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• Cleaning up the shabby platform ramps in Euston Station

  24-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anyone who has ever used the local services out of Euston platforms 8-11 will know there’s a rather shabby ramp from the platforms to the station concourse.
  Since last Christmas, works have been underway, and the old WH Smiths, M&S and Costa were removed earlier this year to create space for the wider ramp down to the platforms.
  The one thing they can’t remove is the entrance at the bottom leading to the London Underground, but the wider ramp will still double the width of the sp
  
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• High quality infrastructure is essential for Fixed Wireless Access networks

  24-05-2021 15:53
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Paul Wright, VP of Sales and Customer Operations at Cambridge Broadband Networks Group (CBNG), looks at what it will take to make a success of FWA.
  As regulators worldwide prepare for 5G, some operators with enterprise Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services are facing the total loss of their networks, especially in parts of Asia and Africa. The only alternati
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: MWC 2021, WarnerMedia and profitability

  24-05-2021 15:48
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · MWC 2021, WarnerMedia, profitability
  
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• Google and Samsung hope two wrongs make a wearable right

  24-05-2021 14:48
  
  Last week Google almost apologetically slipped out the news that it’s merging its wearable device OS with Samsung’s one.
  Wear is the stripped-down version of Android designed for smart watches and that sort of thing. It doesn’t seem to have taken off, presumably in part due to the fact that the biggest Android device maker – Samsung – has its own wearable OS called Tizen. It seems both companies have grown desperate enough to compromise and combine their efforts in
  
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• Telefonica, 1&1 Drillisch finalise Germany roaming deal

  24-05-2021 14:19
  
  Telefonica and 1&1 Drillisch appear to have finally made friends in Germany, sorting out the finer details of a deal that should end their dispute on the cost of national roaming.
  Relations between the pair thawed back in February, when 1&1 Drillish agreed to a new roaming offer put forward by Telefonica Deutschland. Now they have taken their rapprochement a step further, ironing out the T&Cs and inking a long-term deal. Naturally, they have agreed to keep the financial terms of the
  
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• Ericsson is increasingly pessimistic about its Chinese prospects

  24-05-2021 13:03
  
  In the process of trying to raise half a billion euros, Swedish kit vendor Ericsson warned it’s increasingly unlikely it will get much more work in China.
  A couple of weeks ago we reported on a story published by state-controlled Chinese media that effectively threatened Sweden with proxy retaliatory action against Ericsson if it didn’t reverse its ban of Chinese vendors in the country’s 5G networks. While there was no direct reference to Chinese government sources, it was fair
  
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• Vodafone et al win Ethiopia licence, but it’s not over yet

  24-05-2021 13:01
  
  A consortium including major players Vodafone, Vodacom and Safaricom has won a licence to offer telecoms services in Ethiopia, but the opening up of the country is unlikely to end here.
  The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) and the country’s Ministry of Finance jointly announced that a grouping made up the three aforementioned telcos, the UK’s CDC Group, Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, and the US government-backed Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has been granted a licence
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit London’s largest free Conservatory

  24-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Right in the centre of London is the city’s largest free to visit Conservatory, and it’s reopening after the pandemic lockdown.
  (c) Barbican
  The Barbican’s conservatory is the second-largest in London, and while the Kew glasshouses are larger, you have to pay to visit them – the one at the Barbican is free. Normally only open at weekends, and some mid-week days, as part of the reopening, it’s open all week long.
  It’s a deceptively large space, with the plants
  
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• Oxford Street’s Debenhams to lose its metal facade

  24-05-2021 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The former Debenhams store on Oxford Street is likely to lose its distinctive metal facade if plans for a refurbishment are approved.
  Debenhams closed down earlier this year, and the building’s owners, Ramsbury are now planning to refurbish it for a post-pandemic use.
  The site has been occupied by department stores since 1851, when the first one was opened by Marshall & Snelgrove who slowly over the years bought up the entire block. Debenhams bought the store in 1919, and the current b
  
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• Debenhams Oxford Street to lose its metal facade

  24-05-2021 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The former Debenhams store on Oxford Street is likely to lose its distinctive metal facade if plans for a refurbishment are approved.
  Debenhams closed down earlier this year, and the building’s owners, Ramsbury are now planning to refurbish it for a post-pandemic use.
  The site has been occupied by department stores since 1851, when the first one was opened by Marshall & Snelgrove who slowly over the years bought up the entire block. Debenhams bought the store in 1919, and the current b
  
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• London’s Alleys: Queen’s Passage, SW1A

  24-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An all to easy to walk past without noticing is a narrow subterranean passage that runs underneath the posh houses next to Green Park giving access to the quiet streets behind.
  This area was initially laid out as private gardens for nearby Cleveland House, and Green Park wrapped around the top of the area.
  William Morgan Map 1682
  However, the top section was sold off for housing, and by the 1740s, the layout of roads as we would recognise them today was completed
  John Rocque’s map 1746
  The
  
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• Safaricom consortium wins Ethiopian operating licence

  24-05-2021 02:00
  In what the Ethiopian government has dubbed the ‘deal of the century’, Ethio Telecom’s monopoly on the nation’s telecoms industry is about to be broken with the entrance of a new market player.  For the past year, the Ethiopian government has been planning to auction two new telecoms operating licences, offering foreign telcos the opportunity to offer fixed and mobile services within Africa&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liberty Global launching data centre JV to monetise assets

  24-05-2021 02:00
  Liberty Global has announced a new joint venture (JV) with digital infrastructure fund Digital Colony, aiming to create a European edge data centre business with around 120 active data centre locations.With 5G being rolled out at pace throughout Europe and data traffic increasing steadily, the computing power of a network is gradually being moved away from the core and towards the ‘edge&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson fears China losses as a result of Sweden–Huawei row

  24-05-2021 02:00
  In October 2020, Sweden’s regulator banned Huawei and ZTE from taking part in the nation’s upcoming 5G networks. Huawei quickly responded with a legal challenge, the process of which has dragged on for many months. A final decision on the case is expected to be delivered in the next few weeks.  Since the ban&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• £1bn stake sale could see CityFibre increase rollout to 10m

  24-05-2021 02:00
  Back in March, it was announced that UK altnet CityFibre were looking to sell a significant minority stake in the company for up to £1 billion. Now, CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch (pictured) has told The Mail on Sunday that the operator in talks with 20 potential investors to purchase up to a 30% stake in the company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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