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• Behind the scenes tours of Tower Bridge

  06-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Tower Bridge doesn’t open for boats as often during the winter months, they’re resuming their behind-the-scenes tours that include trips into the huge bascule chambers under the bridge.
  The bascule chambers are where the huge counterweights for the bridge slide into when the bride opens, and are a hidden surprise under the main road bridge.
  Bascule chamber (c) Tower Bridge
  The tours take in the main tourist areas, but then you are taken away from the tourists to get up close to th
  
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• Robin.io Showcases its Hyperconverged Kubernetes, Which Helped Launch Industry's First End-to-End Cloud Native 5G Network, at KubeCon NA 2021

  06-10-2021 18:15
  
  Robin Xplore presents an opportunity for KubeCon participants to understand 5G use cases such as Core, MEC and ORAN and a chance to win iPad Air SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 6, 2021 — Robin.io today announced details around its participation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021, taking place from October 13-15 at the LA Convention Center in person and virtually. Robin.io will present live demos of its cloud native 5G management stack for both...Source: RealWire
  
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• Robin.io Showcases its Hyperconverged Kubernetes tech, Which Helped Launch Industry's First End-to-End Cloud Native 5G Network, at KubeCon NA 2021

  06-10-2021 18:15
  
  Robin Xplore presents an opportunity for KubeCon participants to understand 5G use cases such as Core, MEC and ORAN and a chance to win iPad Air SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 6, 2021 — Robin.io today announced details around its participation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021, taking place from October 13-15 at the LA Convention Center in person and virtually. Robin.io will present live demos of its cloud native 5G management stack for both...Source: RealWire
  
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• London’s ice skating rinks for Winter 2021/22

  06-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter. After an obvious break last year, many are back once more for people to repeatedly fall over on.
  In alphabetical orderCanary Wharf
  Saturday 23 October 2021 – Saturday 26 February 2022
  Canada Square Park will once again be transformed with a traditional alpine theme and a covered ice-rink with hundreds of twinkling fairy lights. The ice rink will be open for Halloween, Christmas and past Valentine’s
  
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• Telefonica could bring in €5 billion from Spanish fibre sale

  06-10-2021 15:02
  
  Telefonica’s at it again – selling assets to pay down debt, if the latest newswire reports prove to be correct.
  The Spanish operator is considering offloading a stake in its domestic fibre network and has held talks with advisors about the possibility of spinning out the business, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
  Such a move could value the asset at €15 billion, the sources said. How much of that Telefonica would be able to use to reduce its d
  
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• Facebook ‘whistleblower’ did it a favour by breaking cover

  06-10-2021 14:12
  
  The distinct possibility that the Facebook leaker has hidden agendas has weakened the effectiveness of her revelations.
  It turns out that the source of the leaks that the WSJ has been drip-feeding since the middle of last month is a woman who joined the company with ‘high hopes of helping Facebook fix its weaknesses.’ We know this because she told the WSJ and, when she witnessed her employer’s failure to rise to her high standards, decided to take matters into her own hands.
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• US telcos unlikely to spend big in latest mid-band spectrum sale

  06-10-2021 13:08
  
  Round one of the latest 5G spectrum auction in the US got underway on Tuesday and early indications are that it will be a more muted process than the recent C-band mega-sale.
  33 bidders are taking part in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) auction of 100 MHz of frequencies in the 3.45 GHz band. Round one brought in US$609 million worth of bids, rising to $672 million after round two, the most recent to be completed at the time of writing.
  The FCC has set a reserve price
  
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• Harry Potter exhibition lifts the veil on the movie magic

  06-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An atmospheric exhibition has opened in Covent Garden showing behind the scenes footage from the filming of the Harry Potter movies. Almost everything in the exhibition is original from the film, including one of the full-size model flying cars that hangs suspended above the stairs you walk down to get into the exhibition.A decorated basement, which was until recently a James Bond exhibition, is filled with a range of Harry Potter movie moments, all captured by a photographer working on the stag
  
