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• A moody makeover for the V&A’s Raphael Court

  06-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A large gallery in the V&A museum has been given a major refurbishment and swept away pale grey walls for a richer darker look that really brings out the artwork on the walls.
  View of refurbished Raphael Court at the V&A, 2021 (c) Hufton+Crow
  One of the V&A’s largest and most dramatic galleries, The Raphael Court is almost identical in proportion to the Sistine Chapel and is home to the Raphael Cartoons, which are among the greatest treasures of the Renaissance in the UK. They&
  
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• The rise of telco brand value

  06-05-2021 18:46
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece David McGlew, Marketing Director at Openet, discusses how the move to online economies is driving up the value of telco brands.
  I was struck by a recent news headline covering a report from the organisation, Brand Finance, who measure the relative value of Brands. The news article highlighted a report that explored the Irish market and called out the increase in
  
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• Verizon is getting up to speed with its 5G spectrum aggregation

  06-05-2021 17:50
  
  Verizon has achieved speeds of 4.3 Gbps in a lab trial that saw it aggregate C-band and mmWave spectrum.
  The US operator said it worked with Ericsson and MediaTek on the trial which took place recently and gives it the opportunity to once again talk up the planned expansion of its 5G Ultra Wideband network.
  “These lab trials demonstrate the exceptional network performance our customers will receive as we are able to integrate our newly acquired C-band spectrum with mmWave spectrum,”
  
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• Quarterly season haunted by chip shortage

  06-05-2021 16:02
  
  A common theme in analyst calls this earnings season has been cautious pessimism about the knock-on effects of the global chip shortage.
  Most recently Nintendo followed its fellow games console maker Sony in warning it would flog fewer units because of reduced supply, rather than demand. Car companies have been ringing alarm bells since the start of the year an none of the sudden political attention on the matter seems to have done any good so far.
  Light Reading took a look at some of the stuff
  
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• Did you know there was a London Underground whisky?

  06-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At some point, someone released a very limited range of London Underground branded whisky miniatures.
  (c) McTear’s
  I say someone, as Macallan say it wasn’t them, even though the miniatures contain their whisky, and they suggest that that “someone” has rebottled Macallan’s own aqua vitae into small water jugs.
  I only mention this as someone with deep pockets may be excited to learn that what seems to be an entire collection is up for sale. As us less rich folk can re
  
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• Orange tries to put a positive spin on Belgium fiasco

  06-05-2021 14:45
  
  Orange secured just over half the shares it aimed for in its recent tender offer to minority shareholders of Orange Belgium, but insists that’s a good result.
  “We have achieved the objective we set for ourselves: offering a fair price to shareholders who wanted to monetize their shares and strengthening our stake in Orange Belgium,” said Ramon Fernandez, Deputy CEO in charge of Finance, Performance and Development at Orange Group, when the telco revealed the results of part two
  
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• Fading support for single Italian broadband network hurts Telecom Italia

  06-05-2021 14:42
  Government signals desire for more competition in blow to plan for incumbent to spearhead rollout
  
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• Nokia has another go at Femtocells

  06-05-2021 14:31
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has launched a new small cell product designed to boost indoor 5G coverage called Smart Node.
  Remember Femtocells? They used to be a thing, right? The weird name was derived from the metric unit prefix denoting 10-15, which is one order of magnitude smaller than ‘pico’ and two smaller than ‘nano’. In other words, very small indeed. It seems to have been chosen as a geeky way of subdividing the small cell category, almost daring someone to go to &l
  
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• Virtualized RAN: Strategies, opportunities and pitfalls

  06-05-2021 14:17
  
  The transition to 5G is a transition to containers and cloud-native network applications, in particular vRAN, according to a Heavy Reading survey. This transition brings with it several enabling technologies, such as network slicing and edge computing, that in turn set the stage for the dominant 5G use cases: Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), and Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC). To support these technologies and use cases, the 5G netw
  
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• Open transformation in telecommunications

  06-05-2021 14:06
  
  To meet new challenges and expectations, telecommunications service providers must transform their networks and operations. Traditional operators running primarily monolithic legacy systems can reinvent themselves by adopting modern IT architectures and operational management approaches and building a more agile culture. This e-book highlights the technologies and approaches powering telecommunications transformation and how Red Hat® products and services support service providers on th
  
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• Security in Open RAN

  06-05-2021 13:52
  
  5G and Open RAN enable new capabilities and control points that allow suppliers, test equipment manufacturers, wireless carriers, and network operators to assess, mitigate and manage security risks efficiently.
  This paper details how O-RAN enables operators by giving them full visibility and control of their network’s end-to-end security. Security topic highlights:• Open RAN security based on zero-trust architecture• Secured communication between network functions• Secure fr
  
