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• Interference Hunting Handbook

  12-07-2021 18:59
  
  Identifying and correcting interference issues in a mobile environment is a challenging but critical task. Mobile users near the interference source will experience degraded call success rates, increased dropped calls, decreased battery life, poor voice quality, and reduced data throughput. Detecting, locating, and ultimately eliminating sources of RF interference is an essential strategy for service providers to ensure customer satisfaction.
  This Handbook provides the insights to understand int
  
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• Nothern line bank branch to close for 4 months next year

  12-07-2021 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TfL has announced plans to close part of the Northern line for several months as it completes a huge upgrade of Bank tube station. The bank branch of the Northern line will close between mid-January 2022 and mid-May, and this is to allow a new train tunnel recently dug next to Bank station to be linked up with the existing train tunnel.
  The Northern line will be closed between Moorgate and Kennington — which are the two closest locations on the line where trains can be reversed over a rail
  
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• Private 5G networks: inside the operator opportunity

  12-07-2021 16:15
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Arnab Das, VP, Global Service Line, Advanced Networking & IoT, Capgemini Engineering, explores the possibilities presented to operators by private networks.
  The global private 4G/5G infrastructure market will hit close to $6 billion by 2024, IDC predicts. Is that actually good news or bad news for mobile operators?
  It’s easy to view the rise of private
  
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• Tickets Alert: British Museum offering pre-opening tours at weekends

  12-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The British Museum has started running tours of its Egyptian galleries before the museum opens to the public at weekends.
  Two tours are offered – either the big stone monuments gallery on the ground floor, or the galleries on the first floor which are, in normal times, some of the most crowded spaces in the museum as they are small rooms and very popular.
  The tours start at 9am and last an hour. Tickets for either tour cost £33 per person.The ground-floor galleries
  In the Egyptian sc
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: JEDI, Huawei and Myanmar

  12-07-2021 15:57
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · JEDI, Huawei and Myanmar
  
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• Euskaltel board recommends acceptance of Masmovil acquisition

  12-07-2021 15:22
  
  Consolidation among Spanish operators got one stap closer after the board of Euskaltel recommended its shareholders accept Masmovil’s €2 billion acquisition bid.
  The bid was made at the end of March amid all sorts of pledges by the would-be acquirer to retain Euskaltel’s Basque identity and generally be gentle with it. There were also the usual boilerplate promises about what a generally great idea the whole thing is, designed to placate and reassure regulators and shareholders
  
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• Nokia rolls out Africa’s newest greenfield network

  12-07-2021 14:30
  
  Africell is using equipment from Nokia in what will become Africa’s newest mobile network when it launches in Angola later this year.
  The Finnish vendor on Monday announced that it is deploying a multi-standard radio network that supports everything from 2G to 4G – and will be upgradable to 5G via a software update – in the Angolan capital Luanda in the first phase of Africell’s network build.
  Amongst other things, Nokia said it will roll out its AirScale Single Radio Acc
  
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• Huawei loses bid to submit new evidence to CFO extradition case

  12-07-2021 13:12
  
  Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou (pictured) is accused by the US of fraud and email evidence that may have proven her innocence has been rejected by a Canadian judge.
  The news has been widely reported and it doesn’t look like Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes gave a reason for denying the late inclusion of fresh evidence in the hearings into whether or not Canada should extradite Meng to the US. Specifically we’re talking about correspondence between Huawei and HSBC, which the defence th
  
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• Huawei loses bid to submit new evidence in CFO extradition case

  12-07-2021 13:12
  
  Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou (pictured) is accused by the US of fraud and email evidence that may have proven her innocence has been rejected by a Canadian judge.
  The news has been widely reported and it doesn’t look like Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes gave a reason for denying the late inclusion of fresh evidence in the hearings into whether or not Canada should extradite Meng to the US. Specifically we’re talking about correspondence between Huawei and HSBC, which the defence th
  
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• Crossrail changes its staged opening plans

  12-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although the opening of Crossrail is the public deadline that keeps shifting, it is in fact only the 3rd stage of a 5-stage process, and how the final two stages will be carried out has been changed.
  The changes are generally good for passengers and will see the final phase of opening the full line delivered sooner than currently planned.
  Current service
  Stage 1 (May 2015)
  TfL Rail branded service running between Liverpool Street and Shenfield. The Elizabeth line trains started replacing the old
  
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• Telenor Montenegro buy is just the start for 4iG

  12-07-2021 12:42
  
  PPF Group is selling Telenor Montenegro just three years after it acquired the business as part of a drive to become a medium-sized European telecoms operator group.
  The Czech investment group is working on a deal of undisclosed value to offload the asset to Hungarian ICT company 4iG, which is itself in the process of building up its telecoms portfolio. The firms have inked a preliminary agreement that will see 4iG run due diligence on Telenor Montenegro between now and the end of September, at
  
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• London’s Alleys: Princes Place, SW1

  12-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a short shabby alley that leads off from some of the most expensive properties in central London.
  The short alley leads off Duke Street in St James, which first appeared in the rate books of the parish of St. Martin in the Fields in 1673. It is likely that it was named in honour of James, Duke of York, later James II.
  The alley itself first shows up as Princes Court in John Roque’s map of 1746, and in more detail in Horwood’s map of 1799 as a narrow passage lined with small h
  
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• Will Djibouti follow Ethiopia in liberalising its telecoms sector?

  12-07-2021 02:00
  In an effort to modernise its economy and increase digitalisation, the Djibouti government have announced that they will be selling a minority stake in Djibouti Telecom, the state-owned incumbent operator. According to the announcement, investors in the company would also have the opportunity to expand into mobile money and data centres within the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone Idea targets $3bn investment from Apollo Global

  12-07-2021 02:00
  Vodafone Idea, rebranded as Vi last year, has been in the financial doldrums for a number of years now, having struggled to compete in vicious price wars with its major rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, as well as owing the government enormous sums of money for spectrum allocation and adjusted gross revenue (AGR). In its most recent financial results, the company had managed to slow the decline, reducing its net loss from around $1…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Masmovil moves one step closer to €2bn takeover of Euskaltel

  12-07-2021 02:00
  The Basque Country-based operator Euskaltel has had quite the journey in the past couple of years. In February 2020, the company signed a trademark licensing agreement to use the Virgin brand, hoping that the use of this trusted name would help them rapidly expand their operations throughout Spain…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 4iG continues M&A splurge with Telenor Montenegro

  12-07-2021 02:00
  2021 has been a busy year for Hungarian ICT firm 4iG, which has increasingly clear ambitions of becoming a major telecoms player throughout the Central and Eastern European regions.Back in March the company announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire DIGI Group, Hungary’s leading telecommunications and media service group.“The potential acquisition of the Hungarian DIGI Group represents a huge step forward for 4iG, with the acquisition we can gain a dominant position in a n
  
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