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• EE to bring back mobile roaming charges in Europe

  24-06-2021 18:55
  BT-owned company is first UK operator since Brexit to reintroduce fees once banned by Brussels
  
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• EE reignites Brexit debate by charging for data roaming in Europe

  24-06-2021 16:41
  
  UK mobile operator EE has announced it will start charging £2 per day for new and upgrading customers to use their data in Europe.
  One of the best things the EU ever did was getting rid of extra charges for roaming within the bloc but, as you may have heard, the UK left the EU at the start of this year. One of the things those who never reconciled themselves with the Brexit vote (remoaners, for short) have used as proof of the folly of leaving the EU’s suffocating embrace is the rein
  
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• Kensington High Street cycle lane set for High Court battle

  24-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A local campaign group has filed a High Court claim for a Judicial Review into Kensington council’s decision to remove the Kensington High Street cycle lane.
  A temporary cycle lane in Kensington High Street was opened last October, but was abandoned some seven weeks later and was fully removed within nine weeks of being implemented.
  This was, to put it mildly, a controversial decision.
  After looking at the issue again though, the council decided that while it wouldn’t refuse to reins
  
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• Vodafone on the front foot with new UK 5G standalone pilot

  24-06-2021 14:59
  
  A year after it claimed a UK first with a 5G standalone network trial, Vodafone has announced that it is running a commercial pilot of the technology in three major cities.
  The mobile operator will carry out the pilot in London, Manchester and Cardiff with a view to testing the new capabilities that will come with 5G standalone, such as network slicing, it said. It will also allow partners to test 5G standalone-enabled devices on a live network.
  Network slicing is a much-discussed advantage of 5
  
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• Nokia unveils a major 5G radio refresh

  24-06-2021 14:28
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has taken the latest step towards getting its act together on 5G with the launch of a bunch of new AirScale products.
  Specifically we’re talking about basebands, remote radio heads and massive MIMO active antennas, the last of which nudges Nokia ahead in the competition to offer the lightest 5G antenna, at a lean 17 kilos for the 32TRX one. The launch also saw the latest iteration of Nokia’s troubled ReefShark chip portfolio, which enables its new baseband pl
  
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• Tickets Alert: Military pomp at Horseguards Parade

  24-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A bit of military pomp and pageantry will take place next month at Horseguards Parade in Whitehall.
  An annual military music event, it didn’t take place last year, due to you know what, and with the Trooping the Colour moved to Windsor, central London has been a bit bereft of military pomp this year.
  Fresh from duties at Buckingham Palace the bands of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish & Welsh Guards with the Corps of Drums of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards return to Horse Gua
  
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• Hitting 5G coverage target drives T-Mobile US to drink

  24-06-2021 12:46
  
  T-Mobile US has upped the ante in the attention-seeking stakes and is marking hitting its 5G coverage target ahead of schedule with the launch of a branded gin.
  There’s no obvious link between mobile connectivity and gin – apart from perhaps needing a stiff one after trying to get through to your provider’s call centre – but it’s a bit of PR fun and who are we sniff(ter) at that.
  The mobile operator is obviously keen to shout about its 5G prowess. It has extended co
  
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• A history of Little Ben – the Victoria clock tower

  24-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just outside Victoria Station is a tall black clock tower, often nicknamed Little Ben, and while often described as a small-scale replica of the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) down the road, there are so many differences that it can be best be described as inspired by the design.
  The clock tower was commissioned by the Vestry of St. George’s Hanover-Square as a public convenience, sitting conveniently next to another sort of public convenience – an underground lavatory.
  There’s a su
  
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• Vodafone UK begins commercial standalone 5G pilot

  24-06-2021 02:00
  Today, Vodafone has announced that it has launched the UK’s first commercial SA 5G pilots, setting the networks live in London, Manchester, and Cardiff. As part of the deal, Ericsson will support Vodafone’s entire cloud-native 5G Core Standalone for packet core applications…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia bounces back with latest 5G portfolio

  24-06-2021 02:00
  Nokia today announced the global launch of its latest range of industry-leading AirScale 5G products covering baseband, remote radio heads, and massive MIMO active antennas with digital beamforming.Nokia introduces its new generation of ReefShark-powered AirScale massive MIMO antennas with both 32TRX and 64TRX products, as well as 8T8R remote radio head solutions. The 32TRX is the industry’s lightest, at 17kg, simplifying and speeding up site deployments. Notably, this low weight is achie
  
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• Huawei loses round two of 5G dispute in Sweden

  24-06-2021 02:00
  Huawei’s disputes with Sweden began in earnest back in October 2020, when the Swedish regulator ruled that Huawei and fellow Chinese vendor ZTE would be banned from supplying equipment for the national operators’ upcoming 5G networks and required them to be removed from their existing networks by 2025.Naturally, Huawei appealed this ruling just one month later, arguing that the regulator was contravening European law by discriminating against them based on their nation of origin&hel
  
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• Greece planning €700m ultra-fast broadband boost

  24-06-2021 02:00
  After lagging behind its European neighbours in terms of broadband quality for a number of years now, this week the Greek government has announced a new plan to improve ultra-fast broadband access around the country. The tender process, announced on Tuesday by Minister of Electronic Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, will allow companies to submit proposals to take part in the Ultra…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DT partners with Deutsche Bahn for railway mobile network

  24-06-2021 02:00
  A new deal between Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Deutsche Bahn will see mobile network coverage on improved on train lines throughout Germany.  DT is aiming to cover the entirety of Deutsche Bahn’s rail network by 2026, a task that will involve the installation of around 800 new cell sites. The railway network currently covers around 33,400 km, 7,800km of which are major routes that are used by all Intercity Express (ICE) trains as well as main Intercity (IC) trains…read
  
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