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• 5G: Realities and Expectations

  09-08-2021 19:47
  
  More than two years after the first commercial 5G networks went live, 5G has already become the fastest-adopted mobile generation. Meanwhile, plenty innovation is being planned for the years to come for 5G. It therefore makes sense for the industry to take stock of what has gone right in 5G so far and what could be improved, and to look ahead to what may materialise in the near future.
  Telecoms.com Intelligence, in collaboration with CommScope and VIAVI Solutions, recently conducted a survey to
  
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• Teddington station gets approval for step-free access

  09-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Teddington station in southwest London is to get step-free access after a Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO) to permit construction works has been signed.
  The station has entrances on both platforms, and while there is level access on each side of the station there is no accessible link between the two platforms.
  So, for example, someone living on the western side of the station heading into London and unable to use the stairs would have a roughly 20-minute walk to the nearest road bridge to b
  
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• Jay Y. Lee out of jail, but Samsung still saddled with uncertainty

  09-08-2021 16:33
  
  Samsung’s heir apparent has been granted a parole, but when and how he could take the reins at Korea’s biggest chaebol is still not clear.
  Lee Jae-yong, or Jay Y. Lee as he is known in the international business circle and western media, has been granted a parole by Korea’s Justice Ministry, 18 months into his 30-month sentence for bribery and embezzlement, reported Reuters.
  The Justice Minister explained that the parole decision was made “as a result of comprehensive rev
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Billingsgate’s Roman bath house

  09-08-2021 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hidden underneath a mundane office block can be found one of London’s largest Roman remains, and it’s open for tours for two days later this month.
  The Bath House and associated townhouse would have been by the riverside – as it was in those times – and the layout is unusual with the bathhouse in the centre courtyard with the main building around it. It was possibly an inn or praetorium for traders and visitors to Londinium.The Billingsgate Roman bathhouse was re-discover
  
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• Will Apple child safety gift governments the keys to comms?

  09-08-2021 15:04
  
  Apple has caused a stir with its new child safety measures, which other tech firms and privacy advocates say could unwittingly open the door to let governments spy on their citizens.
  Later this year for US users, updates to iOS and iPadOS will scan users’ images for matches with known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) before storing them on its iCloud Photos platform.
  The system works by using algorithms on a user’s device to turn an image into a lengthy numeric hash, and the iPhone
  
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• Huawei revenues dip 29% in third straight quarter of decline

  09-08-2021 14:53
  
  Huawei has had its biggest-ever dip in revenue, from two years into Washington’s sanctions which battered both its network infrastructure and smartphone sales and the company’s crucial access to semiconductors.
  The stricken Shenzhen giant is now attempting a “pivot to software”, led by its HarmonyOS operating system, amid what its rotating chairman Eric Xu (pictured) diplomatically calls “a decline in revenue from our consumer business caused by external factors&rdq
  
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• Eurobites: Iliad gets on board with FiberCop in Italy

  09-08-2021 13:25
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional roundup: former Royal Mail boss in line for BT chairman role; Nokia wins at Delta Fiber; Brexit’s roaming ramifications.FiberCop, the network infrastructure company controlled by Telecom Italia (TIM), has signed a co-investment agreement with France-based Iliad in a bid to accelerate fibre rollout in Italy. FiberCop is committed to ensuring FTTH coverage for 75% of Italy’s hard to reach ‘grey and black areas’ by 2025. Other stakeholders
  
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• StarHub the latest to suffer customer data breach

  09-08-2021 13:14
  
  The Singapore telco detected a data dump on a third-party site containing personal information of more than 57,000 of its customers.
  The telco said in an announcement that it found a document uploaded to a third-part data dump site during an online surveillance in July. The file contained personal information of 57,191 of its customers, including their identity card numbers, mobile numbers, and email addresses. “No credit card or bank account information is at risk”, the company stre
  
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• Call for a rethink of HS2’s Euston station plans

  09-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Prime Minister has been urged not to agree to suggestions that the HS2 station at Euston could be scaled back in order to cut costs in the short term.
  The current plans for the HS2 station at Euston will see it delivered in two phases, with six platforms opened first to carry HS2 trains on the first stage of the railway up to the West Midlands. The second phase of the Euston station would open later, with an additional 5 platforms to manage demand when HS2 is extended to Crewe, Manchester an
  
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• Crossrail formally hands Paddington station over to TfL

  09-08-2021 11:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The future Elizabeth line station at Paddington has been formally handed over to TfL as part of the process of familiarising staff with their new stations.
  Built below ground adjacent to the 19th-century main station building, the new Elizabeth line station has a 120-metre-long entrance canopy on Eastbourne Terrace, it extends four levels below Eastbourne Terrace and Departures Road with entrances via a newly pedestrianised public area that connects to the existing mainline station.TfL will be r
  
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• CSPs – why 5G and partnerships mean they are primed for that next step

  09-08-2021 10:00
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Bengt Nordström, CEO of Northstream, part of Accenture, looks at some of the opportunities available to savvy operators.
  The pandemic has put every industry under pressure, whether it’s through their inability to operate or the flipside of a dramatic increased reliance on them to keep society going. And with the global shift to remote working and soci
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bishop’s Court, EC4

  09-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a narrow alley opposite the Old Bailey with the latest reincarnation of a nearly 500-year-old pub sitting in the corner.
  The alley first shows up as Bishopshead Court in the 1670s, as a long courtyard lined with small buildings. Not much changed other than the loss of its head when it became plain Bishop’s Court, until the 1870s when the western end was cut off for the construction of Holborn Viaduct Station.
  OS Map 1940
  The station was opened in 1874 by the London, Chatham and Dov
  
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• Iliad Italia invests in FiberCop ahead of fixed broadband launch

  09-08-2021 02:00
  Since its arrival onto the Italian mobile scene around three years ago, France’s Iliad has had a significant impact, with its low prices offering a major challenge to the market’s major operators, TIM, Vodafone, and WindTre. The operator’s market share has been steadily increasing, rising to around 9% earlier this year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dominoes start to fall as Vodafone reintroduces roaming fees

  09-08-2021 02:00
  Roaming charges are set to return for Vodafone UK customers, said the operator today, following in the footsteps of rival EE, who reintroduced the fees back in June.Similarly to EE’s approach, existing customers will not be affected by the changes, but new and upgrading customers will be subject to the new roaming policy…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT to appoint Adam Crozier as new chairperson

  09-08-2021 02:00
  Back in March, BT’s chairman Jan du Plessis, announced his retirement, suggesting the time was right for him to “step down and focus on other interests”. Now, almost six months later, a successor has finally been found in the chairman of online fashion giant Asos, Adam Crozier, who is expected to resign from his current post and make the jump to the telecoms industry…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Broadband on tap: Fibre to be placed in UK water pipes

  09-08-2021 02:00
  Today, the UK government has announced a new broadband project that will see fibre optic cables threaded through water mains pipes as a method of making deployment more cost- and time-efficient, as well as reducing disruption. The £4 million ‘Fibre in Water’ competition is being launched to select the consortium who will deliver this project, which will include identifying which region or regions will host the trial…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei drops 5G for new P50 phones as US sanctions grip

  09-08-2021 00:00
  Embattled Chinese giant able to secure Qualcomm 4G chips for low-key launch
  
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