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• London Underground tube strike called off

  20-08-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tube strike which was due to start next Tuesday has been called off by the RMT union. Had it gone ahead, TfL was warning of serious disruption to services from Tuesday lunchtime through most of the rest of the week.
  The RMT said that it is suspending the tube strike following further progress in ACAS talks today.
  General Secretary Mick Lynch said: “Following further progress in ACAS talks today our Executive has decided that there are sufficient grounds to suspend next week’s tub
  
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• Discounted tickets to Prince of Egypt at the Dominion Theatre

  20-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The stage musical based on the 1998 animated movie opened for just a few weeks before the pandemic but is now back on stage for a few months.
  Based on the DreamWorks 1998 animated film of the same name, the musical follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to leading the Children of Israel out of Egypt.
  The film was a box office success, becoming the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film of the time, and was recently adapted for the stage. There are several songs in the musical
  
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• Indian telcos band together on market reform

  20-08-2021 15:36
  
  In a rare show of unity, India’s telecoms operators are lobbying the government for a significant sector reform package that would ease taxes, spectrum payments and other levies.
  The move, as reported in the Indian press, comes as Vodafone Idea struggles to stay afloat, weighed down by the burden of its dues. The latest twist in the tale on Thursday saw the telco defend itself against accusations that it has failed to pay its full Q1 telecom licence fee to the government.
  “VIL has pa
  
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• OnlyFans, Locals, Stripe, and the payment processor police

  20-08-2021 15:14
  
  Social subscriber platform OnlyFans is reportedly banning sexually explicit content, undermining the businesses of many of its creators in the process.
  This is just the latest in a growing trend of digital platforms unilaterally excluding people from the part of the internet economy they control. Both Bloomberg and the Guardian report that the company has confirmed the ban is a direct result of pressure from payment processing organisations.
  “OnlyFans said the ban, which will come into eff
  
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• Pay a visit to Rainham Hall

  20-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A small town on the edge of East London with few attractions boasts, somewhat incongruously, a nearly 300-year old mansion house.
  A few years ago it underwent major renovations and is now open regularly to the public.Rainham Hall is a decent sized house built as a home and showpiece by John Harle, a South Shields born coal merchant who had previously moved to London.
  In 1720/21 he married a widow from Stepney with a large stake in the South Sea Company. Whether he married a rich widow who sold h
  
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• No Covid hangover in US broadband market…yet

  20-08-2021 12:12
  
  The US is still experiencing robust growth in fixed broadband connections, driven predominately by the cable market, according to new industry figures published this week.
  The country recorded 945,000 wired broadband net additions in the second quarter of this year, data from S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Kagan media research group shows. That’s slower growth than in the same quarter last year, but a good result for the industry, given the broader context.
  The market rocketed
  
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• Vilicom and Virgin Media O2 launch commercial Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) site

  20-08-2021 11:00
  
  Vilicom are extending Virgin Media O2’s 4G mobile coverage to businesses and its subscribers with one of the first inbuilding commercial deployment following NHIB standards The new solution’s cost-effective model will enhance Virgin Media O2’s existing network service, improving voice quality and data speeds overcoming indoor blackspots Vilicom and Virgin Media O2 are committed to using innovative Open RAN and cloud-based technologies which offer competitive commercial and envi
  
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• NEC and Fujitsu testing Open RAN base stations for interoperability

  20-08-2021 02:00
  NEC Corporation and Fujitsu Limited have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications at NEC's U.K. laboratories and Fujitsu's U.S. laboratories. This initiative will be implemented as part of the "Post 5G Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project" under the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan. Both companies are scheduled to build a verification environment using these
  
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• Is SpaceX’s Starlink constellation on a collision course?

  20-08-2021 02:00
  Since man first began launching objects into space back in the 1950s, orbit debris has been a growing issue. According to the US Department of Defense, 27,000 objects are currently tracked by their global Space Surveillance Network, with much more debris too small to be tracked but still large enough to cause potentially disastrous collisions.With satellite broadband connectivity seeing a resurgence of interest in recent years, the issue of space debris could soon grow to unprecedented levels&h
  
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• FTC again aims at breaking up Facebook's social network monopoly

  20-08-2021 02:00
  It was in December 2020 that the FTC first filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the company had employed anticompetitive practices to ensure its privileged market position. In the filing, the FTC argued that the company should be forced to divest itself of Instagram and WhatsApp, two competing social media platforms that the company purchased for billions of dollars over the past decade…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• APT teams up with Ericsson for Taiwan’s first 5G multi-operator core network

  20-08-2021 02:00
  In September 2020, APT announced that it would be working with Far EasTone (FET) to deliver 5G services to customers, making use of FET’s 3.5 GHz spectrum.  To do this, however, it would require multi-operator core network (MOCN) technology, effectively allowing two or more core networks to share the same RAN and bandwidth…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Blue Plaque celebrates Sir Kenneth Clark of Civilisation TV series fame

  20-08-2021 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A blue plaque has been unveiled to celebrate Sir Kenneth Clark, the art historian and broadcaster best known for the landmark 1969 TV series Civilisation. The plaque has been placed on his former home, 30 Portland Place, which is conveniently just around the corner from the BBC’s Broadcasting House.
  He lived here during the 1930s when he became Director of the National Gallery and was knighted. The impressive-looking building became a hub for artists and fashionable society during this tim
  
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