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• HMS Severn passing through Tower Bridge on Friday

  25-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Royal Navy ship, HMS Severn is arriving in London on Friday and passing through Tower Bridge.
  What shows up as an unnamed vessel on Tower Bridge’s lift times page will arrive at 5:15pm 6:15pm on Friday 27th August. The vessel will then stay in the Pool of London until it departs at 9:15am on Wednesday 1st September
  Now what the vessel is I am unsure of, it’s been confirmed that the visitor is HMS Severn but 99% of the time, when the Tower Bridge’s lifts times page simply says
  
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• MVNA model a winner financially for both MNOs and MVNOs

  25-08-2021 18:54
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Shamik Biswas, Head of Marketing, Plintron shares his further thoughts on the Canadian MVNO market.
  Setting up a MVNO normally is an onerous task with a lot of resource requirements for an MVNO. Even an MNO has to spend time and resources in planning for a wholesale /MVNO business model. The MVNA model pioneered by entities like Plintron catalyses the creation o
  
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• Global RAN spend accelerates but core spend slows – Dell’Oro

  25-08-2021 16:19
  
  Telecoms analyst firm Dell’Oro has published fresh numbers that show global 5G SA investment is not keeping pace with the radio access network rollout.
  Dell’Oro has once more upgraded its outlook for the total RAN market, now projecting it to grow 10-15% this year. Within that the company noted increasing Balkanisation, with Huawei and ZTE gaining share in China, and Ericsson and Nokia gaining elsewhere. It also reckons Ericsson and Samsung increased their revenue shares outside of C
  
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• Railway arches photography competition

  25-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A competition has been launched to capture the best photos of railway arches across the UK. Run by The Arch Company, the firm that manages commercial tenants under the railway arches, so the photos have to be of their commercially rented arches, not randomly nice-looking arches without tenants.
  The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers of 16 years and above and is open until the end of 12th November 2021.
  The first prize is £1,000, with three category prizes of &pou
  
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• New investment shows UK fibre market is Trooli buoyant

  25-08-2021 15:23
  
  Trooli this week revealed it has secured £67.5 million to spend on rolling out fibre to homes and businesses in the South East of the UK, but it looks like it will need more money to reach its deployment targets.
  The firm, one of the UK’s ever-expanding patchwork of fibre builders, has agreed a senior debt facility with, it claims, attractive terms from a group of commercial lenders, aided by the support of the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund (CEBF) team, which already serves as a s
  
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• Frost & Sullivan: OSS/BSS Transformation Leadership

  25-08-2021 14:53
  
  CSPs often struggle with IT modernization projects due to a lack of internal skills related to product integration, testing, and upgrades. The inability to upgrade legacy OSS and BSS systems with ease contributes to prolonged implementation cycles, instigating major impediments for OSS and BSS transformation.
  Red Hat OpenShift is an integrated platform that includes more secure, validated content and services from a wide partner ecosystem. After considerable research, Frost & Sullivan has na
  
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• OnlyFans blames banks for content policy change – UPDATED

  25-08-2021 14:04
  
  The founder of Social subscriber platform OnlyFans has pinned the blame on banks refusing to process transactions connected to the company for his sudden policy shift.
  OnlyFans is a platform through which video content creators can acquire paying subscribers. The most lucrative type of content has turned out to be of a sexual nature, effectively opening up the sex trade to thousands of people (mostly women) to operate as sole traders. Last week we reported that OnlyFans was changing its content
  
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• OnlyFans blames banks for content policy change

  25-08-2021 14:04
  
  The founder of Social subscriber platform OnlyFans has pinned the blame on banks refusing to process transactions connected to the company for his sudden policy shift.
  OnlyFans is a platform through which video content creators can acquire paying subscribers. The most lucrative type of content has turned out to be of a sexual nature, effectively opening up the sex trade to thousands of people (mostly women) to operate as sole traders. Last week we reported that OnlyFans was changing its content
  
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• US operator DISH Network joins HomeGrid Forum to drive G.hn innovation

