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• King’s Cross station plaque commemorates Britain’s first black train driver

  25-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A blue plaque has been unveiled at King’s Cross station in celebration of Wilston Samuel (Bill) Jackson, the UK’s first black train driver, who drove his first passenger train in 1962. Apart from being a racial trailblazer, he was also to go on to drive famous trains and locomotives such as the Flying Scotsman and The Elizabethan.Born in the Jamaican parish of Portland in 1927, Wilston moved to London in 1952, and quickly took a job as a cleaner on the railway, learning how to look a
  
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• Robin.io and AirHop Announce Strategic Partnership to Modernize Open RAN Solutions for 4G/5G Networks

  25-10-2021 17:00
  
  Accelerating Network Deployment, Providing Increased Capacity, and Reducing Operational Expenses SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 25, 2021 — Robin.io and AirHop Communications today announced a strategic partnership to provide solutions that deliver automated improvements in the performance of Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN) and end-user quality of experience while reducing the costs, complexities and deployment times for Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and Cloud Service Providers (CS
  
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• How the UK Telecom Security Act is a catalyst for positive change

  25-10-2021 16:15
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Alastair Williams, Director of Solution Engineering EMEA at Skybox Security explains how preventative security can help telcos avoid multi-million-pound penalties.
  Following a lengthy parliamentary passage period, the UK’s Telecom Security Bill  is set to become law this autumn, imposing new requirements on telecommunications operators. In short, the
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Vodafone, public cloud and China

  25-10-2021 16:01
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Vodafone, public cloud and China
  
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• Camley Street’s natural park has reopened to the public

  25-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A rich nature reserve squeezes into a long narrow gap between two railway stations, and after several years of being closed to the public, the Camley Street Natural Park has at last reopened.
  This part of King’s Cross was the heart of the dirty industry of the area, with the canal to one side, the coal yards to the other, and railways all around, and it fell into dereliction in the 1970s/80s. Plans to redevelop the back of the station ahead of the Chanel Tunnel rail link’s arrival sa
  
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• Netflix issues tepid response to Korean network usage payment demands

  25-10-2021 15:35
  
  US video streaming giant Netflix has published a blog in response to SK Broadband suing it for the costs of increased network traffic resulting from Squid Game.
  For those with better things to do, Korean TV show Squid Game has taken Netflix by storm and has been its most popular item in many countries for some weeks. Due to the nature of streaming video, that means Squid Game alone is the cause of significant strain on the communications networks in many countries including, of course, South Kor
  
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• Telstra and Australian government buy Digicel Pacific for $1.85 billion

  25-10-2021 14:13
  
  After a protracted courtship Australian operator group Telstra is buying into six south Pacific markets in a move viewed as a counter to China’s influence in the region.
  Back in July former state telecoms monopoly Telstra confirmed it was working with the Aussie government to try to get hold of Digicel’s Pacific operations. While now fully privatized it’s clear Telstra still has strong ties to the Australian state, which in turn is increasingly worried about China’s regio
  
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• Ericsson raises its low latency game

  25-10-2021 13:28
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has launched some new software that claims to guarantee consistent low latency for things like VR and remote control.
  If anything is considered to be truly novel about 5G it’s low latency. More bandwidth and arguably better IoT support are merely refinements of was is already available but the near-eradication of delay across mobile networks is expected to unlock all kinds of whizzy new use-cases such as mobile-enabled virtual reality and the ability to remotely
  
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• More tickets released to go inside the King’s Observatory

  25-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The occasionally open King’s Observatory in Richmond has added a few extra dates due to interest in a chance to see inside the building.
  Only opened to the public following an extensive refurbishment in 2019, the tours were naturally suspended last year, leaving a lot of pent-up demand for this year. So as they have had to turn a lot of people away this year, the owner of the building has decided to add an additional 1.30pm tour to the Open Days in the two weeks beginning 8th and 15th Nove
  
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• Crossrail on target for next month’s Trial Operations phase

  25-10-2021 11:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The final stage of testing the Crossrail line before it can open to the public is on target to start next month.
  In his regular update to the London Assembly, Crossrail’s CEO, Mark Wild outlined recent work on the project. For the past few months, the trains have been running the 12 trains per hour (tph) service that is needed to build the millage and prove the reliability of the line and the signalling systems.
  During the trial running, they’ve delivered 95% of the 12tph service tha
  
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• Telstra buys Digicel’s Pacific operations in government-backed deal

  25-10-2021 09:14
  Canberra finances $1.6bn acquisition to check rising Chinese influence, analysts say
  
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• London’s Alleys: Percy Passage, W1

  25-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This alley just to the north of Oxford Street in the heart of Fitzrovia is a convenient shortcut through a block of shops and offices and is original from when the area was first laid out.William Franks, the developer who was responsible for the area was married to Mary Pepys, a relative of the diarist Samuel Pepys, and was granted a lease on the land in the 1760s to develop it into housing. In amongst the streets was a grand church, the Percy Chapel, with a small alley to the south side, Percy
  
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• Telstra agrees $1.6bn purchase of Digicel Pacific to curb Chinese influence

  25-10-2021 02:00
  Back in July, rumours had begun to circulate that Telstra was in talks with the Australian government discussing financial and strategic support for a potential takeover bid for Digicel Pacific. The deal, which was estimated at around A$2 billion, would be largely financed by the government in an effort to stop geopolitically important communications infrastructure in the Pacific falling into China&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile puts off 3G sunset for three months

  25-10-2021 02:00
  Back in August, T-Mobile accused Dish of ‘dragging their feet’ regarding the operator’s slow transition of customers off of CDMA (i.e., 3G) services and onto their. Now, T-Mobile is delaying their own CDMA shut down by an additional three months, perhaps in an effort to give Dish some wiggle room…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile delays 3G sunset for three months

  25-10-2021 02:00
  Back in August, T-Mobile accused Dish of ‘dragging their feet’ regarding the operator’s slow transition of customers off of CDMA (i.e., 3G) services and onto their. Now, T-Mobile is delaying their own CDMA shut down by an additional three months, perhaps in an effort to give Dish some wiggle room…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Being the agent of change for cloud native network architecture

  25-10-2021 02:00
  The term ‘cloud native’ is something that the telecoms industry has been gradually coming to terms with in recent years, but for the term remains loosely defined and somewhat ambiguous. For Inbar Lasser-Raab, chief marketing officer at DriveNets, cloud native networks can be defined by three key factors, each with their own clear benefits for the operator. 1. Disaggregated hardware and software – By decoupling the hardware and software, and allowing the latter to run
  
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• 5GRuralDorset leads world in 5G satellite backhaul research

  25-10-2021 02:00
  Having bagged the top spot in three categories at Connected Britain, the now multi-award-winning project has gone on to demonstrate satellite backhaul from a 5G standalone network - the only known example of this in the world.Connected through a satellite link back to the Satellite Application Catapult’s core network in Westcott, two sites in Portland now benefit from both satellite and terrestrial connectivity…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5GRuralDorset leads world in 5G satellite backhaul eesearch

  25-10-2021 02:00
  World firsts are rare.Yet for the second time in recent months, the 5GRuralDorset project has found itself at the cutting edge of telecommunications research.Having bagged the top spot in three categories at Connected Britain, the now multi-award-winning project has gone on to demonstrate satellite backhaul from a 5G standalone network - the only known example of this in the world…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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