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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Spencer House resume

  12-04-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spencer House, a rather grand house overlooking Green Park is resuming Sunday tours of its main state rooms from June.Spencer House has recognised as one of the most ambitious aristocratic townhouses ever built in London and is the city’s only great eighteenth-century private palace to survive intact. Used as offices between the 1920s-80s, the interior was given a full restoration to its 1780s appearance.
  The house tours are for eight of the state rooms and last around an hour.
  The tours c
  
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• Debden station on the Central line goes step-free

  12-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Debden tube station has become the latest to get step-free access with the opening of a new footbridge with lifts linking the two platforms.
  Debden Station (c) TfL
  At the moment, there are two footbridges over the station – one 1970s footbridge that gives the public a way over the railway, and one inside the station ticket area for the platforms.
  The existing platform footbridge is the original GER footbridge from 1890, made in Millwall by Joseph Westood, so rather than replacing it, Londo
  
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• Towers specialists buy more sites, raise more money

  12-04-2021 15:43
  
  The towers specialists are at it again. The past few days have brought news of a sizeable telecoms towers deal in Latin America, while a smaller acquisition is underway in Europe.
  IHS Towers has brokered a deal to acquire more than 800 towers in Brazil and Colombia from local player Centennial Towers.
  This is a bit different from the raft of deals we have witnessed unfold of late, in that it is a case of one passive infrastructure specialist buying sites from another, rather than the more usual
  
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• Knowing me, knowing EU – the UK’s post-Brexit identity

  12-04-2021 15:31
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Rob Otto, Field CTO/Principal Architect at Ping Identity, takes a look at digital documentation as it effects the new relationship between the UK and the EU.
  With the Brexit deal done, there is still a great deal of confusion around how UK citizens abroad, and EU nationals in the UK, can interact with their respective local government – a situation made wo
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: MWC, OpenRAN and regulation

  12-04-2021 15:10
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · MWC, OpenRAN and regulation
  
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• Huawei unveils its cunning plan for surviving ‘a complex and volatile global environment’

  12-04-2021 14:37
  
  At its latest annual global analyst summit, Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei revealed the strategic changes it’s putting in place to deal with the many novel challenges it faces.
  The summit comes just two weeks after Huawei published its 2020 annual report, in which it revealed that it has done a good job of dealing with everything the US has thrown at it, but it will do even better to emerge unscathed from this year. This event was designed to outline how Huawei intends to do just that. Her
  
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• Orange taps up pension fund to finance Poland fibre rollout

  12-04-2021 13:57
  
  Orange Poland has become the latest major telecoms operator to seek out a joint venture partner to help it fund the rollout of fibre infrastructure.
  The telco announced a partnership with Dutch pension company APG that will see the pair roll out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to 1.7 million premises over the next five years, mainly in areas of low and medium competition.
  Essentially, Orange has set up a new company – known as Światłowód Inwestycje, or FiberCo – to build an
  
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• Toy train packaging turns into a London Underground station

  12-04-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A few years ago, a father of a 4-year old boy turned to a 3D printer to make some London Underground trains, and now they’re on sale.
  The three carriage train set is compatible with all standard wooden track brands such as Brio, Ikea & more, and inside the box is a plastic track you clip the existing wooden tracks into. The trains pop-open as well.What makes these stand out from your run of the mill train sets is that the packing box converts into a model tube station, based on the Les
  
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• Microsoft is close to acquiring Nuance for $16 billion – Updated

  12-04-2021 11:28
  
  Microsoft is reported to be in advanced talks to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $16 billion, which would be Microsoft’s second largest acquisition ever.
  First reported by Bloomberg, which cited its sources “familiar with the matter”, the Redmond-based software giant is believed to be close to acquiring AI firm Nuance Communications, known for its speech recognition technologies. At the proposed price of $56 per share, or $16 billion in total value, thi
  
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• Microsoft is close to acquiring Nuance for $16 billion – report (Updated)

  12-04-2021 11:28
  
  Microsoft is reported to be in advanced talks to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $16 billion, which would be Microsoft’s second largest acquisition ever.
  First reported by Bloomberg, which cited its sources “familiar with the matter”, the Redmond-based software giant is believed to be close to acquiring AI firm Nuance Communications, known for its speech recognition technologies. At the proposed price of $56 per share, or $16 billion in total value, thi
  
