Telecom news

• Chopin sculpture outside the Royal Festival Hall

  09-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s an abstract sculpture to the Polish composer and pianist, Frédéric Chopin outside the Royal Festival Hall, but on the side where it’s not that obvious to spot.
  It’s also had an interesting journey to get there.The idea for the statue came from Professor Stefania Niekrasz, president of the Association of Polish Musicians Abroad, who wanted to see a statue of Chopin erected in London as the composer twice lived in the city. To raise awareness, Professor Niek
  
  Read more

• UK internet users spend ages online – Ofcom

  09-06-2021 15:39
  
  UK adults spent as much as an hour longer per day online than our peers in other major European markets in 2020, according to the latest research from Ofcom.
  Given that information, one cannot help but wonder what we were doing for that extra time…or rather, what our European neighbours were up to offline that we were missing out on.
  Ofcom’s Online Nation 2021 report is not quite granular enough to provide that kind of information, but what we do know is that the UK is fairly middle
  
  Read more

• Japan and Finland collaborate over 6G development

  09-06-2021 15:30
  
  The collective 6G efforts of Finland and Japan have vowed to help each other out in a bid to move the nascent standard along.
  You can tell they’re serious because they signed one of those memoranda of understanding, so there’s no turning back now. They published it at the Nikkei Global Digital Summit, which noted that Nokia is expected to get involved, what with it being Finnish. For now, however, the protagonists are the Finnish 6G Flagship research program, coordinated by the Unive
  
  Read more

• Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications (an O’Reilly eBook)

  09-06-2021 15:18
  
  Recommended as one of “6 must-read books for aspiring Cloud Architects,” O’Reilly provides detailed, reusable Kubernetes patterns for container deployment and orchestration. Learn specific Kubernetes patterns for cloud-native and rapid application development.
  Learn everything Kubernetes offers for each particular pattern, with tested conclusions for each concept and full code examples. Topics include:The path to cloud native
  Foundational, behavioral, structural, configuration
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Telecommunications Company Saves €30,000 Monthly with Container NFV Solution

  09-06-2021 15:13
  
  Proximus Group, Belgium’s largest telecommunications provider, replaced its bare-metal server environment with flexible, scalable network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructure running on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, supported by Red Hat Ceph Storage. This more modern foundation, which also includes running Red Hat OpenShift in OpenStack to deploy and run container-based microservices at scale, helps Proximus save €30,000 in monthly infrastructure setup and maintenance costs.
  Fi
  
  Read more

• Rakuten: No Ordinary Telco

  09-06-2021 14:52
  
  Rakuten Group, a Japanese internet services company, has been dubbed “the Amazon of Japan.” It offers a huge range of services from banking and credit cards to ecommerce, travel and video entertainment. In this report, TM Forum analysts assess Rakuten as a whole, its businesses, culture and partner ecosystem, and focus on how they are impacting development of its mobile business.
  Read this report to learn:The unique cloud-based approach Rakuten has taken to develop its network and IT
  
  Read more

• 3 Key Considerations for Virtual Radio Access Network Growth

  09-06-2021 14:28
  
  With the rollout of 5G, digital service providers have an opportunity to create new revenue streams. By virtualizing your radio access network (RAN), you can quickly scale software-based network functions, increase network capacity, improve performance, and reduce operational complexity. In this infographic, learn 5 tips for creating a flexible and scalable RAN that is ready for 5G, specifically:Considerations for the partner ecosystem and supplier diversity
  Securing the RAN foundation
  Automatin
  
  Read more

• Softbank takes to the crowded skies for coverage

  09-06-2021 13:34
  
  Softbank has become the latest major telco to look at providing connectivity from space, announcing a raft of initiatives to broaden access to communications networks.
  There’s nothing brand spanking new in the Japanese operator’s announcement; it’s more a coming together of its existing satellite communications offerings. But it’s significant because it signals a serious push in the area of satellite-based communications at a time when competition in the skies is hotting
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• A photobook abou the tube stations at the end of the tube lines

