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• Mavenir and Xilinx team up to make an OpenRAN mMIMO portfolio

  13-04-2021 18:11
  
  The OpenRAN movement continues its steady progress with the launch of a compatible set of massive MIMO kit from two companies keen to disrupt the networking space.
  Mavenir is strong on telecoms virtualization software, while Xilinx specialises in chips and general embedded hardware cleverness. Together they’ve made what they claim is first mMIMO 64TRX joint solution, which will be available towards the end of this year. That means it has a massive 64 transmitters and receivers.
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• Italy baulks at Cellnex’s €10bn Hutchison towers buy

  13-04-2021 18:04
  
  Cellnex’s mega-deal to acquire CK Hutchison’s telecoms towers has come up against a regulatory hurdle in Italy.
  The Italian competition watchdog has expressed concern that the deal would leave too much market power in the hands or too few players, Cellnex in particular, and has opened an investigation into the impact of the deal.
  Just to be clear, the €10 billion deal announced by Cellnex in November last year is actually structured as a series of transactions, on a market-by-ma
  
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• Parcel lockers coming to more TfL stations

  13-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A trial of putting parcel lockers for online shopping in TfL car parks and stations is to be substantially expanded.
  The locker firm, InPost has run a trial with TfL at six locations, and has now signed a deal to expand that to 60 locations across London. More than 25 new lockers have already been installed, with plans to double this by the end of the summer.
  InPost locker at Oakwood tube station
  Primarily situated within TfL’s car parks close by to tube and rail stations, the lockers allo
  
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• UK vendor diversity task force calls for more vendor diversity

  13-04-2021 14:54
  
  A task force commissioned by the UK government to look into telecoms vendor diversity has shocked everyone by concluding we need some.
  So says the FT, which got an early look at a one of its reports. It recommends that, once Huawei is out of the UK’s telecoms networks, smaller vendors should provide a quarter of all the kit used in 5G networks. How this will be measured and enforced it unclear, but it seems to be a clear rubber-stamp of the western political drive towards OpenRAN tech.
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• Liberty Global rolls out electric charging points in London

  13-04-2021 14:35
  
  Liberty Global has announced the completion of the first phase of its UK electric vehicle charging initiative in the London borough of Waltham Forest.
  Liberty Charge is a joint venture between Liberty Global and Zouk Capital, the manager of the UK government’s Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund (CIIF) which is funded by the Treasury with the aim of rolling out public charging points across the UK. The entity was  originally set up as a small incubation initiative within Liberty G
  
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• US Senator proposes clumsy law that would punish all large companies

  13-04-2021 13:39
  
  Republican Senator Josh Hawley has got carried away by his desire to curtail the influence of the US tech giants.
  Hawley has been quite rightly alarmed at the political bias shown by big tech in its censorship and business decisions. His latest attempt to do something about it takes the form of a proposed piece of legislation called the Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act. Rather than focus on the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook, however, this law would legally constrain any comp
  
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• Tours of the Charterhouse, a medieval monastry, resume in June

  13-04-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Charterhouse, a seven-acre former monastery hidden behind high walls in Clerkenwell has confirmed that it will be resuming tours from Tuesday 1st June.From that date, there will be two tours a day at 11am and 2:15pm, taking in the buildings or the gardens running Tuesdays to Saturdays.
  The site, which dates back to 1348, and includes buildings, interiors and collections dating from each century since had rarely been open to the public until regular tours started a few years ago. Only for the
  
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• Vodafone launches standalone 5G that’s ‘as fast as the human nervous system’

  13-04-2021 12:04
  
  Vodafone has announced the launch of standalone 5G services in Germany and is keen to tell the world how it has cast aside the ‘training wheels’ of LTE to offer super-fast mobile speeds.
  “Our 5G network in the 3.5 gigahertz range is now completely independent of LTE technology,” said Vodafone Germany’s chief technology officer Gerhard Mack, in a German language statement. “Latency times of 10 to 15 milliseconds are possible – that’s as fast as the
  
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• Continuous profitable growth as S&T Group continues its IoT mission

  13-04-2021 10:56
  
  The leading technology and IoT provider in Europe is helping customers undertake their digital transformation journeys Austria, 13th April 2021 – S&T Group continues to rapidly expand its market position as a technology leader with industry-leading technologies and a growth strategy focused on smart Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The company is pursuing ambitious financial goals including a target revenue of minimum EUR 1.40 billion for 2021 and EUR 2 billion in revenues with an..
  
