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• London Overground restoring night services in time for Christmas

  03-11-2021 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Night Overground is to resume services next month, just in time for the Christmas party season.
  TfL has announced that from Friday 17th December, there will be Night Overground services between Highbury & Islington and New Cross Gate running every 15 minutes throughout the night on Fridays and Saturdays.These services will complement the returning Night Tube, providing an interchange with the Victoria line at Highbury & Islington. This, along with easy access to Night Tube on the Cen
  
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• Northern line inspired art exhibition

  03-11-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An exhibition is opening shortly in Highgate full of art inspired by the Northern line. Created by the group, East Finchley Open Artists, each artist was tasked with creating images that relate to a Northern Line station of their choice.
  Each work will respond to the chosen station’s name, and artists have already selected a wide range of Northern Line stations for inspiration including Colliers Wood, Oval, Angel and High Barnet. The exhibition will comprise a variety of wall-hung work inc
  
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• Telefónica Deutschland ups outlook as customers stay sticky

  03-11-2021 14:41
  
  Telefónica Deutschland claims to be experiencing ‘historic highs’ in customer loyalty, as a strong performance at its mobile business enabled it to increase its outlook for the full year.
  Telefónica’s German unit, which operates under the O2 brand, posted third-quarter results that show solid growth in revenue, earnings and contract mobile customers. As a result, it has increased its OIBDA, or adjusted operating income – Telefónica’s preferred e
  
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• Facebook does an about-face on facial recognition

  03-11-2021 13:52
  
  As if to symbolise its rebrand, Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting over a billion individuals’ facial templates.
  The system is what allows Facebook to recognise the presence of a face in a photo and suggest a user to tag it to. Knowing this move was imminent, a more appropriate new name for the company may have been ‘Book’, but what do we know? Facebook is positioning the move as ‘part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial rec
  
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• Netflix enters the mobile gaming arena with a whisper

  03-11-2021 13:28
  
  Video streaming giant Netflix is now bundling mobile games in its offer, starting with a small number of titles and thus limited disruption to the gaming industry’s business model.
  The company announced that Netflix games on mobile has been launched in all the markets it offers streaming service. A new row called “All mobile games” will appear on the main menu when a user logs into the Netflix app on an Android phone or tablet (pictured). Five titles supplied by three studios a
  
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• You can climb to the top of the Monument tower again

  03-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Monument, a tall stone tower in the City of London you can climb up and commemorates the Great Fire of London is reopening following its pandemic closure.
  The 202 feet tall stone column, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Dr Robert Hooke stands on the piazza between Fish Street Hill and Monument Street – roughly 202 feet from where the fire originally started.To go in the Monument is to climb up 311 stone steps, occasionally squeezing past people coming back down, and up to a walkway
  
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• Independents, incumbents and regulators intersect at INCA event for Gigabit Britain

  03-11-2021 12:39
  
  Keynote speeches from Ofcom, ADTRAN, DCMS, and leading alt-nets including CityFibre fill agenda of INCA’s annual conference London, UK, 3rd November – The alt-net sector will come together to consider the future of Project Gigabit this week, following a period of record investment in independent networks and amongst growing recognition of the role they are playing in levelling up the UK’s digital infrastructure. At INCA’s annual conference, ‘Scaling up: Creating the
  
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• Telcos expand Eco Rating phone scheme, but guess who’s still not in

  03-11-2021 12:17
  
  The scheme to rate mobile phone models based on eco-friendly criteria is ready to be launched globally but there is one device maker that still does not appear on the list of participants.
  The Eco Rating scheme unveiled by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Company and Vodafone in May was initially rolled out in 24 European countries, followed by South Africa and Brazil, via Vodafone’s Vodacom and Telefónica’s Vivo respectively.
  The telcos said they are now rea
  
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• Local councils opt for cheaper Crossrail extension into Kent

  03-11-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A proposal to extend the Elizabeth line into Kent has been submitted to the government following a number of years of consultation work.
  A number of options were being considered for a possible extension of the line beyond Abbey Wood station, and the councils along the route have opted for the cheapest of the two extension options. If it’s built, this would see 12 trains per hour to Abbey Wood as is already planned, then extended past there to offer 8 trains per hour to Northfleet, and 4 t
  
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• Mobile and broadband upgrades could drive more than 500,000 UK jobs by 2026

  03-11-2021 01:00
  New research from Virgin Media O2 and economic modelling experts Oxford Analytica has resulted in the creation of the first ever Digital Connectivity Index (DCI), using OECD datapoints to measure how individuals and organisations can connect with one another and the rest of the world through high…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Italian government launches €4 billion investment scheme for fibre and 5G

  03-11-2021 01:00
  Italy’s Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition, Vittorio Colao, has announced a €4 billion investment scheme to connect a further 6.2 million people with fibre and 5G…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre celebrates passing 1 million UK homes with full fibre

  03-11-2021 01:00
  CityFibre’s full fibre rollout has reached a new milestone today with the announcement that its network now covers over 1 million UK homes. The announcement marks an important landmark in CityFibre’s £4 billion nationwide investment which is aimed at reaching up to 8 million homes by 2025…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT partners with OneWeb to offer satellite services to customers

  03-11-2021 01:00
  OneWeb has agreed a new Distribution Partner Agreement to provide Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication services across BT Group. The deal covers BT’s Enterprise, Consumer and Global units and follows on from the initial Memorandum of Understanding which was signed in July.BT has already begun testing how LEO satellite technology integrates with its existing terrestrial capabilities and with existing services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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