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• Second section of new Brent Cross West station bridge installed

  23-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new Thameslink station being built at Brent Cross West gained the second section of its large overbridge a couple of weeks ago.
  Brent Cross West station is a new Thameslink station being built about halfway between Cricklewood and Hendon stations and is tied in with a large housing development taking place in the area.
  The bridge will not only give passengers access to the station but will also be a public route across the Midland Main Line in this area for the first time since the railway w
  
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• Abu Dhabi wealth fund poised to take stake in CityFibre

  23-08-2021 17:52
  Mubadala and arm of Ikea in talks to take stakes that would value UK ‘alt-net’ at about £2bn
  
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• Why media-on-demand services should partner with telcos in developing markets

  23-08-2021 16:15
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Sam Butler, Business Development Director at Antstream Arcade, explores the advantages of content/telco partnerships in certain markets.
  As streaming continues to establish itself as the main way that people consume media, capturing the attention of audiences in developing markets remains an ongoing challenge for both the established streaming giants and their r
  
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• UK rightly decides to take a closer look at Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm

  23-08-2021 16:04
  
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded there are sufficient competition concerns around the acquisition of chip designer Arm to justify an in-depth investigation.
  Nvidia makes chips for PCs, servers and embedded applications, many of which are based on Arm designs, which it licenses. The thing is, so do loads of its competitors, who would have to enter into licensing contracts with Nvidia if the acquisition of Arm was allowed to complete.
  “We’re concerned that Nvidia
  
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• London’s Public Art: Unfurl by Eilís O’Connell

  23-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a side street in Kensington can be found a large bronze petal slowly unfurling. It’s a work of art by the Irish sculptor Eilís O’Connell, and was commissioned by Kensington Borough Council and the residents of Kensington Gate, to celebrate the Millennium.From a distance, it’s not totally sure if this is a stand-alone artwork, or maybe a clever way of concealing a ventilation shaft. Unfurl appears like a flower bud or leaf gently opening to allow you to look within. Yo
  
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• CBNG appoints new Vice President Charles Loverso to drive North America strategy

  23-08-2021 16:00
  
  Salt Lake City, US, August 23, 2021 – Cambridge Broadband Networks Group (CBNG) has today announced the appointment of its new Vice President Charles Loverso, who will lead the company’s sales and business development in North America. With spectrum availability, 5G roll outs and a political push for enhanced infrastructure dominating the industry, Loverso will drive forward CBNG’s offering to help meet the challenges caused by modern connectivity demands. Despite the deploymen
  
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• OneWeb lobs another 34 satellites into orbit

  23-08-2021 15:46
  
  OneWeb, the financial equivalent of a big black hole, has launched another load of broadband satellites into the big black.
  The UK-based company said on Sunday that it has successfully put a further 34 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites into space, bringing its total to 288. It aims to offer global coverage at some point next year, expanding its fleet to 648.
  “We are seeing huge demand for our services from global customers, and we are incredibly excited about scaling our network ahead of it
  
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• Prysmian Group Investing To Support Broadband Development And 5G In North America

  23-08-2021 14:22
  
  Additional Capacity And New Technology In Claremont, N.C. Optical Fiber And Cable Plant A. Pirondini, CEO NA: “We Are Committed To Support The Development Of Digital Communication Infrastructure With The Best Optical Technologies” Milan and Highland Heights, Ky., August 23, 2021 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announced today it is investing $85 million in major equipment and technology upgrades at plants in North America, enabli
  
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• Nokia and Ericsson continue to gain ground in Europe

  23-08-2021 13:58
  
  A1 Telekom Austria Group has gone full Nordic, while Ericsson seems to have replaced Huawei in the Faroe Islands.
  The 5G networks run by A1 Telekom in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Republic of Serbia and Slovenia will consist entirely of kit provided by Ericsson and Nokia. Specifically, Ericsson got all of Croatia, Nokia got all of Serbia and Slovenia and will do the radio in Bulgaria, with Ericsson in charge of the core. Nokia is already doing the 5G full monty in Austria, so is the big winner with A1
  
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• Managed edge services revenue expected to hit $2.8 billion by 2025

  23-08-2021 12:35
  
  Telcos, network vendors, hyperscalers and IT providers have been working overtime to hype up multi-access edge computing (MEC), and that excitement is trickling down to the enterprise market.
  New stats published by IDC on Monday predict that managed edge services revenue will reach $445.3 million this year, up 43.5 percent on 2020. By 2025, it expects revenue to hit $2.8 billion, representing an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 55.1 percent over the 2021-25 forecast period.
  With
  
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• Zylpha’s New Adobe Sign For iManage Integration Delivers Seamlessly Simple and Secure eSignatures

  23-08-2021 11:08
  
  Zylpha’s new Adobe Sign integration for iManage10 allows users to send single or multiple documents for eSignature, directly from within their iManage document management system. Progress updates are provided back to the user in real-time, with signed documents automatically saved directly back into iManage. The seamlessly simple Adobe Sign system greatly reduces client response times from days to minutes and eliminates the risk of documents being lost in the post or mis-delivered. Zylpha&
  
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• Whitechapel station entrance reopens ahead of Elizabeth line arrival

  23-08-2021 11:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Earlier this morning, Whitechapel tube station transformed from an ugly duckling into a swan, albeit one that’s still shedding a few feathers in places.
  Where there had been narrow platforms, a temporary entrance and lots of wooden hoardings covering up a building site is now a station with a huge new entrance concourse, massive platforms for the District/H&C lines and lots of lifts. It also offers a new entrance at the back that wasn’t there before.This is the belated opening of
  
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• London’s Alleys: Canning Passage, W8

  23-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This narrow back lane in Kensington looks like a back passage for the houses that back onto it, but in fact, it predates the main roads around it.It originally shows up as part of a much longer path called Love Lane, when all around here was fields and nurseries. By the 1820s, the area that’s closest to Canning Passage was known as Malcolm’s Nursery and continued as farmland until 1847 when some of the area was developed for shabby housing.
  Greenwood map of 1828
  When the Great Exhibi
  
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• The CMA has “serious concerns” over Nvidia–Arm merger

  23-08-2021 02:00
  The proposed $40 billion merger between Nvidia and the UK chip specialist Arm has been controversial from the outset. Back in September 2020, when the deal was first announced, opponents claimed that the deal would not only be bad for those companies currently reliant on Arm technology but could impact the UK’s technological sovereignty.Indeed, Arm’s founder, Hermann Hauser, went so far as to suggest that &ldquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telia and Ekobot team up for 5G farming robot

  23-08-2021 02:00
  Swedish operator Telia has announced a new partnership with robotics expert Ekobot, which will see an autonomous, 5G-connected robot assist in removing weeds from crops on a Swedish farm. The collaboration, which also involve research institute and aggrotech specialists RISE and network video leaders Axis Communications, will see one of Ekobot&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SoftBank invests in booming Africa-focussed fintech company OPay

  23-08-2021 02:00
  Back in May, it was reported that Africa-focussed fintech company OPay was in talks to raise up to $400 million from new investors. Today, it has been announced that it has done just that, raising the full $400 million, with SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 among the new investors. The latest round of financing reportedly values the company at $2 billion…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• “Harvesting good ideas”: Connected Britain’s Local Authority Forum

  23-08-2021 02:00
  In 2020, with the onset of the pandemic, digitalisation took place at an incredible pace, making connectivity more central to all our lives than ever before. Now, almost two years later, many of us still coming to terms with what a more digital ‘normal’ looks like, whether that means long-term remote working or increased access to telehealth.But for other parts of society, this digitalisation has been far more challenging…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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