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• Speedcast Selected to Expand Connectivity Solution to Future-Proof Stena Drilling Fleet

  13-04-2021 09:00
  
  Investment in digital transformation driving communications design enhancements for global drilling assets Aberdeen, United Kingdom — April 13, 2021 — Speedcast, the world’s most trusted communications and IT services provider, has announced it has secured a five-year contract with Stena Drilling to expand its existing communications service with a newly designed solution to maximize operational effectiveness and support digital transformation efforts for Stena’s global f
  
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• Crossrail’s longest artwork is being installed

  13-04-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At nearly 2km long one of the longest artworks in the UK is currently being installed in East London by Crossrail.The art will cover the concrete wall that runs along the future Elizabeth line tracks all the way along its path through Newham, between North Woolwich to Royal Victoria DLR
  The British artist, Sonia Boyce OBE was selected to create the lengthy artwork, and chose a patterned background with a lot of text blocks filled in with comments from local residents.
  In total 170 memories out o
  
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• Towercos signal the prospect of healthy returns

  13-04-2021 06:00 via ft.com
  Digital infrastructure Reits have high valuations, but serve a sector with accelerating demand
  
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• UK told to use new telecoms suppliers after Huawei’s 5G exit

  13-04-2021 05:00 via ft.com
  Government task force says Britain should use smaller companies’ kit after banning Chinese group
  
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• Vodafone Germany first European operator to launch standalone 5G

  13-04-2021 02:00
  When we talk about 5G, it is all too easy to forget that most deployments of the new technology around the world are still heavily supported by 4G spectrum. While this has allowed many operators to rollout 5G at a far larger scale than would otherwise have been possible, this non-SA 5G cannot deliver the ultra…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vehicle battery maker Hyperbat trials 5G-powered VR digital twin

  13-04-2021 02:00
  UK-based manufacturer Hyperbat has today announced a new partnership with the lies of BT, Ericsson, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm, in order to conduct proof-of-concept testing for a 5G VR digital twin solution. The concept of a digital twin – a digitally created copy of a physical object – is nothing new being implemented in various forms by numerous industries around the world…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK’s post-Huawei 5G landscape needs new suppliers, says taskforce

  13-04-2021 02:00
  At the start of 2020, under increasing pressure from the US over national security fears, the UK was still mulling its options for how to answer the question of Huawei and its national 5G infrastructure. Part of the problem, of course, was that excluding the vendor would potentially lead to over…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK vehicle battery maker trials 5G-powered VR digital twin

  13-04-2021 02:00
  UK-based manufacturer Hyperbat, a joint venture between Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart, has today announced a new partnership with the likes of BT, Ericsson, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm, in order to conduct proof-of-concept testing for a 5G VR digital twin solution. The concept of a digital twin – a digitally created copy of a physical object &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Mavenir and Xilinx team up for Open RAN Massive MIMO

  13-04-2021 02:00
  Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native Network Software Provider and a leader in accelerating software network transformation for communications service providers (CSPs), and Xilinx, Inc., the leader in adaptive computing, announced today the companies are collaborating to bring to market a unified 4G/5G O-RAN massive MIMO (mMIMO) portfolio to enable Open RAN deployments. The first mMIMO 64TRX joint solution is expected to be available in Q4 2021…read more on TotalTel
  
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• EllaLink: A transatlantic journey in connectivity innovation

  13-04-2021 02:00
  Perhaps more than ever, submarine cable systems are at the centre of our connected world. This is the infrastructure at the heart of the internet, but yet it finds itself so often the unsung hero of the telecoms industry. With connectivity demand rising exponentially…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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