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• Elon Musk says SpaceX prepared to spend $30bn on Starlink

  29-06-2021 20:27
  Satellite internet network has 70,000 users in 12 countries and aims for global coverage by August
  
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• UK tries to breathe fresh life into its shared rural network

  29-06-2021 19:11
  
  The UK government issued a press release detailing how great everything will be when the shared rural network is finished.
  That won’t be until the end of 2025 at the earliest, however, so the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) feels the need to bang on about it every now and then, presumably to prevent people thinking it can’t be bothered anymore. Accordingly there was no actual news, just a reiteration of how great everything’s going to be in a few years.
  
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• Whitewebbs transport museum reopens this Sunday

  29-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A quirky museum of transport in the far edges of North London has said it will partially reopen from this Sunday following the lockdown.
  A cluster of historical artefacts from the history of transport, scattered amongst the largest pile of seemingly junk you will ever see. From old dinky toys, to big fire engines, to model railways to London Underground signs, this museum has it all.
  A most curious collection of transport ephemera based inside a former water pumping station.There are four floors
  
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• City of London shows off its new police boxes

  29-06-2021 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The design of new police boxes to be used in the City of London have been shown off following a recent design competition.
  The stone-clad police boxes, by architecture and design studio Unknown Works, includes space for digital information screens, communication technology and first-aid equipment. They can also serve as dedicated hubs for on-beat City of London Police officers and as a space for community engagement and events.
  (c) City of London / Unknown Works
  To enliven the design, details fr
  
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• Chiltern Railways testing a train with a hybrid Rolls Royce engine

  29-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chiltern Railways, which operates services out of Marylebone station, has started testing a train fitted with a special sort of Rolls Royce engine.
  The Chiltern train has been fitted with a Rolls Royce MTU hybrid drive which can run on normal diesel power at speed, but switches automatically to battery storage when travelling slowly, such as when at a railway station.
  Senior managers from Porterbrook and Chiltern Railways
  The hybrid engine is being supplied by Rolls Royce combines an MTU diesel
  
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• Ericsson backs Google to give it an edge in the cloud market

  29-06-2021 15:52
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson and US internet giant Google have decided to help each other out when it comes to flogging mobile edge stuff.
  There’s a bit of a land grab going on when it comes to the edge, with every week seemingly revealing some new pact between a telecoms player and a public cloud giant. Market leader AWS recently unveiled its latest conquest in the form of Vodafone, so its competitors were under pressure to respond in kind.
  Google Cloud’s partnership with Ericsson is
  
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• Huawei’s Ryan Ding: Ongoing Innovation Is Lighting up the Future of Every Industry

  29-06-2021 15:02
  
  [Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2021] During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding delivered a keynote speech Innovation: Lighting up the Future. In his keynote, Ding said that innovation in ICT is becoming a key driver of the global economy and its value is moving beyond the telecoms industry. Ongoing innovation in 5G, in particular, will bring more value to operators, the ICT industry, and the global economy, and will light up the future of every indus
  
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• Netflix ordered to pay for network usage in Korea

  29-06-2021 14:42
  
  A South Korean court has ruled against Netflix in a case over its payment – or lack thereof – of network usage fees.
  The decision essentially means that the video streaming specialist will now have to pay the network operators to carry its traffic, pending the result of what is being seen as an inevitable appeal.
  The story comes from the Korea Herald, which explains that late last week a court in Seoul ruled that Netflix should pay for traffic over SK Broadband’s network.
  That&
  
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• British luvvies want a new smartphone tax to fund the arts

  29-06-2021 14:29
  
  UK Parliament is apparently considering a new tax on any device that can store digital content with a view to handing the cash over to the arts sector.
  The arts, like many other industries, has had a very difficult time while people have been banned from hanging out with each other. Over 100 creative types, including some prominent actors, have sent a letter to The Times in support of the so-called Smart Fund, which they reckon could redistribute £300 million from the gadget sector to them
  
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• BAI on the M&A train, next stop California

  29-06-2021 13:30
  
  BAI Communications has announced the acquisition of Mobilitie, a move that boosts its presence in the US, particularly on the West Coast.
  The companies have not disclosed the value of the deal – Mobilitie is privately held, and claims to be the largest private infrastructure provider in the US – but we can safely assume it’s not small change.
  The deal brings together two sizeable infrastructure companies, big names in the neutral host space, essentially building some scale in t
  
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• Cardboard models of London buildings

  29-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More cardboard models of famous buildings have been released by Open House Weekend, so you can build your own Dawson’s Heights or Battersea Power Station.
  Some are purely architectural models, while others are clearly more playful having added extra decoration to the buildings.
  They’re also quite affordable, ranging from just £4 each to £20 for a bundle of models. They’re also not to scale, so a small clock tower looms over the Cheesegrater skyscraper for a perspect
  
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• Protected: Network slicing and NaaS – Survey Report

  29-06-2021 11:55
  
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• Battery powered train trial for West London

  29-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A trial of battery-powered passenger trains on a shuttle service in West London could start next year, replacing the diesel trains used on the line at the moment.
  Great Western Railway (GWR) is seeking a supplier for the trial to prove the capability of a battery-powered train, supported by fast charging equipment, on the West Ealing to Greenford service. That line is currently served by a 2-car Class 165 Networker diesel passenger trains, and as the line is unlikely to be electrified any time s
  
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• UK roaming charges: return of fees is better news for investors than holidaymakers

  29-06-2021 06:00
  Mobile operator EE is unlikely to be a lone voice for long
  
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• Rural Scotland to see largest benefits from Shared Rural Network

  29-06-2021 02:00
  The SRN was officially introduced back in March 2020, a £1 billion initiative jointly funded by the public and private sector, aiming to improve 4G coverage in some of the most poorly served areas of the UK.The plan involves the sharing of telecoms infrastructure between operators to help improve consumer choice…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange and Nokia show off network slicing at French factory

  29-06-2021 02:00
  Back in September 2020, Orange announced the first deployment of an indoor 5G private sector in the French industrial sector, doing so at Schneider Electric’s factory in Le Vaudreuil, Normandy. At the time, two main use cases were being piloted: an augmented reality application called EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Non-telcos to gain 5G spectrum in South Korea

  29-06-2021 02:00
  Today, the South Korean government has announced that it will be making 5G spectrum directly available to non-telcos for the first time.Currently, only the nation’s three major wireless telcos – SK Telecom, LG U+, and KT – have access to 5G spectrum, with allocations in the 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google Cloud and Ericsson partner for 5G and Edge cloud solutions

  29-06-2021 02:00
  Google Cloud and Ericsson today announced a partnership to jointly develop 5G and edge cloud solutions to help communications service providers (CSPs) digitally transform, and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases. Globally, industries with edge presences—including communication service providers, retailers, manufacturers, transport businesses, healthcare, and media and entertainment providers&mdash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G at the heart of an augmented world

  29-06-2021 02:00
  For many of us today, the concept of AR still seems like something from science fiction. Even with the enormous visibility and success of early AR apps like Pokemon Go, which raised around $6 billion in revenue, the idea of seeing and interacting with virtual objects overlaid onto the real world still seems abstract and futuristic. But in reality, this AR future is already here, especially in the enterprise sector, with solutions ranging from remote learning tools to digital twins for indu
  
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