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• A plant covered sculpture in King’s Cross

  11-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a side street in King’s Cross can be found a wall covered in plants in an unusual plant pot — a sculpture garden.
  This is “Vert”, by the sculptor Neil Ayling and was put here on Wharfedale Road in October 2013.It was commissioned by the local charity King’s Cross Community Projects to fill a previously blank wall on the King’s Cross gyratory system that’s beside Places for People’s Battlebridge Court block and adjacent to Complete Offices’
  
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• Purfleet railway station to be moved and rebuilt

  11-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A little railway station currently serving the Essex town of Purfleet is to be moved and renamed as part of a £1 billion housing and regeneration scheme for the area which is to be renamed as Purfleet-on-Thames.
  The redevelopment area covers most of the land between the river and the Channel Tunnel rail link, which is around 155 acres of currently a mix of light industrial and warehousing, all of which is to be demolished and replaced with a new town centre.
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• TIM and Vodafone allegedly settled decade-long disputes

  11-08-2021 15:59
  
  An Italian newspaper reported the two telco giants reached an out-of-court agreement to settle all disputes running back to 2012.
  The agreement was said to have already been signed back in May, but the story only came to light yesterday in one of Italy’s oldest newspapers. La Stampa reported that at the end of May, TIM and Vodafone’s Italian branch reached an agreement to settle all business disputes, including those fines already imposed by Agcm (Autorità garante della concor
  
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• The curious case of T-Mobile’s 3G shutdown date

  11-08-2021 13:44
  
  UMTS network closure data was originally October 2021, then it was April 2022, and now it’s back to October.
  T-Mobile in the US, as far as Telecoms.com can tell, doesn’t give a breakdown of subscribers by cellular variant. It’s impossible to say, then, how many might be scratching their heads about the shutdown date of the operator’s 3G W-CDMA network.
  Perhaps there aren’t too many, which might help explain why T-Mobile doesn’t seem overly fussed about changin
  
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• Rakuten Mobile loss almost doubled in Q2

  11-08-2021 13:35
  
  Operating loss incurred at Japan’s challenger operator increased by 85% in Q2 to reach $900 million, which the company attributed to aggressive investment in network rollout and rising roaming cost.
  Rakuten announced its Q2 financial results today, which saw the whole group having generated the “highest revenue in the second quarter of a fiscal year”. Meanwhile, Rakuten Mobile, Japan’s newest and greenfield mobile operator, reported an 85% expansion over the JPY 53,825 mi
  
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• Eurobites: Netmore plans LoRaWAN IoT network in UK

  11-08-2021 13:18
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Nokia lands core gig at United Group; Arm sees sales soar; Community Fibre takes majority stake in Box Broadband.Swedish IoT operator Netmore is planning to build a nationwide LoRaWAN network in the UK as part of a wider international rollout that has already seen launches on Netmore’s home turf and in Ireland. IoT service providers will be able to test Netmore’s LoRaWAN offering free of charge on five devices for up to three months. Netm
  
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• British Library puts 1 million newspaper pages online for free

  11-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The British Library project to digitise copies of newspapers from its archive is to release one million pages as a free resource.
  The British Newspaper Archive (BNA) has over 44 million newspaper pages, mostly British and Irish titles, ranging from 1699 to 2009, or just under 10 per cent of all newspapers held by the British Library. Currently, around half a million pages are being added to the BNA every month.
  At the moment, access to the service requires a subscription, as that helps fund the
  
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• Zylpha Document Bundling Drives Efficiency At The Heart Of Rook Irwin Sweeney

  11-08-2021 11:06
  
  London based public law and human rights practice, Rook Irwin Sweeney, has proved the value of Zylpha’s electronic bundling software when preparing bundles for the High Court. The software is being used in conjunction with the practice’s LEAP case management system. Independent research has shown that by using Zylpha, the time taken to produce court and other legal document bundles is reduced by up to 80%, enabling Rook Irwin Sweeney to spend more time supporting...Source: RealWire
  
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• Dynamic Spectrum Alliance urges countries worldwide to adopt license-exempt access to the entire 6 GHz band

  11-08-2021 10:57
  
  Washington D.C., USA, 11 August: Opening the full 6 GHz band for license-exempt technologies is important to improve the economy, address the digital divide, accelerate technical innovation and more, says the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) who, together with Broadcom, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel and Microsoft, is releasing a new report today. “Wi-Fi 6E technology is ready now and the benefits from enabling license-exempt access to 1200 MHz in the 6 GHz band.
  
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• Consultation on extending the Elizabeth line into Kent

  11-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Another consultation has opened to look at plans to extend the Elizabeth line beyond Abbey Wood into Kent.
  The early plans for Crossrail included running the line out towards Gravesend, but this was cut back in the 1990s, and in 2008 when Crossrail got approval, it was difficult to support the extended line. However, some “very passive” provision was included in the station design at Abbey Wood to permit an extension to be added on later. The downside is that there’s really onl
  
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• T-Mobile accuses Dish of ‘dragging their feet’ over CDMA shutdown

  11-08-2021 02:00
  After years of regulatory squirming, US mobile giants T-Mobile and Sprint finally completed their $26 billion merger last year. To appease the regulators, T-Mobile agreed to sell Sprint’s prepaid mobile business, including Boost Mobile, to satellite TV provider Dish, on the understanding that the latter would build its own network and become a national mobile operator.Following the merger’s successful conclusion, in October 2020 T-Mobile informed Dish that it would shutting down Spr
  
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• Just how expensive is shutting down the internet?

  11-08-2021 02:00
  Despite the growing importance of internet connectivity around the world, internet suspensions remain all too common. But while many of these shutdowns draw attention from critics for authoritarian crackdowns on freedom of expression – and rightly so – the economic implications are often left unsaid. So, how expensive is it really to shut down the internet, either entirely or partially? Naturally, it is not cheap.According to data Top10VPN, 234 major internet shutdowns hav
  
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• Eir targets rural villages in 200,000-home FTTH push

  11-08-2021 02:00
  Today, Eir have announced an expansion on their previous fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout target, now seeking to pass an additional 200,000 homes.The expansion will be focussed on villages and towns with a population smaller than 1,000 – areas that were previously considered too small to warrant a fibre rollout…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Aussie telcos under fire for charging customers for unreachable speeds

  11-08-2021 02:00
  Earlier this week, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced legal proceedings in federal court against Telstra, Optus, and TPG, arguing that the companies had misrepresented services being marketed to customers. Currently, all three of these operators are selling 50Mbps and 100Mbps plans to NBN customers who have access to fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connectivity…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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