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• Educational content partnerships are the smart way to resolve the dumb pipe

  30-06-2021 20:25
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Douglas Lloyd of Azoomee details the opportunities available to operators in the education sector.
  With nearly a year of intermittent lockdowns causing incalculable disruption to education, home learning has never been more of a priority for parents worldwide. Fortunately, thanks to a great deal of partnering and collaborating between education providers, t
  
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• AT&T sells its cloud soul to Microsoft

  30-06-2021 20:00
  
  US communications group AT&T has thrown in the towel, selling its Network Cloud technology to Microsoft and moving its 5G stuff onto Azure.
  ‘AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to the Microsoft cloud,’ opens the press release. Nuff said. The big move will start with the 5G core, but there seems to be no limit to the amount of its network AT&T is prepared to entrust to Microsoft. As if to symbolise its total capitulation on this matter AT&T is handing over (there&rsqu
  
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• Tickets Alert: Nocturnal Creatures festival

  30-06-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month there will be a one-night arts festival taking place in East London, with free tickets available from tomorrow (Thur 1st July).
  Twelve locations across East London, including Whitechapel Gallery, Toynbee Hall, Aldgate Square and the old Brick Lane Police Station will be open for the evening and 16 artists will be producing art for the night.
  Both pre-bookable and walk-in tickets will be available, alongside a digital programme on the Whitechapel Gallery’s website. A festival map
  
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• Westminster Abbey to open in the evenings

  30-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the summer months, Westminster Abbey will be opening in the evenings for visitors to soak up the atmosphere of glowing stained glass windows after work.
  And photography in the ground floor nave is allowed.
  (c) Westminster Abbey
  The Abbey’s evening openings run from 4pm to 7pm on Wednesdays in July and August — except 21st July, when it takes place on Thursday 22nd July instead.
  Note, that while the Jubilee galleries have now reopened, some parts of the Abbey are still closed,
  
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• Bharti ploughs $500m into OneWeb as Musk eyes $30bn satellite spend

  30-06-2021 15:25
  
  OneWeb this week declared itself “financially secure” after receiving a further $500 million investment from shareholder Bharti Global, while arch-rival Starlink’s founder Elon Musk shared figures that suggest his company is far from it.
  Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Musk was surprisingly frank about the cost of the Starlink satellite Internet service that he is pitching as a product to fill the gaps in fibre and 5G coverage.
  By the time that Starlink reaches
  
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• Orange assembles magnificent seven for fully automated network trial

  30-06-2021 15:22
  
  French operator group Orange got some of its mates together to build what it claims is Europe’s first 5G SA fully end-to-end experimental cloud network.
  The great experiment is taking place in the town of Lannion in north west France, where Orange has some labs. Its overarching purpose is to have a go at creating a zero-touch network that is so automated it pretty much takes care of itself, leaving Orange employees free to have the kind of lunches hitherto reserved exclusively for senior E
  
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• Gainsborough’s Blue Boy returns to London next year

  30-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A century after it was sold to an American railway tycoon, one of Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous paintings will return to London for a short exhibition.
  Now owned by Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, this is the first time the painting has been lent to another gallery, and highly unlikely to happen again in most of our lifetimes.
  The painting, of a young man in a striking blue outfit in a style similar to Anthony van Dyck was painted by Gai
  
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• Telstra and Telia join tower sale trend, brokering highly similar deals

  30-06-2021 12:45
  
  It’s all go in the telecoms towers space, with two remarkably similar deals worth billions of dollars coming on both sides of the planet.
  Telstra has offloaded 49% of its towers business to an investment consortium for A$2.8 billion, while Telia Company announced the sale of an identically-sized stake in its towers operations in Finland and Norway in a deal that should bring it cash proceeds of €722 million.
  First up Telstra, because we have been waiting longer for that deal.
  The Aust
  
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• Four free exhibitions to visit at the V&A Museum

  30-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a number of temporary free exhibitions at the moment within the V&A museum, which are worth a trip to the museum in their own right. They’re also a bit easy to miss on a visit to one of the paid exhibitions unless you seek them out.
  Entry to the museum is free, and although you need to book timed entry tickets, there’s no need to book specific tickets to the free exhibitions. Just wander around the museum and see them in any order you like.
  Or add them to the day tr
  
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• Telstra sells 49% of tower co for AU$2.8bn

  30-06-2021 02:00
  Today, Telstra has announced the sale of a 49% stake in its infrastructure company, InfraCo Towers, for AU$2.8 billion. The move will see the purchasing consortium, headed by the Australian sovereign wealth fund, Future Fund, take a 49% stake in the business, which currently operates around 8,200 towers across Australia. Once the deal closes, InfraCo Towers will have no debt and Telstra will have a 15…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telemedicine demand soars as 98% of NHS staff see increased call for remote services in the last year

  30-06-2021 02:00
  The UK health sector is fast accelerating its digital transformation plans in response to the surge in demand for remote services during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the conclusion of a new study by iGov and BT which explores how health organisations across the UK are adopting new approaches to patient care in the Covid-19 era. The survey of 70 organisations across the NHS and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) reveals that digital transformation sits high on the healthcare agenda, driven b
  
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• Nordic banks unite to merge mobile payment platforms

  30-06-2021 02:00
  Even before the pandemic forced us all to spend more time at home, e-commerce was already growing rapidly, with an ever-increasing amount of money being transferred via mobile. Now, arguing that they need a boost in scale to handle demand and compete on an international level, three mobile payment applications from Denmark, Norway and Finland have joined forces to merge their platforms…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei’s African influence grows with African Telecommunications Union MoU

  30-06-2021 02:00
  A new MoU between Huawei and the ATU will see the vendor giant help provide a variety of skills training for ATU members, as well as supporting local innovation and addressing global and Africa-specific telecoms challenges. The MoU will also see Huawei work with various ATU members when it comes to research, primarily focussed on supporting “the continent’s digitalisation agenda”. “Huawei has transformed connectivity and made a major contribution to the contine
  
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• ACE submarine cable brings connectivity to West Coast of Africa

  30-06-2021 02:00
  Today, the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable has gone live, available for interconnection at all three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa. The cable, which represents a total investment of around $700 million, covers roughly 17,000km along the West Coast of Africa and up into Europe…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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