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• Partner ecosystems are key to untangling CSPs’ IoT trilemma

  13-05-2021 18:51
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Angus Ward, CEO, Beyond by BearingPoint, looks at how to tackle the challenges faced by CSPs trying to get into IoT.
  As the number of connected things continues to proliferate, CSPs and enterprises alike are focused on generating value from a wealth of new IoT enabled use cases. Coupled with 5G’s enhanced speeds and low latency communications, the two tech
  
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• UK broadband speeds increased by 25% last year – Ofcom

  13-05-2021 16:06
  
  In 2020 the average download speed of UK residential broadband services increased by 25% from 64 Mbps to 80.2 Mbps, according to new Ofcom research.
  The communications regulator’s UK Home Broadband Performance report polled a sample of UK households last November. It turned out that upload speeds are improving even more rapidly, improving by 54% from 14 Mbps to 21.6 Mbps.
  These improvements clearly coincide with the fibre rollout. While only a small proportion of the country currently has
  
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• Bidders line up for Optus’ A$2 billion towers sale

  13-05-2021 16:03
  
  Australia’s telcos have not moved as quickly as their European counterparts, but 2021 is shaping up to be the year of towers sales down under.
  Optus has not divulged a lot about its planned towers transaction, but reports in the financial press this week suggest that things are shaping up nicely.
  Parent company Singtel is offering 60%-70% of its Optus unit’s towers to would-be investors via an auction that is being run by Bank of America, the Australian Financial Review reported. Acc
  
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• Tickets Alert: Take a walk through the Mail Rail tunnels

  13-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More dates have been announced for a chance to walk through the tunnels deep under Clerkenwell once used by the Post Office’s private Mail Rail trains. Visitors will get access to the original tunnels, tracks and station platforms of London’s 100-year-old postal railway, letting you explore parts of the railway that aren’t accessible on the Mail Rail ride.
  Tunnel walks (c) Postal Museum
  During the walking tour guides will tell the stories about the staff who built, operated and
  
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• O2 dials up record profit ahead of Virgin Media merger

  13-05-2021 15:42
  Mobile company pays out near £2,000 cash bonus to staff after b
  
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• BT Group: less content, more cash flow

  13-05-2021 14:45
  Successful production of drama or sport does not come cheap
  
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• BT numbers disappoint but the future looks promising

  13-05-2021 14:25
  
  UK operator group BT saw its revenues decline by 7% in full year 2020, but there are signs that it’s headed in the right direction.
  “BT comes out of this challenging year as a stronger business with an even greater sense of purpose,” said BT Chief Exec Philip Jansen. “Our fantastic colleagues have shown the true colours of BT – delivering resilient connectivity, supporting families and businesses and helping to underpin the heroism of the NHS.
  “A number of unc
  
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• An archive of aerial photos of London

  13-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s an archive of aerial photos of London held by the University of Cambridge, many of them are recent enough to look familiar, and yet ever so slightly strange.The Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography (CUCAP) is the result of airborne survey campaigns which were started in 1947 by the pioneering JK St Joseph. Since then the collection has grown to almost 500,000 images of obliques and verticals in black and white, colour and infra-red.
  That’s a research archive,
  
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• Germany, UK, Italy still clinging onto copper

  13-05-2021 12:51
  
  Europe is making solid progress in both the rollout and take-up of full fibre connections, according to new market data published this week, but there is still plenty of work to, particularly by three of the continent’s major economies.
  Presenting their latest FTTH market panorama, which tracks progress over the 12 months to September 2020, the FTTH Council Europe and IDATE noted that many countries where legacy infrastructure still dominates have altered their strategies and are increasin
  
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• Kennington tube station is changing from a Zone 2 station to a Zone 1/2 station

  13-05-2021 11:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kennington station, which is currently in Zone 2 is to become a mixed Zones 1 and 2 station from this Sunday (16th May) as part of the preparations for the Northern line extension.
  At the moment, Kennington is in Zone 2, but the new stations on the Northern line extension will be in Zone 1. This causes the anomaly that people in Battersea and Nine Elms living in Zone 1 would otherwise need to pass through Zone 2 to get into Central London.
  The change was a condition of the funding agreement for
  
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• HS2 starts tunnelling in northwest London

  13-05-2021 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just inside the M25 in northwest London, HS2 has powered up its first tunnel boring machine, which will head northwards under the Chilterns.
  TBM before shipping to the UK (c) HS2
  Starting today and operating 24 hours a day, it will take around three years for the tunnel boring machine (TBM), called Florence, to dig the 10-mile long tunnel under the Chiltern hills.
  At 170 metres in length, the 2,000 tonne TBM is also the largest ever used on a UK rail project. As is traditional, all TBMs are give
  
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• BT to allow external investors to fund fibre network

  13-05-2021 09:22
  Telecoms company to increase its fibre build to 25m homes by 2026
  
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• BT hunts for funding partners in fibre broadband expansion

  13-05-2021 09:22
  Telecoms group plans to reach 25m homes by 2026 at cost of £15bn
  
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• Over half of European homes now have access to FTTH

  13-05-2021 02:00
  In the UK today, telecoms media is consumed with BT’s announcement that it is increasing the pace of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout, upping its 2026 target from 20 million premises to 25 million. But, as important as this news is for the UK, it should be remembered that country currently lags behind a number of key European rivals when it comes to fibre coverage and these rivals are also rolling out fibre at a blistering pace. Now, the latest data from the FTTH Council Europe h
  
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• New Proximus tech extends lifespan of copper networks

  13-05-2021 02:00
  Working together with Nokia, engineers from Belgian operator Proximus have developed a way for copper networks to deliver twice the speed and capacity that was previously available.The technology, called 2MX6, is based on Nokia’s Quillion chip and uses what they call ‘ultra-dense vectorisation’ to double the capacity of street cabinets, allowing each cabinet to support 384 users instead of the previous 192…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Italy hits Google with €102m antitrust fine over app exclusion

  13-05-2021 02:00
  Google once again finds itself in hot water in Europe over what has been deemed anticompetitive behaviour, this time in Italy.  The Italian competition regulator has fined Google €102 million for excluding Enel’s e-mobility app, JuicePass, from its Android system, arguing that the company has leveraged its dominant market position unfairly…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• In vino veritas: TIM’s 5G vineyards and the next steps for smart agriculture

  13-05-2021 02:00
  Back in February, TIM announced a new strategic plan for 2021–2023 called ‘Beyond Connectivity’, part of which involved exploring connectivity opportunities beyond the traditional telco space. One such sector that presents a myriad of opportunities is agriculture, where the deployment of 5G can help farmers to not only improve their crop yields and operational efficiency, However, building relationships new partners and exploring new verticals is no easy task for a telco,
  
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• How fibre networks will change London's fortunes

  13-05-2021 02:00
  G.Network have ambitious plans to build a full fibre network to over 1 million UK premises, can you tell us a bit more about the project and its progress.Over the next five years G.Network will dig around 4,000km of London streets to install brand-new full fibre to 1.4 million premises. The project will cover 13 London boroughs, and in each borough we’ll install a contiguous network reaching over 80% of the borough. In December we secured a £1bn fundraise for the project. Once
  
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• BT raises FTTP target to 25m, will create 7,000 jobs

  13-05-2021 02:00
  Today, BT Group has published its financial results for the 2020/2021 year and with it pledged to increase its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) target from 20 million to 25 million by December 2026. The UK’s largest operator said the increased targets should help create an additional 7,000 jobs throughout the country and help deliver on the government’s goals of creating a gigabit…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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