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• Weekly late nights at the Transport Museum

  08-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the next few weeks, the monthly late night opening at the London Transport Museum will be a weekly affair.
  At these themed After Dark evenings, you can explore the Museum’s collection and galleries free from crowds with a drink from the pop-up bar.
  Tickets to all After Dark events cost £12 (concession £10) and must be booked online in advance here. Over 18s only.
  The whole museum is open as it would normally be, and each weekly late-opening will have a specific theme.
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• Garden Museum seeking designs for a new entrance pavillion

  08-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans to simplify the road layout next to Lambeth Bridge has given the nearby Garden Museum an opportunity to revamp its entrance and make the museum much more noticeable to passers-by.
  At the moment, a roundabout sits at the southern end of Lambeth Bridge, and TfL has plans to simplify this considerably into a simple junction that will be safer for everyone, especially cyclists.
  Original roundabout (c) Dan Pearson Studio
  Planned street layout (c) Dan Pearson Studio
  At the same time, the pavemen
  
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• TIM pushes OpenRAN agenda with new Turin lab

  08-06-2021 15:01
  
  TIM is pushing further into the OpenRAN arena, this time with the launch of a new R&D centre in Turin.
  More specifically, the Italian incumbent has opened an OTIC – or Open Test and Integration Centre – Lab, which it will use to test new solutions and, it claims, accelerate the deployment of OpenRAN technology in Europe.
  The new TIM European OTIC Lab is one of the first of its kind worldwide and the first in Italy, the telco said. TIM is hardly an Open RAN pioneer, but in recent
  
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• Public cloud scores another PR win with Fastly outage

  08-06-2021 14:56
  
  A bunch of media and government sites were offline earlier today following an issue with the Fastly edge cloud platform.
  Fastly operates a major content delivery network (CDN), which uses the principles of edge computing to run a bunch of geographically distributed datacenters designed to serve digital content more quickly. Regardless it looks like much of the world was affected some obscure technical issue, albeit for just an hour or two.We identified a service configuration that triggered disr
  
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• Report commissioned by Ericsson and Qualcomm insists mmWave is a great idea

  08-06-2021 14:21
  
  The deployment of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum for 5G in Europe will bring a huge economic benefit, according to a new report by Analysys Mason.
  The analyst firm was commissioned by Ericsson and Qualcomm to carry out a study of the impact of 26 GHz – or mmWave – spectrum, particularly from a cost and benefit point of view. One of its key conclusions was that the economic benefit of rolling out 26 GHz could be as great as 20 times its cost. Music to the ears of tech firms keen to
  
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• FBI scores a couple of major wins against digital baddies

  08-06-2021 13:26
  
  US law enforcement agency the FBI twice managed to trick criminals into using digital services it had access to.
  In partnership with its counterpart in Australia, the Federal Bureau of Investigations created an app called ANOM, loaded it onto devices and then gave those devices to some gullible baddies, who went on to develop their nefarious schemes over the app. Then it was just a matter of logging the evidence and waiting for the right time to swoop.
  “Today, Australia is a much safer cou
  
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• A new southern entrance opens at Ilford station

  08-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ilford Station has gained a new southern entrance, as part of the Crossrail works to upgrade the station ahead of the Elizabeth line opening.
  The new entrance sits on the far end of the station from the main entrance, where an existing footbridge exists and links to a smaller, and recently refurbished northern entrance. As a result, the station now has three entrances.Having an additional permanent entrance from Ilford Hill should save time for customers alighting buses to the south of the stati
  
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• Telefonica’s latest asset sale makes for interesting reading

  08-06-2021 12:03
  
  News of new asset sales from Telefonica seems to break pretty regularly and this week is no exception.
  On Tuesday Swedish audio and e-book subscription service Nextory announced that it has acquired Spanish e-book service Nubico, which – prior to the takeover – was a 50:50 joint venture between Telefonica Espana and media outfit Grupo Planeta.
  The parties have declined to disclose the value of the deal. Nextory said it has owned Nubico since 1 June.
  The deal is unlikely to have been
  
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• Heathrow Airport scrapping free local bus services

  08-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Buses that ply the streets around Heathrow Aiport, connecting passengers and staff to the airport will cease to be free of charge from this weekend.
  The Heathrow Free Travel Zone makes use of TfL and local bus services, and is subsidised by the airport to encourage more use of public transport. Based on pre-pandemic usage, the TfL services were costing the airport around £1.2 million a year, which the airport pays to TfL.The airport having been hit badly by the pandemic says that it needs
  
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• World’s first commercial NB-IoT over satellite solution

  08-06-2021 02:00
  Skylo, a satellite-based narrow-band (NB) IoT solution company, has today announced that Inmarsat will provide the satellite capacity backbone to deliver its IoT solutions for connecting machines and sensors.
  The agreement pairs Inmarsat’s exceptionally reliable global satellite network with a complete…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Two-day underwater avalanche severed West African submarine cables

  08-06-2021 02:00
  In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the telecoms industry has found itself in the spotlight more than ever before. Connectivity is coming to be considered the fourth utility, integral to so much of our business and private lives. But despite this new-found respect for the importance of connectivity, the real backbone of the telecoms world, the submarine cable industry, often goes unnoticed and, perhaps, underappreciated…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TIM doubles down on Open RAN with new dedicated lab

  08-06-2021 02:00
  At the start of this year, four European operators – Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focussed on the collaborative development of Open RAN technology. Not long after, Italy’s TIM also signed the MoU and since then has become one of the more active signatories in exploring the new technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Lack of digital skills costs UK £2bn a year

  08-06-2021 02:00
  Today, a new report from trade body TechUK, representing hundreds of UK and international tech businesses, has called on the government to tackle the growing digital skills shortage in the country.  The Fast Forward for Digital Jobs report, which features tech giants like Microsoft and Google, argues that immediate action is required, with thousands of digital jobs remaining vacant due to a lack of skills.  This is especially poignant when considered against the backdrop of
  
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• Europe developing its 6G vision

  08-06-2021 02:00
  In the past few years, we have seen 5G technology rolled out around the world at a startling pace and this is a trend we expect to see continue for many years to come. However, it is still early days for 5G technology, with the full scope of its potential far from being revealed. Nonetheless, the telecoms industry is increasingly looking beyond 5G and working towards defining what the next generation of mobile technology, 6G will look like. In the coming decade…read more on TotalTel
  
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