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• Tickets Alert: Chiswick House at Night

  13-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chiswick House in West London is hosting its first-ever late-night opening next month, and tickets are on sale now.
  This special evening of workshops and performances after dark includes the exhibition Bring Into Being, crafty and meditative workshops, along with (pay extra) food and drink.
  The doors open at 6pm, and at 8:30pm, make your way over to the Garden Pavilion for a live acoustic performance from the artists of Peter Adjaye’s We Bear the Light of the Earth In Red, Green, Blac
  
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• Wednesday – a Sheriff rides through the City of London

  13-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This coming Wednesday morning (15th Sept) will see one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London riding around the City on horseback accompanied by a Light Cavalry escort.
  This is the first of the annual sheriffs ride since 2019, and apart from being a fine thing to watch is also a fundraiser for the Sheriffs’ and Recorder’s Fund, which provides support for ex-prisoners and their families in London, to help them stop offending and start a new life.
  The shrieval ride will be undertake
  
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• Apple wins a Pyrrhic victory over Epic

  13-09-2021 15:50
  
  In the long-running case over Apple’s right to prevent iOS apps circumventing its payment system a judge has ruled the company is not a monopoly in this context, just.
  As ever with legal findings it’s all very complicated and arcane, but The Verge has done a good job of sifting through the legalese mess. Essentially the judge ruled Apple hasn’t been acting as a monopolist in preventing iOS apps from directing users to payment methods alternative to its own, but at the same time
  
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• 5G and the changing face of RAN planning

  13-09-2021 15:18
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Gavin Hayhurst, Head of Product Marketing at TEOCO, discusses the challenges operators face when designing new 5G networks and how it is changing how the industry thinks about RAN planning.
  Network engineers around the world can agree on one thing when it comes to 5G: it brings a great deal of complexity when designing, planning and optimizing networks. But
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Satellites, roaming and devices

  13-09-2021 14:52
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Satellites, roaming and devices
  
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• KDDI to use Starlink for mobile backhaul

  13-09-2021 14:44
  
  KDDI has contracted Starlink to provide satellite-based backhaul for mobile base station sites to remote areas.
  Under the terms of the deal, the satellite company will hook up 1,200 remote mobile towers for KDDI, ready for use as early as next year.
  The telco market will likely be an important revenue stream for Elon Musk’s Starlink, which has made headlines in recent years by launching thousands of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites into space in a bid to achieve global coverage; it’s
  
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• Red Arrows to fly over London on Tuesday lunchtime

  13-09-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weather permitting – a note to look to the skies, for the Red Arrows will be flying over east London on Tuesday (14th Sept) lunchtime.
  The flypast is for the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition which takes place at the ExCeL Centre in docklands this week
  According to an air traffic alert, the flypast over Docklands is due to take place between 12:10pm to 12:20pm on Tuesday 14th September.
  Caveat emptor – the exhibition says that the Red Arrows will “o
  
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• Rajant Announces New LTE BreadCrumb Plus Personnel and Asset Tracking “MeshTracer” Software at MINExpo 

  13-09-2021 14:00
  
  Visit Rajant in North Hall at Booth 1261-N Malvern, PA – September 13, 2021: Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, announces two new products at MINExpo. The latest enhancement adds a global LTE radio to its fourth-generation industry-leading BreadCrumb® Peregrine product line. With one 2.4GHz radio, two 5GHz radios, and LTE, the enhanced Peregrine provides up to 2.633Gbps of aggregated capacity. In addition, Rajant is launching MeshTracer a software-
  
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• Huawei publishes a book on 6G

  13-09-2021 13:40
  
  Rotating Chairman of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, Eric Xu Zhiju, has teased a new book published by his company that says 6G will be ready by 2030.
  That’s not an especially risky prediction, as new wireless generations tend to emerge at the start of each decade. Rather, this feels like Huawei (and by extension China) putting down a marker to the rest of the world on 6G. It’s effectively saying ‘we’ll be going ahead as planned with 6G whether the rest of the world cooper
  