  25-08-2021 13:27
  
  Beaverton, US, 25 August 2021: HomeGrid Forum has welcomed U.S. operator DISH Network as its newest Board Member. DISH provide television entertainment and award-winning technology to millions of customers with its satellite DISH TV and streaming SLING TV services. In 2020, the company became a nationwide U.S. wireless carrier through the acquisition of Boost Mobile. With revenues in excess of US$15 billion, DISH is a Fortune 200 company. DISH joined HomeGrid Forum to become an...Source: RealWir
  
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• Rogers goes for a summer Seaside deal

  25-08-2021 13:02
  
  Canadian telco Rogers Communications is once again on the M&A trail, having brokered a deal to acquire rural telecoms provider Seaside Communications.
  The Seaside deal has yet to be fully worked out and neither company has shared any information on a possible purchase price. The companies said they have signed a joint agreement that ‘would’ – slightly odd choice of word there – see Rogers take over its smaller rival.
  “We will work over the next little while to f
  
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• You can wear London Underground moquette clothing

  25-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A London clothing firm has a range of clothing based on three of the London Underground’s classic moquette designs.
  So if you fancy “vanishing” on the tube journey by wearing clothing that matches the seat you’re sitting on, now you can.
  There are three ranges being sold – for the Central line, the Bakerloo line, and for classic fans, a design based on older Northern and Bakerloo lines, and on London’s buses.
  The range, by Gresham Blake, features a ladies dres
  
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• Enreach acquires cloud solutions provider DSD Europe

  25-08-2021 11:17
  
  Creating instant converged IT and unified communications channel opportunities whilst enhancing Microsoft capabilities Almere 25 August 2021 – Enreach, one of Europe’s fastest growing unified communications (UC) companies providing innovative contact technology backed by investment company Waterland, further strengthens its cloud productivity credentials with the addition of cloud solutions provider DSD Europe and its sister company CloudLand (‘DSD’). DSD is a high growth
  
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• Booking opens for London Craft Week events

  25-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In October loads of crafty sorts of people and places will open their doors to show off their crafting works to the general public. It’s part of London Craft Week, a springtime event that’s taking place in the autumn due to you know what.
  Most of the events are free to visit and you can just wander in to see what’s happening, from exhibitions to craft demonstrations, but some need to be booked in advance.
  Below are the top events from the very long list of what’s happenin
  
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• US relents and supplies Huawei with automotive chips

  25-08-2021 02:00
  According to Reuters, the US may have granted licences for suppliers to sell chips to Huawei for use in the company’s expanding automotive business. Since 2019, US sanctions against Huawei in various form have been confounding the Chinese tech giant. Many of these sanctions were championed by then-US president Donald Trump, whose hard stance on China led to an international campaign to ban the &lsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UAE latest country to signal the twilight of 2G

  25-08-2021 02:00
  Back in June, the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced that the country would shut down 2G services at the end of 2022, ordering the country’s two major mobile operators, Etisalat and du, to make the subsequent arrangements.   2G services were first launched in the UAE back in 1994, meaning the shut down in 2022 will be the end of 28 years of continuous service. &nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Canada mega-merger leaves Freedom Mobile’s future uncertain

  25-08-2021 02:00
  Back in March, it was announced that Canadian operator Rogers was set to acquire its rival Shaw Communications in an enormous deal worth around $21 billion. The move would see two of the country’s largest cable operators combine, as well as reducing the country’s total wireless operators from four to three. As a result, the deal has naturally come under heavy scrutiny from the wider industry, with detractors claiming that it will be bad for customers, reducing competition and d
  
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• Building a Connected Britain: Barriers and how to bust them

  25-08-2021 02:00
  1. Can you introduce yourself and Mobile UK? Hi there, my name is Gareth Elliott. I am Head of Policy and Communications at Mobile UK, the trade body representing the UK’s four main mobile network operators, EE, Three, Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone. The role of Mobile UK is to act as a single voice for our members and the wider mobile industry and work with Governments at a national and local level to ensure that the policy and regulatory environment acts as an enabler to mobile
  
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