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• Weekend travel to Central London recovering faster than commuter travel

  26-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London City Hall figures show that while weekend visitor numbers to central London are improving, now at around 75 per cent compared to 2019, weekday visitors are still at around 54 per cent compared to before the pandemic.
  The figures were reported as an ongoing campaign to promote London expanded and will be TfL’s largest public transport focused campaign since the London 2012 Olympic Games.The advertising campaign aims to remind people of what they’ve missed most about the city du
  
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• Follow a public art sculture trail in the City of London

  26-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dotted around the eastern half of the City of London can be found a lot of public art, as part of the City’s annual Sculpture in the City project.
  Now in its 10th year, there are 19 artworks to find, some easily and a few rather harder to spot.
  I found that it took maybe 90 minutes of wandering around to find them all, and they are mostly delightful moments of surprise to wander around a corner and, bang, there’s a lump of art just sitting there to be discovered.
  A small sign near ea
  
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• What does the UK government’s Telecoms Security Bill mean for the future of the industry?

  26-07-2021 15:49
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Matias Madou, Co-Founder & CTO of Secure Code Warrior, looks at the implications of a new piece of UK, telecoms-specific legislation.
  The Telecoms Security Bill, which seeks to introduce a new security framework for the UK telecoms sector, is currently being passed through the UK parliament. The bill aims to ensure that public telecommunications provide
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: China Mobile, dumb pipes and bugbears

  26-07-2021 15:34
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · China Mobile, dumb pipes and bugbears
  
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• Eurobites: Telefónica moves further into data analytics

  26-07-2021 13:51
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Telecom Italia prepares for DAZN probe; Nokia gets into testbeds with Greece’s 5G Ventures; Virgin Media O2 sets up ‘national databank’ for the barely connected.Telefónica’s cybersecurity arm, Telefónica Tech, is to incorporate C2RO Perceive, a video analytics offering, into its armoury of IoT and Big Data software. The software, from Canadian firm C2RO, is used in spaces such as retail outlets and entertainment
  
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• Ericsson gets Virgin Media O2 5G SA core gig

  26-07-2021 13:45
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s relationship with O2 UK has been maintained after the latter’s merger with Virgin Media.
  The enduring marriage yielded its latest progeny in the form of a deal for Ericsson to build VMO2’s standalone 5G core, which will be integrated with the 4G and non-standalone 5G ones to make what Ericsson calls a dual-mode 5G core. There is presumably all manner of cleverness that has to take place to make all these cores play nice with each other and, since t
  
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• Vodafone reportedly seeking to further reduce its exposure to India

  26-07-2021 13:20
  
  Last week the Indian Supreme Court rejected another appeal to lower the amount of money operators owe the government and it looks like Vodafone is running out of patience.
  The Indian government reckons Indian telcos owe it some kind of historical tax or license fee based on a calculation known as adjusted gross revenue (AGR). Most of it is owed by Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel as they’ve been around for much longer than current dominant player Jio, but they think the tax applies to too m
  
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• There’s an octopus at Liverpool Street station

  26-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you head to Liverpool Street station at the moment, there’s an octopus sitting next to one of the entrances – as a charity art trail.
  You are recommended to follow the trail to see the rest of the octopuses, but it’s a long walk to find the next one, as they are all to be found at Harwich, Tendring and the wider Essex area.
  Just one is in London, as a sole outpost for the Greater Anglia trains that can carry you to see the rest of them.The London octopus sculpture, ‘Jo
  
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• London’s Alleys: Dereham Place, EC2

  26-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a passage that winds its way around the backs of Shoreditch with a mix of 1950s factory buildings and modern flats.
  The passage also has a complicated naming history.
  The western two-thirds was originally called Norfolk Gardens, and the eastern part was called New Norfolk Street. Then in the 19th-century, both passages were renamed as Norfolk Place and again renamed later as Dereham Place, with a line of bollards where the two roads met. The names were split again in the 20th-century, to
  
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• Fibre broadband ‘gold rush’: can the UK’s alt-nets pull it off?

  26-07-2021 05:00 via ft.com
  Smaller rivals to incumbent BT have attracted billions from investors but must now deliver
  
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• Virgin Media O2 picks Ericsson for 5G standalone core

  26-07-2021 02:00
  Ericsson has been selected by Virgin Media O2 to deploy cloud native, container-based dual-mode 5G Standalone Core on cloud infrastructure in the UK, paving the way for Virgin Media O2 to deliver ultra-fast connectivity to consumers and develop advanced enterprise use cases.The new agreement, which is already being put into practice, will see Virgin Media O2 bring its 4G, 5G Non-standalone and 5G Standalone services into a single fully integrated Ericsson dual…read more on TotalTele.com
  
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• Three calls for wider 5G FWA deployment in rural UK

  26-07-2021 02:00
  Operators around the UK are rolling broadband infrastructure at an impressive pace, battling to meet the government target of reaching 85% of UK premises by 2025. Currently, around 42% of UK homes can access gigabit-capable broadband, with estimates suggesting that this number will reach 60% by the end of the year, largely as a result of new rollouts and Virgin Media upgrading their existing network.However, with each additional percentile passed, the task becomes more and more difficult&hellip
  
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• Chinese ownership of Newport chip fab dubbed “first order strategic issue”

  26-07-2021 02:00
  Back in 2017, in an effort to boost the Welsh economy and carve out a piece of emerging tech markets like robotics and 5G, ten councils in the Cardiff Capital Region announced plans to build a £38 million semiconductor factory in Newport.Fast forward four years and, at the beginning of this month, it was announced that the business would be acquired by Nexperia, a Chinese-owned company based in the Netherlands…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T sign deal to build the first US 5G smart city ‘at scale’

  26-07-2021 02:00
  Last week, AT&T announced they had signed a letter of intent with real-estate developer JBG Smith, aiming to build the first full-scale smart city in the US.The agreement will see AT&T build a 5G network in a community near at National Landing, a 6.8 million square foot development near Arlington, Virginia. In National Landing…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 14nm chips will reach mass production in China next year

  26-07-2021 01:18
  The Chinese semiconductor industry is in the news nowadays for advancing towards mass production of 14nm chips. After gaining competency in manufacturing 28nm chips, the country is now steadily moving towards achieving the goal of mass production of 14nm chips in the coming year.
  "The domestic 14nm chip has overcome many technical problems, including the realization of key equipment such as etching machine and thin film deposition, and mass application in large-scale production lines. The subse
  
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