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• Tickets Alert: Plumstead bus garage 40th anniversary

  14-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month marks the 40th anniversary of Plumstead bus garage, and they’re having a public open day to celebrate.
  Plumstead bus garage opened in 1981 on former military land that had been vacated and replaced an older bus garage that has stood on the corner of Wickham Lane and King’s Highway. Today a large DIY warehouse stands on the spot.
  For the 40th anniversary of the current site, there will be a display of former bus types that have operated from the garage since 1981 alongside
  
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• Watch the Cart Marking ceremony this Saturday

  14-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Saturday (18th Sept), over 40 historic and interesting road vehicles will roll into Guildhall Yard to take part in an ancient ceremony. They are there to take part in Cart Marking, a 500+ year old tradition where the Sheriffs and ritually robed Carmen brand each ‘cart’ with a red-hot iron – the origin of vehicle licensing.In past times, each year the carts licensed to use the road in the City of London would have an annual mark branded into them to show they are roadworthy
  
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• Facebook reportedly has special rules for VIP users

  14-09-2021 15:31
  
  A report by the Wall Street Journal claims social media giant Facebook has a special programme that shields millions of VIP users from the company’s normal enforcement process.
  The WSJ seems to have got hold of a bunch of Facebook internal documents, some of which yielded this scoop. The report claims a programme known as XCheck was originally designed to double-check potential actions against high profile users, presumably on the grounds that the blowback from getting it wrong in those ca
  
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• New UK fibre wholesaler gets more cash

  14-09-2021 14:49
  
  Freedom Fibre, one of the new kids on the block in the UK full fibre market, has secured its second major equity injection to help it connect tens of thousands of homes over the coming year.
  The company, which began operations as recently as March this year, said the new capital injection will enable it to roll out fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) to 50,000 homes by mid-2022. It did not provide a huge amount of detail on the equity injection, other than to say that it expects to end the year with &p
  
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• O-RAN Alliance finds a way to reassure Nokia

  14-09-2021 13:33
  
  It only took the O-RAN Alliance a couple of weeks to tweak its procedures such that Nokia isn’t so scared of US vindictiveness.
  In a short announcement the O-RAN Alliance, a community of OpenRAN stakeholders, said it has changed its documents and procedures in response to concerns from some members that their participation may in some way transgress one of the many restrictions the US has thrown around like confetti over the past few years. One of these members was Nokia, which decided a c
  
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• Virgin Media O2 powers 5G emergency services drone

  14-09-2021 13:26
  
  Virgin Media O2 is parading its latest 5G use case, a tethered drone designed to help the emergency services.
  The telco this week shared details of a trial it carried out with Swiss public safety drone specialist Fotokite to provide a video feed from a drone to assist first responders on the ground. Essentially, Fotokite has a tethered drone system – connected to a ground station via a reinforced, ultra-thin cable, that is – that can be flown as much as 45 metres into the air to give
  
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• See inside the refurbished Lambeth Town Hall

  14-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the corner of busy Brixton’s main road is Lambeth Town Hall, a grand municipal building that has recently completed a major refurbishment. And tours were held for this year’s Open House Weekend.
  The building was constructed for Lambeth Council in 1906-08 in the Edwardian Baroque style, and opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 29 April 1908. A later extension was opened by the same Princess of Wales in 1938, who was by now Queen Mary.Over the years, bomb damage and the gra
  
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• Environmentally-friendly fibre migration will see Europe’s sustainability goals met, say Iskratel

  14-09-2021 12:02
  
  Presentation at the FTTH Virtual Conference will highlight the importance of operators focusing on the environmental impact of fibre-based access technologies Kranj, 14 September 2021 – As more European governments look to achieve their ambitious national sustainability goals, operators and regulators must look into the environmental impact of fibre-based access technologies and the adverse effects that wrong Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) choices may have on the environment. This is the message
  
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• Book Review – Railways: A History in Drawings

  14-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A large parcel arrives and inside is a hefty book that is total eye-candy for any railway, design, or architecture fan. It’s all about the railways, but so much more than that for what it’s really about are the drawings that engineers and designers created so that the railways could be built.
  Exceptionally detailed blueprints for steam engines, wagons, bridges, stations, all meticulously drawn, and here 130 examples of some of the very best have been chosen to tell the history of the
  
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• Vodafone Oman Selects Netcracker Digital BSS To Support Mobile Network Launch

  14-09-2021 02:00
  Netcracker Technology announced today a strategic partnership with Vodafone Oman, the newly formed mobile network in the Sultanate of Oman. Vodafone is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and has partner operations with mobile networks in 41 countries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• South Korea's imposes massive fine on Google for abusing its leadership position

  14-09-2021 02:00
  South Korea's antitrust regulator, Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), has imposed a fine of $176.64 million on Alphabet's Google for blocking access to the customized versions of its Android operating system (OS) as per a Reuters report.
  KFTC accuses the internet giant of using its market leadership position to restrict competition in the mobile operating systems market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MTN awards network modernization deal to Nokia

  14-09-2021 02:00
  MTN, a prominent service provider in South Africa and the Middle East, has partnered with Finnish telecom vendor Nokia to modernize its network and enhance voice services.
  Nokia will provide 5G cloud infrastructure and cloud-native IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to drive MTN's voice core evolution…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Maximising subsea cable capacity with Infinera

  14-09-2021 02:00
  Total Telecom caught up with Geoff Bennett, Director of Solutions & Technology for Infinera at this month’s Submarine Networks EMEA&nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Connected Britain returns live! A Day 1 teaser

  14-09-2021 02:00
  It has been a gruelling 18 months of pandemic uncertainty for all of us, a time that has seen many of our favourite events take to the airwaves as virtual conferences, including Connected Britain 2020. But while online events have their advantages, there are many things they simply cannot replicate. The hushed anticipation of a busy conference theatre before a panel discussion. The smell of black coffee on a buzzing exhibition floor. Perhaps, most important of all, the chance to catch up w
  
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• China Mobile and CBN finalise 5G partnership plans

  14-09-2021 02:00
  China Mobile, China's largest service provider, has announced that it, along with national cable TV operator China Broadcasting Network (CBN) will jointly build a national 5G network. The same will be done using CBN's 700MHz spectrum…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT Wholesale launches powerful digital voice and broadband solutions for channel partners’ small business customers

  14-09-2021 02:00
  BT Wholesale today announced a new suite of digital solutions for channel partners to support their small business customers as they transition to a digital future. WHC Express and Broadband One delivers a powerful combination for small businesses, with access to a digital phone line, powered by ultrafast full-fibre broadband speeds to stay connected anytime, anywhere.
  With an additional two million people working from home and remotely in the past 18 months, businesses need access to more flex
  
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