  09-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In April 2018, Richard Thomas started a two-year project to visit the ends of every tube line in London – a total of 79 stations.
  What was for a while a blog is shortly to be a photobook of each of these stations and their stories.
  The book, which is currently being crowdfunded, will contain 90 pages and 79 colour and B&W photos – 79 stations, and 79 stories from around and about The End Of The Line.
  Not just the stations, but also sometimes the author has picked the local area,
  
  Read more

• Nokia, Qualcomm and UScellular manage to get mmWave to go 10 km

  09-06-2021 12:22
  
  Millimetre wave might not be so rubbish after all, with a group of intrepid telecoms boffins managing to set a new range record.
  Using UScellular’s network, Nokia supplied the 5G base station kit and Qualcomm the 5G CPE. For the time being at least, this sort of thing is being described as ‘extended-range mmWave’, but presumably the hope is that it will be ‘normal-range’ eventually. They actually managed 11.14 km with a downlink speed of 748 Mbps and uplink of 56.78
  
  Read more

• Tower Bridge to be covered in a thousand photos of Londoners this Sunday

  09-06-2021 11:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This coming Sunday will see Tower Bridge covered in nearly 1,000 photos of Londoners taken by the French artist, JR, who also happens to have an exhibition in London at the moment.
  It’s the first of a series of outdoor exhibitions over the next few weeks that will see R’s Inside Out project will cover pavements, roads and buildings across the city with black and white portraits.
  A previous display in Lyon, France. Picture by Charlotte Lebon
  On Sunday 13th June, ‘Inside Out&rsqu
  
  Read more

• Public vote to rename the road outside new City Hall

  09-06-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The public is being asked to choose the name of the road that will run outside London City Hall when it moves to Canning Town.
  The building which is being repurposed for the new City Hall is the former Siemens exhibition centre, The Crystal, and the road that runs outside it is currently called Siemens Brothers Way, but that’s been decided to be in need of changing.Following some workshops locally, a shortlist of three names has been chosen, and now the public is being asked to vote on whi
  
  Read more

• London’s Pocket Parks: Leathermarket Gardens, SE1

  09-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This largish park near London Bridge is the result of post-WW2 clearance when most of the site was flattened by bombs.
  This part of London started to be developed in the 1740s, with the area to the south of the park developed first as Mr Walker’s Glue Manufactury, and b the 1820s, the park site was home to a tannery yard for cleaning leathers, and a number of smaller buildings.
  By the 19th century, it was home to a large tannery and several leather warehouses and sat just to the north of t
  
  Read more

• Vodafone switches on two new Open RAN sites

  09-06-2021 02:00
  Back in August 2020, Vodafone UK first demonstrated its commitment to Open RAN technology by activating an Open RAN 4G site in Wales alongside Mavenir. At the time, the operator celebrated being the first UK operator to have Open RAN technology deployed in its live network.Since then, the operator has made far larger commitments to Open RAN…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• UScellular, Nokia, and Qualcomm boost mmWave to record distance

  09-06-2021 02:00
  Typically defined as frequency bands in the 24 GHz to 100 GHz range, mmWave offers operators the opportunity the potential to support large bandwidths and high data rates, making it ideal for increasing the capacity for wireless networks. However, the catch is that the short wavelengths mean that propagation is problematic, potentially being blocked by various common obstacles, including walls and foliage…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• SoftBank reaching new heights with range of Non-Terrestrial Network solutions

  09-06-2021 02:00
  In the past year, the concept of satellite communications is growing in popularity. From the near continuous launching of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites in recent months to the revival of UK’s bankrupt OneWeb, it is clear that beaming down connectivity from above is becoming not only much more feasible, but much more competitive.Now, SoftBank is making it clear that it is making a major play for satellite and stratospheric connectivity, announcing a new focus on what it is terming Non
  
  Read more

• New US lawsuit seeks to classify Google as public utility

  09-06-2021 02:00
  In the last years, Google has been the focus of a barrage of US anti-trust lawsuits, all of which posit that the company’s dominant market position is giving them an unfair advantage over competition. The first case, filed by the US Department of Justice back in October and joined by 11 Republican state attorneys, argued that Google has used anti-competitive tactics to protect its monopoly over general search, preventing rival search terms from getting a foothold…read more on
  
  Read more

Follow @Telecom_UK_ on Twitter!