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• Petition to rezone Woolwich on the tube map

  06-10-2021 12:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A petition has been set up calling on the Mayor of London and TfL to move Woolwich from Zone 4 to Zone 3 on the tube map travel zones. As the petition states, Woolwich DLR is the only DLR station in Zone 4, while it notes that most of the zone 3 stations north of the river are of equal distance from Central London.
  The financial impact on passengers would be significant as a monthly zones 1-4 travelcard currently costs £204, but this could fall to just £167 if Woolwich was moved into
  
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• Wireless Broadband Alliance announces winners of 2021 WBA Industry Awards

  06-10-2021 11:00
  
  London, UK, October 6 2021: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the winners of the 2021 WBA Industry Awards, which honors the most significant innovations and achievements from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem. The award winners were announced during the during the WBA’s Wireless Global Congress, which is being staged online between September 28th and October 21st 2021. Award submissions were judged by an independent panel of leading analysts and other industry experts. Here ar
  
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• Beyond by BearingPoint Joins AWS ISV Accelerate Program

  06-10-2021 10:00
  
  Program participation will enable Beyond’s customers to increase operational agility, accelerate speed to market, and sell and monetize new B2B, IoT, Edge & 5G multi-party offerings Amsterdam – October 6th, 2021 – Beyond by BearingPoint, a rapidly growing digital platform solution provider, today announced it is joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program. The Program is an exclusive, co-sell initiative for AWS Partners who pro
  
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• A feast of architectural models goes on display

  06-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you fancy looking at St Paul’s Cathedral as a jelly mould, then there’s a new exhibition that’ll sate your appetite. At the Building Centre, just off Tottenham Court Road, the display looks at how physical models help architects visualise the impact their creations will have on the world.A famous photograph that demonstrated the engineering principles of the Forth Bridge taken in 1885 dominates part of the room, but it’s a pivotal moment in civil engineering in showing
  
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• Why France’s cable billionaire may need to change course to reach the stars

  06-10-2021 06:00
  Drahi’s stalking of satellite operator Eutelsat raises speculation over debt-funded industry consolidation
  
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• Drahi may have to chart a new course if he is to win Eutelsat

  06-10-2021 06:00
  French billionaire’s stalking of satellite operator raises speculation over debt-funded industry consolidation
  
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• Zzoomm secures additional £100m to expand fibre rollout

  06-10-2021 02:00
  This week, UK altnet Zzoomm has announced that it has raised £100 million from an international banking consortium, with the funds aimed at accelerating their gigabit-capable fibre rollout. The banking consortium comprises ING Bank, Hamburg Commercial Bank and Kommunalkredit Austria…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica considers offering investors a piece of Spanish fibre unit

  06-10-2021 02:00
  Back in 2019, Telefonica announced that it would be selling its various assets in order to help reduce the company’s considerable debt and fund expensive 5G and fibre rollouts. This enormous restructure included spinning off the majority of its units in Central and South America, leaving the company instead to focus on its core markets of Spain…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NTT planning to issue $2.7 billion ‘green bond’

  06-10-2021 02:00
  Yesterday, Japan’s NTT announced it will issue $2.7 billion of so-called ‘green bonds’, the funds from which will be used to help reduce the operator’s greenhouse gas emissions and increase their investment in renewable energy. &nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Lebanon’s telecoms sector days from collapse as fuel crisis deepens

  06-10-2021 02:00
  Lebanon’s ongoing financial crisis is reaching fever pitch for the nation’s telecoms sector, with the national Parliamentary Media and Communications Committee this week warning that the nation’s networks were on the brink of collapse. In fact, the state-run telcos only have enough diesel remaining to keep networks operational for a few days. “The quantity of diesel at Lebanon’s state-owned Touch and Alfa mobile companies and the state-run telecommunications c
  
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