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• BT opens talks over potential sale of sports broadcasting business

  28-04-2021 23:50
  Telecoms company considers disposal or partnership at it looks to focus to core telephony operations
  
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• BT looks at potential sale of sport business

  28-04-2021 23:50
  Telecoms company open to disposal or partnership to move away from content and focus on core telephony
  
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• Lockdown Stories in St James

  28-04-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s an open-air art gallery just around the corner from Piccadilly Circus, and at the moment, it’s filled with portraits of people who have told their stories of lockdown life.It’s an art installation by Andrea Tyrimos and consists of a series of portraits and audio recordings of the subject’s lockdown stories. The cabinets contain oil paintings on steel as well as portrait pencil studies of those who have taken part.Without the audio recordings, it’s a bit of a
  
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• SpaceX gets approval to lower its LEO

  28-04-2021 18:59
  
  Satellite company SpaceX has received permission to halve the altitude at which its low earth orbit satellites float.
  SpaceX is run by US zillionaire Elon Musk, who is an early leader in the LEO market, having already lobbed over a thousand satellites, which deliver broadband to underserved areas, into orbit already. Those exist at a height of 550 kilometres above the earth’s surface, but the next lot were previously only approved to be at twice that height.
  There are presumably advantages
  
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• The future of MVNO market: from a single niche to multiple niches of opportunities

  28-04-2021 18:27
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Dario Talmesio, Research Director, Omdia shares his thoughts on the future of the MVNO market.
  The US and the global MVNO market are at a turning point. But it’s not a single turn; the market is taking multiple directions and developing in numerous niches. The market that originated from many small and large long-distance, low-cost calling cards specialist
  
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• Underbelly Festival moves from Southbank to Oxford Street

  28-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The annual festival on the Southbank featuring a big purple cow is moving location this year, and ditching the cow.
  The festival has filed an application to take over Cavendish Square, just off Oxford Street for the summer, running between 1st July to 26th September 2021.
  And this year they’re installing a Spiegeltent, a large circular tent, originally a travelling tent based on a Dutch design, which will be able to hold up to 800 people (650 seated)
  The tent will house a range of live cab
  
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• MYCOM OSI’s Assurance Cloud Service™ Launches on Microsoft Azure

  28-04-2021 15:09
  Provides assurance and observability support for telco-clouds running on Azure LONDON, UK – MYCOM OSI, the Assurance Cloud Company™ and leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced the launch of its Assurance Cloud Service™ (ACS) on Microsoft Azure. A significant milestone in MYCOM OSI’s ongoing rapid global expansion; the launch follows the success of it
  
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• Red Hat raises its cloud game

  28-04-2021 15:01
  
  Open-source software vendor Red Hat has launched a bunch of arcane products and initiatives so baffling they must be doing something clever.
  Red Hat made its name using Linux to make enterprise-grade software. As the business world, including telecoms, is increasingly inclined to stick as much as it can into the cloud, IBM-owned Red Hat is keen to grab as big a piece of that action as possible. Hence the theme of its latest virtual summit.
  Before we continue, this lowly telecoms hack must confes
  
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• UK’s digital divide narrows, but deepens

  28-04-2021 14:58
  
  Ofcom has heralded a narrowing of the digital divide in the UK, with statistics showing an increase in household connectivity over the past year fuelled by the restrictions linked to Covid-19.
  But while more people having access to the Internet is doubtless something to be cheered, the fact remains that many still do not have connectivity and in a world that has increasingly gone online over the past 12 months, that is a more isolating prospect than ever before.
  Around 1.5 million homes, or 6% o
  
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• Telent to support major communications refresh in ambulances across England

  28-04-2021 14:30
  
  Communication upgrades are to be installed in up to 5,000 ambulances across the country. Warwick, UK, 28 April 2021 – Telent has been awarded a major contract to upgrade the mobile communications devices in all 11 NHS Ambulance Trusts across England. The contract, which is managed by the NHS Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP), will allow for a more effective and reliable mobilisation communications platform, improving the ability to meet challenging response times for frontline ambulance...So
  
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• Building site booties made from recycled plastic bottles

  28-04-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is one of those things you probably would never think about unless you visit building sites, and even then, might not think about it.
  When walking from the mucky building site into the staff facilities, most building sites ask people to put blue plastic “booties” over their boots to stop the worst of the muck being walked into the canteens and toilets.
  Obviously, when going out onto the site, the booties are removed for someone else to use. However, they’re fragile and ten
  
