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• Discount deal on Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit with Jennifer Saunders

  24-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A critically-acclaimed revival of Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward transferred to London’s West End just before the lockdown, but will reopen this Autumn, with Jenifer Saunders as the excentric clairvoyant, Madame Arcati.
  It’s a classic Noël Coward comedy of manners and farce, that was also surprisingly poignant at the time it was first shown 80 years ago, with many people coming to terms with the deaths of loved ones during WW2.
  In the play, novelist Charles Con
  
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• Plans for Beam Park railway station in East London cancelled

  24-09-2021 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans for a new railway station in East London next to a future housing development have been dealt a blow after the station was apparently cancelled.
  The site, Beam Park is the former Ford manufacturing plant in Dagenham, now owned by the GLA, and in 2019 received consents for a 3,000 home development by L&Q and Countryside, with around half classed as “affordable”. As part of the agreement, anew railway station was to be built next to the site on the existing C2C railway line,
  
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• Fabergé egg found by a scrap dealer going on display at the V&A

  24-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As part of an exhibition about the famous Russian jewellery maker, one of the ‘missing’ eggs created by Fabergé that was lost for many years will go on display in London.
  The Fabergé egg appeared at an auction in New York in 1964, but was unrecognised and then disappeared until 2011, when it was bought at a flea market simply for its weight in gold to be melted down. The buyer, who tried several times to sell it for scrap later saw an image of the egg in a newspaper art
  
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• IBM involved in two European 5G deals

  24-09-2021 12:22
  
  IBM this week made two separate announcements regarding its involvement in open 5G networks in Europe.
  The US-based tech firm on Tuesday revealed it is working with Airspan Networks to set up an Open RAN testbed in Germany and France, and followed that two days later with the news that it has been selected by Telefonica to use its software and services in the deployment of its cloud-native 5G core network platform.
  We have long been promised that open architectures will bring different names int
  
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• Xilinx and NEC collaborate over new 5G radio units

  24-09-2021 12:16
  
  NEC’s next generation of radio units will feature the Xilinx 7nm Versal AI Core, which will help with things like beamforming and OpenRAN.
  A few years ago we didn’t talk about these companies so much in a telecoms context but 5G, and especially OpenRAN, have brought them to the fore. One of the most tricky things 5G has to do in order to make efficient use of mid-band spectrum and the massive MIMO it facilitates is beamforming. As an automated way of focusing radio on individual devi
  
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• Iliad to pay less than expected for UPC Poland

  24-09-2021 10:59
  
  Iliad has hammered out a €1.5 billion deal for UPC Poland, which is slightly less than it offered to pay when it first made overtures to parent company Liberty Global in the summer.
  The expansionist French telco announced that its Polish subsidiary Play, acquired as recently as last year, will acquire the whole of UPC Poland at an enterprise value of 7 billion zloty, or around €1.53 billion.
  We knew the deal was coming. In July both companies quietly disclosed that Iliad had made a non
  
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• No need to buy weekly travelcards from next week

  24-09-2021 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People who currently buy a weekly travelcard will no longer need to do so from next week as TfL is introducing a weekly price-cap on Oyster pay-as-you-go fares for rail and tube travel.
  At the moment, people who use pay as you go on contactless cards are never charged more than the equivalent cost of buying a daily or weekly travelcard, and this already applies to Oyster cards used on buses and trams, but it’s taken a while to adapt the Oyster system to work across all the various rail ser
  
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• West Midlands 5G enable 5G-powered endoscopies from home

  24-09-2021 02:00
  An endoscopy is a well-known medical procedure characterised by feeding a small camera attached to a tube into the patient’s bowels, allowing the physician to perform a visual appraisal of various internal organs. Given the hands-on nature of the procedure, endoscopies are routinely performed at hospitals and other medical facilities with the physician in the room with the patient.  In the past couple of decades, however…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liberty Global create new German JV for FTTH

  24-09-2021 02:00
  Liberty Global Ventures, the investment arm of Liberty Global plc (“Liberty Global”) (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK), and InfraVia Capital Partners, a leading independent private equity firm specialized in infrastructure and technology investments, have set up a new Joint Venture (JV) aimed at assessing the opportunity in building fibre…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• IBM scores big with Telefonica deal for cloud-native 5G core platform

  24-09-2021 02:00
  IBM has announced that it has struck another major 5G deal, this time with Telefonica, working with the Spanish giant to help create Telefonica’s 5G core network platform.  The multi-year deal will see IBM’s intelligent automation software and services used by the operator to build the 5G platform…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti Airtel schedules $2.8 billion share sale

  24-09-2021 02:00
  At the end of August, Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel announced that it would be seeking to raise 210 billion rupees ($2.87 billion) through a sale of shares to existing shareholders.  Now, the operator has announced a schedule for the sale, with shareholder eligibility to participate to be decided by September 28 and the subscription period itself to run from October 5 to October 21…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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