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• TfL sells off its 55 Broadway headquarters building

  16-09-2019 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The famous art-deco former headquarters for London Transport, 55 Broadway has been sold on a long leasehold agreement. The newly formed Integrity International Group, backed by property and hotel developer, Tony Matharu, has taken a 150 year lease on the building from TfL.Matharu brothers, as a family own the majority of Grange Hotels, although following a long family argument, they sold the four largest of the 13 hotels earlier this year for nearly £1 billion.
  Tony Matharu has now set up
  
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• Jio jolt to India’s broadband market

  16-09-2019 18:50
  Apple TV+ losses, MoviePass passes, Qualcomm $3.1bn deal, tech week ahead, Sonos Move
  
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• Wi-Fi Alliance launches Wi-Fi 6 certification

  16-09-2019 18:27
  If you want to make a device using the latest generation of wifi tech, and prove it’s legit, then you need this certification apparently.
  It looks making a wifi connected device isn’t just as simple as whacking a wifi chip in it. The Wi-Fi Alliance says its certification programme ‘brings new features and capabilities that enable substantially greater overall Wi-Fi network performance in challenging environments with many connected devices such as stadiums, airports, and indust
  
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• Q&A: Renato Andrade on industry growth and transformation and in APAC MVNO space

  16-09-2019 17:35
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Renato Andrade, an independent MVNO consultant for Acqua Telecom, sat down for an exclusive Q&A with the MVNOs Series to talk growth in Asia’s MVNO market, disruptive technologies and the ways in which MVNOs can leverage IoT to achieve success.
  Can you give us a snapshot of the APAC MVNO industry as you see it?We are seeing exciting developments in APA
  
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• IBC 2019: Linear TV isn’t dead just yet

  16-09-2019 17:02
  This might sound like a very bold and short-sighted statement, but thanks to the development of IP-based standards, traditional broadcasters might just be able to survive in the digital economy.
  This is of course not a statement which suggests business is as usual, there are major restructures and realignments which need to occur to future-proof the business, but linear TV and traditional broadcasters can survive in the cut-throat world of tomorrow.
  The change which is being forced onto the worl
  
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• Monty Python’s Flying Exhibition hits the Southbank

  16-09-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In this it’s 50th year, there’s an exhibition about Monty Python at the BFI Southbank as part of their series of film screenings.
  Pinning down the origins of the Pythons can settle on three dates – the meeting of the gang in the Hampstead tandoori restaurant in May 1969, the date of the recording of the show on 7th September 1969 or the date of broadcast, the 5th October 1969.The exhibition is a mix of a selection of photos and relics from the TV years and some record covers, b
  
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• Infinet Wireless to Highlight the Raw Power of 5G at GITEX 2019

  16-09-2019 14:13
  Broadband wireless access leader to use MENA region’s premier technology event to launch several industry first mmWave-band solutions for the 5G eraDubai, United Arab Emirates - 16 September - Infinet Wireless the global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity, today announced its participation in GITEX Technology Week 2019, where it will introduce the region to the cutting edge in network upgrades that will allow customers to enhance speeds, capacities and latencies, all while gai
  
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• Elliot set to challenge AT&T leadership over media strategy – report

  16-09-2019 13:55
  The apparent anointing of John Stankey as the next AT&T CEO is reportedly what prompted Elliott to announce its activist intentions.
  Right now this insight comes courtesy of the WSJ alone, which has chatted to some people who think they know what they’re talking about. The report says AT&T Randall Stephenson plans to call it a day soon and has been grooming his mate John Stankey to take over. Stankey was recently promoted the specially-created role of COO, which would be easy to vi
  
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• Photos from London Underground’s Bank station upgrade

  16-09-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new entrance to Bank tube station, being added as part of a major upgrade itself hit a major milestone when the roof was “topped out” last week.
  The new entrance, which will face onto Cannon Street, near to the existing Monument entrance will provide direct access to the Northern line, as well as connecting a new moving walkway to the Central line – making access from Monument to those two lines much easier.
  Work will now continue to fit out the entrance, with the next stag
  
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• Apple and Disney belatedly sever corporate ties

  16-09-2019 12:57
  Disney CEO Bob Iger has been on the Apple board for eight years but, with the two companies now competing directly in the SVOD market, he has resigned.
  Last week Apple officially launched its Apple TV+ subscription video on demand service last week, thus placing it in direct competition with Disney, which is also set to get into the SVOD game with, you guessed it, Disney+. For some reason the two companies left it until the very last minute for Iger to clear off, despite the two competing servic
  
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• IBC 2019: European Broadcasting Union joins FANG regulatory choir

  16-09-2019 11:03
  The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the latest organization to start singing the praises of greater regulation, transparency and accessibility for the internet giants.
  It is starting to become a tune to which we are all accustomed to, and it should come as little surprise the victims of aggressive disruption are calling for greater control, but the EBU has joined the regulatory choir at IBC 2019. Speaking during the conference, Noel Curran, Director General of the EBU, fired the shots acros
  
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• INNO Instrument America Inc. to accelerate 5G network deployment with market-leading solutions at Cable-Tec Expo 2019

  16-09-2019 10:00
  Dallas, Texas 16 September – INNO Instrument America Inc., leading worldwide providers of optical connectivity solutions, will present the most advanced fusion splicer on the market at Cable-Tec Expo 2019 from 30th September – 3rd October. Featuring record splice and heat times, the View 8+ saves valuable time during network deployment.Network operators face the challenge of extending fiber optic networks to provide high-bandwidth connectivity to increasing numbers of connected devic
  
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• London’s Alleys: Tower Court, WC2

  16-09-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a quiet little space just a heartbeat from the bustling Covent Garden.Although Covent Garden was one of the earlier areas of London to be developed, this patch of land remained open fields for far longer, known in 1670s as Cock and Pye Fields.
  It remained empty while all around built up as the land was known to be particularly wet, and was later surrounded by a deep ditch that ran around the fields and down to the Thames. The name came from a local pub which was particularly noted for se
  
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• RCom’s subsea division, GCX, files for bankruptcy

  16-09-2019 02:00
  GCX Ltd, the subsea cabling subsidiary of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications (RCom) conglomerate, has announced that it is to file for bankruptcy.The move comes after GCX missed payments of around $350 million…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openreach boosts its commitment to Wales with appointment of designated board

  16-09-2019 01:19
  The UK's incumbent broadband provider, Openreach, has appointed a new Board for Wales, to oversee its strategic direction and boost its levels of separation from BT.
  Almost 95 per cent of homes and businesses in Wales can already access superfast broadband services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Meet the finalists: The WCA 2019 CTO of the Year

  16-09-2019 01:19
  Earlier this month, Total Telecom released the shortlist for the World Communication Awards 2019 and with the event itself just around the corner, what better time than to take a closer look at the finalists from one of the most hotly contested categories – the much coveted CTO of the Year award. Whittling the entries down to a shortlist of just six was no mean feat, with the judges going back and forth a number of times on who would make the cut. “Chief technology officer
  
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