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• American Tower does €1.6 billion deal with CDPQ to fund Telxius buy

  06-05-2021 13:08
  
  American Tower has agreed to sell a big chunk of its European business to Canada’s CDPQ to help it fund the acquisition of Telefonica’s towers business.
  The firm has brokered a deal worth in excess of €1.6 billion with investment group Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) for a 30% stake in ATC Europe. It is pitching the deal as a long-term strategic partnership that will help both parties benefit from growth potential in the European towers space, b
  
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• More virtual disused tube station tours announced

  06-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With visits to the disused tube stations in person on hold, a new batch of video tours has been announced by the London Transport Museum.
  The newest tour on offer covers Euston station, including parts of the station not usually accessible on the in-person tours. The tour explores the remains of the station’s two original structures that have been closed for over a century. The tour includes a last look inside the iconic Leslie Green station building before it gets demolished as part of th
  
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• What the City of London will look like in the mid-2020s

  06-05-2021 11:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The City of London has released some updated images visualising how the Square Mile’s skyline will look by the mid 2020’s.
  (c) Didier Madoc-Jones of GMJ / City of London Corporation
  The updated skyline adds in all major developments that have had planning approval over the past 12 months including 50 Fenchurch Street, 55 Gracechurch Street, 60 Aldgate High Street, 70 Gracechurch Street and 2-3 Finsbury Avenue. The majority of these tall buildings fall within the ‘City Cluster&r
  
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• A post-war hotel at St Pauls

  06-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a very 1960s era hotel practically on the doorstep of St Paul’s Cathedral that was once an office block.Built on land that was cleared following war damage, what was known as Colonial Mutual House was occupied by Australia based Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society. Through a long line of takeovers, the UK arm is now a deeply buried subsidiary of Aviva.
  The construction was probably completed in 1964.
  Today, it’s one of the area’s few unapologetically post-war b
  
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• TIP backs WBA’s OpenRoaming standards ahead of OpenWiFi launch

  06-05-2021 02:00
  Today, the WBA has announced that TIP has adopted their OpenRoaming standards, ahead of the launch of TIP’s own OpenWiFi project next week.  According to the WBA website, OpenRoaming is a ‘federation service enabling an automatic and secure WiFi experience globally’, based on three key elements: cloud federation, whereby networks and identity providers can enable automatic roaming and user onboarding on WiFi…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Russian operators teaming up for 5G joint venture

  06-05-2021 02:00
  Rolling out networks efficiently is a major challenge faced by operators around the world, especially for 5G, which will require more dense deployment than its predecessor, 4G.To overcome this challenge, in Russia a group of operators are seeking to team up to create a 5G joint venture…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Gamgee’s New Mesh Technology Turns Consumer Routers and Extenders into Enterprise-grade Mesh Nodes

  06-05-2021 02:00
  As the telecom industry races to provide products and services that improve home Wi-Fi network speed and coverage for consumers, the Dutch tech company Gamgee designed a solution that (remotely) upgrades routers, gateways and home nodes of various vendors and chipsets into mesh nodes.Poor Wi-Fi performance and insufficient network coverage are some of the biggest pain points in consumers’ smart homes. As the internet and data consumption at home is growing exponentially, an increasing num
  
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• Draghi govt to pull plug on Italian single network scheme

  06-05-2021 02:00
  When Mario ‘Super Mario’ Draghi took control of the Italian government back in February, a plan to create a single Italian fibre network through the merger of TIM and Open Fiber had already been in discussion for many months. Now, after much debate, reports suggest that the Italian government may be looking to abandon this plan altogether, arguing that the creation of a single network would constitute a return to a telecoms monopoly. Documentation sent to the EU regarding Italy
  
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• Digital twins: A revolution for site inspection efficiency

  06-05-2021 02:00
  The telecom industry has been digitalising its assets for several years now, using the process to gain insights into telecom networks and the related infrastructure. But it is only in recent years, with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), that the concept of a digital twin has really begun to see rapid adoption.“Five years ago, the industry started to begin digitalising their assets, but the main reason why it is now more important than ever is that we are enhancing these di
  
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• Chinese telcos set the pace for 5G monetisation

  06-05-2021 02:00
  Over the last year, there has been a growing debate around 5G monetization. The recent quarterly results of the Chinese service providers, including China Mobile and China Unicom, validate that the 5G large-scale commercial operators have performed well on the back of an increase in 5G Average Revenue Per User (ARPU).
  China Mobile, the country's largest telecommunications company, recently reported that the total number of 5G package customers reached 189 million, and the total number of 5G net
  
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