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• AT&T/Discovery: getting your money back will have to do

  17-05-2021 19:30
  Telecoms group abandons Hollywood dream but shareholders in new venture can still play supporting role
  
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• Webcam to watch the Marble Arch mound being built

  17-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A giant mound of earth is being piled up at Marble Arch to create a viewing platform for the summer, and they’ve set up a webcam to watch the progress.
  The Marble Arch Mound is due to open to the public on Monday 5th July for six months, giving people who climb up to the top a vista from next to Marble Arch across Hyde Park, Oxford Street, Edgware Road and Park Lane.
  The local trade group, Marble Arch London BID has teamed up with Multivista to put a live webcam on top of a nearby building
  
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• 5G expansion: when will coverage be truly widespread?

  17-05-2021 16:09
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Dr Paul Carter, CEO of Global Wireless Solutions, reviews the progress of the UK 5G rollout.
  5G is expanding rapidly across the UK, with the next generation network continuing to pop up at new locations served by each of the major operators. This month, EE unveiled 35 new locations to its service, including many tourist hotspots and destinations for domestic tra
  
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• Mayfield lavender farm reopens in June

  17-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Row up up row of purple lavender fill the fields near Croydon, and you are able to walk through them from next month.
  Mayfield Lavender Farm opens to the public annually to take in the remarkable sight and get all their purple-toned photos. It’s one of those places that is exceptionally photo-friendly, whether you’re taking serious photos or a sharing on Instagram.
  (c) Mayfield Lavender Farm
  They’ve now confirmed that the farm will reopen to the public from 1st June to 31st Aug
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Rakuten, Ericsson China and 5G delivery

  17-05-2021 15:51
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Rakuten, Ericsson China and 5G delivery
  
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• Telefónica wants €100 million-plus for logistics business

  17-05-2021 15:37
  
  Telefónica is pushing ahead with debt-reduction efforts and this time it is logistics business Zeleris that is up for grabs.
  So claims Spanish business publication CincoDias, which cites unnamed sources as saying Telefónica has received initial offers from the private equity space for Zeleris, its M&A advisor having been touting the business for the past few months. However, Telefónica wants at least €100 million for the asset and the non-binding bids offered up so
  
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• Telenor signs up Enea for its multi-vendor SA 5G project

  17-05-2021 14:37
  
  Norwegian operator group Telenor is striving to create the world’s most diverse standalone 5G core and software vendor Enea is the latest addition to the project.
  Enea’s contribution focuses on its 5G data management solutions, with the initiative working towards the production of a proof of concept of a fully secure cloud-native 5G Core for network slicing. Telenor announced its SA 5G solution a month ago, which seems to be a bid to develop the equivalent of OpenRAN in the core.
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• Vantage Towers aims to generate €1 billion in revenues this year

  17-05-2021 14:09
  
  Vantage Towers aims to generate revenues of around the €1 billion mark in the current financial year, a modest increase on its pro forma turnover in full-year 2021.
  The mobile towers business, spun of out Vodafone last year and listed in Frankfurt in March, reported group revenue of €545 million for the last financial year. However, the figure does not include a full-year’s performance for many of the assets it picked up during the 12 months to the end of March; on a pro forma ba
  
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• Unusual locations for Weddings in London

  17-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With news that Selfridges has just gained a wedding license, so you can now get married in a temple to mammon, what other interesting places in London allow marriages?
  There are probably several thousand places to get hitched in London, but some can stand out a bit, and while more expensive than a local hall, some are surprisingly affordable for modest-sized weddings.
  All bar one of the venues below can handle civil partnerships, gay and straight weddings.
  Old Royal Naval College
  Barbican
  London
  
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• AT&T to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery – UPDATED

  17-05-2021 12:46
  
  UPDATED – 12:30 17 May 2021: See full press release below.
  It is being widely reported that US communications group AT&T is expected to do a mega deal with cable channel Discovery to boost its SVoD offering, which was confirmed after publication.
  There was nothing official at time of writing, but multiple media reckoned it was close to a done deal yesterday. The plan seems to be to combine AT&T’s WarnerMedia, which owns HBO, CNN and Warner Bros, with Discovery, which speciali
  
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• AT&T set to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery

  17-05-2021 12:46
  
  It is being widely reported that US communications group AT&T is expected to do a mega deal with cable channel Discovery to boost its SVoD offering.
  There’s nothing official yet, but multiple media reckoned it was close to a done deal yesterday. The plan seems to be to combine AT&T’s WarnerMedia, which owns HBO and Warner Bros, with Discovery, which specialises in documentaries and lifestyle programming. The resulting organisation, which would be majority-owned by AT&T, w
  
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• Migration Options to 5G for Lawful Interception

  17-05-2021 10:25
  
  Mobile Network Operators have a lot to juggle as they migrate toward 5G standalone networks.
  This whitepaper discusses the various migration paths to 5G and their impact on lawful intercept platforms. It highlights the instances when MNOs need to update or enhance their platforms to ensure compliance. Additionally, this whitepaper provides a useful checklist for evaluating potential 5G lawful intercept mediation platforms.
  You will also learn more about:The various and most leveraged migration p
  
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• London’s Alleys: Greek Court, W1

  17-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is an alley on Old Compton Street that’s still technically public, but also legitimately sealed off from the public.It first shows up as an unnamed gap between the houses facing what was known at the time as Little Compton Street leading to three homes that were still at the time surrounded by fields.
  R Horwood map 1799
  Within 80 years, the entire area had been filled in, and the alley lined with buildings, and it shows up in early Goad’s Insurance Maps as Star Court, but was sh
  
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• AT&T/Discovery: A telco concedes defeat

  17-05-2021 05:20
  For AT&T shareholders, the victory has proved pyrrhic
  
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• The UK’s ‘hidden middle’: 17m people lack sufficient digital skills

  17-05-2021 02:00
  FutureDotNow, a coalition of organisations including Accenture, BT, and Asda, has today released a new study showing that an alarmingly large portion of the UK public, 17.1 million people, do not have the digital skills to fully participate in the digital world. The Essential Digital Skills (EDS) framework was devised by the UK government back in 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Seize the 5G opportunity: Join us tomorrow for 5GLIVE!

  17-05-2021 02:00
  5G is so much more than just faster connectivity. From unlocking a myriad of industrial use cases to changing the way businesses approach connectivity, 5G has the potential to revolutionise the global economy across verticals including smart cities, transport, manufacturing, and healthcare. But capitalising on the 5G opportunity will not be easy. The technology itself is very much still in its infancy, with novel use cases being developed around the world. Important questions are bein
  
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• BT starts excising Huawei mobile kit

  17-05-2021 02:00
  Back in July 2020, the UK government announced plans to increase its 5G sanctions on Huawei, mandating that all of the country’s mobile operators remove all Huawei equipment from their networks by 2027.The ban came into force at the end of 2020 and now, five months later…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T eyes $150bn media merger with Discovery

  17-05-2021 02:00
  Less than three years ago, AT&T acquired media group Time Warner for around $85 billion, seeking to acquire video content to keep the pace with streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Since then, the move to streaming over conventional television has become even more pronounced, with Disney+&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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