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• Half-price train ticket offer on C2C railway services

  01-11-2021 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you fancy a cheap trip to Essex, then C2C is offering 1,000 half-price off-peak weekday tickets on c2c trains for travel over the next two weeks. The offer is timed to coincide with the COP26 conference, hence applicable for journeys between 1st to 12th November – excluding weekends.
  For journeys going out of London, tickets are valid for travel after 9:30am Monday to Friday. For journeys towards London, tickets are valid on trains scheduled to arrive into London after 10am Monday to Fr
  
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• Passengers can drive the DLR trains again

  01-11-2021 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Probably the very best thing about living in London is sitting at the front of a driverless DLR train and pretending to be the driver.
  However, during the pandemic, Londoners have been deprived of that pleasure as the area was sealed off to ensure that the Passenger Service Agents could have a safe space to operate the doors, provide messages, and occasionally drive the trains.Now though, exciting times as the barriers are coming down, and we can once again enjoy the unadulterated joy of sitting
  
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• FWA: The Answer to Sub-Saharan Africa’s connectivity challenge

  01-11-2021 16:13
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Wim van Thillo, CEO and Co-Founder at Pharrowtech, talks up the merits of fixed wireless access for connecting the unconnected.
  To be part of the world’s ever-more digital economy, individuals and businesses need reliable, high speed internet access. The latest smartphone or tablet might be a great gadget, but without connectivity it won’t have a sig
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G, Meta and quarterlies

  01-11-2021 16:01
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · 5G, Meta and quarterlies
  
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• Ten exhibitions to visit in London during November

  01-11-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  My monthly roundup of ten excellent exhibitions to visit during November 2021 while you’re dodging the fireworks and Christmas adverts.Phantoms of Surrealism
  Whitechapel Gallery
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  On a hot summer day of 1936, a woman dressed in a bridal gown paraded in Trafalgar Square; her head completely covered in red roses. The mystery woman puzzled passers-by and later that day made the newspaper headlines. The archive exhibition Phantoms of Surrealism will examine the pivotal role of women as both
  
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• GSMA calls for COP26 to address ‘underused’ smart tech

  01-11-2021 15:11
  
  Ahead of the upcoming COP26 summit, the GSMA has warned that the world could miss its CO2 reduction targets if it fails to exploit the full potential of smart technology.
  According to research from the telco lobby group in partnership with the Carbon Trust, rolling out smart technology across various industry sectors could fulfil 40 percent of the reduction in carbon emissions that is needed if the world is going to achieve net zero by 2050.
  However, adoption is proving somewhat sluggish. For in
  
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• Huawei consumer business continues to tank

  01-11-2021 15:01
  
  Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei’s latest quarterly numbers reveal another big fall in revenues, thanks mainly to its crippled consumer division.
  While we should perhaps be grateful that privately-owned Huawei chooses to share any numbers with us, we still regret how sparing they are. We get these days is just the two datapoints: that revenue for the first three quarter combined was CNY455.8 billion and its net profit margin was 10.2%. The revenue figure is down 32% year-on-year but the marg
  
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• New SK Telecom CEO bets on AI and content to drive rapid growth

  01-11-2021 13:13
  
  Ryu Young-sang, the new CEO of slimmed-down SK Telecom, thinks AI and converged content services will help to drive a 20 percent increase in revenue by 2025.
  The change in personnel comes after the Korean telco spun off its ICT operation into a new entity, SK Square, which will be led by Ryu’s predecessor at SK Telecom, Park Jung-ho. Under Park’s leadership, SK Square has grand plans to expand aggressively into the semiconductor market.
  As part of his vision to evolve the remaining t
  
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• Historic railway arches at London Bridge to be restored

  01-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A run-down but prominent set of railway arches at London Bridge station, nicknamed Findlater’s Corner after the wine merchant that used to occupy them are to be restored.
  Now managed by The Arch Company, the restoration will be part of their wider plans to bring around 1,000 railway arches back into commercial use.
  Findlater’s Corner has long been an oddity in the area, being both placed right at the junction with London Bridge and the Borough High Street, it has a commanding locatio
  
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• Consensus against digital censorship begins to cross political divides

  01-11-2021 12:55
  
  Recent acts of digital censorship are helping people understand it’s not a tool that can be restricted to their ideological opponents.
  A major argument against all censorship is that it requires subjective judgment calls. No individual person’s judgment is flawless and free from bias, while the algorithms used as the first lines of speech policing online are often crude and only as good as the parameters people put into them. Nonetheless today’s public discussion is often bligh
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bridle Lane, W1

  01-11-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A long narrow passageway in Soho that owes its origins to the era of horse-drawn carriage and the grand houses on the other side of the lane.
  When all around here was still fields, its fields were owned by Eton College until taken by the Crown in the 1530s, and was known as Windmill Fields. In around 1575, the land was leased to Thomas Poultney, and his descendants later chopped the land up to be sublet to developers.
  The first major laying out of roads and housing comes from just after the Grea
  
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• Microwave backhaul rising to the challenge of 5G

  01-11-2021 01:00
   In 2021, 5G is now already well established across much of the world, bringing with it many challenges when it comes to backhaul, not least the greatly increased capacity requirements and device density. Thankfully, microwave backhaul is already proving itself the ideal solution for meeting these challenges in a variety of scenarios and markets around the world. Indeed, microwave backhaul is currently a mainstay for 4G and 5G backhaul services in many markets and this is unlikely to
  
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• Levelling up in action claims Dorries as next stage of Project Gigabit announced

  01-11-2021 01:00
  "The latest stage of our £5bn Project Gigabit plan will help hard-to-reach homes and businesses out of the broadband slow lane and plug them into the fastest and most reliable connections available," said Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• How telcos can derive more value from its connected infrastructure data whilst competing with big tech companies.

  01-11-2021 01:00
  At this year’s Total Telecom Congress 2021, Tirath Virdee, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Capita…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Delivering digital learning for children across Africa

  01-11-2021 01:00
  Airtel Africa and UNICEF announced today a five-year pan-African partnership to help accelerate the roll-out of digital learning through connecting schools to the internet and ensuring free access to learning platforms across 13 countries. By providing equal access to quality digital learning, particularly for the most vulnerable children…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Alternative networks are driving fibre rollout in the US as well

  01-11-2021 01:00
  We hear a lot in the UK about how challenger networks, the altnets, are playing a significant role in the rollout of fibre, but what is less apparent to us is that a similar picture is emerging in the United States.Much has been published about the strides taken by Tier 1 telco&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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