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• City of London plans to merge police and courthouses approved

  23-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans to demolish a block of offices in Fleet Street to be replaced by a new set of law courts and police station have been approved by the City of London.
  At the moment, the City of London has three courts in two locations, the Civil Court, Mayor’s and City of London Court and City of London Magistrates’ Court — plus four police stations and a headquarters.
  The project, designed by Eric Parry Architects and dubbed London’s new “Justice Quarter”, will include
  
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• The Role of C-Band in 5G

  23-04-2021 13:13
  
  The C-band (or midband) is considered the “waterfront property” of RF spectrum for 5G. It offers the best compromise between RF coverage and RF bandwidth and Providers are investing heavily on C-band 5G deployment to deliver the coverage and capacity that 5G use cases need.
  While C-band is the best RF spectrum for 5G deployments, Providers will need to implement a new level of attention in terms of planning, deployment, and maintenance including:Ensuring spectrum is cleared and there
  
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• The Iron Throne is coming to Leicester Square

  23-04-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The famous throne from the famous TV series will be making a publicity appearance in London this summer to mark the 10th anniversary of the TV show.
  The Iron Throne will be installed inside Leicester Square garden, to the west of the central fountain next to the Charlie Chaplin statue.
  The indicative photos from the planning application are slightly generous in what the set-up will look like, as the side of the Iron Throne is in fact going to be clamped to the park bench to stop people walking o
  
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• Tesla autopilot called into question

  23-04-2021 12:50
  
  The autopilot function of smart electric cars made by Tesla is under intense scrutiny following a recent fatal accident.
  Last week Tesla boss Elon Musk noted his cars with autopilot engaged have a much lower chance of having an accident than the average vehicle. “Because every Tesla is connected, we’re able to use the billions of miles of real-world data from our global fleet – of which more than 1 billion have been driven with Autopilot engaged – to understand the differ
  
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• Orange threatens to pull €22-per-share offer for Belgian unit

  23-04-2021 12:09
  
  The deadline for Orange’s public takeover bid for its Belgian business is fast approaching and the telco has indicated it will not leave its €22-per-share buyout offer on the table indefinitely.
  “The offer [period] is closing at 4 o’clock tomorrow,” Orange’s group CFO Ramon Fernandez said on the telco’s first-quarter results call on Thursday.
  He once again made it clear that the €22 offer to minority shareholders is Orange’s best and final pric
  
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• GiffGaff tops UK mobile customer satisfaction survey

  23-04-2021 12:05
  
  Consumer advice outfit Which has published the results of its annual customer satisfaction survey, which revealed UK MVNO customers are its happiest.
  The four MNOs, which serve the vast majority of UK mobile customers, did relatively badly, with best-placed O2 still only managing fifth place among 15 providers surveyed. Three was the lowest of them, with value for money and network reliability among its perceived failings. EE and Vodafone didn’t do much better, charting in the bottom half
  
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• TIM’s Smart District project makes headway in 9 regions

  23-04-2021 02:00
  At the end of March, Italy’s largest operator TIM announced the launch of its ‘Smart District’ project, with the goal of bringing digital transformation to 140 industrial districts throughout the country. The operator said the project would involve installing the latest fibre, 5G, fixed wireless access (FWA) and satellite infrastructure and providing companies with the latest technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2 Slovakia picks Ericsson for 5G

  23-04-2021 02:00
  Ericsson has been selected by O2 Slovakia as its sole 5G radio access network (RAN) technology solutions vendor.The contract follows a multi-vendor trial which took place across the service provider’s 5G pilot networks in Bratislava in late 2020. In the same period, O2 Slovakia successfully acquired spectrum in key 5G 700MHz, 900MHz and 1800MHz frequency ranges.Ericsson’s 5G RAN technologies…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Has the pandemic put the final nail in the landline’s coffin?

  23-04-2021 02:00
  According to data from Uswitch, four million UK homes have disconnected their landlines since the millennium. Worse, of the 80% of homes that do still have a landline, around 26% do not even have a handset plugged in.  Now, with the pandemic forcing everyone to remain indoors, it would be easy to think that landline usage would have increased in the past year. But, on the contrary, people have instead turned to their mobile phones or video calling services like Zoom to communicate&hel
  
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• EllaLeaks: A look beneath the surface at the creation of a submarine cable system

  23-04-2021 02:00
  With all the hubbub surrounding 5G and full fibre, it is all too easy to forget the vital and often almost invisible role that the submarine cable industry plays in our connected world. Since the mid-19th century, cables have been vital to intercontinental communications, yet many of us, even those within the telecoms industry, would struggle to name a single cable system, much less how they work.  Have you ever wondered…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Could Starlink be a victim of its own success?

  23-04-2021 02:00
  A blog post from a researcher at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the regional Internet address registry for the Asia-Pacific region, has noted that Space X’s Starlink constellation and other low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites could come with a catch. Over the past year, Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation has been incrementally launching numerous devices into orbit, with the ultimate goal of using around 30,000 satellites to provide broadband connectivity to h
  
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