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• Goodyear Blimp flying over London next week

  21-06-2021 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After an absence of a decade, the bright blue Goodyear Blimp will be flying over London next week.
  It’s a giant floating advert for something most of us don’t really care about, and yet, it’s the sort of advert that makes people smile and point at it in delight.
  The last time it was over London was in 2011, as part of the cultural olympiad in the year ahead of London 2012.
  Weather permitting, the Goodyear Blimp will fly over from France in the morning of Saturday 26th June to h
  
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• More details about the Oxford Circus pedestrianisation plans

  21-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More information has been released about plans to pedestrianise the lengths of Oxford Street next to Oxford Circus and divert road traffic around it.
  The initial phase will see traffic restricted from using Oxford Street between Great Portland Street on the eastern side and John Princes Street on the western side. That comes into effect next month.
  With road traffic – which is mainly buses and taxis unable to use the east-west route across Oxford Circus, it will be diverted northwards to p
  
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• How mobile ad and carrier billing fraud flourished during COVID-19 pandemic

  21-06-2021 16:36
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Geoffrey Cleaves, Head of Secure-D at Upstream, looks at how the unique circumstances of the past year or so have affected the fraud environment.
  As the world anxiously waits out a global pandemic, cyber thieves have been taking full advantage of our lives getting increasingly and rapidly digitalized to commit mobile fraud of epic proportions. Fuelled by unprece
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Vodafone, Euro 5G and G7 vs China

  21-06-2021 16:18
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Vodafone, Euro 5G and G7 vs China
  
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• The Barbican tells the story of the threatened Yanomami people

  21-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Part art exhibition, part awareness campaign, a photographic exhibition about Brazil’s threatened indigenous people, the Yanomami has opened at the Barbican.
  Huge photos fill the curve gallery alongside texts explaining how the Brazilian government has over the decades tried to ignore the rights of the indigenous people living in the forests and persecuted those who tried to raise awareness of what was going on.The exhibition is also the story of Claudia Andujar, the photographer who spent
  
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• Nokia confirmed to provide Dish/AWS 5G standalone core

  21-06-2021 15:43
  
  It turns out there are some telecoms things even the mighty AWS can’t do, so Nokia has been drafted in to deploy Dish’s 5G SA core.
  Nokia claims this is the first deployment of a 5G SA core in the public cloud. It follows the announcement a couple of months ago that AWS (Amazon Web Services) will be taking care of as much Dish’s 5G network as it can handle. It seems the core was one step too far, so Nokia gets a nice, high-profile deal win.
  “Running the Nokia 5G SA core o
  
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• TPG takes umbrage at ACCC’s mobile pricing claims

  21-06-2021 15:07
  
  It’s all kicking off down under after TPG Telecom took issue with price-hike accusations levelled at it by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
  The watchdog asserted in a report published on Monday that all three of the country’s mobile operators, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone – which completed its merger with TPG Telecom last July – are all far too comfortable, and that is reflected in higher prices for end users.
  “The ACCC is out of touch to su
  
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• Huawei inevitably loses appeal against FCC designation

  21-06-2021 13:00
  
  A US appeals court has denied Huawei’s petition for review of the decision by the FCC to designate it a national security threat.
  The designation by the US communications regulator was made a year ago, as the basis for prohibiting the use of federal funds to buy kit made by either Huawei or ZTE. This seemed to largely affect niche operators, especially those specialising in rural connectivity, as that’s where most state subsidies are directed in the US. Just last week the FCC announc
  
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• Telenor and Axiata finally ink Malaysia merger

  21-06-2021 12:56
  
  After months of negotiations, Telenor and Axiata have put pen to paper on their plan to merge their respective Malaysian operations Digi and Celcom.
  The combined company – called MergeCo – will go to market with the Celcom Digi brand, and will serve 19 million customers. According to recent figures from Malaysia’s telco regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the country had 43.7 million mobile subscribers at the end of Q1 2020, which means the
  
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• Tickets to climb the Marble Arch Mound now on sale

  21-06-2021 12:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Marble Arch Mound, a big artificial hill built at the end of Oxford Street will be open to the public next month, and tickets are now on sale.
  The 25-metre high mound aims to offer elevated 360-degrees views down Oxford Street and into Hyde Park from a perspective not seen before, and be a lure to bring people back into the West End.
  Once people have been to the top, the tickets include entry into a hollowed-out space underneath the mound that will be used as a café, shop and exhibiti
  
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• National Rail flexible season tickets go on sale today

  21-06-2021 11:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New flexible season tickets, aimed at people who are likely to commute to work a couple of days a week, have gone on sale today.
  The paperless tickets will allow travel on any 8 days in a 28-day period, with passengers able to tap smartcards or scan mobiles at the station with no need to select the days of travel in advance.
  For example, someone travelling between Woking and London Terminals two days a week.
  Assuming working a typical working year with 4 weeks holiday = which equates to 233 work
  
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• Axiata and Telenor to merge Malaysian mobile groups in $12bn deal

  21-06-2021 10:40
  Agreement comes after the pair abandoned plan to combine regional operations 2 years ago
  
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• London’s Alleys: Carmarthen Place, SE1

  21-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a pretty little cobbled* alleyway to be found in Bermondsey.
  The alley first appeared when the area was first being turned from fields into homes, with a narrow gap left between the houses fronting onto Bermondsey Street, leading to the fields behind.
  By the 1740s the area was more developed, and the alley was known as Bells Rents, but was longer and straighter than it is today. The current short layout emerged by the 1790s.The current frontage to the alley with a covered walkway didn&rs
  
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• China tensions sink another submarine cable

  21-06-2021 02:00
  The story of the East Micronesia Cable System (EMC) goes back to around 2018, when the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank first agreed to co-finance a submarine network linking the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, and Nauru to a transpacific cable system connecting Australia and Hawaii.The cable was planned to help connect the Micronesian subregion to the rest of the world…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China spends $6bn on the cloud in Q1 2021

  21-06-2021 02:00
  In the wake of the increase in digital services brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, cloud service providers around the world are investing heavily to increase their capacity. In China, this is especially notable, with new research from Canalys showing that China spent around $6 billion on cloud infrastructure services in Q1 2021, an increase of 55% on the previous year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Axiata and Telenor sign $15bn Malaysian merger

  21-06-2021 02:00
  Earlier this year it was announced that Axiata and Telenor were in discussions to combine their Malaysian mobile units, a move which would see the creation of a new mobile market leader. Today, the two companies have confirmed that they have conducted their due diligence and signed the transaction agreements to merge Axiata’s Celcom and Telenor&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel partners Tata Group for Indian-made 5G Open RAN

  21-06-2021 02:00
  Back in early 2020, Reliance Jio shocked the telecoms world by announcing that it was developing its own 5G hardware, including both core and radio units, and was set to take on the traditional vendor giants.“In 5G, we will totally be self-sufficient. We can give the design, layouts and board support packages to third-party manufacturers to have our gear made…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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