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• Pedestrianising Shoreditch’s Arnold Circus

  04-11-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A much loved local landmark that’s also in the middle of a roundabout could see cars banned under plans by the local council.The roundabout, Arnold Circus not only acts as a focus for local road traffic, it’s also surrounded by flats, and famously has an elevated roundabout with a bandstand in the centre.  The roundabout is still a busy road route, with some 2,400 vehicles per day passing through, and here have been calls to do something to reduce the road traffic.
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• Internet connectivity price drop to benefit research & education in South Caucasus through EaPConnect

  04-11-2019 15:56
  4 November 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands Students, researchers and academics in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will be better able to collaborate internationally thanks to improved Internet connectivity with more competitive market prices, achieved in the EU-funded EaPConnect project. Prices for Internet connectivity for research and education communities in South Caucasus countries have dropped by more than 80% since the project first tendered in 2016. Procurement activities by EaPConnect, led
  
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• ECOC Exhibition sets its sights on Brussels 2020 for 25th anniversary event

  04-11-2019 15:35
  ECOC Exhibition will return to the city of the inaugural event following this year’s successful Dublin show Brussels, Belgium, 04 November 2019 – European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) Exhibition has confirmed the location of its 25th Anniversary exhibition, which will take place in Brussels, Belgium, the site of Europe’s largest optical connections event’s inaugural exhibition. ECOC has already started taking bookings for the landmark event next year, with
  
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• More trains on the Victoria line during rush hours

  04-11-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  London Underground has announced a new timetable on the Victoria line which will see more trains during both the morning and evening rush hours.
  At the moment, they manage to have a train arrive every 100 seconds between 8:15am and 9:45am, and between 5pm to 6:30pm.
  As of this morning, this band of high intensity trains will be expanded to run between 7:15am and 10.15am, and between 4:15pm to 7:15pm — doubling the time offered for the high-intensive service.
  The new timetable will increase
  
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• Skeletons found inside the Tower of London

  04-11-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Archeologists carrying out an excavation inside the Tower of London have uncovered the body of two skeletons, of an adult female and a young child. The excavations took place just outside the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, a small church within the Tower grounds, in preparation to provide better disabled access into the chapel.The chapel was completed in 1520 and as a Chapel Royal is still a place of Christian worship, it is perhaps most famed for being the final resting place of two of King Hen
  
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• Infinet Wireless negotiates expansion in African market at the Russia-Africa Economic Forum and Summit 2019

  04-11-2019 10:33
  Multiple meetings with heads of state and business leaders were held at the eventSochi, Russia, 04 November, 2019 – Infinet Wireless, a global leader in the design and manufacture of fixed broadband wireless systems, has announced it has made a number of new landmark implementation agreements across the African market, including a project with Camtel, the leading telecom operator in Cameroon, to modernize and expand broadband infrastructure across the country. At the Russia-Africa Economic
  
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• London’s Alleys: St Benet’s Place, EC3

  04-11-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The alley is named after the former parish of St Benet de Garscherche, later St Benet Gracechurch, a long since demolished City church.The parish centred on the church dedicated to St Benedict on the corner just to the south and may have been associated with a local hay market, hence Gracechurch (Grass Church), although that attribution is uncertain. According to John Strype, the church was repaired and beautified in 1630 and 1633 and it contained a monument to Queen Elizabeth I. The parish regi
  
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• Zen Internet eyes 80% UK coverage, as it lands £20m finance package

  04-11-2019 01:00
  UK based internet service provider, Zen Internet, has revealed that it plans to extend its reach to 80 per cent of the UK population, a 50 per cent increase on its current reach…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone announces CEO for its new European Towers company

  04-11-2019 01:00
  Vodafone has announced that Vivek Badrinath will head up its newly created European towers business, as chief executive officer.
  Badrinath will take up the reins at the newly created TowerCo with effect of the 1st April 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Tesco Mobile appoints new CEO

  04-11-2019 01:00
  UK MVNO, Tesco Mobile, has announced that it has appointed a new CEO to head up its operations.  Tom Denyard will take up the role with effect of the 5th November 2019…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile merger can't come quick enough for Sprint, as it slumps to another quarterly loss

  04-11-2019 01:00
  US carrier Sprint has posted a net loss of $274 million for the quarter, as the company continues to await final approval for its proposed merger with T-Mobile.
  While the proposed $26.5 billion deal is a merging of the two companies…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Philippines' third telco to invest $6bn as it eyes 30% market share

  04-11-2019 01:00
  The Philippines' newly launched third telco, DITO Telecom, has said that it will increase its investment in its mobile network infrastructure to $6 billion, as it looks to capture a 30 per cent share of the market within its first year of operation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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