Telecom news

• London Zoo offering animal tours with afternoon teas

  16-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London Zoo is launching Tours and Teas, a brand new series of guided tours followed by afternoon tea at the Regents Park zoo.
  Featuring a different theme each month, Tours and Teas guests will get the chance to explore in a private group and learn more about the behind-the-scenes of the conservation zoo.
  Led by one of London Zoo’s guides, guests will stroll along the 30-minute-long tour while learning about some stories behind the Zoo’s 200-year history, the specially selected flora,
  
  Read more

• CityFibre gets £825 million more investment

  16-09-2021 16:04
  
  Disruptive UK fibre player CityFibre has managed to raise another massive chunk of change in its bid to take on the incumbents.
  Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and investment fund Interogo are between them chucking £825 million into the pot. Furthermore, perhaps on the back of the investment, CityFibre announced banks are prepared to lend it another £300 million. The money will go towards the target of covering a third of the country by 2025.
  “This new capital will not
  
  Read more

• Heraldry photography competition

  16-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The annual photography competition by the Heraldry Society is open for entries seeking photos of anything to do with coats of arms, crests and shields — of which London is replete.
  The competition invites non-professional photographers to find and capture scenes, buildings or objects that feature a strong heraldic content or that communicate something of the fascination, beauty, colour or boldness of heraldry.
  Compositions can demonstrate the context or setting of the subject; they can see
  
  Read more

• BT pushes on with plan to disguise advertising as altruism

  16-09-2021 15:42
  
  BT has switched on the first of its new generation of street hubs in London, which essentially offer free connectivity in exchange for advertising.
  The first Street Hub 2.0 unit has gone live on Notting Hill Gate, in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It’s the first of a planned 300 such hubs scheduled to hit the streets in the UK over the next year, which will add to an existing 400 version one hubs already in situ. The street hub is essentially the 21st century’s answer
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• China antagonised by AUKUS Pacific security pact

  16-09-2021 14:32
  
  The UK, US and Australia have formed a new defence pact apparently designed to counter China in the Asia Pacific region.
  It’s called AUKUS to incorporate abbreviations of the three country names in a vaguely pronounceable way. The initial focus of it is to help the Aussies to build a nuclear-powered submarine fleet, but it will ultimately be a wide-ranging partnership around defence, technology and all kinds of security, including cyber.
  “As leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom,
  
  Read more

• Digital transformation costs jobs at Vodafone

  16-09-2021 13:50
  
  Vodafone Spain is cutting around 12% of its workforce, shedding staff that do not fit with its digital transformation push.
  The telco announced that it is beginning a process that will see it shed up to 515 jobs. Its statement is worded in such a way as to imply that the move is linked to competition, and to an extent it is: the market remains pretty fierce in Spain. But there is no escaping that the cuts come as part of the telco’s ongoing strategy to embrace digital technologies.
  “
  
  Read more

• Sir Richard Burton’s curious “tent tomb”

  16-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In southwest London is a most unusual mausoleum to an unusual man (and his wife), that’s in the shape of a Bedouin tent. Oh, and it has a ladder to climb up and peer inside it.This mausoleum, to be found in a church near Mortlake railway station contains the earthly remains of the Victorian explorer, Sir Richard Burton, who was famed for his explorations and was said to be able to speak 29 languages.
  He visited Mecca in disguise, translated the Arabian Nights, published the Karma Sutra in
  
  Read more

• Vodafone Idea shares boosted by Indian government’s relief package

  16-09-2021 12:37
  Telecoms venture avoids imminent collapse as decision to defer fee payments spurs sector
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• London Underground trains are getting faster

  16-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A long-running signalling upgrade on the London Underground is starting to show results as the latest timetables show faster journeys on some trips. The four lines modernisation project is replacing antiquated signals across the entire sub-surface part of the Underground – that’s the District, Circle, Metropolitan, and the Hammersmith & City lines.The upgrade has been underway since 2016 with signalling upgrades switching on in stages, but earlier this week, the first public-faci
  
  Read more

• The EllaLink Revolution

  16-09-2021 02:00
  Philippe Dumont, CEO of EllaLink spoke to Total Telecom at Submarine Networks EMEA earlier this month.It’s been a busy year for the EllaLink team with the EllaLink subsea cable…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Italian operator Telecom Italia activates Open RAN systems in new cities

  16-09-2021 02:00
  Italian operator Telecom Italia (TIM) has announced the activations of its Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems in two new cities of Matera and Turin. TIM had first used Open RAN in Faenza in early 2021.TIM plans to accelerate the development of 5G digital services to drive connectivity and economic growth…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• India provides relief for telecom sector; approves 4-year moratorium on AGR dues

  16-09-2021 02:00
  The Union Cabinet of India has approved a four-year moratorium on dues for the telecom sector, as well as rationalised the controversial definition of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR).
  This much-anticipated and awaited move comes as a massive relief to Communications Service Providers (CSPs)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• FTTH subs likely to grow from 99M to 197M by 2026: FTTH Council Europe

  16-09-2021 02:00
  The FTTH/B subscribers are likely to grow from 99 million at the end of this year to 197 million by the end of 2026 in the European region, as per the latest report released by FTTH Council Europe.
  The report, which includes data from 39 countries, including all 27 EU countries, among others. The FTTH Council Europe report is based on data and forecasts from IDATE…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Connected Britain continues… A Day 2 teaser

  16-09-2021 02:00
  Day 2 of the UK’s leading connectivity conference will no doubt welcome a few attendees with sore heads after a busy evening of networking at the Connected Britain Awards.But there’s no time to rest as another packed day kicks off with some outstanding keynotes and a plethora of engaging speakers in the tracks.If you haven’t grabbed a ticket yet, there’s still time as Connected Britain 2021 is next week, returning to the Business Design Centre in London on 21&ndash&h
  
  Read more

• Colt commits to achieving global net zero emissions by 2030

  16-09-2021 02:00
  Colt Group, comprising Colt Technology Services and Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), today announces its commitment to achieving global net zero carbon for all its own operations by 2030. As a key player in the technology industry, this forms part of its ambitious journey to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy through developing new and existing technologies.
  Colt has set comprehensive…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Call for universities to collaborate on £9m 5G project to transform UK manufacturing

  16-09-2021 02:00
  The software company leading a £9m government-backed project designed to show the potential of 5G technology to revolutionise UK manufacturing is calling on universities to get involved.
  Zeetta Networks is the lead partner on the 5G-ENCODE project, through which a 5G-powered smart factory is being built at Bristol’s National Composites Centre (NCC).
  The project is part-funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and is one of the UK government&rsquo&hel
  
  Read more

Follow @Telecom_UK_ on Twitter!