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• Winter Wonderland returning to Hyde Park

  03-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a sign that times are returning to normality in the Summer that it’s confirmed that a gigantic fairground event will fill a large chunk of Hyde Park once again this winter.
  The Winter Wonderland has however had to make some changes, and entry will be by pre-booked tickets only – no turning up at the gates hoping to buy a ticket on the day.
  Winter Wonderland
  Inside the fenced-off estate, there will be ice skating, Zippos circus, an “ice kingdom”, Cirque Berserk,
  
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• Speedcast Secures Multi-Year Contract Extension with Hornbeck Offshore

  03-08-2021 16:44
  
  Hornbeck Offshore fleet to receive connectivity service extension enabling streamlined vessel operationsHouston, Texas – August 3, 2021 – Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, today announced that the company has been selected by Hornbeck Offshore to extend its IT communications equipment and connectivity services contract for a multi-year term to a total of 32 vessels serving the offshore energy industry across North and South America. Hornbeck Offshore Servi
  
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• Tate Modern wants you to scribble all over its main floor

  03-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Tate Modern wants people to fill its gigantic turbine hall with scribbles, in the name of art.
  The project is inspired by the Gutai group, a group of Japanese artists who wanted to change the world through painting, performance and children’s play. At Tate Modern, contemporary artist Ei Arakawa has expanded and drawn inspiration from this idea at Tate Modern as a gigantic interactive installation: Mega Please Draw Freely.
  Over the next six weeks, the Tate Modern will let visitors trans
  
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• China to drive private 5G network growth despite regulatory headwind– research

  03-08-2021 14:35
  
  Private 5G networks are on the verge of taking off in a big way worldwide, with China leading the way, according to new research published this week.
  While China’s sheer scale means it is often ahead of the pack where numbers are concerned, its leading position in 5G private network revenues is not clear cut due to regulatory issues in the market. Nonetheless, figures from RAN Research, an arm of Rethink Technology Research, put China ahead of other major regions as the growth curve kicks
  
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• Eurobites: Ethiopia to re-open bidding on second operator licence

  03-08-2021 13:40
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: MTN warns of H1 earnings fall; Orange combines with SSE Networks for improved maritime connectivity; Brussels looks into latest Facebook acquisition.Ethiopia is to re-open bidding on its second operator licence later this month, according to a Reuters report citing two government officials. This follows an earlier auction in May that resulted in the sale of only one licence, to a consortium led by Safaricom, for $850 million. The potential second lic
  
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• Iliad-UPC tie-up will make Poland a market to watch

  03-08-2021 13:24
  
  Iliad is making good on its ambitions to enter the Polish fixed-line market, making an offer for number two player UPC worth the best part of US$2 billion.
  The announcement of talks between Iliad and UPC parent Liberty Global almost went unnoticed, coming at the back end of last week amidst results presentations from both companies and the revelation that the French company’s owner Xavier Niel is looking to take it private. Liberty Global and Iliad both disclosed that the latter has submit
  
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• Ericsson wins a bit bigger in China, as Nokia misses out — report

  03-08-2021 13:07
  
  Report suggests that the Swedish vendor has won 3% of a joint contract from China Telecom and China Unicom.
  Just two weeks ago, Ericsson was awarded only 2% of the available base station work for China Mobile’s 700 MHz 5G rollout, with Nokia getting a slightly higher 4% share.
  It seemed that the vendor was being punished by China for Sweden’s decision to ban Huawei from 5G contracts. At the time, Ericsson also appeared to abandon hope of winning much future business in China.
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• Tall sailing ship visiting London next week

  03-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s been a while since a tall sailing ship visited London, thanks to you know what, but one will be in London next week for a few days.
  The appropriately named Pelican of London is unique among Square Riggers. Her hull form was derived from the elite French clippers of the late 19th century, with a length to breadth ratio of 5:1, a flared bow, fine entry and run.
  She is principally used as a sail training ship, and will be in London to collect her next crew of young trainees as part of a
  
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• Google to power new Pixel phones with own chip

  03-08-2021 10:37
  
  Google will use a custom chip designed in house to power the next generation flagship Pixel smartphones, following in the footsteps of Apple and Samsung to rid themselves of the perceived limitations of off-the-shelf offerings.
  In a blogpost, Rick Osterloh, Google’s Senior VP for Devices & Services, explained that the company has decided to develop its own SoC to power its own devices because they have “run into computing limitations that prevented us from fully pursuing our miss
  
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• Disused tube station – Waddesdon Manor

  03-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the middle of empty fields, a long way from London can be found the remains of a disused London Underground station.
  This was Waddesdon Manor Station, opened by the Metropolitan Railway on 1st January 1897 as part of a branch line that ran deep into rural Buckinghamshire.Although the Metropolitan Railway owed its origins to the first Underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon, its later expansions did not focus on expanding the railway in London, but on driving northwards out into
  
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• Water, electricity, gas and…internet? Colombia names the web an essential service

  03-08-2021 02:00
  Colombia has approved an amendment to Law 1341 of 2009, hereby declaring the internet as an essential and universal public service. The law will guarantee the effective right of access to the internet at an affordable and competitive price, regardless of geographic location. It also mandates operators to provide customers with minimum browsing and free text bundles in the event of health and other emergencies…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Uniting land, sea and cloud: Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme

  03-08-2021 02:00
  As data demand soars in an ever more connected world, it is easy to forget that 99% of all intercontinental communication takes place over submarine cables stretching across the ocean floor. Traditionally, these end-to-end optical networks had a clear demarcation between terrestrial and submarine networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telstra makes public pay phones free to use

  03-08-2021 02:00
  When was the last time you used a pay phone? For many of us, the answer will be many years ago, with mobile phones having become ubiquitous in numerous markets throughout the world. But despite the rise of mobile, coin-operated public phones still see hefty usage around the world, especially by some of the world&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MTN Nigeria to pump $1.5bn into broadband

  03-08-2021 02:00
   On an analyst call yesterday, MTN Nigeria’s CEO Karl Toriola said that the company is planning to invest $1.5 billion over the next three years to enhance broadband access in Nigeria. Currently, MTN's 4G network covers 65.1% of the Nigerian population, up from 60.1% in December 2020. The Nigerian government wants to see 90% population coverage by 2025…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G-aliser July 2021 Update: Can telcos launch new services without standalone 5G?

  03-08-2021 02:00
  Introducing new factors• This quarter we dropped COVID-19 and 5G conspiracy theories in the wildcards factors, as these have largely stabilised and are less relevant than newly emerging ones• The first new addition is the IT / billing stack for advanced communications • 6G is the second new factor, seeing increasing interest and investment around the world• We also retitled 'US/China tradewar and other geopolitical issues' to 'Geopolitical tensions', which better reflec
  
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