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• Huge sale of Film and TV memorabilia

  13-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month, there’s going to be a sale in London of over 1,000 movie and television memorabilia, with a lot of fantasy and science-fiction up for sale.
  It’s a wide range from mostly movies, but some TV shows – standouts being Space 1999, Doctor Who and Red Dwarf, but also a couple of items from Thomas the Tank Engine to keep it grounded.
  Prices also range from almost affordable as a nice present to needs a second mortgage to buy that. If you can’t afford the items, then y
  
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• Apple iPhone production reportedly hit by chip drought

  13-10-2021 16:34
  
  The global semiconductor supply crunch is showing no sign of abating with reports that Apple is having to cut its iPhone orders by 10 million.
  The goss comes courtesy of Bloomberg and its anonymous sources. They reckon Apple is likely to cut its production targets for the iPhone 13 by up to 10 million units thanks to a lack of components from Broadcom and Texas instruments. That must especially wind Apple up as it has put such a priority on producing components such as its main processor itself,
  
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• Floating aliens fills the Tate Modern

  13-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Tate Modern’s main turbine hall has been filled with large floating aliens, and it’s an art installation.
  The installation is by the artist Anicka Yi, and it’s her largest and most ambitious project to date, transforming the Turbine Hall at the heart of Tate Modern with her vision of a new kind of ecosystem.
  Moving through the air, her floating machines – called aerobes – are said to “prompt viewers to think about new ways that machines might inhabit the w
  
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• Liberty Global reportedly looking at Belgian asset sale

  13-10-2021 13:49
  
  The industry’s next towers deal could come in Belgium, where Liberty Global is reportedly mulling offloading passive infrastructure owned by its Telenet unit.
  Unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg report that cable TV, broadband and mobile operator Telenet is working with Goldman Sachs on the divestment of around 3,000 telecoms towers.
  Any resulting deal could be worth at least €600 million, they said, with private equity firms and strategic investors likely to be attracted to the sale.
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Argyle Square, WC1

  13-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a municipal garden square that offers a calm quiet patch of greenery just a few moments from King’s Cross station.The area was first developed into housing following the collapse of the Royal Panarmonion Gardens, a local pleasure garden that was famous for a human-powered monorail. The pleasure gardens included a theatre and the railway, and despite positive reviews when it opened in 1830, it closed just two years later and the land was sold off.
  The area was quickly redeveloped in
  
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• BT celebrates the return of live collaboration at BBWF 21

  13-10-2021 12:58
  
  UK operator group BT was prominent on the first day of Broadband World Forum 21 as the telecoms industry welcomed the opportunity to meet in person once more.
  Trade shows have been among the sectors most heavily hit by the lockdowns and general restrictions associated with the Covid pandemic. While we still have to jump through countless bureaucratic hoops in order to travel and gain access to live events, we are finally allowed to have them. Pretty much every keynote speaker on the first mornin
  
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• prpl Foundation previews its prplWare CPE Software at BBWF in Amsterdam, October 13th and 14th, 2021

  13-10-2021 12:10
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 13, 2021 – The prpl Foundation, an organization dedicated to carrier-grade CPE software in open-source, will give the first ever public preview of its prplWare Broadband CPE stack at Broadband World Forum (BBWF), October 13th-14th 2021. The demo will show a real Home Gateway running prplWare with carrier-grade remote Management features (TR-069/TR-181), producing a complete topology map of its home network. prplWare’s Life-Cycle Management (LCM) feature d
  
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• Bridge Alliance and TM Forum partner to simplify adoption of edge computing for global telecom industry

  13-10-2021 12:00
  
  Collaboration will drive the advancement of industry standards on Open APIs for multi-access edge computing Singapore, London, Digital Transformation World Series (DTWS) 13 October 2021: Bridge Alliance, the leading mobile alliance covering 34 markets and TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, have entered into a strategic partnership that will simplify the adoption of edge computing for global telecom companies, enabling them to accelerate digit
  
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• 5G service revenues to hit $73 billion this year – Juniper

  13-10-2021 11:41
  
  Operators have the potential to generate hundreds of billions of dollars per year in revenue from 5G services in the coming years, provided they focus on virtualization in the core.
  So predicts Juniper Research, whose latest report puts global 5G service revenues at US$ 73 billion by the end of this year, an increase on the $20 billion recorded last year when 5G services were very much in their infancy, and representing 8.5% of operator revenue. The figure will increase to over $600 billion by 2
  
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• Cheap train tickets on Greater Anglia services

  13-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Greater Anglia has a cheap train ticket sale at the moment, offering tickets at just £5 or £1 for children one way – or £10 return.
  The offer sees 50,000 seats available for several journeys across the network that are available to purchase before 31st October for trips between 14th October to 21st November.
  The “Hare Fares” are available as Standard off-peak advance tickets only and are not valid with GroupSave and railcards, and first-class tickets are not i
  
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• Total Telecom Congress – live in London! A Day 1 teaser

  13-10-2021 02:00
  Online events kept many of us going through the last 18-months, but whilst they have some advantages our experiences of getting back to live events confirm that you can’t beat face-to-face.One of the regular highlights of the calendar, the Total Telecom Congress returns to the Business Design Centre on the 26-27 October 2021 and will once again coincide with the annual World Communication Awards. And whilst the ongoing restrictions caused by the pandemic will keep some of friends away, th
  
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• Regulatory change opens up access to Deutsche Telekom's fibre last mile in Germany

  13-10-2021 02:00
  The Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Networks Agency), the regulatory body for telecoms in Germany, has published a draft decision to stop ex-ante regulation of access to the last mile of Deutsche Telekom’s fibreoptic network, signalling a transition to light…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G’s next step? Enabling XR, says Huawei

  13-10-2021 02:00
  Since the first commercial launches of 5G over two years ago, the latest generation of mobile technology has come a long way. Despite the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 1.5 million 5G base stations have been successfully deployed worldwide, facilitating over 500 million subscribers, and this number is only going to grow, with various estimates predicting around one billion subscribers in 2022 and roughly three billion by 2024. But despite the widespread availability and
  
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