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• Plans for a Covid memorial for public transport staff unviled

  11-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has released designs for a memorial to London’s transport workers who lost their lives to coronavirus.
  The new memorial will be created on a pedestrian plaza on Braham Street in Aldgate, just around the corner from a couple of tube stations and a large bus garage.
  The space will contain a plaque paying tribute to London’s transport workers as well as benches to allow quiet reflection and remembrance. A cherry blossom tree will also be planted, echoing the n
  
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• Plans for a Covid memorial for public transport staff unveiled

  11-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has released designs for a memorial to London’s transport workers who lost their lives to coronavirus.
  The new memorial will be created on a pedestrian plaza on Braham Street in Aldgate, just around the corner from a couple of tube stations and a large bus garage.
  The space will contain a plaque paying tribute to London’s transport workers as well as benches to allow quiet reflection and remembrance. A cherry blossom tree will also be planted, echoing the n
  
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• Robin.io Brings Momentum, Growth into KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021

  11-10-2021 17:10
  
  Strong deployment growth, investment, patents and customer successes drive demos and 5G + enterprise storage use cases at this year’s event. LOS ANGELES — KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NA — October 11, 2021 — Robin.io brings demos, customer updates and significant milestones accomplished thus far in 2021 to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, this week, including a Series C investment round, important new partnerships, patent awards, an update of its 5G stack and other product enhanc
  
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• Using 5G to supercharge business for a post-Covid economy recovery

  11-10-2021 16:08
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Victor Zhang, Global Vice-President of Huawei, makes the case for a 5G-driven rebound from the Covid slump.
  The pandemic we have endured for the last 18 months has been a destructive force for large parts of the UK economy.
  For small and medium sized businesses (SMEs), a bleak picture has emerged as we consider how to get our economy back on track and create the
  
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• Museum of the Home resuming its famous Christmas displays

  11-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A much loved Christmas tradition returns this year, as the refurbished Museum of the Home decorates rooms with Christmas displays from down the centuries.
  The Museum’s main ground-floor display is a series of classic living rooms laid out as they could have been in the past, ranging from the Tudor era right up to a 1980s home. Every Christmas though, each of the rooms are decorated as they might have been done for Yuletide in times past, from the spartan puritans to over the top Victorians
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: China Mobile, Orange and Facebook

  11-10-2021 15:49
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · China Mobile, Orange and Facebook
  
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• BT opens digital research centre with University of Suffolk

  11-10-2021 15:17
  
  UK operator group BT has opened up a new £10 million research and engineering facility at its Adastral Park campus.
  The DigiTech Centre is designed as somewhere students, academic professionals and businesses can use to develop their digital skills with a view at pursuing an ICT career. It apparently cost £9.6 million to make and it’s not clear how much each of the stakeholders chipped in. It seems to be affiliated to the University of Suffolk, thus creating the opportunity for
  
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• EQT exits Adamo

  11-10-2021 14:46
  
  EQT is offloading Spanish fibre operator Adamo to a fellow private equity outfit some five years after it bought the asset, and reports suggest it has made a few Euros in the process.
  EQT Private Equity confirmed that has brokered a deal to sell Adamo Telecom to Ardian Infrastructure, but declined to share financial details. Subject to the usual closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, the deal should close in the first quarter of next year, it said.
  The firm waxed lyrical about Adamo
  
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• AT&T sucked into US culture war through claimed OAN links

  11-10-2021 13:15
  
  One America News is a minor US cable network best known for supporting Donald Trump and AT&T has come under intense pressure for doing business with it.
  On one level this story is very much a storm-in-a-teacup. Last week Reuters published a special investigation headlined ‘Trump TV: the AT&T Connection – How AT&T helped build far-right One America News’. Reuters got hold of some court documents that suggest AT&T is not only a significant financial partner of OAN
  
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• European telcos turn to satellite connectivity

  11-10-2021 13:06
  
  Two major European operators this week detailed plans to use satellite connectivity to cover difficult-to-reach customers.
  TIM has gone live with a satellite broadband service for new customers who live in parts of Italy that are not yet covered by its fixed broadband or ultrabroadband networks. The TIM Super Sat service uses Eutelsat, and provides speeds of up to 100 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps up.
  Those kinds of speeds are unlikely to set anyone’s world alight, but for just under €50 p
  
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• 500th anniversary of the Defender of the Faith

  11-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today marks the 500th anniversary of the Pope granting the title of Defender of the Faith to King Henry VIII, and it is still claimed by British monarchs to this day.
  Although granted in 1507 to King James IV of Scotland, the most famous occurrence was on 11th October 1521 when Pope Leo X granted the title to King Henry VIII in recognition of the English monarch’s book Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (Defense of the Seven Sacraments), which defended the sacramental nature of marriage and the
  
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• London’s Alleys: Van Gogh Walk, SW9

  11-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This verdant walkway near Kennington was until a few years ago a rather non-descript residential road, but in 2013 it was pedestrianised and renamed.Van Gogh Walk was originally Isabel Street, which was laid out when a row of larger houses and a former nursery ground was developed into terraced housing. It was likely named after Countess Isabella de Fortibus one of the richest women in 13th-century England, who owned the Manor of Stockwell and South Lambeth, which was later seized by King Edward
  
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• Openreach partners with Prysmian Group to expand full fibre

  11-10-2021 02:00
  Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, today announced an extension to its partnership with Openreach, the UK’s largest digital network business, with a new three-year contract. This is as Openreach follows an extended investment commitment by its parent, BT Group meaning that it’ll now build Full Fibre technology to a total of 25 million premises, including more than six million in the hardest…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EQT sells Spain’s Adamo to Ardian Infrastructure

  11-10-2021 02:00
  Today, Swedish private equity firm EQT has announced that it will sell Spanish teleco Adamo to Ardian Infrastructure.Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but media reports suggest that the value should be in excess of €1 billion.EQT acquired a majority stake in the Adamo back in 2017 and since then the operator has grown enormously…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• ComReg questions independent oversight body’s ability to keep Eir in check

  11-10-2021 02:00
  This week, ComReg has questioned the IOB’s effectiveness in monitoring Eir’s compliance with regulations following the publication of the IOB’s first annual report on the matter. The regulator said that it may yet devise additional regulatory controls for Eir to follow, suggesting that the IOB’s report does not indicate that &ldquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T doubles down on Ericsson for C-band 5G

  11-10-2021 02:00
  Back in February, AT&T was the second biggest spender in the enormous US C-band spectrum auction, spending $23.4 billion to win 1,621 licenses in the 3.7-3.98 GHz band. The largest spender was rival Verizon, who dominated the auction with an overall spend of $45.45 billion, as both operators try to catch up with the large amount of mid…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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