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• Your photo on the Piccadilly adverting screens

  02-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Your photo could appear on the huge advertising display screen at Piccadilly Circus, for a very short moment, as part of a campaign to promote London to Londoners.
  The images submitted by the public will be captured in short films which will be screened on Piccadilly Lights. That means your photo will be on the screen for 1.5 seconds.
  Not quite the fifteen minutes of fame once promised to everyone, but 1.5 seconds is a start.
  To enter take a photo of your favourite London scenes and share via Tw
  
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• Tube strike for this week is Cancelled

  02-08-2021 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two tube strikes that were due to take place this week in a dispute over Night Tube staff grades have been cancelled.
  The RMT and TfL have been in negotiations at the dispute arbitration service ACAS since this morning to try and avert the strike, and they are now being suspended.
  RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said: “Following extensive and wide ranging discussions through the ACAS machinery we have hammered out enough ground to allow those talks to continue. As a result this week&r
  
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• Safaricom shareholders greenlight Ethiopia expansion

  02-08-2021 15:23
  
  Safaricom’s shareholders formally approved the operator’s incorporation in neighbouring Ethiopia, following it led a successful bid for a telecoms licence in Africa’s second largest country.
  The licence, the first of its kind in Ethiopia, whose telecoms market has been monopolised by the state-owned Ethio Telecom, was awarded after the consortium led by Safaricom outbid a rival consortium led by MTN by $250 million. Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc, the operator’
  
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• Eurobites: Musk sets up Isle of Man beachhead for UK broadband assault

  02-08-2021 15:11
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: UK government updates on Project Gigabit; Telecom Italia makes quantum leap; O2 turns on 5G street light in Frankfurt.Space cowboy Elon Musk has secured a licence to build a ground station on the Isle of Man that will enable his company, Starlink, to provide satellite broadband to rural parts of northern Britain. As the Telegraph reports (paywall applies), Starlink already has similar bases in the southern English counties of Buckinghamshire and Corn
  
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• Optus aggregates 3.5 GHz with mmWave, plans commercial launch this year

  02-08-2021 14:30
  
  Optus has shared details of a lab trial that saw it aggregate 3.5 GHz frequencies with spectrum in the 26 GHz mmWave band to enable it to provide high-speed 5G connectivity over a wider area.
  The Australian telco showcased the use of New Radio Dual Connectivity (NR-DC) technology to aggregate its mid-band 3.5 GHz spectrum assets with its recently-acquired 26 GHz spectrum at a demonstration in Sydney, alongside vendor partners Ericsson and MediaTek. But this is not just about Optus taking the opp
  
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• Canadian 5G auction raises competition questions, again

  02-08-2021 13:31
  
  Canada has announced the results of its latest 5G auction, raising C$8.9 billion (US$7.1 billion) from the sale of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band. But while the country’s innovation minister declared the result to be a success from the point of view of market competition, it’s pretty clear who the big winners really are.
  The big three Canadian mobile operators – Bell Mobility, Rogers, and Telus – together accounted for C$7.3 billion (US$5.9 billion) or over 82% of the total
  
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• Crossrail 2 critical to prevent overloading of trains into Waterloo

  02-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anyone who has squashed onto a train heading to Waterloo in the morning knows that the line is packed, and a report from Network Rail has looked at what can be done to improve things, in the short term, and up to 2050.
  The lines into Waterloo can be roughly split into the Main Line services via Wimbledon and Woking, and the suburban services which cover the regional traffic to southwest London, and out to Windsor.
  The first phase of the report looks primarily on the Main Line between Waterloo an
  
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• TPG boosts 5G spectrum assets with Dense Air deal

  02-08-2021 12:16
  
  TPG Telecom has been on a 5G spectrum shopping spree of late and has just augmented its stock of 3.6GHz frequencies in six cities through a swap with Dense Air.
  TPG Telecom has boosted its supply of 5G frequencies in the all-important 3.6GH band after it reached an agreement with Dense Air, a small cells neutral host.
  The Australian operator said it is buying all shares in a Dense Air subsidiary that owns 3.6GHz frequencies acquired during the country’s 2018 auction. The transaction will i
  
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• London’s Alleys: Man in Moon Passage, W1

  02-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Probably one of the better-named alleys in London, this short pedestrian passage can be found on Regent Street and is named after a stoned man.
  The alley sits on an alignment that used to be a much longer road called Vine Street, possibly after an 18th-century pub in the area, and happens to also be one of the original locations on the London version of the Monopoly game board.
  Vine Street was cut in half for the development of Regent Street and the southern half retained the name of Vine Street
  
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• Project Gigabit update: Funding targets 2.2 million premises

  02-08-2021 02:00
  The UK government’s £5 billion Project Gigabit aims to make 1Gbps-capable broadband available to 85% of UK premises by the end of 2025.  Back in March, the government announced the first procurement phase for the Project, aiming to cover around 350,000 premises in parts of Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Optus aggregates 3.5GHz and mmWave to boost 5G

  02-08-2021 02:00
  As part of its commitment to deliver Australia’s fastest 5G network Optus, in partnership with Ericsson and MediaTek, Optus has completed an Australian first demonstration showcasing the use of New Radio Dual Connectivity (NR-DC) technology to aggregate its mid-band 3500 MHz spectrum assets with its newly acquired mmWave 26 GHz spectrum.The demonstration…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson staves off market share collapse in China with latest 5G win

  02-08-2021 02:00
  Today, media reports are suggesting that Ericsson has managed to retain at least some of its considerable market share in China, somewhat abating fears that the company would miss out completely on the latest batch of 5G contracts. Anonymous sources suggest that the Swedish vendor giant has won a 3% share in the latest 5G radio equipment tender from China Telecom and China Unicom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Arianespace launches pair of telecoms satellites

  02-08-2021 02:00
  The end of July marked the successful launch of a pair of communications satellites into geostationary orbit around the Earth. The Ariane 5 rocket launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at around 9pm on Friday, carrying both the Star One D2 and Quantum satellites into geostationary orbit.  The Star One D2 satellite was built by Maxar Technologies on behalf of Brazilian operator Embratel, with the goal of expanding the operator&rsquo…read more o
  
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• Adaptive Networks and Open Cables: Ciena's talks submarine cable evolution

  02-08-2021 02:00
  The last 18 months have been disruptive—bringing the importance of the telecoms industry and connectivity to the forefront of critical infrastructure discussions. How have network operators coped with the pandemic and what changes will affect the future of networking?Network operators the world over have always designed, deployed, managed, and maintained networks based on the assumption that it’s critical infrastructure. This was traditionally referred to as ‘carrier grade&rsq
  
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