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• Outdoor art exhibition coming to East London

  14-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An affordable art fair is taking over a large number of commercial advertising displays across East London for a fortnight to create an outdoor art exhibition.
  The Affordable Art Fair is running the campaign, Art Without Walls, which will be reusing spaces that would normally house adverts to exhibit original artwork from independent galleries across the country.
  The art will also be for sale, with 100% of the proceeds going to the art industry.
  Five bars in the area will be part of the trail, a
  
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• For 5G to succeed telcos must adopt a software mindset

  14-06-2021 15:44
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Paul Rhodes Paul Rhodes, OpenRAN and 5G Principal Consultant at World Wide Technology, explores how operators need to adapt to make the most of 5G.
  Over the next 15 years, it is estimated that 5G will grow global GDP by 10.8%. According to Qualcomm it will be the “unified connectivity fabric connecting people to everything.” It has the potential
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: OpenRAN, Altice and public cloud

  14-06-2021 15:31
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · OpenRAN, Altice and public cloud
  
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• What MNOs need to achieve revenue optimisation and operational excellence

  14-06-2021 15:22
  
  In this interview, Matteo Gatta, CEO of BICS, talks about the company’s strategy to address mobile network operators’ needs on revenue optimisation, operational excellence, customer experience, and risk reduction, and why MNOs should work with BICS.
  Q1. What do you see as the main issues and challenges currently impacting mobile operators? What do they need from their wholesale partners?
  The past year has seen massive changes in the way that individuals and enterprises consume commun
  
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• Nokia brings 5G FWA to Oman

  14-06-2021 15:05
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has helped Ooredoo Oman to offer 4G and 5G fixed wireless access to its customers.
  The work started earlier this year and today they announced the availability of FWA throughout Oman. Apparently this equates to just 15,00 premises initially, with 3k more in city centres to follow. It’s still not immediately obvious what the case for FWA in urban environments is, however, as that where proper fixed line connections tend to occur, but maybe not in Muscat, or wherever
  
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• Deutsche Telekom beefs up public cloud resilience with Amsterdam site

  14-06-2021 14:36
  
  Public cloud is in the same league as water and energy supply in terms of its importance, according to Germany, so DT has just opened two new data centres in Amsterdam.
  The new Open Telekom facilities, which have been operating in beta mode since March, mirror the telco’s existing sites in Biere and Magdeburg, Germany, which opened three years ago. The 500 km separating these two locations means that if one is knocked offline by a power outage or natural disaster, one or more of the others
  
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• As US lawmakers attack its competitors, Microsoft warns of state over-reach

  14-06-2021 13:30
  
  There is a mounting battle of wills in the US between its tech giants and its state apparatus over who gets to exploit its population more.
  Writing in the Washington Post, Microsoft President Brad Smith opposed the secret gag orders exposed last week when the Trump Administration apparently forced Apple to hand over data on some of its users, which included politicians and journalists. On top of that Apple was hit with a ‘gag order’, banning it from even talking about the government
  
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• Dinner in a tube train

  14-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Walthamstow, there’s a tube train in a museum, and it’s a restaurant, that’s now able to reopen its sliding doors to passengers again. The Supperclub Tube takes place inside a decommissioned 1967 tube carriage from the Victoria line and is based at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum.
  (c) supperclub.tube
  The food offered is a 6-course tasting menu that showcases ingredients and culinary techniques from Latin America. As the seasons change, the menu changes to reflect the availa
  
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• Vodafone hands first ‘open RAN’ deals to Samsung, Dell and NEC

  14-06-2021 12:50
  Asian and US companies chosen to build network despite European push to boost domestic industries
  
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• Big wins for Samsung and NEC as Vodafone reveals OpenRAN suppliers

  14-06-2021 12:13
  
  Days after lighting up its latest OpenRAN site, Vodafone on Monday announced the vendors that will support its European deployment of this supposedly game-changing technology.
  Samsung and NEC are the big winners as far as the RAN supplier market is concerned – there isn’t a trace of Ericsson or Nokia in Voda’s announcement. Under the deal, Samsung will be the telco’s reference RAN software provider, and will also supply radio units. Both Samsung and NEC are also being tap
  
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• London’s Alleys: Martlett Court, WC2

  14-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a pleasingly wide alley straddling commercial and residential opposite the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, but was once in a different place and much less visible.
  Martlett Court first appears around the 1700s, as a narrow alley between buildings linking Bow Street to Drury Lane on the other side of the block. The area was still semi-open even then, so lots of back gardens behind the houses on Bow Street, and the houses that lined the alley at the time. By the 1820s though all that w
  
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• Vodafone unveils new vendor team for Open RAN

  14-06-2021 02:00
  Vodafone is continuing to push forward with its Open RAN plans this year, today announcing a raft of new partners set to jointly develop the first commercial deployment of Open RAN technology in Europe.The partners – Dell Technologies, NEC, Samsung, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering, and Keysight Technogies – will work with Vodafone on both 4G and 5G, aiming to expand rural coverage across the South West of England and most of Wales, moving into urban areas in a later phase…r
  
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• Nokia and Ooredoo team up for 4G/5G FWA in Oman

  14-06-2021 02:00
  Ooredoo Oman has today launched 4G and 5G FWA services using Nokia equipment.Work to deploy the technology began back in February, with 15,000 homes and businesses, across the country now having access to the 4G FastMile solutions. Nokia’s 5G FastMile solutions will be gradually rolled out to 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei targeting self-driving cars by 2025

  14-06-2021 02:00
  Huawei has been diversifying into the automotive market for some time now. Over the past year, the vendor has made partnerships with various industry players, such as BAIC Group, Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., focussing on developing self…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ethiopia readies sale of 40% of Ethio Telecom

  14-06-2021 02:00
  Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been pushing to liberalise the country’s monopolistic telecoms sector for over a year now, facing numerous delays in the form of the coronavirus pandemic and internal strife in the Tigray region.Back in May, the Global Partnership for Ethiopia, a telco-consortium led by Safaricom, was announced as the winner of one of the two available operating licences being made available to break up Ethio Telecom&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.co
  
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