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• Iliad/telecoms M&A: Trojan lore

  21-09-2020 16:19 via ft.com
  Investors want more than just consolidation and cost-cutting
  
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• Tate Britain’s Turner exhibition to feature the £20 bank note

  21-09-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The painting that started appearing on £20 banknotes earlier this year will be one of the highlights of a new Turner exhibition, tickets for which are now on sale.
  Tate Britain’s exhibition aims to show how JMW Turner found new ways to capture the momentous events of his day, from technology’s impact on the natural world to the effects of modernisation on society.
  Turner lived through the later industrial revolution, observing and painting the transition from sail to steam and
  
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• CCI Enhances Sectorisation with 4x4 MIMO Support for 6-Sector Sites – greater than the sum of its parts

  21-09-2020 14:30
  
  September 2020 Global solutions provider Communication Components Inc. (CCI) brings 4x4 MIMO capability to its patented Bi-Sector Array™ Antennas to create a step change in capacity and speeds for mobile networks, through Higher Order Sectorisation (HOS) with 4x4 MIMO. CCI Bi-Sector Antennas allow operators to reduce antenna count and replace existing 65° networks, while increasing cell site capacity and LTE data throughput by minimizing overlap between CCI’s patented asymmet
  
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• Digital BSS Dividend Delivers 34 per cent Operator Enterprise Profit Boost

  21-09-2020 11:30
  
  Research uncovers marginal gains that reap big rewards Warrington, United Kingdom, 21 September 2020: Commissioned by MDS Global, a research report by telecoms analyst house STL Partners has revealed that fully embracing digital business support systems could enable operators and service providers to unlock a 34 per cent boost to their current profit margins for enterprise services. The report – The Digital BSS Dividend - says that digitising BSS systems will allow operators to increase...
  
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• AccelerComm secures £5.8m Series A funding from IQ Capital, Bloc Ventures and IP Group to Supercharge 5G Communications

  21-09-2020 10:42
  
  University of Southampton spinout to use funding to scale IP technology business that significantly reduces latency and increases spectral efficiency Southampton, 21st September 2020: AccelerComm - The Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wireless communications with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency - has raised £5.8m in Series A funding in a round led by IQ Capital alongside existing investors Bloc Ventures and the IP Group. The fu
  
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• Rail franchising scrapped after 24 years

  21-09-2020 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just over 24 years after it was introduced in 1996, rail franchising is to be scrapped, the government has announced.
  The franchise operators aren’t being scrapped — yet — but will continue to operate under a management contract similar to that pioneered by TfL with the London Overground.
  The franchises were effectively suspended already when the government took action at the start of the pandemic lockdown, pumping some £3.5 billion into the railways to keep them running
  
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• Iliad sets sights on Poland with takeover of mobile group Play

  21-09-2020 09:42 via ft.com
  Xavier Niel’s telecom group has already agreed to buy 40% stake from two investment funds
  
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• London’s Alleys: Corbet Court, EC3

  21-09-2020 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An old alley with little charm in its modern incarnation — other than there’s a very important monument down here, the oldest Mercers Maiden known to exist, dating from 1669.
  This alley has changed a fair bit over the centuries, but the heart of it, a courtyard has been there ever since it was created. It’s also lead a fairly uneventful life, busy, but never notorious.Originally an alley lead off Bishopsgate (then Gratious Street) and was probably known as Offele Alley –
  
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• Nokia signs UN pledge to address global inequality and sustainability issues

  21-09-2020 02:00
  Nokia CEO, Pekka Lundmark has signed a joint UN Statement, UNITED IN THE BUSINESS OF A BETTER WORLD, to be presented to the UN Secretary General as part of celebration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.The Statement, signed by more than 1,000 global CEOs, says that at time of unprecedented disruption and global transformation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Leaked memo shows some Orange employees have 5G reservations

  21-09-2020 02:00
  Health concerns over 5G deployments appear to be present even within the ranks of the world’s largest telcos, despite being routinely debunked by scientists, suggests a recent media report. Two memos from a group of Orange employees were reportedly leaked to the French telecom industry federation in the past year, urging the telco to halt its plans for 5G on the grounds of health fears…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Germany set to bid auf wiedersehen to 3G by 2022

  21-09-2020 02:00
  The life cycle of a mobile technology is a fickle thing. For most of us in the West, 4G coverage has become fairly ubiquitous, though the 3G icon may still make a regular appearance on our smart phone screens. Even the older mobile tech, 2G, is still supported in many areas, typically much to the operators&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China strikes back at US with own ‘entity list’

  21-09-2020 02:00
  This Saturday saw the Chinese government announce their very own ‘entity list’ to rival that of the US, which has famously restricts Chinese firms like Huawei and ZTE. Much like the US list, national security seems to be the centrepiece of its conception, with foreign enterprises, organisations, and individuals that &ldquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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