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• UK government ties itself in knots over social media censorship

  22-07-2021 19:27
  
  The UK government wants to protect us from online horridness but seems confused about how best to go about it while also protecting freedom of speech.
  A parliamentary committee has published a report in to government digital censorship proposals contained in the draft Online Safety Bill. The report is titled ‘Free for all? Freedom of expression in the digital age’ and seems to be positioned as opposition to parts of the Bill. It contains a few mild statements of concern about censors
  
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• A day trip to – Saffron Walden, Essex

  22-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you were to be on a day trip to say, Audley End House, then not far is the pretty market town of Saffron Walden to fill the rest of the day with.
  Saffron Walden is an ancient market village that has the remains of a Norman castle, a very large church, lots of old buildings, a great museum, and some old fortifications to see.
  The town centre is a very compact muddle of old medieval street layouts and at the weekend, filled with a market in the centre by the library. It’s a mix of mostly
  
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• AT&T turns telco in Latin America too

  22-07-2021 14:45
  
  AT&T is selling another of its content operations, this time in Latin America, as it looks to focus on the connectivity side of the business there, much like it is doing back home.
  The US operator is offloading Vrio, which provides video services across a variety of platforms – DirecTV’s Latin American unit, Sky Brasil, and DirecTV Go – to Grupo Werthein for an undisclosed sum. However, the Wall Street Journal quoted a company spokesperson as saying the deal implied an ente
  
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• Nokia teams up with consulting firm CGI to create ‘5G lab’ in London

  22-07-2021 14:19
  
  Tech consulting giant CGI will use Nokia kit in a new 5G lab that is intended to showcase how great it is.
  CGI already has an ‘innovation centre’ in the central London skyscraper known as the walkie-talkie building, so it looks like Nokia is helping it create a 5G zone within that. To some extent this seems more like a showroom than a lab, with Nokia being given the platform to demonstrate its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private solution, while CGI gets to showcase its system inte
  
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• Work on Hackney Central station’s upgrade has started

  22-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Work has begun on the £3 million Hackney Central London Overground station revamp.
  The upgrade works include a new second entrance on Graham Road to ease congestion and provide quicker and more direct access to the town centre, new cycle parking spaces and more trees and greenery, and an additional staircase within the station to make the interchange between Hackney Central and Hackney Downs stations easier.
  The changes, scheduled for completion in early 2022, are made possible by Hackney
  
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• Spain nets €1 billion in lacklustre 700 MHz sale

  22-07-2021 12:33
  
  Spain has finally auctioned off spectrum in the 700 MHz band, but bidding was lacklustre at best, with the final total only just exceeding the reserve price.
  The sale brings in €1.01 billion, with the big three operators – Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange – all taking home frequencies, but no mention of challenger player Masmovil. All the available paired 700 MHz frequencies were snapped up, but 15 MHz of unpaired spectrum was left unsold.
  Only Telefonica paid in excess of the re
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Barnsbury Wood, N1

  22-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Described as London’s smallest nature reserve, this patch of woodland is hidden behind a triangle of Georgian houses in Islington, and only open to the public for 2 hours a week.
  This part of London was developed as housing by Joseph Kay in 1810-49 on dairy farmland owned by the Thornhill family, whose name lives on in the street and area names.
  The blocks of houses that surround the pocket park were laid out later in the development, around 1849, as two quarter-circle crescents. If you lo
  
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• Spain’s 700MHz 5G auction completes without Masmovil

  22-07-2021 02:00
  Spain’s 700MHz spectrum auction has been a long time coming. The auction was first planned to take place in early 2020 but, as was the case in so many markets around the world, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic saw these plans delayed. Since then, disputes over price and conditions related to the spectrum licences saw the process delayed even further. In response, in May, the regulator lowered the reserve prices on the spectrum by 15%, as well as removing obligations to grant thi
  
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• Orange France under fire from mishandling of network outage

  22-07-2021 02:00
  A French government report released today has been critical of Orange’s handing of its June 2nd network outage, saying that the company could have resolved the issue more efficiently.The outage saw Orange voice services disrupted on a national level between 16:45pm and midnight, during which around 11…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange France under fire for mishandling network outage

  22-07-2021 02:00
  A French government report released today has been critical of Orange’s handing of its June 2nd network outage, saying that the company could have resolved the issue more efficiently.The outage saw Orange voice services disrupted on a national level between 16:45pm and midnight, during which around 11…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom: More help needed for cash strapped customers

  22-07-2021 02:00
  In December 2020, Ofcom released a report exploring the affordability of fixed broadband and mobile internet services in the UK, showing that 19% of UK households (around 4.7 million homes) struggle to afford these services. The coronavirus pandemic, naturally, has exacerbated this situation, but the UK telecoms sector has been proactive in introducing new, cheaper options for those struggling financially. However, uptake of these plans has been relatively low and, in its report, Ofcom not
  
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• GlobalFoundries pledges $1bn expansion to ease chip supply crisis

  22-07-2021 02:00
  With the world still struggling under the weight of the ongoing semiconductor supply crisis, various chip firms around the world are announcing expansion plans to help reach soaring demand.Now, the US-based semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries has announced its current US expansion plans, which involve investing $1 billion into their Malta, New York, fabrication plant, as well as longer-term plans to launch a new fab at the same location…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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