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• Best September ever for London’s cycle hire scheme

  07-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to TfL, more than 1.2 million cycle hires were made in September, with an average of 40,660 per day – a new record for the month.
  There were 1,219,804 hires during the month, an average of 40,660 daily hires – well above the 37,917 average daily hires in September last year and the 32,323 average daily hires in the three Septembers prior to the pandemic.
  Office workers returning to the office helped the surge, with a noticeable increase in people using the Waterloo and King
  
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• Sky hopes smart TV set will make new customers tune in

  07-10-2021 17:20
  Sky Glass model moves broadcaster away from traditional satellite dish and set-top box approach
  
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• Winter lights displays for 2021

  07-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Away from the high streets with their Christmas lights, there are the large parks that fill their gardens and trees with winter lighting displays. Once a bit of a rarity, they’ve surged in popularity in recent years and can now be found all over London, so there’s bound to be one close to you.
  A delightful way to get out into the fresh air after ages of lockdown.
  Listed by date of when then open…Illuminature
  Friday 22nd October 2021 – Sunday 9th January 2022
  Barnes &ndas
  
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• Sky launches its own telly

  07-10-2021 15:46
  
  The UK bit of Sky has launched Sky Glass, a TV with all the things you need to access Sky services built into it.
  The point of it seems to be to simplify things by integrating hardware, software and content but it’s not clear whether the current lack of integration is a major customer pain-point. Furthermore, if you buy one then you’re kind of committed to Sky for as long as you use it, a prospect that may not appeal to everyone. It also switches from satellite to wifi as the means o
  
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• AT&T becomes Frontier’s newest fibre customer

  07-10-2021 15:08
  
  AT&T has struck a deal to use Frontier Communications’ fibre network to expand its reach for business customers and to support its 5G build.
  Reading between the lines of the announcement published by AT&T – which makes frequent references to its own fibre prowess – this is essentially a wholesale deal that means AT&T can provide coverage in areas in which it does not have its own full fibre infrastructure or any plans to build.
  You could argue that AT&T is essen
  
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• Eutelsat ploughs more cash into OneWeb

  07-10-2021 15:01
  
  Fresh from rejecting a takeover bid, Eutelsat has ploughed another $165 million into OneWeb, raising its stake in the process.
  The French satellite firm revealed it has exercised a call option on a portion of the latest OneWeb funding round to enable it to increase its holding to 22.9% from 17.6% previously. The transaction, which is due to be completed around the end of this year, carries identical financial terms to its initial $550 million investment in OneWeb, Eutelsat said. It announced tha
  
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• Brazilians in remote and rural areas will benefit from better connectivity, as ANATEL approves the use of TVWS

  07-10-2021 15:00
  
  Washington D.C, USA, 07 October 2021: Today, the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) compliments ANATEL, the National Telecommunications Agency of Brazil, on their decision to approve the framework authorizing the use of a TV White Space (TVWS). As global internet usage continues to rise, this decision marks a significant step towards addressing capacity demands in unserved, or underserved regions. The new TVWS framework was approved on September 30th and will serve as a flexible way to...Source: Re
  
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• Westminster bridge’s entire balustrade is up for sale

  07-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you have a need to own a large chunk of Westminster bridge, then for a deep pocket price, it’s possible to buy the entire balustrade from the bridge.
  It’s not obvious to look at, but the balustrade on Westminster Bridge is not the original one as it was replaced 24 years ago when the bridge underwent £13 million worth of major strengthening and repair works. At the time it was decided that the balustrade would need replacing, although the reason for replacing it seems to be
  
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• Nokia claims 3x carrier aggregation first with a bit of help from MediaTek

  07-10-2021 12:58
  
  Just when you thought carrier aggregation couldn’t get any better Nokia and MediaTek have only gone and added another carrier to the mix.
  In this context, carrier means a distinct chunk of radio frequency. Ideally what you want is one big contiguous chunk (a fat pipe), but an alternative is to cobble together a couple of them to achieve a similar outcome. That’s what this announcement concerns, with three bits of spectrum used to deliver 3.2 Gigabits per second of lovely 5G from a ba
  
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• JICA and Synspective start demonstration for the development of a disaster prevention management system in Guatemala using SAR satellite data

  07-10-2021 10:52
  
  Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Synspective have started a satellite use service demonstration to monitor ground movements in Guatemala City, Guatemala, as part of an information gathering and pilot project. Land displacement disasters in Guatemala Guatemala is a Central American country, and is about ⅓ the size of Japan. Spanish is the official and most spoken language. Similar to Japan, Guatemala is prone to earthquakes and other disaster risks such as heavy rains due..
  
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• The concrete heart of Bermondsey’s “Biscuit Town”

  07-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A few streets to the south of Bermondsey tube station used to be a large biscuit factory estate, the Peek Freans factory, but it’s about to be redeveloped.
  The factory first opened on the site in 1873 and swiftly expanded into a “biscuit town” with a large cluster of buildings, and progressive for the time, staff amenities. It was the site of many biscuit innovations – the Bourbon, the Garibaldi, and the first chocolate digestive. However, the company was broken up in 198
  
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• Blank cheque vehicle lists on Nasdaq to target fibre and tower deals

  07-10-2021 06:00
  IX Acquisition one of the first special purpose acquisition companies to focus on communications assets
  
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• Starlink seeks key partnerships in India ahead of regulatory approval

  07-10-2021 02:00
  At the end of last month, SpaceX announced the appointment of Sanjay Bhargava as Starlink’s Country Director India, effective from October 1st.  Bhargava had worked with Elon Musk as part of the founding team at PayPal around 20 years ago and since then has held a variety of roles, primarily at financial institutions. Now, one week into his role, Bhargava has told the Economic Times that his initial goal was to enter discussions with India’s telcos, banks, hospitals,
  
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• Smart and Globe clash over mobile number portability delays

  07-10-2021 02:00
  The government of the Philippines has been planning to introduce a MNP law for a number of years now, a move which would allow mobile subscribers to switch networks more seamlessly while retaining their original mobile number. The MNP Act itself was signed into law in February 2019, with the nation’s two telcos, Globe and PDLT (Smart Communications), saying that it would take them around 18 months to set up a support mechanism for the MNP process…read more on TotalTele.com &ra
  
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• Mexico’s latest spectrum auction falls flat

  07-10-2021 02:00
  Mexico’s latest spectrum auction has been something of a disappointment, with regulator Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) reporting that only three bids were registered from two companies, AT&T Mexico and Telcel. The auction made 41 national and regional blocks of spectrum in the 800MHz, PCS (1.9GHz) , 2.5GHz…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Eutelsat adds $165m to OneWeb investment

  07-10-2021 02:00
  Back in April, Eutelsat announced that it would be investing $550 million in UK-based satellite operator OneWeb, who had just launched their latest batch of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. At the time, this investment gave Eutelsat a 24% stake in the company, but this percentage has diminished to 17.6% recently as a result of additional investments from other organisations including SoftBank and Hanwha…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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