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• Tickets Alert: Visit Chevening House gardens

  18-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month is the annual open day of the gardens of a large government mansion not far from Sevenoaks that’s mainly used as a home by the Foreign Secretary.The building, Chevening House was built around 400 years ago to a design reputed to be by Inigo Jones as the main seat of the earls Stanhope. It would probably still be a private house, but the last Earl Stanhope, childless and with his brother killed in WW1, effectively gifted it to the nation.
  A trust was set up in 1959 that allows a
  
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• Iliad delays Italy fixed-line launch

  18-05-2021 15:16
  
  Iliad is upbeat about its progress in Italy, but nonetheless is delaying the launch of its planned fixed-line service in the market.
  The French telco group presented its first quarter numbers on Tuesday. Amid all the back-slapping on customer acquisitions and double-digit revenue growth in Italy, it would have been easy to miss the news that it is not only pushing back the fixed service launch, but is also working towards an even more nebulous target launch date. Slipped in at the end of its Q1
  
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• Rakuten fleshes out its Communications Platform ahead of global expansion

  18-05-2021 15:12
  
  Japanese greenfield operator Rakuten Mobile has signed agreements with NEC and Fujitsu to collaborate over global OpenRAN promotion.
  Rakuten has been teasing the development of an OpenRAN platform that can be bought off-the-peg by other operators for some time. Compatriots NEC and Fujitsu have been in the mix for some time, but both have signed memoranda-of-understanding with Rakuten, which seem to signify their enduring commitment to the project.
  NEC seems to be the main software partner for th
  
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• Vodafone hikes capex for connectivity and new growth platforms

  18-05-2021 15:08
  
  Vodafone spooked the market on Tuesday with the announcement that it will hike spending levels in the coming year.
  The telco group puts capital spending at around the €8 billion mark for financial year 2022, up from €7.9 billion in the year to the end of March and €7.4 billion in fiscal 2020.
  “The pandemic has effectively accelerated digitalisation by five years,” Read said on the operator’s full-year results call, at which he presented a set of mid-term targets
  
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• TfL secures another short-term funding extension

  18-05-2021 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TfL’s funding deal with the government, which was due to run expire today, has been extended until the end of next week as both sides still debate the terms of a longer-term funding settlement.
  The extension will continue to support the capital and the transport network until 28 May 2021 on the same terms as now, and comprises an additional funding payment of £65 million with a top-up grant available based on actual passenger revenues.
  The extension of the funding deal comes the week
  
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• Amazon reportedly thinking of buying MGM

  18-05-2021 13:10
  
  The video content arms race continues unabated, with Amazon looking at dropping $9 billion on movie studio MGM.
  No sooner does AT&T find an innovative way of boosting its SVoD offering without having to get even further into debt, than Amazon get its wallet out and says “is that all you got?” This rumour seems less substantial than yesterdays, which became reality within minutes of us publishing the story, but it’s perfectly plausible.
  The Information seems to have got the
  
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• The British Museum presents Becket, Bling and Beatification

  18-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s the classic ageless story.
  Man meets King. Man gets favours from King. Man becomes Bishop. King banishes Bishop. Bishop returns. King kills Bishop. Dead Bishop becomes Saint.Of course, it’s a thousand times more complicated than that, but for many people, the story of Thomas Becket is limited to the famous murder, and maybe the hairshirt.
  His death 851 years ago is the impetus for this delayed by a year 850th-anniversary exhibition at the British Museum. It’s not an exhibi
  
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• Vodafone to increase capital expenditure for network expansion

  18-05-2021 10:25
  Telecoms group seeks to become ‘next generation connectivity champion’
  
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• Vodafone plans multimillion-euro investment for network expansion

  18-05-2021 10:25
  Telecoms group aims to capture bigger slice of post-pandemic market
  
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• Vodafone plans multi-million-euro investment for network expansion

  18-05-2021 10:25
  Telecoms group aims to capture bigger slice of post-pandemic market
  
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• Step-free access to Notting Hill Gate tube station planned

  18-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A planned development next to Notting Hill Gate tube station will see partial step-free access included in the project.
  The site is an existing 1950s block, Newcombe House and a row of low rise buildings with a car park at the rear. The plans will see all of them removed and replaced with newer buildings and the car park turned into a public square. As part of the plans, step-free access will be provided to the southbound platform of the Circle and District Lines.
  The housing development itself
  
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• AT&T discovers it has no business in show business

  18-05-2021 06:00
  Plus, Spac fever proves less contagious, and a closer look into Sanjeev Gupta’s ‘white knight’
  
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• The 5G-aliser: May 2021 update – Standalone 5G is coming

  18-05-2021 02:00
  The latest update to the 5G-aliser, made in collaboration with STL Partners, shows a number of key drivers maintain their momentum from our last update, including interest in Open RAN and private networks. The biggest positive change is that the number of standalone (SA) 5G deployments are growing steadily, potentially unlocking some of 5G’s more advanced capabilities, such as network slicing. This is all facilitated, at least in part, by the additional spectrum that is becoming available
  
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• IslaLink and Elettra to construct IONIAN submarine system

  18-05-2021 02:00
  IslaLink, an independent fibre infrastructure platform IslaLink owned by Fiera Infrastructure, will be working with Elettra, a subsidiary of Orange, to construct a new subsea link between Italy and Greece…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom targeting 1m FTTH connections in trio of cities

  18-05-2021 02:00
  Deutsche Telekom has been accelerating its fibre rollout significantly in recent months. At the end of 2020, Telekom said it had already rolled out FTTH to around 2 million households in Germany, having added around 600,000 in 2020 itself. Since then, the company has announced a target of passing 10 million homes by 2024, ultimately aiming to cover all of Germany&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deustsche Telekom targeting 1m FTTH connections in trio of cities

  18-05-2021 02:00
  Deutsche Telekom has been accelerating its fibre rollout significantly in recent months. At the end of 2020, Telekom said it had already rolled out FTTH to around 2 million households in Germany, having added around 600,000 in 2020 itself. Since then, the company has announced a target of passing 10 million homes by 2024, ultimately aiming to cover all of Germany&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G manufacturing: A nuanced proposition

  18-05-2021 02:00
  It is widely accepted that 5G will play a key role in unlocking Industry 4.0, particularly as it relates to the manufacturing industry. With faster, more reliable, and more secure connectivity, the technology will unlock numerous efficiencies, from using machine learning and AI to process real time data gathered from the IoT to automation of the production line.“If we manage to increase the efficiency and productivity by a small percentage, that already amounts of a huge increase, in the
  
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