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• Paddington Bear exhibition comes to the British Library

  11-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The British Library is opening an exhibition this summer all about a bear with a penchant for marmalade sandwiches.
  Featuring over 50 books, documents, film clips and original artworks, the exhibition will explore Michael Bond’s creation of Paddington, from his arrival in the UK from Peru, to finding a new home, and his adventures in London.
  The exhibition will also explore how author Michael Bond took inspiration from his own life and family in creating Paddington.
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• The sad sight of Beuys’ Acorns outside the Tate Modern

  11-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On an empty concrete terrace at the back of the Tate is a cluster of trees, and while it looks like a sad transplant from a garden centre, it’s actually art.Supposedly a “response to the climate emergency” by the artists Ackroyd & Harvey, each tree was grown from an acorn harvested from a forest of 7,000 oaks planted in Germany in the 1980s as an urban greening project.
  These 100 young trees have been placed here next to the Tate as art.
  However, unless you knew it was art,
  
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• Helios moves east with $575 million Omantel site acquisition

  11-05-2021 15:34
  
  Africa-focused telecoms infrastructure specialist Helios Towers has expanded to the Middle East with the acquisition of 2,890 sites from Omantel.
  Helios has a presence in ten African countries, with a total of 7,356 sites, so this acquisition not only represents a geographical expansion, but a significant increase in its portfolio. The nearly three thousand sites in Oman will set Helios back $575 million, which says they will deliver revenues $59 million in the first full year of operation.
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• OneWeb continues Alaska, Arctic push with TrustComm buy

  11-05-2021 13:25
  
  OneWeb has brokered a deal to acquire TrustComm, the US-based satellite services firm it partnered with a couple of months ago to further its push into the US government, looking particularly at northern latitudes.
  The companies did not share details on the value of the deal, but said that, regulatory approvals pending, they expect it to close later this year.
  It is not wholly clear what OneWeb expects to gain from the transaction, given that it inked its partnership deal with TrustComm as recen
  
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• China appears to make further Ericsson work conditional on Swedish 5G policy shift

  11-05-2021 13:18
  
  Chinese government-controlled newspaper Global Times has published an ‘exclusive’ in which an anonymous source links Ericsson’s future work in the country with Sweden’s Huawei ban.
  The Global Times is owned by the People’s Daily, which is generally considered to be a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party. To what extent the CCP approves every word it publishes is unclear, but it’s safe to assume that when it claims to reflect government policy its sour
  
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• Leadenhall Market to be filled with neon lights from Hollywood movies

  11-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The richly decorated Victorian Leadenhall Market in the City of London is being filled with neon lighting from Gods Own Junkyard later this month.Walthamstow based Gods Own Junkyard has worked on film sets for over 40 years and the exhibition will include signage highlights from Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Judge Dredd, Batman, Tomb Raider, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Dark Knight.
  In addition to the actual movie signs, Gods Own Junkyard will display film stills of the pi
  
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• See the Flying Scotsman steam train in London

  11-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the next couple of months, the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive will be hauling trains around London and the regions.
  You can either be on board for some of the trips that still have tickets, or watch from the sidelines.
  If watching from the sidelines, such as vantage points near the route, or local stations it passes through, the basic rules for railway photography are not to use a camera flash, and if in stations, not to use a tripod.The timetable for the Flying Scotsman:
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• Starlink in advanced talks for Nigerian operating licence

  11-05-2021 02:00
  In the past few months, Elon Musk’s Space X has reportedly been in discussions with the NCC in order to obtain operating licences for its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation Starlink. Discussions appear to have progressed significantly, with SpaceX’s Starlink Market Access Director for Africa, Ryan Goodnight, meeting NCC representatives in person on Friday to discuss the matter further. &nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SoftBank invests $60m into Axiata’s AI unit

  11-05-2021 02:00
  Today, Malaysia’s Axiata Group has announced that Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is set to invest $60 million in their digital marketing unit ADA. The move will give SoftBank a 23% stake in the unit, which SoftBank says will become its core digital and data marketing partner in Asia.“This alliance with ADA heralds a new theme in this growth strategy as it will enable us to deploy our digital marketing business outside Japan…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Indian telecoms industry seeks Covid vaccine priority for front-line staff

  11-05-2021 02:00
  The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is currently devastating India, which has now sadly recorded over a quarter of a million deaths from the virus. While all adults in India are now eligible to be vaccinated, currently only around 12% of the country’s 1.3 billion have currently received the jab, with supply shortages slowing the vaccine rollout…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FCC approves $7.17bn broadband fund

  11-05-2021 02:00
  On Monday the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously approved the final rules implementing the $7.17 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund Program.The FCC currently estimates that as many as 17 million children in the US do not have the broadband access required for remote learning, leaving them at a major disadvantage throughout the coronavirus crisis and beyond…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• ASN starts building Bifrost Cable System

  11-05-2021 02:00
  Announced in March 2021, Bifrost is a joint project between Facebook, KEPPEL Telecommunications & Transportation and Telin (a subsidiary of PT Telekom Indonesia). The 15,000km system will connect Singapore…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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