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• Smartphone nightmare drives Huawei revenues down 16.5%

  28-04-2021 12:58
  
  Chinese tech giant Huawei has continued its recent trend of relative transparency by revealing a steep decline in Q1 revenues due to the US-imposed struggles of its consumer business.
  The company still managed to rake in CNY152.2 billion (~$23.5 billion), but that was 16.5% lower than the year-ago quarter. In its brief statement Huawei insisted the network business is still growing, but the consumer business decline, partly due to the Honor sale. How much of the overall decline is accounted for
  
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• Cox bulks up investment portfolio with Segra buy

  28-04-2021 12:23
  
  Cox Communications has announced the acquisition of Segra’s business services arm, a move that should give its enterprise services a boost as well as proving to be a sound financial investment.
  Cox will pick up Segra’s commercial services segment, which uses a dense metropolitan fibre network to serve enterprise and carrier customers across nine states in the US’s Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Segra’s current owner, investment fund EQT Infrastructure, will retain th
  
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• Museum of London reopening with extended exhibitions

  28-04-2021 11:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two Museums, of London, and of London Docklands have both confirmed they will reopen from 19th May, and are extending exhibitions that were to have closed during the lockdown.
  The Museum of London’s exhibition, Dub London: Bassline of a City, celebrating dub reggae music and culture in the capital will be extended until 5 September 2021.
  The reopening also means that Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery at the Museum of London Docklands will be extended until 22 August 2021.
  This free
  
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• Concrete art on the Cavendish hotel car park

  28-04-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a side street in St James is a hotel, with an underground car park, and a long frieze of concrete art. A lot of people using the hotel won’t know it’s here, as the main entrance is around the other side, but if you were to walk down Duke Street, then a wall of shaped concrete greets you.It’s a work of art by William Mitchell, an English sculptor best known for large scale concrete murals and public works of art between the 1960s and 1970s.
  Its presence here is likely therefo
  
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• UK 5G auction completes with a Vodafone–O2 spectrum swap

  28-04-2021 02:00
  Last month’s auction saw a total of 200MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6–3.8GHz bands sold in its entirety, raising £1.36 billion for HM Treasury. The additional spectrum was represented a significant boost for the UK operators, increasing their spectrum portfolio by almost 20%. While all four operators took home new spectrum, BT and O2 seized the largest portions, with Three mostly content with its already comparatively large spectrum holdings…read more on Tot
  
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• Eutelsat takes stake in OneWeb following launch of 36 satellites

  28-04-2021 02:00
  Last weekend, OneWeb launched 36 new LEO satellites into orbit, increasing the size of its constellation to 182. This launch follows a previous launch around a month ago that also sent 36 satellites into orbit. OneWeb will require two more 36-satellite launches before the company can reach its interim goal of total UK coverage by the end of the year, with the constellation also able to cover Alaska, Northern Europe, Greenland…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Driving the digital skills agenda in Staffordshire

  28-04-2021 02:00
  Digital skills have become invaluable in the modern working world. As such, ensuring that young people leave education fully equipped with the relevant digital skills set is crucial. In an interview with Total Telecom, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Staffordshire University, Professor Martin Jones, shared his insights into the role that universities have to play in addressing the UK’s digital divide. He also shared his insights into how Staffordshire University is leading the way with its
  
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• Despite pandemic 1.5 million UK homes still without internet access

  28-04-2021 02:00
  At this point, the fact that the coronavirus pandemic is driving digitalisation is well accepted by the telecoms world. From the ubiquity of Zoom calls to the lockdown-imposed work from home, connectivity has become central to our personal and private lives over the last year.But while for some this rapid switch to a more online lifestyle has merely been an acceleration of a pre-existing trend, for others it has left them completely isolated…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT kicks off free connectivity for 70 football clubs

  28-04-2021 02:00
  The work is part of BT’s role as lead partner with each of the four home nation football associations – The FA, Scottish FA, Irish FA and FA of Wales.Working with the FAs, BT identified the key areas of the game that needed the most support and developed the transformational 4-3-3 football strategy: 4 – to support the 4 home nations in partnership with each football association3 – supporting the 3 football communities most in need of support – disability and p
  
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