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• Emirates Air Line gets busy after the lockdown

  11-06-2021 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Emirates Air Line, aka, the Dangleway, had its busiest day for nearly three years last Saturday, with around 9,000 journeys made on the cable car.
  After being locked up for a year, and the sunny weather, it seems that people are venturing out to explore the area, and taking a tourist trip on the cable car.
  Also, during the week as a whole, nearly 44,000 people took a trip, compared to an average of 15,600 in the previous six weeks, although there was a big spike in the week of the first phas
  
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• See folklore art on display in a church crypt

  11-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you head down a flight of stairs into a dark crypt under a church you will find an exhibition of folklore art keeping the ancient pagan traditions alive.
  A mix of artwork by Ben Edge, and displays from the Museum of British Folklore fill the crypt, with empty coffin chambers now filled with modern paintings of ancient rites.Although most of the folklore events happen in the countryside, a decent number still happen in London, and many of the paintings are of London events, the druids in the C
  
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• It’s all kicking off as Sky offers free mobile data for Euros

  11-06-2021 15:15
  
  The beginning of summer brings with it the start of a major international football tournament and that can mean only one thing: a telco-backed survey on the TV viewing habits of UK fans.
  This year it was the turn of MVNO Sky Mobile, which published the results of some fairly straightforward research carried out earlier this month, alongside a promotional offer that will see its mobile customers pick up free data when the home nations score a goal in the (Covid-delayed) Euro 2020 competition that
  
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• Altice set to flog Portuguese holdings

  11-06-2021 15:07
  
  It has been reported that French telecoms conglomerate Altice wants to raise a few euros by selling what’s left of the Portuguese business it acquired in 2014.
  The goss comes courtesy of Reuters, whose moles presumably combined their investigations with an early summer holiday. In between Pastéis de Nata washed down with chilled port, they were able to ascertain that Altice Europe is on the hunt for buyers of its Portuguese operations, with Spain’s MasMovil the early bookies&r
  
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• C-band race continues as AT&T makes a call

  11-06-2021 12:27
  
  AT&T has completed a call on its recently acquired C-band spectrum, a further sign of the intense competition between the US telcos as they push on with 5G rollout.
  The news came from Nokia, which which is supplying radio equipment for AT&T’s 5G rollout over C-band.
  In fact, the companies passed this particular milestone a while ago – the call was made in Detroit in early May – but only just got round to telling us about it. Which is perhaps a little unusual when you co
  
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• Apple reportedly handed over metadata of US politicians to government

  11-06-2021 12:16
  
  In the middle of the ‘Russiagate’ debacle, the Trump administration reportedly forced Apple to provide data from the accounts of Democrat politicians.
  According to the New York Times, in 2017 ‘prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor.’ To what extent privacy-obsessed Apple was legally obliged to supply this data is unclear, but the report claims the comp
  
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• Partial suspension of the Circle/District lines planned for August

  11-06-2021 12:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The southern half of the Circle line and part of the District line will be suspended and stations along the line will be closed for 9 days in early August, due to major engineering works being carried out.
  Between Wednesday 4th and Thursday 12th August 2021, there will be no service between Edgware Road and Aldgate via Victoria on the Circle line and from Earl’s Court to Aldgate East on the District line.
  South Kensington, Sloane Square, St James’s Park, Embankment, Temple, Mansion H
  
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• Next steps for the Canadian MVNO market

  11-06-2021 10:50
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Amit Agarwal, SVP-IBD at Plintron shares his further thoughts on the Canadian MVNO market.
  CRTC, in mid-April  2021, announced a new regulation allowing certain regional MNOs of Canada to negotiate and sign interconnect agreements with the country’s National MNOs. This step is expected to empower the regional MNOs to ramp up their services and provide
  
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• Private equity discovers patience is a virtue for European telecom bets

  11-06-2021 06:00
  Plus, meet the man who can claim to be Amazon’s landlord and the end of a €9.3bn Italian toll road saga
  
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• Saudi Arabia’s ITC reveals human-centric rebrand

  11-06-2021 02:00
  The Integrated Telecom Company (ITC) of Saudi Arabia has revealed a rebranding of the company to ‘Salam’ which the company describes as human…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New Ofcom report reveals UK dependency on the internet

  11-06-2021 02:00
  Ofcom have released the new Online Nation 2021 report which reveals the changing patterns of the internet usage in the UK and how we compare to other countries in the year where COVID changed the way we live.Stand out figures include a five percent rise in the number of homes with internet access…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google announces new US – Argentina subsea cable

  11-06-2021 02:00
  Google has announced its plans to build a new open submarine cable, Firmina, from the US East Coast to Las Toninas in Argentina. The cable will have additional landing points in Brazil and Uruguay…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Biden pressures UAE to drop Huawei or potentially miss out on fighter jets

  11-06-2021 02:00
  The presidency of Donald Trump saw the US go on a major strategic charm offensive around the world, trying to see China’s Huawei excluded from national 5G networks on the grounds of national security. Coupled with ongoing sanctions against the Chinese vendor, this strategy quickly bore fruit in a number of markets and, while many governments refused to implement a complete ban, Huawei’s prospects dwindled in much of Europe.However, in the Middle East, convincing governments to aband
  
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• Biden pressures UAE to drop Huawei or miss out on fighter jets

  11-06-2021 02:00
  The presidency of Donald Trump saw the US go on a major strategic charm offensive around the world, trying to see China’s Huawei excluded from national 5G networks on the grounds of national security. Coupled with ongoing sanctions against the Chinese vendor, this strategy quickly bore fruit in a number of markets and, while many governments refused to implement a complete ban, Huawei’s prospects dwindled in much of Europe.However, in the Middle East, convincing governments to aband
  
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