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• Tickets Alert: Take a walk though the Mail Rail tunnels

  27-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Postal Museum has announced fresh dates for the chance to walk through the tunnels under Mount Pleasent where the Mail Rail used to carry the post.
  Visitors will get access to the original tunnels, tracks and station platforms of London’s 100-year-old postal railway, letting you explore parts of the railway that aren’t accessible on the Mail Rail ride.
  The route involves walking on uneven ground in low-light conditions for around 1.2km (0.75 miles) including stepping across rails
  
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• Crossrail aiming for February 2022 opening date

  27-07-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Crossrail project, which is currently set to open in the first half of 2022 is now aiming for a February opening date, assuming nothing unexpected happens to delay the project.
  The project is currently in the “Trial Running” phase, where they run 12 trains per hour through the core tunnels to build up the mileage and hours needed to iron out any last bugs and show to the regulators that the railway is safe to operate with passengers.
  The final stage before opening the line comes
  
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• A festival of church bells to ring out across the City of London

  27-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This coming Saturday (31st July), churches across the City of London will ring the bells in a festival of church bells.
  The day will start with the ringing of Great Paul (at St Paul’s Cathedral), which at 16½ tons is the largest swinging bell in the UK, and hasn’t been rung for the past 20 years. This will happen at 9:20am in the presence of the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London, both of whom may be persuaded to take hold of the rope.
  At 9:30am, the cries of Great Paul will be a
  
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• Vodafone and Three want more UK government help with 5G

  27-07-2021 14:57
  
  Two UK telcos are urging the government to do more to push 5G along, especially in the areas of manufacturing and FWA, for the good of the country of course.
  Vodafone sent out a press release titled ‘5G could provide £6.3 billion boost to UK manufacturing by 2030’, to promote a report called ‘Powering up manufacturing, levelling up Britain’. Any doubt that the whole exercise is essentially a lobbying campaign for government assistance was removed when it was reveale
  
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• Eurobites: KPN turns a corner in Q2

  27-07-2021 14:53
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: T-Systems heads deeper into the Google Cloud; customer satisfaction (or not) in France; Telefónica Tech takes up with CrowdStrike.In its second-quarter figures Dutch incumbent operator KPN has returned to mobile service revenue growth in its consumer segment for the first time since Q1 2017, a turnaround that helped push mass-market service revenues up by 0.5% year-on-year. This partially offset lower service revenues from its business and con
  
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• Intel vows to regain chip leadership from TSMC and Samsung by 2025

  27-07-2021 14:46
  
  Once dominant chip maker Intel shared its R&D and foundry roadmaps for the next four years, during which it plans to regain the global leader position, and unveiled two marquee customers in AWS and Qualcomm.
  After announcing the company’s turnaround strategy early this year, Pat Gelsinger, who came back to revitalise Intel as its CEO, revealed more detailed roadmap of what he called IDM 2.0 strategy (“integrated device manufacturer”) in the company’s “Intel Acce
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of St Paul’s Cathedral’s triforium

  27-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  St Paul’s Cathedral has restarted tours of its triforium, the space high up above the nave that’s not normally open to the public.
  The triforium is a huge hidden corridor that runs around the nave hidden high up above the heads of the worshipers below. No one is entirely sure why the space is called a Triforium, but in ancient times someone described a similar space in Canterbury with such a name, and it stuck.For those cathedrals that are large enough to have one, it’s a valua
  
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• Lumen flogs its Latin American business for $2.7 billion

  27-07-2021 12:57
  
  US B2B comms company has delivered on its promise to dispose of non-core assets by selling its LatAm operations to hedge fund Stonepeak.
  A couple of weeks ago Lumen said it wanted to raise money by refocusing on its core business, both in terms of market segment and geography. Disposing of its LatAm business certainly ticks the latter box but what it’s selling does seem to include a fair bit of business comms. Of course all this talk core competence could just be a cover for needing to rai
  
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• Signify joins HomeGrid Forum to transform wireless communications through LiFi with MaxLinear G.hn technology

  27-07-2021 11:12
  
  Beaverton, US, 27 July 2021: HomeGrid Forum has today announced that Signify, (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, has joined the organization to expand the innovation and deployment of G.hn technology for Light Fidelity (LiFi) applications. Trulifi by Signify provides a range of LiFi systems that ensure a fast, secure and reliable wireless connection. LiFi is a wireless communication technology that uses LEDs to transmit data at high speeds over the visible light, ultraviolet...Sour
  
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• Proposals for an east-west tram-style service linking Herts to Essex

  27-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A consultation will be opening later this year that could see plans for a new rail or tram service running across the counties to the north of London.
  The proposal, put forward by Hertfordshire County Council is linked to plans for around 100,000 new homes to be built along the A414 Corridor. This main road runs from Harlow (to the east of Hertfordshire’s boundary with Essex) to the south of St Albans, where it separates with one leg running to Hemel Hempstead and the other running through
  
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• Myanmar rights groups complain to OECD over Telenor sale

  27-07-2021 04:01
  Norwegian state-owned telco offloaded operations in conflict-torn nation to Lebanese investment firm
  
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• Verizon makes use of new C-band spectrum with Samsung in virtualized 5G data session

  27-07-2021 02:00
  Verizon and Samsung Electronics recently completed an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session over C-band spectrum in a live network environment. The new milestone was reached in preparation for its upcoming 5G Ultra Wideband expansion using its newly acquired C Band spectrum.“We have been driving the industry to large scale virtualization using the advanced architecture we have built into our network from the core to the far edge. This recent accomplishment paves the way for a more
  
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• Transpacific Hawaiki cable sold to BW Group

  27-07-2021 02:00
  The Hawaiki submarine cable, which links Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, the Pacific Islands, Hawaii, and finally Oregon, US, was first conceived in 2012. Construction began in 2016 and, in 2018, the 15,000km cable finally went live. “Hawaiki is the fastest and largest cross-sectional capacity link between the US and Australia and New Zealand. It will significantly enhance our connectivity to the rest of the world and…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Lumen sells LatAm network to Stonepeak for $2.7bn

  27-07-2021 02:00
  In recent months, Lumen, formerly CenturyLink, has been seeking to divest itself of various assets in an attempt to pay down its debt. In fact, earlier this month the company was rumoured to be in talks with Apollo Management Global over the potential $5 billion sale of its consumer operations in the US.Now, furthering this strategy, Lumen has announced the sale of its Latin American business to investment firm Stonepeak for around $2…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Irresponsible? Telenor’s withdrawal from Myanmar draws complaints to OECD

  27-07-2021 02:00
  At the start of 2021, a coup d’état took place in Myanmar, overthrowing the civilian government and replacing it with a military junta. Since then, civil unrest has been rife as the population struggles against the illegal regime, resulting in almost 1,000 deaths across the country. For the nation’s operators, this is a period of great uncertainty. The ruling junta has forced them to suppress various forms of communications, with General Min Aung Hlaing first ordering te
  
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