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• Peckham Rye station redevelopment pushes ahead

  20-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A long-running project to upgrade the cramped Peckham Rye station has taken a step forward as Network Rail has announced which of the various options it will go with.
  There were a number of options being considered from a minimal option through to a much larger rebuild, and Network Rail has gone for the middle option, which still sees a much larger ticket hall and new stairs and lifts to the platforms.
  The proposed plans will see the existing booking hall expanded at the back and a second west-f
  
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• MYCOM OSI Achieves the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PrivateLink Ready Designation

  20-09-2021 16:22
  LONDON, UK – Sep 20th, 2021 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PrivateLink Ready designation. This designation recognizes that MYCOM OSI’s Assurance Cloud Service (ACS) has demonstrated successful integration with AWS PrivateLink. Achieving the AWS PrivateLink Ready designation differentiates MYCOM OSI as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a produ
  
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• Free tours of Parliament

  20-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tours of the Houses of Parliament have resumed, with both the paid option for tourist tours, but also a free tour that’s only offered to Brits.
  The touristy tours last 90 minutes and cost £28 per adult, and look more at the history of the building and the ceremony that takes place inside.
  The free tours are different.
  It’s always been possible to write to your MP for a free tour, and usually, their staff will take you around although the MP will often join the group at some poi
  
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• Five key questions to help define contact centre AI strategy

  20-09-2021 15:59
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO at Content Guru, explores best practice in the use of artificial intelligence in the contact centre environment.
  Contact centre technology has been transformed by an accelerating focus on innovation, with (artificial intelligence) AI now offering a route to the most far-reaching period of improvement the industry has ever seen. From the
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: 6G, OpenRAN and big tech

  20-09-2021 15:41
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · 6G, OpenRAN and big tech
  
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• 75 Leading Tech Communications CEOs and CXOs to Headline Digital Transformation World Series 2021

  20-09-2021 15:23
  
  TM Forum’s four-week series will showcase over 50 hours of live-streamed content and 130+ speakers connecting leading Communication Services Providers (CSPs) to explore how industry collaboration can inspire change, and help solve some of the industry’s greatest challenges LONDON, 20 SEPTEMBER 2021: TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, today announces the return of its Digital Transformation World Series (DTWS) 2021 after its award-
  
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• Orange Money partners with Ericsson Wallet Platform

  20-09-2021 15:04
  
  Operator group Orange has turned to Ericsson to help it grow its pan African Orange Money service.
  Orange Money was launched in 2008 and is now available to 60 million subscribers in seventeen countries across Africa and the Middle East, apparently it enabling €62 billion in transactions last year. It seems to be a classic mobile money that allows payments, money transfers, etc, without the need for a traditional bank account.
  The Ericsson Wallet Platform positions itself as agile and scala
  
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• Altice spends €400 million-plus on French telco

  20-09-2021 14:45
  
  Altice France has brokered a deal to acquire Coriolis Telecom, a moderately-sized French telco, for a sum that could go north of €400 million.
  The operator, parent company of SFR, has entered into an exclusivity agreement to acquire the entirety of Coriolis Telecom for an initial consideration of €298 million, plus a deferred payment of €117 million; that’s a total spend of €415 million.
  In return, it will get half a million MVNO customers – SFR is already one of
  
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• Facebook attempts to play the victim after WSJ revelations

  20-09-2021 13:27
  
  US social media giant Facebook has published its official response to reports in the Wall Street Journal calling into question the integrity of its moderation activities.
  The press release is titled ‘What the Wall Street Journal Got Wrong’ and is penned by former ace UK politician Nick Clegg, who used his brilliant leadership of the Liberal Democrat party as a springboard to land the top Facebook PR job. If nothing else, Clegg’s political life will have given him rich experienc
  
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• Vodafone, ITU do a lot of talking on smartphone access

  20-09-2021 13:13
  
  Vodafone is working with the ITU and a handful of other partners with a view to extending Internet access to 3.4 billion people by the end of the decade.
  It’s a worthy ambition, but at this stage it’s really all just talk.
  The mobile operator group said it and its partners “urge action” to connect the 3.4 billion people worldwide that live within range of mobile networks but do not currently access the Internet. At this stage ‘action’ appears to mean produce a
  
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• The Northern line extension opened today

  20-09-2021 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At 5:28am this morning, the first paying passengers caught their first train on the Northern line extension at Battersea.The extension, which has been under construction since November 2015, links the new developments at Battersea Power Station with the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, with an intermediate station at Nine Elms. To reduce crowding at Kennington as more people will be swapping between the Bank and Charing Cross branches, four additional side passages were built.
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• London’s Alleys: Trinity Walk, NW3

  20-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a very steep alley up the slopes that face Finchley Road in South Hampstead. Its origins likely lay with the early development of the farmland into housing as there seems to be no precursor for the alley, it just appeared on maps when the houses arrived.Most of the land around here was owned by the Maryon-Wilson baronets who acquired it following the Dissolution of the Monastries, but when the 7th Baronet, Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson died, he split the land between his three sons. One of th
  
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• Virgin Media taps Plume for smart home services across the UK

  20-09-2021 02:00
  Virgin Media is working with smart home provider, Plume, to make its HomePass smart home service available to all UK households – even those areas not yet covered by the ultrafast broadband provider’s network. HomePass works with all internet service providers and uses cloud-controlled adaptive WiFi pods to create a self-optimising WiFi network throughout the home. Offering features unrivalled by other internet service providers, the service brings together device security, in-
  
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• Orange and Ericsson team up to capitalise on Africa’s mobile money market

  20-09-2021 02:00
  As Africa grows increasingly well connected, mobile financial services are proving hugely popular, allowing customers to make transactions quickly and easily without requiring a bank account. In some markets, mobile money platforms have quickly become the de facto medium for commerce; in Kenya, for example, Safaricom’s M-Pesa platform is prolific, handling more than half of the country’s GDP every year.  Orange has a long pedigree in Africa and has surely watched this mobi
  
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• BT latest telco to accelerate carbon emissions targets

  20-09-2021 02:00
  As the effects of clime are change are increasingly felt all over the world, from flooding to wildfires, the telecoms industry is stepping up to do its part.Earlier this year, the UK government enshrined a new emissions target into law, aiming to reduce the nation’s total emissions by 78% by 2035, compared to 1990 levels. This new Carbon Budget not only encompasses the UK itself…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• What makes Britain connected?

  20-09-2021 01:10
  Please tell us a little about yourself and your current role at Virgin Media O2.I’m Jo Bertram and I’m Virgin Media O2’s Managing Director, Business and Wholesale. I’m responsible for providing services to our large enterprise, public sector, and small business customers, as well as our wholesale and MVNO partners. Who or what inspired you to begin a career in telecoms?I joined O2 (and the telecoms industry) back in April 2018, and what really attracted me was O2&am
  
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