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• Mobile’s quieter 5G networking

  28-06-2021 21:42
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• Disruptions to Euston station during July and August

  28-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Network Rail is warning of travel disruption as a number of lines into Euston station will be taken out of service to enable the new HS2 terminus to be built. The disruption will be between Saturday 17th July to Tuesday 31st August.
  Most train services will continue running while this work takes place, but there will be some timetable and platform alterations.
  Unlike doing the work over a very long series of weekend closures, reducing capacity for a series of weeks at a time when the trains are
  
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• The rise of platform agnostic cloud gaming

  28-06-2021 16:22
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Olivier Lebigot, CTO at Gamestream, analyses the business potential offered to telcos by cloud gaming.
  With a global network infrastructure that can now support huge volumes of data transfer, and the widespread rise of cloud computing, video games face an inflection point. Players are benefiting from the cloud, experiencing consistent performance and visual
  
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• Tickets Alert: Pick your own Lavender weekend

  28-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Late July is when Lavender plants are at their best, and an annual Lavender harvest takes place in Carshalton. The annual harvest takes place at the Stanley Road allotments, a short walk from Carshalton Beeches railway station.
  You can spend up to an hour in the field picking a bunch of lavender which is included in the ticket price, then spend time visiting the lavender stall on the field to purchase essential oils, floral water, lavender crafts and plants.
  This year, they also have other local
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Nokia, roaming and Ofcom censorship

  28-06-2021 16:00
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Nokia, roaming and Ofcom censorship
  
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• Dixons Carphone goes steady with Vodafone

  28-06-2021 15:20
  
  UK electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has decided to be monogamous with Vodafone and make it the only MNO it offers its customers.
  Back when Carphone Warehouse was independent it used to resell postpaid contracts from all UK mobile network operators in as part of subsidised handset bundles. As part of the group that uses the Curry’s brand on the high street it has now decided choice is an unnecessary burden for its bemused customers to bear and has narrowed it down to two: Vodafone or it
  
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• Telefonica CEO kicks off MWC 2021 with call to AI

  28-06-2021 14:49
  
  It wouldn’t be Mobile World Congress if the opening keynote session did not feature at least one high-profile telecoms executive seeking to reshape the regulatory landscape.
  This year it was the turn of Telefonica’s top dog José María Álvarez-Pallete (pictured), Chairman of the Spanish incumbent, delivered an address in which he highlighted artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the major end games of the digital transformation, but also warned that Europe faces
  
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• GSMA blockchain ready for roaming

  28-06-2021 13:56
  
  Mobile industry body the GSMA has announced that a private telecoms industry blockchain network designed to simplify wholesale roaming is ready for commercial use.
  The industry body has been working alongside half a dozen major international telecoms operators to research the use of blockchain in roaming for the best part of four years, coming up with an open-source blockchain solution that automates the operations of the wholesale roaming settlement process. That solution “informs”
  
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• Mavenir and NEC help DT create ‘O-RAN Town’

  28-06-2021 13:16
  
  German operator group Deutsche Telekom has laid claim to Europe’s first OpenRAN deployment in Neubrandenburg.
  Specifically DT has switched on a few multi-vendor OpenRAN sites in the town, which are integrated into the existing network, so calling Neubrandenburg and O-RAN Town seems like a bit of a stretch. There will eventually be 25 OpenRAN sites in the town, apparently, which has a population of around 64,000.
  The deployment also lays claim to Europe’s first integration of massive
  
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• Mavenir and NEC help DT crate ‘O-RAN Town’

  28-06-2021 13:16
  
  German operator group Deutsche Telekom has laid claim to Europe’s first OpenRAN deployment in Neubrandenburg.
  Specifically DT has switched on a few multi-vendor OpenRAN sites in the town, which are integrated into the existing network, so calling Neubrandenburg and O-RAN Town seems like a bit of a stretch. There will eventually be 25 OpenRAN sites in the town, apparently, which has a population of around 64,000.
  The deployment also lays claim to Europe’s first integration of massive
  
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• Ickenham becomes the latest step-free tube station, raising total to 84

  28-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ickenham station in northwest London, on the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines, has become the 84th station on the tube to have step-free access added to the station.
  The station now has two new lifts and improved signage giving customers step-free access from the street to the station platforms. Alongside the upgrades, manual boarding ramps will still be available to assist customers to get from train to platform, as well as existing tactile paving covering the full length of both platforms.A b
  
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• London’s Alleys: Charterhouse Mews, EC1

  28-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a short covered passage that can be found next to The Charterhouse, a relatively hidden cluster of Tudor buildings that only recently opened to the public with a new museum.
  Where today there are a set of ornate gates that used to be a much larger gatehouse leading to the Charterhouse estate. As the alley is within the estate while the lands outside were being built up, the alley remained fields for some considerable time.
  By the 1670s, most of the land around this part of London was ful
  
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• TIM building Italian 5G cloud network

  28-06-2021 02:00
  At the start of March 2020, TIM and Google announced a new partnership covering cloud and edge computing services, building on an MoU they signed back in November 2019. In line with the rapidly expanding cloud market, TIM said at the time that it would aim to generate €1 billion from cloud services by 2024…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liberty Global to ditch Virgin Media Ireland following O2 merger

  28-06-2021 02:00
  The £31 billion merger between Liberty Global’s Virgin Media and Telefonica’s UK unit O2 was given the green light by regulators earlier in May this year, set to create a converged service provider with the scale to take on incumbent BT…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• IBM announces 5G partnerships with Telefonica and Verizon

  28-06-2021 02:00
  Verizon Partners with IBM and Red Hat to Deploy Its 5G Network as an Open Hybrid Cloud Platformby Steve Canepa, Global GM & Managing Director, IBM CommunicationsIBM and Verizon have a long and successful history of collaboration, built on a shared vision to drive continuous innovation for consumers and businesses in all industries. Over the years, we’ve progressed our work together with this focus in mind – including, most recently, our announcement last summer to collabora
  
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• BT backs OneWeb for rural broadband

  28-06-2021 02:00
  This weekend, BT has announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UK satellite communications firm OneWeb, pledging to use satellite communication to reach some of the most rural parts of the country. The partnership will see the pair explore various ways in which satellite technology can support improved capacity mobile resilience, backhaul, and coverage in areas of difficult geography, where deploying traditional mobile or fibre infrastructure would be difficult…read mor
  
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