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• Cheap early week tickets to The Lion King

  29-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barely needs any introduction – the Lion King musical that’s been playing by Covent Garden for over 22 years.
  Although tickets at weekends start from £54 per person, if you book for Mondays or Tuesday evenings, there are performances available at the moment for just £25 per person.
  In addition, book by 21st November, and there’s no booking fees on tickets for shows between 2nd Nov to 15th Dec.
  Tickets are available from here.Based on the Disney animated film then re
  
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• 5G to arrive in Portugal within weeks, says ANACOM chief

  29-10-2021 14:33
  
  After a long yawn-out auction of 5G-friendly spectrum, Joao Cadete says operators in Portugal are revving up for commercial launch.
  Joao Cadete, head of Portuguese regulator ANACOM, seems confident Portugal will soon put to bed its embarrassing status as one of only two countries in Europe – the other is Lithuania – that doesn’t have 5G.
  Speaking to media after an epic 200-day auction of spectrum, which swelled government coffers by nearly €567 million, Cadete indicated &n
  
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• Tickets Alert: The Laboratory of Psychical Research

  29-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A chance to both go inside Senate House and enter into a recreation of Harry Price’s 1920s National Laboratory of Psychical Research.
  Harry Price was a famous paranormal investigator and debunker of the many frauds committed by mediums and mystics who had become exceptionally popular in post-WW1 years.
  In 1926, he set up the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in South Kensington to bring a scientific vigour to the research into ghosts and other paranormal activities. In 1934, the re
  
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• Facebook addresses its tarnished image with Meta rebrand

  29-10-2021 12:44
  
  The company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is now called Meta, ostensibly to signal a pivot towards AR and VR.
  The artist formerly known as Facebook has been banging on about the ‘metaverse’ for a while now. It seems to describe a dystopia in which all our external interactions are informed by some kind of digital overlay that will somehow improve reality. The most acute among you may already be forming a suspicion about which company will provide, manage and monetise thi
  
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• MYCOM OSI launches Enterprise Assurance Solutions for service providers to assure high-capacity and high-reliability advanced connectivity services for enterprises

  29-10-2021 12:32
  Implements real-time identification of service quality and customer impact analysis for premium enterprise services LONDON, UK – Oct 29th, 2021 – MYCOM OSI, a leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to some of the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced that it has launched Enterprise Assurance Solutions for CSPs to help them deliver and assure high-capacity and high-reliability advanced connectivity service
  
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• Samsung delivers record quarter on the back of chip demand

  29-10-2021 11:39
  
  Samsung Electronics published its financial results of Q3 with highest ever revenue and second highest profit, driven by sustained high market demand for semiconductors.
  Samsung’s total revenue on corporate level grew by 10% year-on-year to reach a record high of KRW 73.98 trillion ($63 billion, $1 = KRW1,171.4). The 42% gross margin is slightly higher than last quarter and an improvement of 1.7 percentage point y-o-y. Operating profit reached KRW 15.82 trillion, the highest in three years
  
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• Uncertainty about how Crossrail will repay loans – MP report

  29-10-2021 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Crossrail project is facing a £150 million funding gap and may struggle to repay its loans due to the drop in passenger numbers on the London Underground, a report by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is warning.
  Crossrail’s £18.8 billion estimated cost is being funded by a mix of debt borrowed by TfL, developer contributions, and a mix of grants and loans from the Department for Transport. As costs rose above the original £15.9 billion estimate (late
  
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• Will collaboration with Stadtwerke unlock the German fibre market?

  29-10-2021 02:00
  Compared to many of its neighbours, Germany has been slow to ramp up its fibre deployment, leaving it somewhat behind on the European stage. Now, however, the tide is changing and, as Backman puts it, the German market is “on the rebound”. Partly driven by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the demand for fibre infrastructure in Germany has surged in the last two years, bringing with it major investment for the national telecoms industry.“The market is booming right n
  
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• Ireland’s Siro targets FTTH expansion with new €620m investment

  29-10-2021 02:00
  Ireland moved one step closer to its gigabit society goals this week, with wholesale network operator Siro having received €620 million in fresh funding, allowing it to almost double its FTTH coverage across the country.Siro was first launched in 2015 as a joint venture between ESB and Vodafone…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Fibre rollouts: Collaborate to accelerate

  29-10-2021 02:00
  At this year's Connected Britian event, Bryan McIver, CEO at Vitruvi, led a compelling panel discussion alongside speakers from Giganet and FibrePeople on the importance of a solid end…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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