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• Microsoft is close to acquiring Nuance for $16 billion – report

  12-04-2021 11:28
  
  Microsoft is reported to be in advanced talks to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $16 billion, which would be Microsoft’s second largest acquisition ever.
  First reported by Bloomberg, which cited its sources “familiar with the matter”, the Redmond-based software giant is believed to be close to acquiring AI firm Nuance Communications, known for its speech recognition technologies. At the proposed price of $56 per share, or $16 billion in total value, thi
  
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• HomeGrid Forum advances G.hn for industrial applications

  12-04-2021 11:28
  
  Beaverton, US, 12 April 2021: HomeGrid Forum is accelerating the development of G.hn for use in industrial settings, which will prove critical for the future success of businesses worldwide. Facilitating fast communication, G.hn is bridging the gap between legacy systems and newer technology to transform operations with reliable, fast connectivity. It comes as pioneering telecommunication technology and industrial automation member, Teleconnect, launches its G.hn system on module (SOM) solution
  
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• London’s Alleys: Hogarth Court, EC3

  12-04-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a wide and tall alley that passes through a modern building, and while the alley looks new, it follows a path that’s nearly 600 years old.The site had one main occupant for most of its life, when the Ironmongers’ Company bought a plot of land some 570 years ago for their livery hall. The first hall was built in 1457, it was rebuilt in 1587 and rebuilt again in 1745 on the same site.
  A passage was left to the western side of the Hall, and unsurprisingly called Ironmonger Alley
  
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• Euskaltel/MasMovil: little consolidation gain in Spain

  12-04-2021 06:00 via ft.com
  The merger is unlikely to boost returns for long-suffering telecoms investors
  
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• White House convenes industry meeting to discuss chip shortage

  12-04-2021 02:00
  Top officials from the Biden administration are set to meet with over a dozen high-profile CEOs today to discuss the ongoing semiconductor shortage that is having major knock-on effects around the world. When the coronavirus pandemic first began early last year, the semiconductor industry was heavily disrupted. A rapid fall in demand for certain chips – such as those for the automotive industry – led to a sharp decrease in production, with some factories temporarily ceasing pro
  
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• Telia Carrier’s expands in the Silicon Prairie with Flexential partnership

  12-04-2021 02:00
  Telia Carrier has extended its partnership with Flexential, a leading provider of data centre colocation, cloud and connectivity launching a new Point of Presence (PoP) at Flexential’s Aurora Colorado location. The partnership will allow Flexential’s customers to take advantage of Telia Carrier’s fibre backbone and connectivity providing cloud, application…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sky Italia to cut a quarter of its workforce

  12-04-2021 02:00
  On Friday, Sky announced that its Italian business would be cutting down its Italian workforce by a quarter, including contractors, as part of a major reorganisation plan for the next four years. Sky Italia currently employs around 11,000 people in Italy, with around 5,000 of which being direct employees. Under the new plan…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange partners with APG for FTTH joint venture in Poland

  12-04-2021 02:00
  Orange Polska has announced the creation of a 50-50 co-owned FiberCo with pension fund manager APG.The joint venture will support the rollout of fibre networks in Poland in areas which are currently poorly served by very high…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Microsoft confirms almost $20bn purchase of voice-tech firm Nuance

  12-04-2021 02:00
  Microsoft has today announced that it has struck a nearly $20 billion deal to acquire the voice recognition tech company behind Apple’s Siri, Nuance Communications.Rumours have been circulating over the weekend about a potential purchase, with Microsoft now confirming that it will acquire the tech company for $56 per share…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ferrovial and 5PRING push forward 5G in construction

  12-04-2021 02:00
  A new partnership has been announced between Spanish based infrastructure operator Ferrovial and UK 5G application accelerator 5PRING to encourage startups and other small businesses to develop and scale innovations targeted at the construction sector which harness the power of 5G.The Future of Construction challenge recognises that construction output in the UK is valued at more than &pound…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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