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• Exhibition of woodwork marks the 450th anniversay of the Joiners and Ceilers

  25-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A room inside the Guildhall is currently filled with woodworking tools, as this year marks the 450th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter to one of the City of London’s livery companies, and they have an exhibition to mark the occasion.
  Although formed as a guild in around 1375, they were granted a Royal Charter in 1571. Although they work with wood, the company is not carpenters, but joiners, and ceilers, who are involved in the application and installation of wood panelling.Unl
  
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• Crossrail hands Woolwich station over to TfL

  25-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The formal handing over of Woolwich station from Crossrail as a construction site to TfL as a completed station took place this morning.
  It follows Custom House, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Road as the latest stations to be handed over, leaving Liverpool Street, Paddington, and Whitechapel to be handed over. Bond Street is running late, and while catching up fast, Crossrail has decoupled the station from the line in case they are able to open the line before it’s finished. If that happe
  
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• KDDI and Softbank cosy up with shared 5G RAN

  25-06-2021 12:57
  
  KDDI and Softbank are using shared RAN equipment to help them reduce the cost and increase the speed of their 5G network deployment.
  The pair are deploying a Multi-Operator Radio Access Network (MORAN) – the first of its kind in Japan, they claim – using equipment from Ericsson and other vendors, the Swedish kit maker announced this week.
  Ericsson said its network-sharing equipment will enable the telcos to share networks but retain their own operations and management capabilities. I
  
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• UK government bets on Sonic the edge-hog

  25-06-2021 12:51
  
  The ever-generous British taxpayer has chucked a million quid at a new initiative called Sonic Labs, which is designed to give 5G OpenRAN R&D an extra boost.
  Yes, it was a somewhat forced headline, but it had to be done and is no more forced than their acronym, which we’re not going to dignify with capitals. Having said that, there’s bound to be some edge stuff going on so back off, OK?
  A million pounds is a drop in the ocean compared to what the telecoms industry will spend on O
  
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• Openreach fleshes out UK fibre push

  25-06-2021 11:26
  
  Openreach this week announced plans to add a further 5 million homes and businesses to its full fibre footprint in the UK, sharing details of a raft of new towns and cities in which it plans to build.
  The move forms part of Openreach’s plan to roll out fibre coverage to 25 million homes by the end of 2026, an updated target it shared last month.
  In a sense then, this latest announcement is not really news, unless you’re particularly interested in which locations will be next to recei
  
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• O2 Czech Republic to be delisted by PPF

  25-06-2021 02:00
  Back in 2013, Telefonica sold 66% of its stake in O2 Czech Republic to Czech investment fund PPF for around €2.47 billion.  Since that time, PPF has slowly been increasing its stake in the company, until today announcing in a press release that they had increased their share from 83…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DT campus network will see drones fly over the Port of Hamburg

  25-06-2021 02:00
  Today, Deutsche Telekom has announced a new partnership with HHLA Sky, a subsidiary of logistics company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik, to build a campus network at the Port Of Hamburg for use in controlling industrial drones. HHLA sky intends to use this network to control and monitor drones used to inspect container gantry cranes and asphalt surfaces in an effort to increase port safety…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Brexit bites customers as EE brings back European roaming charges

  25-06-2021 02:00
  ‘Roam like home’ was the motto adopted by the EU following changes to roaming laws across the bloc back in 2017, effectively eliminating roaming charges for customers travelling throughout the EU.Now, post-Brexit, the UK is no longer subject to EU law. As a result, EE is now free to announce that it will be reintroducing roaming fees for its customers, the first UK operator to do so…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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