelerates despite US blacklisting

  30-07-2019 10:12
  Chinese tech giant says impact of Washington’s crackdown is ‘controllable’
  
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• Unusual train on the Met line this August Bank Holiday

  30-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prepare to see a very rare sight on the Metropolitan line this coming August Bank Holiday, with a special locomotive tour taking place.
  It’s all part of the 50th anniversary of the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre near Aylesbury, and to mark the event, London Underground have given permission for a special trip to take place.On both 25th and 26th August, UK Railtours will run trips from Marylebone mainline station, and rather than heading up via Chiltern Railway’s mainline tracks, they
  
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• Woops! Giffgaff fined £1.4m for overcharging millions of UK customers

  30-07-2019 02:00
  UK mobile virtual network operator, Giffgaff, has been fined £1.4 million by Ofcom after it overcharged 2.6 million customers. The fine related to those customers who opted to buy bolt on packages – known as goodybags on Giffgaff &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei: We are fighting for survival while simultaneously seeking growth

  30-07-2019 02:00
  Huawei has released a strong set of figures for the first half of 2019, posting revenue growth of over 23 per cent, despite facing a plethora of challenges this year.Total revenues stood at $58.3 billion (CNY401.3 billion), a 23.2 per cent increase on last year’s H1 figures. This year, Huawei has faced a flurry of allegations from the US over the security of its network equipment, with the US lobbying its allies to ban the Chinese tech giant from their 5G network rollout…read more
  
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• Dish aims for 70% 5G coverage by 2023

  30-07-2019 02:00
  America's newest telco, Dish, has committed to provide 5G network coverage to 70 per cent of the US mainland by 2023, according to senior company executives.
  "Dish has a long history as a market disruptor and low…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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