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• Eutelsat rejects unsolicited bid from telecoms billionaire Patrick Drahi

  29-09-2021 20:51
  Shares jump after commercial satellite operator decides ‘not to engage in discussions’ based on terms of proposal
  
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• Eutelsat rejects bid from Patrick Drahi

  29-09-2021 20:51
  French telecoms billionaire makes unsolicited approach for commercial satellite operator
  
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• Glowing monsters appearing in Croydon this weekend

  29-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Large street art monsters have appeared across Croydon town centre as part of an evening walking trail taking in eight locations.
  The “Croydon Monster Invasion” starts this evening and runs over the weekend until Sunday 3rd October. They’ve been set up by the local business group as a way of encouraging people back into the town centre.
  The monsters can be found along the Croydon tram route at:AMP House, 4 Dingwall Road, Croydon, CR0 2LX
  Suffolk House, George Street, Croydon, C
  
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• 5G is Now a Reality

  29-09-2021 16:06
  
  Maximize your return on infrastructure investments. Digitize your 5G network planning, design and deployment with 3D geolocation data from HERE Technologies. Please fill in the short form below to receive a copy of this whitepaper.Name*First LastCompany name:*Job title*Organisation Type*---Please select---Fixed or Cable Operator/Internet Service ProviderMobile Network Operator/MVNOCloud/Web Services/OTTVendorValue-added reseller (VAR)Consultancy/Integrator/Enterprise userGovernment/Regulator/Aut
  
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• RMT warns of strike action over driverless tube trains

  29-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The RMT union has warned that it may take action if the government presses ahead with plans for driverless trains on the London Underground.
  One of the many conditions of the government bailout earlier this year was that TfL investigates the possibility of how the London Underground could be converted to higher levels of automatic control, and now adverts have been posted for seeking consultancy services to do just that.
  The RMT’s General Secretary Mick Lynch said “The news that the
  
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• Automate and accelerate your migration to open vRAN

  29-09-2021 15:24
  
  Open virtualized RAN has the potential to meet carrier-grade latency requirements while also delivering greater flexibility and speed. Learn how Red Hat, Dell, Altiostar, NEC and Netcracker combine their offerings into a reference architecture designed to help digital service providers:Deploy a cell tower in less than an hour (vs. several days or weeks)
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• The journey to virtualized RAN: Insights 2021

  29-09-2021 15:20
  
  In 4Q19, Heavy Reading surveyed 77 communications service providers (CSPs) on their plans for virtualization overall, and virtualized radio access networks (vRANs) specifically. A lot has happened since then. Read this paper to see how their plans have evolved, including:Progress on network virtualization
  Opportunities from and barriers to RAN deployment
  Horizontal/vertical platform preferences
  Movement toward container adoption and cloud-native developmentPlease fill in the short form below to
  
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• Qualcomm talks up its ‘IoT-as-a-Service’ offering

  29-09-2021 15:15
  
  US embedded chip giant Qualcomm reasserted its smart city ambitions with an update of its IoT Services Suite platform.
  It was actually launched last year but with insufficient fanfare for us to cover it. Maybe Qualcomm deliberately kept it quiet to give it a chance to find its feet, but progress has apparently been good enough to warrant a special press release now. IoT as-a-Service (IoTaaS) isn’t a term coined by Qualcomm but it is a concept the company seems keep to be strongly associate
  
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• Ethiopia to award second telecoms licence in January

  29-09-2021 14:47
  
  The Ethiopian government is calling for bids for its second full-service telecoms operating licence with a view to completing the process early next year.
  Regulatory body the Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) published its Request For Proposals (RFP), slightly later than planned, on Wednesday. Would-be market entrants have until 20 December to submit their bids, with the licence due to be handed over to the winner in January.
  Ethiopia has often been described as the last great market libe
  
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• Amazon bids to become an even bigger part of your life

  29-09-2021 13:55
  
  Internet giant Amazon has unveiled a bunch of new products apparently designed to ensure there’s seldom a moment when you’re not interacting with the company.
  Not content with becoming the western world’s default retailer as well as its default internet platform, Amazon seems determined to dominate your domestic gadgetry. The most symbolic of its product announcements is the Astro – a domestic robot with a screen for a face – which seems to be designed to make the f
  
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• TIM likely to control 45% of Italy’s cloud hub

