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• Testing cargo deliveries by rail to town centres

  15-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A scheme to use converted passenger trains to deliver freight into the centre of towns was tested last week using Euston station.
  Railways used to earn as much, if not at times more money from carrying freight than they did from carrying humans, but the rise of refrigeration killed off the need for last-minute deliveries into town centres, and the growth in road freight killed of most of the rest. Rail fright today, while still substantial, is mainly for aggregates and cargo containers.
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• See inside the 300+ year old Newington Green Unitarian Church

  15-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just over 300 years ago, a small meeting house was built for non-conformists escaping the religious constraints of the City of London, and it’s still here, and now open for tours.
  The Newington Green Unitarian Church is also London’s oldest nonconformist place of worship that’s still in use.
  The original building was constructed in 1708, on land donated for the purpose, in a classic Queen Anne style externally and with a very spartan interior. It was substantially expanded at t
  
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• KT takes the plunge on standalone 5G

  15-07-2021 15:45
  
  South Korean operator KT has become one of the world’s first operators to move its commercial 5G network to standalone mode.
  5G SA means the whole network is using 4G-specific technology, as opposed to NSA which adds a layer of 5G-ness on top of legacy infrastructure. China has been ahead of the game on 5G SA and a few other operators, such as Vodafone, are making all the right noises, but this is still early days to be taking the plunge on the whole commercial network.
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• Ericsson, Telia tech trial lowers 5G latency, boosts battery life

  15-07-2021 15:20
  
  Ericsson and Telia have successfully trialled a new feature that can improve smartphone battery life and lower latency in 5G standalone networks.
  The pair worked with Qualcomm to test Radio Resource Control (RRC Inactive), a feature that essentially creates a new inactive state for smartphones, reducing the amount of signalling required as the device transitions from one state to another – states being ‘idle’ or ‘standby’ or ‘ready,’ for example –
  
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• Lumen could raise $5 billion-plus from asset sales

  15-07-2021 15:11
  
  US B2B comms outfit Lumen Technologies is looking to raise US$5 billion or more by selling certain consumer operations, according to a rumour that emerged this week.
  When Lumen adopted its current brand just under a year ago, it appeared the writing could be on the wall for the legacy CenturyLink side of its business, and if Bloomberg’s report that Apollo Global Management is looking to buy an as-yet unspecified portfolio of consumer assets proves correct, that may well be the case.
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• Balham station’s £2.6 million upgrade completed

  15-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Refurbishment and safety upgrades costing £2.6 million at Balham station in south London have been completed.
  Network Rail has reduced the gap between trains and platforms, while the platforms have also been refurbished with new surfaces, drainage and platform canopies repaired and repainted. Seven new benches have been added to the platforms.
  Balham Station (c) Network Rail
  To reduce the gap between trains and platforms, wasn’t just a case of revamping the platforms, as they had to
  
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• US extends anti-China bribe program to more operators

  15-07-2021 12:53
  
  Mid-sized US operators can now apply for money to swap out Huawei and ZTE kit from their networks.
  US Congress scraped together $1.9 billion of public money at the end of last year, to bribe operators to get rid of any Chinese gear they may have in their networks and replace it with nice, wholesome Swedish, Finnish or Korean equivalents. Somehow it seems to have excluded a lot of those operators most affected by the China purge the medium-sized rural operators.
  Now, a mere seven months later, th
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Olympic Ring Park, N1C

  15-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A small roadside park alongside St Pancras Station has something hidden in the bushes – pieces of the London 2012 Olympic rings.
  In May 2011, the Olympic rings were hung in St Pancras International station, and remained there until after the London 2012 Olympics, being taken down in August 2012.
  They were then chopped up into a series of curved coloured benches that were dotted around the station.One set though was moved in 2016 to a small park outside the station. The park was a rough pat
  
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• Virgin Media O2 makes UK’s first live call over NHIB

  15-07-2021 02:00
  O2, now merged with Virgin Media, has announced a UK first following a successful call from its network using NHIB technology.The trial took place at an unspecified business site around London’s Canary Wharf, with O2 working in partnership with Freshwave and CommScope…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• The return of roaming: Exploring China Mobile International’s IPX platform

  15-07-2021 02:00
  Throughout the world, over the last year the coronavirus pandemic has seen people confined to their homes, with international travel limited to a bare minimum. Operators around the world have lamented their lost roaming revenues, while at the same time expanding their mobile networks and related services. But the telecoms industry is nothing if not global, and roaming post-Covid is set to boom. As networks become increasingly complex, operators will need to choose the right approach if the
  
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• Millicom pledges $250m long-term investment in Panama

  15-07-2021 02:00
  Millicom is keen to demonstrate its commitment to advancing the digitalisation of Panama, announcing a plan to invest $250 million into their local business over the 2021–2022 period.The funds will be used to expand Millicom’s fixed and mobile networks, including to underserved areas such as Bocas del Toro, Darién, Coclé and Indigenous Comarcas, thus contributing to the government’s strategy of closing the digital divide.The news comes following a meeting between
  
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• Lumen mulls $5bn sale of consumer biz to Apollo Global Management

  15-07-2021 02:00
  According to reports from Bloomberg, Apollo Global Management is in discussions to acquire a selection of consumer business assets from Lumen Technologies in a transaction that could be worth around $5 billion.The target assets are, according to sources, situated in a number of US states, with a deal potentially set to be announced in the coming weeks.This rumour, if proved true, would not come as too much of a surprise…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KT takes the SA 5G plunge ahead of rivals

  15-07-2021 02:00
  South Korea was one of the earliest nations in the world to commercialise 5G, doing so back in 2019, and since then has become a global leader in the next-generation mobile technology. Since then, all three of the country’s major operators have been operating their 5G networks on a non-standalone (NSA) framework: i.e., with 5G services being supported by 4G spectrum. While NSA 5G has allowed for a much faster and more widespread rollout of the 5G…read more on TotalTele.co
  
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