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• Damning report into the failures of the Marble Arch Mound

  19-10-2021 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A damning report into the failures of the Marble Arch Mound has found that it suffered from a host of management failures and a deliberate attempt to conceal its rising costs from the council members.
  Announced in February 2021, the Mound was to be part of a wider £150 million project to revamp the West End and lure people back into the centre of London.
  The mound was supposed to cost £2 million to design, build and remove — plus £0.5 million for permanent improvements in
  
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• The final Crossrail station oversite has been handed to the developer

  19-10-2021 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The last of the Elizabeth line stations to have a building built above the station has been handed over to the developer, Grosvenor for an office development. The site, at 65 Davies Street will sit above the back of Bond Street station where a classic Edwardian style brick building occupied by the University of Arts had been based.
  That building had to be demolished to make space for the Elizabeth line construction site, and will now be redeveloped as a new office block, with an additional entra
  
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• Virgin Media O2 flirts with Samsung as a RAN vendor

  19-10-2021 15:00
  
  Newly-merged UK operator group VMO2 is going to conduct trials with Samsung to test the compatibility of its 4G and 5G kit with legacy networks.
  Samsung is a relatively recent arrival to the mobile network kit game and thus faces concerns about its ability to play nice with 2G and 3G legacy networks. The only way to allay these is to lob its kit into a mature network to see what happens and it seems VMO2 has volunteered to be just such a guinea pig.
  So Samsung baseband units, 5G massive MIMO rad
  
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• Vodafone moves to cut massive plastic use in SIM cards

  19-10-2021 14:34
  
  Vodafone is making a lot of noise about its plans to replace its SIM cards with ones made from recycled plastic.
  Fair enough. You can’t argue with a eco-friendly initiative like that. But perhaps the most striking thing about the whole announcement is how much plastic Vodafone is using to make SIM cards in the first place.
  The mobile operator claims that the switchover will eliminate the need for the manufacture of 320 tonnes of virgin plastic per year.
  320 tonnes?!
  In the interests of goo
  
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• Ericsson does OK in Q3 21 despite China crisis

  19-10-2021 13:43
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson saw sales fall by 1% in the third quarter but that was mainly down to its well-publicised market share losses among Chinese operators.
  It says something about China’s enduring propensity to generate a crisis that it provided the name for an 80s pop band. In many ways China is starting to regress back towards how things were back then, thanks to its leader’s appetite for picking fights with perceived domestic and international threats. The result is a suspe
  
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• Ericsson did OK in Q3 21 despite China crisis

  19-10-2021 13:43
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson saw sales fall by 1% in the third quarter but that was mainly down to its well-publicised market share losses among Chinese operators.
  It says something about China’s enduring propensity to generate a crisis that it provided the name for an 80s pop band. In many ways China is starting to regress back towards how things were back then, thanks to its leader’s appetite for picking fights with perceived domestic and international threats. The result is a suspe
  
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• London’s largest roof garden reopening to the public

  19-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The roof garden on top of the office block at 120 Fenchurch Street is to reopen following a lengthy pandemic closure.
  What is known as The Garden at 120 sits on top of the newly opened Fen Court office building at, unsurprisingly 120 Fenchurch Street, and is dramatic in both the size of the roof space and the views available.It had only been open for a year, having opened in February 2019 and the plants were just starting to get settled in when it had to close for the pandemic, and although lots
  
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• Spain looks ahead to lifting all fibre access rules

  19-10-2021 12:51
  
  Spain’s telecom regulator has lifted fibre access regulations in a large swathe of the country and is looking ahead to the possibility of an entirely rule-free set-up in just a few years.
  To put it simply, Spain has built out a pretty mature fibre broadband market.
  The CNMC has updated rules on wholesale access to fibre-optic networks that were set out in 2016. Back then there were 66 municipalities in Spain that were categorised as competitive in fibre terms, that is, with a choice of fib
  
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• Could the Tulip still rise over London?

  19-10-2021 12:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Tulip, a controversial bulbous viewing platform planned for the City of London could be approved following a planning appeal and inquiry.
  The tall tower is planned as a viewing platform, with a concrete spine taking people to the bud at the top, with viewing floors and a series of outside glass lifts. This gives it a slender stem-like appearance but does have the serious downside of not containing any commercial space beneath the viewing floor, so the building can serve just one unique funct
  
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• From WW2 to Cold War and today – the British Army in Germany

  19-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A James Bond style armoured car and a kettle for cups of tea in a tank are the highlights of an exhibition at the moment about the role played by the British Army in West Germany from the end of WW2 to modern times.
  The exhibition is chronological and opens with the Allied occupation of Germany, and Berlin in particular, and highlights not just the official rules about behaviour, but also the changing attitudes as British soldiers came into contact with people who were a few weeks earlier the di
  
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• Vodafone introduces recycled Eco-SIMs

  19-10-2021 02:00
  Today, Vodafone Group has announced that it will begin offering half-sized Eco-SIM cards made from recycled plastic to their customers.According to the operator, the Eco-SIM should eliminate the need for 320 tonnes of virgin plastic to be produced every year, which, in turn, should remove around 1,280 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• The journey from traditional telco to digital service provider

  19-10-2021 02:00
  In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent to operators around the world that they must go beyond traditional telco services if they are to survive and thrive in an increasingly digital age. This is especially true of the B2B sector, where telco customers are increasingly looking for more than just raw connectivity. Partially spurred on by the pandemic, enterprise customers are rapidly growing more digital, with more specific service requirements from their telco partners.“
  
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• Ericsson’s Chinese woes laid bare in latest results

  19-10-2021 02:00
  Ever since Sweden banned Huawei and ZTE from its upcoming 5G networks back in October 2020, Ericsson’s future in China has been put under the microscope. Since then, the vendor’s market share in China has collapsed, with sales for Q3 2021 today revealed to have fallen 74% year-on-year to just $150.3 million.As a result of this continuous decline, Ericsson has now announced that it will be rethinking its approach to the Chinese market, likely including downsizing operations in the ne
  
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• ‘Squid Game’ hit raises stakes for Netflix in broadband battle

  19-10-2021 01:01
  SK Broadband sues US company over cost of network traffic surge in potential precedent-setting case
  
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