  29-09-2021 12:54
  
  TIM and a handful of partners have presented a proposal for the establishment of Italy’s proposed cloud hub to the government.
  Should they prove successful – and final confirmation of that could be a few months away – the Italian telecoms incumbent will hold a 45% stake in a new company, a public-private partnership, set up to build cloud platforms and infrastructure, and provide related services, as part of the country’s bid for cloud autonomy.
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• A blue plaque unveiled for Diana, Princess of Wales

  29-09-2021 12:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An English Heritage blue plaque has been unveiled today on the side of Coleherne Court on the Old Brompton Road, where Diana lived at the time of her engagement to the Prince of Wales 40 years ago, in 1981.
  Diana moved into 60 Coleherne Court in Earl’s Court with three friends in July 1979, working in childcare as well as accepting contract cleaning assignments. Family connections brought her into the royal circle and a year later Diana was propelled into the media spotlight when she began
  
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• Transport Museum restarting its disused tube station tours

  29-09-2021 11:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On hold during the lockdown, the London Transport Museum is to restart tours of disused parts of the London Underground from next month.
  Visits into the dark and mysterious depths of the tube network will resume with tours of the disused areas of Piccadilly Circus and Charing Cross stations with the museum’s tour guides taking visitors into parts of the Underground that are rarely seen, even by tube staff.
  Charing Cross tunnels
  On the Piccadilly Circus tour, visitors be led behind doors to
  
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• A day trip to – Barnard Castle

  29-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A town of great antiquity with a large castle and famous museum, but also of recent notoriety has a lot more to see if you visit for more than an eye-test.Barnard Castle
  If you arrive by car from the west, the castle perched up on the steep riverside is very obvious, but if coming in by bus, the castle is almost impossible to see, as it’s hidden behind the town centre, and there’s hardly any signs pointing to it.
  It’s not that it’s a small castle, quite the opposite, but
  
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• US-China business: the necessary reinvention of Huawei

  29-09-2021 04:13
  With sanctions derailing its traditional operations, the telecoms group is now rushing to boost areas such as cloud services
  
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• NTT Docomo enters electric power business, targets net zero emissions by 2030

  29-09-2021 02:00
  Today, NTT Docomo has announced its intentions of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions effectively to zero by 2030. As part of this process, Docomo said it was rolling out a “new ecosystem” called ‘Caboneu’, working alongside both its partners and customers to promote a more eco-friendly existence, using the slogan “Saving Our Planet With You&rdquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NTT Docomo enters electric power business, drops targets net zero emissions by 2030

  29-09-2021 02:00
  Today, NTT Docomo has announced its intentions of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions effectively to zero by 2030. As part of this process, Docomo said it was rolling out a “new ecosystem” called ‘Caboneu’, working alongside both its partners and customers to promote a more eco-friendly existence, using the slogan “Saving Our Planet With You&rdquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Intense competition drives Vodafone to close all stores in Spain next year

  29-09-2021 02:00
  Earlier this month, Vodafone Spain announced plans to collectively lay off up to 515 workers throughout the country, representing around 12% of its total workforce of 4,200. At the time the operator said that the collective dismissal would primarily affect its commercial areas…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Intelsat win Air France contract for in-flight connectivity

  29-09-2021 02:00
  Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, has been selected by Air France to install its 2Ku high-speed, satellite-based inflight connectivity solution on 60 new Air France A220-300 aircraft. With deliveries commencing in 2021, the aircraft will fly to short and medium…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• How can telecoms providers transform customer experience?

  29-09-2021 02:00
  This has resulted in lower prices for customers, who are now presented with multiple phone and tariff combinations when they choose to change their plan or upgrade their handset. However, this choice can soon become confusing when the phones and plans on offer are broadly similar. To stand out telecoms providers need to make customer service their brand differentiator and the arrival of 5G provides the perfect opportunity to do so.Consumers usually don’t want to think about their mobile b
  
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• GSMA: 3.8 billion people do not use mobile broadband

  29-09-2021 02:00
  In the past couple of years, the spotlight of the mobile telecoms world has been firmly fixated on 5G, from spectrum auctions to its often flashy emerging use cases. But while the latest generation of mobile connectivity is undeniably important, it is also vital to remember the extent to which much of the world remains cut off from mobile internet altogether…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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