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• Sign Language announcements at Euston station

  07-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London Euston has become the first railway station in the country to provide passenger information using British Sign Language.
  Last week, ten passenger information touchscreens, developed in a partnership with Leicester-based British Sign Language company Clarion UK and Nottingham-based screen manufacturer LB Foster, were installed with support for British Sign Language.
  Clarion UK’s Sign Language interpreters have created a library of standard messaging as part of the screen so
  
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• Vodafone confirms limited physical presence at MWC

  07-06-2021 16:07
  
  UK operator group Vodafone won’t be running a physical stand at Mobile World congress later this month but hopes people will visit its virtual one.
  Spanish media reported the matter as if it was something new, however we understand the GSMA, which runs MWC, has been aware of Vodafone’s position for some time. The reason, of course, is that the Covid pandemic is proving to irritatingly persistent and there is still considerable hassle associated with international travel.
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• Mayfair’s Sculpture Trail 2021 has opened

  07-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mayfair’s second annual Sculpture Trail has opened for people to wander around the area seeking out temporary, and permanent public artworks.
  In total, seven new artworks have been placed around Mayfair for the month of June, alongside 15 existing artworks which make up the walking route.
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  Meditation 626 (2018) Presented by Opera Gallery
  Sculpture highlights include: ‘Alien 2’ on New Bond Street by British artist David Breuer-Weil portraying his belief that every
  
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• The evolution towards open cables

  07-06-2021 15:34
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Vincent Gatineau, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for EllaLink, and Geoff Bennett Director of Solutions & Technology for Infinera, explore the evolution of submarine cables.
  From Closed to Open Cable Systems
  There are over 400 submarine communication cables deployed under the seas and oceans of the world today.  With a typical cable having an engineer
  
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• Orange buys into African digital healthcare platform

  07-06-2021 15:09
  
  Orange has teamed up with insurance firm AXA Assurance Maroc to buy a majority stake in DabaDoc, a Moroccan digital healthcare platform.
  Aside from a financial investment of an unspecified amount, the deal seems to be centred on Orange providing access to its digital payments infrastructure with a view to helping DabaDoc grow its business.
  “In cementing this tri-party partnership, DabaDoc will benefit from the broad experience of AXA, one of the global leaders in health insurance, and Oran
  
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• Automation, Harmony OS and US trade policy

  07-06-2021 14:55
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Automation, Harmony OS and US trade policy
  
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• Brussels inches towards easing 5G radiation rules

  07-06-2021 13:04
  
  The regional parliament in Brussels has taken a small step towards easing rules on radiation that could pave the way for the introduction of 5G services.
  The move, which could see the current limit on permissible levels of radiation from phone masts more than doubled, is good news for both mobile operators looking to roll out 5G and the region’s would-be consumers of the technology. However it also has a broader significance: a change in the law in Brussels will remove some of the fuel fro
  
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• Exhibition – JR’s prolific gigantic street art

  07-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A subversive street artist, JR, whose works are known for their monumental scale as well as the social message has a new exhibition filling the Saatchi Gallery
  The artist known simply as JR was born in Paris in 1983 to Eastern European and Tunisian immigrant parents. He began his career as a graffiti artist, but after he found a camera in the Paris Metro in 2001, he began documenting his friends in the act of graffitiing and soon started pasting the photographs on building facades throughout urb
  
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• BT targets home office market with ‘unbreakable’ wifi

  07-06-2021 11:45
  
  UK operator group BT has apparently just realised there are a lot of very small businesses in the UK and has created a new business unit on the back of that revelation.
  The approved abbreviation for that market is SoHo, which stands for ‘small office, home office’ and seems to cover companies with a headcount in single figures. The UK government reckons there are over a million such businesses in the UK, employing over four million people and when you throw in sole-traders the sector
  
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• London’s Alleys: Barley Mow Passage, EC1

  07-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a short alley in Smithfield that has been on this site ever since the area was first developed and sits in an area with a cluster of small alleys to explore. The placement of this alley owes its existence, as so much around here to St Bartholomew’s Priory, and its dissolution.
  The buildings to the western side of the alley as themselves relatively new, but sit on the site of a block of buildings that were erected to service St Bartholomew the Great Church.The row of buildings on th
  
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• Ethiopia’s promising but problematic telecoms privatisation

  07-06-2021 05:00
  Despite tantalising growth prospects, foreign operators have doubts over mobile money regulation and political stability
  
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• Marine installation commences for NO-UK

  07-06-2021 02:00
  Installation operations for the NO-UK Cable will start this week, after the necessary permits in Norway and the UK were secured last month. The system is due to be commissioned in Q4 of 2021NO-UK is an open cable system which will span the North Sea from Stavanger in Norway to Newcastle in the UK…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European Open RAN MoU bears fruit with Technical Priority Document

  07-06-2021 02:00
  Around six months ago, four of Europe’s largest operators – Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, and Telefonica – signed a MoU agreeing to jointly develop Open RAN technology. Not to be left out, Italy’s TIM joined shortly afterwards.The move was hailed a significant milestone for Open RAN, with the signatories aiming to produce a summary of technical requirements within three months…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China’s semiconductor revolution: From crisis to self-sufficiency

  07-06-2021 02:00
  The global semiconductor industry is currently embroiled in one of the most severe crises it has faced in the past 30 years. The upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic has seen the demand for chips surge, but production is struggling to keep up, causing long delays and seeing prices driven to new heights.  We spoke to Hui He, Associate Director and Head of China Semiconductor Research at Omdia, about the severity of the ongoing semiconductor supply crisis and how the industry is shiftin
  
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• Can the Spanish public fill the void at MWC 2021?

  07-06-2021 02:00
  A couple of weeks ago, the Spanish government approved MWC’s health and safety plan, thereby lifting coronavirus travel restrictions and allowing event attendees to enter the country. However, this positive news was not enough to stop Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, two of the events largest exhibitors, from formally pulling out of the physical event just last week.  They join a growing list of major players not attending this year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Anacom draws ire from Portuguese operators over 5G auction changes

  07-06-2021 02:00
  To say that Portugal’s 5G spectrum auction is progressing slowly is something of an understatement. The bidding process has now been ongoing for more than 100 days, a European record, and there is no clear end in sight. The auction, which is set to make 5G spectrum available to Portuguese operators for the first time, will allocate blocks in the 700 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.6 GHz, and 3.6 GHz bands. By day 99 of the bidding, bids had reached €318.8 million, topping the reserve p
  
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• The Waterloo & City line is reopening this morning

  07-06-2021 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Good news for commuters into Waterloo heading to Bank, as the Waterloo and City line is reopening this morning, earlier than originally planned.
  It was initially planned that the line would re-open on 21st June, but as ridership on the tube has increased by more than 20 per cent since 17th May, they’re bringing forward the reopening date to this morning. Entry and exit data for Waterloo station are also showing clear signs that while still considerably below pre-pandemic rates, passenger n
  
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