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• Using the London Underground to improve broadband speeds

  29-10-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A plan to line tube tunnels with fibre optic cables to improve London’s internet connectivity has taken a step forward.
  Back in early 2018, TfL announced plans to lay fibre optic cables in the tube tunnels, combined with some space within the stations for the network equipment, and build its own broadband network offering a massive 20Tbps capacity (2000 Gbps).However, those cables in the tunnels need to get up to the surface where they can be of use.
  Now the Mayor of London has announced a
  
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• Tickets Alert: The Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London

  29-10-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Want to spend an evening inside the Tower of London watching an ancient ceremony?
  If yes, then tickets to attend and witness the centuries old private tradition of locking up the Tower of London will be released this coming Friday.
  The legend is that a former monarch wandered over one evening, and aghast that he was able to enter the Tower at night ordered a formal locking-up process to be enacted.
  (c) The Household Division
  Every night since then, there has been a sort of Changing of the Guard
  
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• Zylpha Introduces Greenwoods GRM to Document Bundling Environment

  29-10-2019 12:54
  Top 200 Law firm Greenwoods GRM LLP has chosen Electronic Document Bundling from Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) for use with its existing Visualfiles case management software. By automating the bundling process with Zylpha, the practice can save considerable time and resources, allowing its staff to spend more time with clients handling their cases. Greenwoods GRM has a strong reputation for delivering high quality legal services, combined with a personal and pragmatic approach to complex legal problem
  
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• Rajant and MultiWireless to Highlight Industrial Wireless Network for Port-Wide Mobility and Autonomy at TOC Americas 2019

  29-10-2019 12:37
  Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh® is an essential asset for mission-critical, mobile port operationsMalvern, PA – October 29, 2019: Future automation of seaport operations will be a key highlight at TOC Americas, where Rajant Corporation and its distributor, MultiWireless, will showcase the latest industrial wireless network advances supporting seaport operators to automate operations. Their co-exhibition will take place at Stand B18, at TOC Americas, in Cartagena, Columbia from Tuesday, Oc
  
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• FarmSmart and tech partner Amido launch new mobile app that helps African farmers to thrive

  29-10-2019 12:11
  News Facts:FarmSmart is an application launching into Kenya in October 2019.Its aim is to build the farming capacity of people across Africa.The new app will target young people in Kenya (and eventually globally) who are seeking to get more from their land.The app is free for users and works through a unique recommendations’ engine, where, via a chatbot, the user will give their plot size, location season and soil type.Based on the data provided during...Source: RealWire
  
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• Wiltshire County Council Expands Telensa Deployment to 42,000 Smart Streetlights

  29-10-2019 10:00
  Central Management System has paid for itself in reduced energy and maintenance costs and will provide a low-cost platform for future smart city applicationsCambridge, UK - 29 October 2019 Telensa, the market leader in connected street lighting and Smart City applications, today announced that it has been selected by Wiltshire County Council to expand its PLANet intelligent street lighting system by an additional 7,000 lights across the county. The established deployment already controls 35,000
  
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• The Two Ronnies on a tube train

  29-10-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Imagine an entire conversation made up from London railway station names — that’s what the Two Ronnies did on 23rd January 1982.The trip looks reasonably like it starts on the Central line platforms at Ealing Broadway and ends up at North Acton (Landis & Gyr factory on Chase Road in the background) on the Central line. Both locations being convenient for the BBC Studios at White City.
  You can just about make out a tube roundel on the platform in the first couple of seconds of foo
  
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• Vodafone: Data is the new gold - but customers don’t know it yet

  29-10-2019 01:00
  Data is the reason that IoT is becoming central to businesses – but customers have not yet realised the value it can bring, according to Stefano Gastaut, CEO at Vodafone IoT.
  Speaking at Total Telecom Congress, Gastaut said that today is the right time to launch IoT services and the technology is all there – but what is lacking is demand…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Operators call on Governments to crack down on OTTs

  29-10-2019 01:00
  Governments across the world need stop ignoring the threat OTT players pose to operators and take steps to ensure they contribute to both networks and the wider economies they are operating in.This was the resounding message delivered by a number of operators during today’s Total Telecom Congress at a panel discussion entitled ‘Global Telecoms Reimagined: A new telco for a new economy.’
  Altice Portugal CEO Alexandre Fonseca was the first to raise concerns around OTT players in
  
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• India sets up a new think tank to devise revenue boosting strategies for its ailing telecoms sector

  29-10-2019 01:00
  The Indian government has set up an independent think tank of beaurocrats and businessmen to formulate strategies for boosting revenues in the country’s beleaguered telecoms sector…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Digicel: “OTTs should no longer be allowed to use our expensive infrastructure for free”

  29-10-2019 01:00
  Operators are at a crossroads and risk becoming little more than a utility as a result of OTT giants – who should no longer be allowed to use telcos’ expensive infrastructure for free, the CEO of Digicel said today.
  Speaking at Total Telecom Congress, Nikima Royer warned operators that they need to ‘differentiate or die’ as consumers become more reliant on digital services and ARPUs and revenues continue to decline despite &lsquo…read more on TotalTele.com &ra
  
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• BT: Convergence is key as consumers demand next generation connectivity

  29-10-2019 01:00
  Consumers in the UK are increasingly intolerant of complexity, even as they begin to demand ubiquitous, gigabit capable connectivity, according to BT’s CTIO.Speaking at the Total Telecom Congress in London on Tuesday, Howard Watson said that while consumers were essentially technologically agnostic as to how they received their connectivity, they were becoming increasingly demanding about the speed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice CEO: Portugal has surrendered its leadership position on mobile connectivity

  29-10-2019 01:00
  Altice Portugal’s CEO, Alexandre Fonseca pulled no punches at the Total Telecom congress today, as he accused Portugal’s telecoms regulator of squandering a leadership position on mobile connectivity…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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