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• Nokia opens its first OpenRAN centre in the US

  16-06-2021 17:14
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia made sure to get a piece of US OpenRAN mania by opening a facility dedicated to it in Dallas.
  In common with the many other such things sprouting like wildflowers wherever governments have made encouraging noises about OpenRAN, Nokia’s Collaboration And Testing Center is designed as a place where various RAN stakeholders can get together, compare antenna sizes and generally chat about how to make this OpenRAN business work.
  “In particular, vendors will be abl
  
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• Oxford Circus is to be part-pedestrianised

  16-06-2021 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Oxford Circus will no longer be a road junction, and the sides facing Oxford Street will be pedestrianised, under plans announced today. The two sides of Oxford Street leading to Oxford Circus will be pedestrianised, while Regent Street will continue uninterrupted – effectively turning Oxford Cirus into just a normal road.
  To enable this, an Experimental Traffic Order will be issued that will stop road traffic from using Oxford Street between Great Portland Street on the east and John Prin
  
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• TIM bets on Cisco to take Noovle into the big leagues

  16-06-2021 14:47
  
  TIM’s new enterprise cloud unit Noovle has provided more detail about its partnership with Cisco, which it hopes will turbo-charge its push into the market.
  Under the agreement, Noovle and Cisco will collaborate on cloud infrastructure and migration services pitched at businesses large and small, as well as public administrations. Among other things, the deal gives Noovle access to Cisco’s co-innovation centre in Milan, which focuses on cybersecurity and data privacy. Meanwhile, Cisc
  
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• Huawei continues to lose share of booming global telecoms equipment market

  16-06-2021 13:42
  
  Telecoms analyst firm Dell’Oro has published its Q1 21 numbers for the overall equipment market and they show Ericsson and Nokia continuing to close the gap with Huawei.
  The scope of the data covers Broadband Access, Microwave & Optical Transport, Mobile Core & Radio Access Network, SP Router & Switch kit. Dell’Oro reckons revenues for the sector jumped an impressive 15% year-on-year in the quarter, although it should be noted that Q1 2020 was when the world was shutting
  
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• Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust’s restored homes

  16-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A fundraiser for a heritage houses charity is offering up to £5,000 of free weekend breaks in its homes across the UK.
  The charity, the Landmark Trust takes over run-down buildings and turns them into holiday homes, so that anyone can spend a weekend in them. Fancy long weekends away in follies and gatehouses, family adventures in castles and forts or sharing time with friends at a country escape?The raffle costs £1 per entry, and there are seven prizes on offer:First Prize: £5
  
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• US and EU form special tech trade club that China isn’t allowed into

  16-06-2021 12:49
  
  Following on from the G7 Summit the US has recruited the EU into its anti-China campaign by establishing a new tech trade council that will further isolate Beijing.
  The previous US administration had a hard time going from one EU member state to the next, cajoling them – with mixed results – into banning Huawei and ZTE. The new guy is taking a much more subtle approach, bringing the whole of the EU in one fell swoop into an exclusive, high-level club that doesn’t explicitly go
  
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• The real Noël Coward, the man beneath the dressing gown

  16-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Noël Coward, so often seen as an upper-class dandy in a dressing gown, but who was actually a middle-class workaholic, charity fundraiser, and even now, some of his work in WW2 remains classified.
  The Noël Coward of popular imagination is not the man at all, and that’s in part his own efforts to create the public persona of a louche man about town without a care in the world.
  A new exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery looks at the man behind the myth.If you had to describe the
  
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• Verizon builds out gaming partnerships at E3 address

  16-06-2021 02:00
  Gaming has been a sector of growing interest for the telecoms industry for a number of years now, but with the advent of 5G that impetus has grown considerably.On Monday, Verizon gave a keynote address at this year’s E3 conference, one of the world’s leading gaming events, in which it demonstrated the impact that 5G could have on the gaming ecosystem. Alongside MEC, 5G is enabling customers to play AAA…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KT cruises with 5G-powered autonomous ship

  16-06-2021 02:00
  KT’s partnership with Hyundai goes all the way back to May 2019, but it was only last summer that the operator announced it would invest around $41 million for a 10% stake in Hyundai Robotics, aiming to co-develop intelligent service robots and smart factories.  The partnership bore fruit quickly…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Iran set to renationalise nation's fixed infrastructure

  16-06-2021 02:00
  According to local media, the Iranian government has now adopted major legislation that will see them retake control of the country’s fixed broadband infrastructure from TCI. Iran’s fixed infrastructure was first privatised back in 2009, with the government divesting of their 51% stake in 2009, raising around $2 billion. Since then, however, the government has been displeased with TCI&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Expect 580m 5G subscriptions by the end of 2021, says Ericsson

  16-06-2021 02:00
  Particularly at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, there was concerns that 5G rollouts would face significant delays, curbing the predicted surge in 5G adoption. However, in many markets this proved not to be the case, with China and the US notably broadly expanding their 5G coverage throughout the year. Now, in its latest Mobility Report, Ericsson is forecasting that there will be 580 million 5G subscribers by the end of the year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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