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• London Zoo’s NHS sign is to be preserved by the Museum of London

  01-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A large NHS sign installed in London Zoo’s Giraffe House during the pandemic has been acquired by the Museum of London as part of its ongoing Collecting COVID initiative.
  The sign was made by London Zoo, and deliberately positioned on the Giraffe House to be in the direct line of sight of paramedics who were parking outside the locked-down zoo next to the Giraffe House during their lunch breaks.The sign became widely known through an ITV documentary and by local residents stopping to have
  
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• London exhibitions to visit in June 2021

  01-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As we crawl out of the lockdown, the museum and galleries are opening up and putting on their big summer exhibitions at last. Here’s a selection of what’s open in June to waken up the slumbering cultural brain.Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery
  Museum of London Docklands, Canary Wharf
  Free
  The first opportunity for the public to see the largest ever Bronze Age hoard discovered in London.
  Weapons including axe heads, spearheads, fragments of swords, daggers and knives, alongside som
  
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• Newly merged Virgin Media O2 ‘ready to fire’ at incumbent BT

  01-06-2021 15:41
  Newly combined telecoms company seeks partners for fibre expansion
  
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• What to expect from 5G Advanced, both in terms of technologies and use-cases

  01-06-2021 15:38
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ray Williamson, Director of European Product Management, Huawei Wireless, takes a look at what could also be called 5.5G.
  What is 5G Advanced?5G is pushing the boundaries not only of our mobile communications systems but also of the underlying science and technology. 5G Advanced can be understood as the evolution of 5G, or as an extension and enhancement of
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Huawei, censorship and OpenRAN

  01-06-2021 15:23
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Huawei, censorship and OpenRAN
  
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• BT and Mavenir take a look at Lumenisity hollowcore fibre

  01-06-2021 15:03
  
  Lumenisity is a UK startup developing a new kind of fibre technology, which claims to reduce optical latency by 50%.
  The company was spun out of the University of Southampton and came out of stealth mode last autumn. It hasn’t taken long for it to catch the eye of major telcos, with BT partnering with Mavenir to conduct trial at its Adastral Park labs. Hollowcore fibre has a tube of air running through the centre of the glass, which offers superior propagation characteristics that in turn
  
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• Xiaomi claims new smartphone fast-charging records

  01-06-2021 15:02
  
  The Chinese smart device maker Xiaomi claims that it has set new records by fully charging a smartphone in eight minutes when wired, and in fifteen minutes when wireless.
  Modified for the demo is Xiaomi’s own Mi 11 Pro that comes with a 4000aMh battery. The company showed in a video (embedded at the end of this story) that over a 200W wired “HyperCharge” system the phone can be fully charged in eight minutes, while over a 120W wireless system a full charge will take 15 minutes.
  
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• TfL secures funding to keep running, at a high cost

  01-06-2021 13:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has secured another short-term funding agreement worth £1.08 billion from the government to keep the Capital’s public transport services running, but will have to pay a high cost for it.
  Wages frozen, pensions reformed, fares rising and costs cutting.
  Although revenues from fares have risen in recent weeks thanks to the relaxing of the lockdown, they are still far below where they were before the pandemic, and with TfL heavily reliant on ticket sales for it
  
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• Virgin Media O2 officially launches with vow to shake up the market

  01-06-2021 12:56
  
  Having cleared all its regulatory hurdles, the UK’s new converged telco is full of ambition, but going toe-to-toe with BT will be very expensive.
  “With the fastest broadband and most reliable mobile network in the UK today, Virgin Media O2 is the complete package,” said Lutz Schüler, CEO of VMO2, at its official launch. It’s reasonable to infer from that an acknowledgement that it has neither the most reliable broadband nor the fastest mobile network. That would appe
  
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• Spain to auction 700 MHz for 5G, with sweetened conditions

  01-06-2021 12:52
  
  The Spanish government has announced it will auction the 700 MHz by mid-July for the deployment of 5G networks in the country, and has improved commercial terms to encourage bids.
  In an official release signed by the Minister of Economy and published on the State Official Bulletin, the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation (MINECO) announced that the auction of 700 MHz (covering 694 to 790 MHz) spectrum for 5G deployment will be conducted by 21 July. Qualified bidders s
  
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• Could the pantograph make a return to London’s buses?

  01-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A trial of a new electric bus in South London could see the pantograph return to London’s buses, some 60 years after the last Trolleybus ran in London.
  Not the same as the old system though, as these pantographs will be upside down, mounted on fixed locations with the buses driving up to them to recharge their batteries.
  If you’re not familiar with the term, a pantograph is the unit mounted on the roof of an electric vehicle, typically a train or tram to collect electricity through c
  
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• Vodafone and CityFibre expand partnership to include Ethernet

  01-06-2021 02:00
  Vodafone and CityFibre have expanded their partnership to include Vodafone Ethernet Services for business customers. Vodafone UK currently uses CityFibre FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) infrastructure to help deliver its Vodafone full-fibre broadband service. This new partnership will see Vodafone using CityFibre’s Ethernet infrastructure to offer more local access options than ever before…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone and City Fibre expand partnership to include Ethernet

  01-06-2021 02:00
  Vodafone and CityFibre have expanded their partnership to include Vodafone Ethernet Services for business customers. Vodafone UK currently uses CityFibre FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) infrastructure to help deliver its Vodafone full-fibre broadband service. This new partnership will see Vodafone using CityFibre’s Ethernet infrastructure to offer more local access options than ever before…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Monetising IoT roaming: The time for BCE adoption is now

  01-06-2021 02:00
  The IoT is set to expand at an incredible rate, with a recent forecast predicting that the market will swell to $1.463 trillion by 2027. Connected devices will soon be everywhere, from smart appliances in our homes to sensors monitoring business critical operations in a multitude of professional settings. Many of these devices will need to roam across borders at various times, with some even set to exist indefinitely within another network. As a result, IoT roaming will present a major opp
  
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• BT’s hollow core fibre optic cables full of promise

  01-06-2021 02:00
  Today, BT has announced that it is now trailing a new type of fibre optic cable that includes a hollow, air-filled core.  The idea behind the hollow core is simple enough. Currently, optical fibre uses a transparent solid glass core, allowing light to pass through it and thus convey information. However…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT partners with Sisal Group to support National Lottery bid

  01-06-2021 02:00
  The UK’s National Lottery was first introduced in 1994 and has since then been controlled by Canada’s Camelot Group, with the group winning the tender process three times in a row.  In recent years, however, the Lottery has been declining, with prices increasing and regulators moving to crack down on the process’s privileged position…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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