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• Drivers eye view of the new Luton DART light railway

  19-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Luton Airport has released a video showing a “drivers eye” view of the driverless Luton DART (Direct Air-Rail Transit), which will link the nearby railway station and the airport for the first time.
  At the moment, the link between the airport and the nearest railway station, Luton Airport Parkway is by a shuttle bus, but a new “automated guided people mover” with cable hauled trains will link them next year.
  When it opens, journey times will be cut to just 4 minutes.
  The
  
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• Ericsson got just 2% of China Mobile’s 700MHz radio award

  19-07-2021 18:41
  
  As anticipated, Ericsson was awarded just 2% of the available base station work for China Mobile’s 700 MHz 5G rollout, with even Nokia getting more.
  China Mobile seems to have only published the results of its 700 MHz tender in Chinese, so we’re reliant on Google for the translation, apart from the numbers, which seem to be global. The work was apportioned into three lots and the percentage of each lot granted to each vendor was stated. We chucked all that into the spreadsheet below
  
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• BSS – the technology trendsetter in operators

  19-07-2021 16:58
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Varun Galande, VP Global Pre-Sales at Qvantel, outlines the latest developments in telecoms business support software.
  The recent news that AT&T is moving its 5G core to Microsoft Azure is the latest advance that we’re seeing in the industry moving towards the cloud. OSS and BSS have been running on private, hybrid and public clouds for some time
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: BT/EE, Ericsson and net neutrality

  19-07-2021 16:44
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · BT/EE, Ericsson and net neutrality
  
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• Covent Garden to be filled with neon art next month

  19-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month, Covent Garden will be filled with neon signs, as part of a display by the artist Chila Burman, who was also responsible for covering the Tate Britain in neon signs last Christmas.
  Chila Burman will bring her vast neon sculptures into the building’s South Hall, transforming the space into a giant neon wonderland.
  The installation will feature a distinctive floating neon octagon suspended from the centre of the Hall, sculptures of peacocks, tigers and snakes and bulls illuminatin
  
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• US and allies accuse China of ‘malicious cyber activity’

  19-07-2021 15:54
  
  America and its mates, including the UK, have got together to denounce China’s apparent habit of indulging in state-sponsored cyber mischief.
  The White House, UK government and European Union are among those who have published statements calling for China to stop corrupting cyberspace with malicious behaviour and electronic espionage. On top of that the US has charged four Chinese nationals it reckons were working on behalf of the state with industrial espionage.
  “These criminal char
  
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• TIM to take 2021 earnings hit on football deal

  19-07-2021 15:14
  
  Italian operator group TIM is upbeat about the impact its controversial football streaming deal with DAZN will have on its core financial metrics in the next couple of years.
  TIM confirmed its group revenue target for the full year – stable to low-single-digit growth, that is – but said it expects EBITDA to fall by low to mid-single digits, partly because of its distribution deal for top-flight football and partly because of delays to the voucher scheme designed to provide access to
  
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• State phone-hacking rears its ugly head once more

  19-07-2021 13:50
  
  A set of reports has been published that alleges some countries are using malware to spy on political opponents, activists and journalists.
  The investigations were carried out by a media alliance called Forbidden Stories, with contribution from Amnesty International. They call it ‘the Pegasus Project’ because is focuses on the use of Pegasus spyware made by Israeli firm NSO Group. “Our products help government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies use technology to meet the
  
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• Telefonica creates another fibre JV, this time in Colombia

  19-07-2021 13:17
  
  Telefonica is spinning off its fibre business in Colombia and has agreed to sell a majority stake to KKR, lopping US$200 million off its debt pile in the process.
  We knew it was coming. Earlier this year Telefonica sold off fibre assets in Brazil and Chile via similar co-investment models and indicated that there were more fibre details in the pipeline at its Latin American operations.
  And we perhaps could have guessed that KKR would be a likely investment partner. The investment group took a 60
  
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• Win unlimited travel on National Rail for a year

  19-07-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a competition running on National Rail that’s offering twelve people a year’s free travel across the UK rail network.
  In addition to winning a year of free rail travel, the winners will also receive a unique golden ticket designed by artist Claire Rollet.
  Once you enter, one winner will be selected every Friday each week for 12 weeks, starting on Friday 23rd July with the last winner being selected on Friday 8th October. The prize draw is random, so you don’t need
  
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• London’s Alleys: Silver Place, W1

  19-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A short wide alley in Soho lined with Georgian and Victorian buildings, but also a link to one of the 19th-centuries worst terrorist attacks.
  This patch of Soho was once fields, known as Colman Hedge Close, but started being developed in the second half of the 17th-century. The layout of the area hasn’t changed much, but the street names have. When first laid out, the alley was known as Pulteney Court, but most of the streets in the area were renamed in the mid 19th-century, and that&rsquo
  
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• Australia’s Telstra in talks for Pacific arm of Denis O’Brien’s Digicel

  19-07-2021 07:01
  Canberra offers to back bid for mobile operator in move analysts say is aimed at China
  
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• Telstra reaches for the Pacific in rumoured Digicel deal

  19-07-2021 02:00
  According to the Australian media, national operator Telstra is in talks to purchase Digicel’s telco operations in the South Pacific, which include Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Nauru, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. The bid, which is rumoured to be worth around A$2 billion, will be supported both financially and in terms of strategic risk management by the Australian government, after they approached Telstra for technical advice regarding Digicel Pacific…read more on TotalTele.com &raqu
  
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• Telefonica spins off Colombian fibre biz with KKR

  19-07-2021 02:00
  Back in late 2019, Telefonica announced that it was slimming down its Latin American businesses, indicating that it would seek to sell off these assets (excluding those in Brazil), instead set to focus on its core markets of Spain, Brazil, Germany, and the UK. Since then, the company has undergone numerous asset sales in different forms…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson’s lands largest contract ever with $8.3bn 5G deal with Verizon

  19-07-2021 02:00
  In Ericsson’s Q2 earnings call today, the Swedish vendor revealed it has struck an enormous $8.3 billion deal with Verizon, the largest in Ericsson’s history. The five-year deal has a broad scope, which includes Ericsson’s latest 5G RAN technology, covering C-band, low-band, and mmWave deployments. With these technologies, Verizon hopes to expand and improve its 5G Ultra Wideband coverage…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dish signs $5bn deal with AT&T for wireless partnership

  19-07-2021 02:00
  DISH has announced today the signing of a transformative, long-term strategic Network Services Agreement (NSA) with AT&T, making AT&T the primary network services partner for DISH MVNO customers. Through this agreement, DISH will provide current and future customers of its retail wireless brands, including Boost Mobile, Ting Mobile and Republic Wireless, access to best-in-class coverage and connectivity on AT&T's wireless network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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