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• How to get tickets for the 2021 Last Night of the Proms

  23-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pandemics notwithstanding, Prom season is starting again and it’s time to apply for tickets to attend the Last Night of the Proms 2021. Most of the tickets go to people who attend the Proms, which is fair enough, as it’s their event, but there are some tickets for the rest of us as well.
  For all methods of requesting tickets, only one application for a maximum of two tickets can be made per household.The One-Concert Ballot
  People who buy tickets for at least one concert at the Royal
  
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• Data privacy lessons for telcos following Apple’s settlement with an Oregon student

  23-06-2021 18:22
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Eitan Linker, CCO at mce Systems, reviews some recent news concerning data privacy.
  Apple recently settled a lawsuit with a student in Oregon regarding racy photos that a third-party repairs company’s employees uploaded to social media—a case that first started in 2016. When the dust settled, it became clear that while Apple had not directly been res
  
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• HS2’s Old Oak Common station gets formal start

  23-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HS2’s huge hub station at Old Oak Common has received formal approval for the permanent construction work to start.
  When completed, it will link HS2 with the Elizabeth line and GWR services and planned nearby London Overground stations. It also includes a future option for a link with the Chiltern Railways.
  The site, not far from Willesden Junction, has been seeing construction work for some years preparing it for construction, but there’s always been a vanishingly tiny chance that i
  
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• Intel creates a business unit dedicated to networking and edge

  23-06-2021 15:30
  
  US chip giant Intel is on a bit of a roll in the telecoms sector thanks in part to the growth of OpenRAN, so it has decided to create a new silo dedicated to it.
  The Network and Edge Group will be headed up by Nick McKeown, who was already a part-time Intel employee following its acquisition of Barefoot Networks in 2019. He has presumably been sufficiently impressed with Intel’s telecoms efforts since then to fully commit himself to the effort. The former head of Intel’s Netwok Platf
  
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• Samsung crams multiple antennas into one box to tempt European telcos

  23-06-2021 14:57
  
  Samsung has taken the wraps off a new radio design that it hopes will help it gain further traction with European telcos.
  The Korean electronics giant has been winning fans with its 5G portfolio – particularly in markets that have shut the door on Huawei and ZTE. A good example would be Samsung’s five-year, $6.6 billion deal with Verizon that it bagged last year.
  On this side of the pond, Samsung has been trying to woo Deutsche Telekom with its standalone 5G products, and it recently
  
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• UK government bid to censor the internet faces growing resistance

  23-06-2021 13:28
  
  A proposed set of new UK laws would appoint Ofcom as censor of all digital communications in the country. Not everyone thinks that’s such a great idea.
  The Online Safety Bill is the product of the UK government’s ‘commitment to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while defending free expression.’ Safety and freedom eh? Sounds like a win-win, doesn’t it? But a bunch of people who make it their business to defend free expression are unconvinced.
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• Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir demo 5G MEC in novel network environments

  23-06-2021 13:21
  
  German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to position itself as an edge services powerhouse, and to that end the telco and its partners this week shared their latest developments.
  Working with Mavenir and MobiledgeX, Deutsche Telekom has produced a cloud-native, 5G user plane function (UPF) to support multi-access edge computing (MEC) applications in different networking environments.
  “The UPF can run inside the operator’s owned network, inside a private 4G/5G network, inside the roaming n
  
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• Changes at the planned new Thames Wharf DLR station

  23-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans for a new DLR station halfway between Canning Town and West Silvertown is being revised following a decision to change how it is being funded.
  The station, provisionally called Thames Wharf is due to be built in an area that is currently light industrial and brown-field sites but has been earmarked for housing for at least 4,500 new homes. In late 2018, as part of a funding deal that ties transport upgrades to housing construction, the government agreed to a package of upgrades for the DLR
  
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• See brass steam trains in the Science Museum

  23-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a dark room in the Science Museum that’s filled with brass and steel models of early steam engines and locomotives. As this temporary exhibition shows, early years of steam engine model making served three purposes — for fun, for testing, for selling something else.
  Some makers were railway workers taking pride in building a perfect replica of their day job engine. Others were built to test a new engineering idea, but many were built simply to show off workmanship. They
  
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• Vodafone using 100% renewable energy in Europe

  23-06-2021 02:00
  Today, Vodafone has announced a major sustainability milestone, noting that its entire European operations will run entirely on renewable energy by the start of next month.  This announcement is not entirely unexpected; Vodafone announced back in July 2020 that it was making impressive progress with its environmental initiatives…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK telecoms industry digging like never before for connectivity victory

  23-06-2021 02:00
  The UK is rolling out fibre at a thunderous pace, with the telecoms sector spurred forward by the government’s ambitious targets of 80% gigabit-capable broadband coverage by 2025 and its accompanying £5 billion strategy. Now, extent of the UK’s fibre rollout is becoming apparent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sparkle launches Albania Crossing route

  23-06-2021 02:00
  Today, TIM’s international communications platform Sparkle has announced the launch of its latest optical fibre link, the Albania Crossing route.  Built in partnership with Albania Telecom, the route spans the Italian fibre backbone, travels 240km beneath the waves of the Adriatic Sea from Bari…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• London Underground to get mobile network as BAI prepares £1bn mobile boost

  23-06-2021 02:00
  BAI Communications has won a contract to build a neutral host mobile network for the London Underground, following a competitive tender process.The project will see a 4G-capable and 5G-ready mobile network installed throughout the public transport system by 2024. BAI says it will spend £1 billion on improving London’s connectivity over the next 20 years, including installing fibre adjacent to the Tube network that could also connect local buildings…read more on TotalTele.com
  
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