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• HS2 tunnel spoil to fill in a Cambridgeshire open-pit mine

  02-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A former brickworks and cement open-pit mine just outside Cambridge is to be filled in with spoil from HS2 tunnels at Old Oak Common. The spoil is being created by the building site at Old Oak Common for the new hub station there, and the tunnels under the area, including the huge crossover cavern being built just to the west of the new station.
  Mega-tons of spoil need to be disposed of somewhere, and while Crossrail was able to send its spoil to help create a wildlife reserve in Essex, HS2&rsqu
  
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• See a huge scale model of central London at Kings Cross

  02-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just behind King’s Cross station can be found a large scale model showing off most of central London. Previously found at the Building Centre, the model has moved to King’s Cross, into a larger building and gained the addition of a chunk of northwest London including Wembley stadium.
  It’s as much a thing to look at and point at for the public, as a sales and explanatory tool for architects and urban planners.Commissioned by New London Architecture (NLA), who also own the model
  
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• Ericsson bags Malaysia’s only national 5G network deal ahead of Huawei

  02-07-2021 12:56
  
  Ericsson has won a major 5G contract in Malaysia instead of Huawei, which could represent a major strategic shift by the country.
  The news is significant for two reasons: firstly because the 5G development model in Malaysia is unlike that of most of the rest of the world, with the government controlling the country’s 5G network; and secondly because Huawei had been hotly tipped to bag the deal.
  Digital Nasional, a government-backed entity that was set up in March to be Malaysia’s sin
  
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• FRANC-ly my dear, the UK government does give an OpenRAN

  02-07-2021 12:15
  
  The UK government has launched an initiative designed to speed up the adoption of OpenRAN as part of its quest to erase Huawei from the country’s mobile networks.
  The move coincided with the appointment of a new leader for the Telecoms Supply Chain Diversification Advisory Council, a new body that succeeds the Telecoms Diversification Taskforce, which was itself set up in September last year to increase diversification in the telecoms industry value chain…and to help push Huawei out
  
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• Three UK has a sort of rebrand

  02-07-2021 12:04
  
  UK MNO Three has decided it has ‘come of age’ now that it’s 18 years old and is celebrating with a new ad campaign showing some of the stuff you can do with a phone.
  It’s not so much a rebrand – the ‘3’ with flamey jagged lines logo is unchanged – as a new ‘visual identity’, whatever that means. Once you go down the marketing rabbit-hole things quickly get arcane and there is talk of ‘positioning’, warmer colour schemes and
  
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• Zain: Setting new benchmarks in 5G network performance

  02-07-2021 02:00
  Zain KSA, a prominent service provider in the Middle East region, is setting new benchmarks for providing an extremely reliable and high performing 5G network experience.
  Recently, it emerged as having the best 5G network and data performance in the capital city of Riyadh, according to the Umlaut report, the world leader in the field of testing the efficiency of communications networks.
  “Zain shows the strongest pure 5G coverage in Riyadh city with at least 27% more than the competition,&
  
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• Telenor could quit Myanmar entirely

  02-07-2021 02:00
  The start of 2021 saw massive upheaval in Myanmar, as a military coup took power from the elected government, plunging the country into disarray.  For Norway’s Telenor, who operates one of the largest mobile networks in the country, this political instability has been disastrous…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• LG U+: A case study of 5G leadership

  02-07-2021 02:00
  It should come as no surprise to anyone that South Korea, the first nation to rollout 5G at scale, continues to be a trailblazer when it comes to the latest generation of mobile technology. All three of the nation’s major mobile operators – KT, LG U+, and SK Telecom – have been highly efficient in rolling out 5G across the country, as well as being fiercely competitive with one another when it comes to speeds, coverage and services.But what makes a winning strategy for 5G when
  
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• Deutsche Telekom begins $5bn sale of T-Mobile Netherlands

  02-07-2021 02:00
  Back in January, Dutch media reported that Deutsche Telekom (DT) was looking for potential buyers for its Dutch unit, T-Mobile Netherlands, hoping to raise €5–$6 billion. DT had previously looked to sell the unit back in 2015 before changing its mind…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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