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• BT adds quantum security to hollowcore fibre

  13-09-2021 13:38
  
  BT is pretty upbeat about the possibilities of using quantum security methods to transmit data over hollowcore fibre, carrying out a trial that has implications for faster, less hackable connections.
  The UK incumbent is building on previous endeavours in both hollowcore fibre and quantum security, specifically, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). It has trialled QKD over hollowcore fibre and is claiming a world first for having done so.
  “This is an exciting milestone for BT, accelerating the U
  
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• See a golden shawl made from the silk of 2 million spiders

  13-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A golden shawl made from the delicate silk of a Madagascar spider is one of the items on display later this month in an exhibition of wonders from the natural world.
  Spider silk was long coveted as an alternative to Chinese silkworms before artificial fabrics were developed, but spider silk is far harder to cultivate and apart from determined efforts never took off as a fabric.
  It’s not impossible though, and if you were to weave a garment, then the golden orb-weaver spiders, which are fam
  
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• Machine Learning technology helps validate job completion as Telent continues in its mission for improved productivity

  13-09-2021 11:31
  
  Warwick, U.K., 13th September 2021 – Telent has successfully enhanced its innovative SOLO application, with Machine Learning (ML) technology, enabling it to build ultra-fast broadband infrastructure projects at scale and with predictable quality by providing digital information and photo evidence of completed work packages. The SOLO technology uses images captured via smart phones to validate job completion. The work is inspected and verified via the images with the support of ML technolog
  
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• London’s Alleys: Model Cottages, SW14

  13-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is an alleyway in East Sheen that runs down an avenue of delightful 19th-century cottages, the model cottages. Model not because they were small, but because they were the perfect model for how homes for workers should be built.The first of the row of 2-storey cottages were built in 1853 by the Labourers’ Friendly Society, which may have been associated with the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Poor. The east side was the first to be built. By 1862 ownership
  
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• Why telecoms companies can and should gain better network resilience

  13-09-2021 02:00
  Telecoms operators now face a more diverse, fast changing array of threats than ever. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report found natural disasters, extreme weather, climate change and cyber attacks are among the top threats facing the world today. With full fibre and 5G set to drive a burgeoning economy based on Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, the resilience of the telecoms sector, ensuring maximum uptime for business and consumers, is increasingly critical t
  
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• Third quarter of 2021 looks bullish for majority semiconductor providers: IC Insights

  13-09-2021 02:00
  The semiconductor industry is likely to record massive growth in the third quarter due to crippling semiconductor shortage across the world.
  In its recent compilation of the sales growth expectations for the top 25 semiconductor providers, IC Insights has revealed that the third quarter of 2021 will bode well for most players…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange Selects Amdocs as the Monetization Engine for their 5G Experimental Network of the Future

  13-09-2021 02:00
  Amdocs today announced that it has been selected by Orange to provide the business support systems for Europe’s first 5G Stand Alone (SA) experimental cloud network launched in July in Lannion, France.The data- and AI-driven software-enabled network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India’s Vodafone Idea continues its fight for survival

  13-09-2021 02:00
  The promoters of Vodafone Idea, India's beleaguered third-largest service provider, are putting in last-ditch efforts to save the company from bankruptcy.
  Last week Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group and Nick Read, Vodafone Group's Chief Executive Officer, met India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) officials to explore options to rescue Vodafone Idea from imminent closure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson plans to close one R&D center in China

  13-09-2021 02:00
  Swedish telecom gear maker, Ericsson, is planning to shut down one of its five research and development centres in China, according to media reports.
  A total of 630 employees at the centre have received a proposal to move to TietoEVRY…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone and Birla fight to salvage Indian telecom joint venture

  13-09-2021 00:00
  Lobbying intensifies as fate of Vodafone Idea rests in government’s hands
  
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