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• Chelsea in Bloom starts next week

  15-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one week, over 70 shops, restaurants, and hotels around Chelsea will be putting on their floral best as part of the annual Chelsea in Bloom competition.
  Each year has a theme, and this year is “Extraordinary Voyages”, which is something that few people have had over the past year of the pandemic.
  Displays inspired by wanderlust, the golden age of travel, and Phileas Fogg’s ’80 Days around the World’ will span the neighbourhood and central installations can be fo
  
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• Google lays some cable in Cornwall

  15-09-2021 15:36
  
  US internet giant Google has finished laying an undersea cable that runs from New York to Bude in Cornwall and Bilbao, Spain.
  The big moment was announced in a Google Cloud blog that features a somewhat redundant map of the North Atlantic with lines drawn from New York to Bude and Bilbao, in case you were wondering what route the cable took. It’s even got a name – Grace Hopper – in recognition of a pioneering American computer scientist.
  “As our first Google-funded cable
  
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• Struggling Indian telcos get the news they have been waiting for

  15-09-2021 14:33
  
  India’s beleaguered operators are doubtless celebrating after the government approved a relief package that will essentially reduce their outgoings.
  The cabinet on Wednesday approved what it described as a number of structural and process reforms designed to protect growth and competition in the telecoms sector, as well as serving consumer interests and boosting employment. Put very simply, the package will ensure that there continues to be a three-player market in India.
  It’s great
  
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• The Apple iPhone 13 is one better than the iPhone 12

  15-09-2021 13:54
  
  US gadget giant Apple has done its traditional September refresh of its iPhone line-up and the new ones are a bit better than their predecessors.
  There was once a time when iPhone launches generated genuine excitement. After all, Apple effectively invented the modern smartphone category and is known for its innovative industrial design. This writer even used to work in the evening just to get his coverage out sharpish! Now, however, it feels more like a solemn duty, born of Apple’s size ra
  
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• European incumbents push on with OpenRAN rollout

  15-09-2021 13:48
  
  Two of Europe’s biggest telecoms players have announced new initiatives to scale up their early moves into OpenRAN.
  In Italy, TIM has added a second location to its OpenRAN footprint and is working on launching OpenRAN 5G stand-alone in the field, while further west, Telefonica has brokered a deal with NEC that will see the pair carry out pre-commercial OpenRAN trials in three major European markets and Brazil.
  TIM undertook a live OpenRAN rollout on 4G in the town of  Faenza in Italy
  
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• Hayes & Harlington station goes step-free with new ticket office

  15-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hayes & Harlington station in west London has opened a new larger ticket office and added step-free access to the platforms as part of the Elizabeth line preparations.
  In addition to the replacement entrance, a new footbridge leads from the ticket hall to platforms with three new lifts that provide step-free access to all five platforms at the station. A new waiting room and toilets have been completed, and new canopies will provide additional shelter for those waiting to boar
  
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• Oxford Circus pedestrianisation plan delayed

  15-09-2021 10:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans to create temporary plazas on either side of Oxford Circus in time for Christmas have been delayed by Westminster Council. The council says that in light of consultations with local residents, they will delay the temporary plazas, which were to be used as a pilot for a permanent scheme to be delivered later.
  The plans had been to seal off the short stretches of Oxford Street on either side of Oxford Circus to create the pedestrian zone and test how that works, before then embarking on refu
  
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• See inside the St. Leonards air raid shelter in East Sheen

  15-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a side street not far from Mortlake station is a set of 1930s residential flats and in front a curious brick building – the entrance to an underground air-raid shelter.The air-raid shelter was built in two stages, the first being a solid if simple couple of rooms with toilets for people to wait out the danger for a short while, but later as the war got worse, a second section was added for people to spend the whole night down here.
  To build the shelter, the lawn in front of the flats wa
  
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• Telefonica opts for NEC for pre-commercial Open RAN trials in four global markets

  15-09-2021 02:00
  Telefónica has joined hands with NEC to conduct Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Brazil.As per the details of the agreement, once the companies achieved successful milestones through the pilot trials in Germany and the UK, NEC will be the prime system integrator (SI) to implement and conduct trials of multiple vendor…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• On the up – but still bottom of the pile: broadband speeds

  15-09-2021 02:00
  New research from comparison website cable.co.uk has revealed that the UK has climbed the rankings of the worldwide broadband speed league but is still the 9th slowest in Western Europe.
  Based on analysis of over 1.1 billion broadband speed tests conducted across 224 countries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Japan's KDDI to use SpaceX for rural mobile backhaul

  15-09-2021 02:00
  Japanese telco KDDI announced that it would be using Elon Musks' SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband service as a backhaul provider for connecting 1,200 towers in remote areas.
  This will help the telecom company roll out high-speed wireless internet in rural areas of the country by early 2022…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dish selects IBM to automate its upcoming cloud-native 5G network

  15-09-2021 02:00
  US-based service provider, Dish Network, has chosen IBM to automate its upcoming 5G network, the country’s first greenfield cloud-native and virtualized open RAN based 5G network.
  The first beta of Dish's network is scheduled to go live in Las Vegas by the end of 2021…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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