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• Tickets Alert: Public tours of UCL’s telescope observatory

  04-11-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the UK’s largest telescopes can be found, surprisingly, in North London, and there are now regular tours of the observatory. Operated by University College London (UCL), the observatory was founded in 1925 and is one of the best-equipped astronomical facilities for student training and research in the UK.
  Despite its London location, they still manage to get serious science done through the background glare of the city lights — in 2014, a supernova in the galaxy M82 was discov
  
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• A special beer for the Lord Mayor’s Show

  04-11-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Toast the return of the Lord Mayor’s Show with a new limited edition bottled beer from Shepherd Neame. Procession Lager (4.8% ABV) – named in honour of the parade led by the Lord Mayor – is described as a “contemporary lager, pale gold in colour with a zesty citrus aroma and crisp, refreshing taste.”
  The bottle’s logo incorporates the 250-year-old golden carriage that leads the parade, while also remaining contemporary with a whimsical depiction of the Lord Ma
  
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• Dish’s mobile business really needs a boost

  04-11-2021 15:03
  
  Dish Network kept its third quarter results announcement short and sweet, which is unsurprising given that it is losing customers, spending money, and dragging its feet on its 5G launch.
  The US operator reported a 2% on-year revenue decline in the three months to the end of September to US$4.45 billion, while EBITDA was down by 5.5% to $915.6 million, although the company did get a boost in net profit.
  While revenue at Dish Network’s core – for the moment, at least – pay TV bus
  
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• FCC allows Boeing to get into the broadband satellite game

  04-11-2021 14:57
  
  US aviation giant Boeing is finally being allowed to launch some communications satellites over four years after it first applied.
  The FCC – America’s communications regulator – has granted Boeing ‘a license to construct, deploy, and operate a satellite constellation’. The stated purpose of this constellation is to provide broadband and communications services to whoever wants them in the US and globally. In that respect it will be in direct competition with SpaceX,
  
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• It’s fibre all the way for the UK in Q3 21

  04-11-2021 14:16
  
  BT has dropped plans to partner up on fibre, while data shared by rivals CityFibre and Virgin Media O2 shows that high-speed broadband is rolling out apace in the UK.
  The UK incumbent in May committed to an acceleration of its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network buildout and simultaneously indicated it was mulling bringing in a strategic partner to help out. Having examined the idea of creating a joint venture with a third party to manage the additional 5 million homes it added to its plan &nda
  
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• Vincent Van Gogh’s London home opens to the public

  04-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A small side road in Stockwell is the unlikely spot for an artistic great, the home, for a while of Vincent Van Gogh.
  Born in the Netherlands, Vincent was always interested in art as a child, but was never expected to be an artist. He trained though as an art dealer, and in 1873 he ended up in London, working for a relative who owned an art dealership. He was modestly successful as a dealer, and a lot of surviving letters clearly show that he loved living in London.
  He took lodgings in a room in
  
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• US puts smartphone spyware company NSO on its entity list

  04-11-2021 12:51
  
  NSO Group’s Pegasus software is accused of enabling phone hacking by certain regimes, so the US has decided to try to drive it out of business.
  For the past few years the US entity list has been mainly used to cripple Chinese companies, most prominently Huawei, in the name of national security. Its remit is now apparently being expanded to companies originating from other countries, even close allies. Israeli firm NSO Group is suspected of facilitating state phone hacking, which seems to b
  
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• BT updates savings target and trims spending outlook

  04-11-2021 09:35
  UK telecoms group reinstates dividend as it awaits the next move by its largest shareholder, billionaire Patrick Drahi
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Royal Docks floating garden

  04-11-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A few weeks ago a new pocket park opened in London, and this one floats on the water. It’s a floating garden that’s been created in the Royal Docks, next to the Dangleway as a “green haven for people and nature alike”.
  The floating garden is roughly half decking and half planting, and the plating is designed to create a micro-wilderness of submerged roots that create a new habitat for microorganisms that feed off the mix of carbon and nutrients in the water, purifying it.
  
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• Eighteen more sites added to London’s heritage at risk register

  04-11-2021 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The annual update to the list of heritage sites at risk in London has seen 18 sites added to the register over the past year, although in good news, 32 sites were removed as they are no longer considered to be at risk of further decay.
  Historic England’s annual Heritage at Risk Register is being published today, and although inspections were hampered by the lockdown, they were still able to compile a list of changes to the at-risk register.
  Over the last year, 32 historic buildings and sit
  
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• PIA Innovation – A key enabler in accelerating fibre rollouts in the UK

  04-11-2021 01:00
  Blocked ducts, congestion within access chambers and dealing with legacy cable systems are the most common drawbacks Altnets have to face whilst deploying apparatus in a 3rd parties’ network. It shouldn’t have to be that way any longer as we see more innovative products coming into the market from the likes of Emtelle where Altnets can deploy their networks when they need the fibre rather than spend all their capital upfront…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• PIA Innovation – A key enabler in accelerating fibre rollout in the UK

  04-11-2021 01:00
  Blocked ducts, congestion within access chambers and dealing with legacy cable systems are the most common drawbacks Altnets have to face whilst deploying apparatus in a 3rd parties’ network. It shouldn’t have to be that way any longer as we see more innovative products coming into the market from the likes of Emtelle where Altnets can deploy their networks when they need the fibre rather than spend all their capital upfront…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Hawaiki announces new subsea project in the Pacific Region

  04-11-2021 01:00
  The Hawaiki Nui cable will span approximately 22,000km and will connect three major hubs in the Pacific Region: Singapore in South-East Asia, Sydney in Australasia, and Los Angeles in North America. Landings are also planned in Indonesia and New Zealand…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Firing on all cylinders - Virgin Media O2 release results for first full quarter as a joint business

  04-11-2021 01:00
  Commenting on the first 150 days as a combined company Virgin Media O2 CEO, Lutz Schüler, said “We have real commercial momentum with the launch of new converged bundles…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dunton logs into a faster future as Voneus begins to rollout fibre broadband connections

  04-11-2021 01:00
  The rollout of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) connection to a rural Bedfordshire village marks the end of a six-year campaign to bring fibre broadband into the community.One of the UK’s largest rural broadband specialists, Voneus, have begun rolling it out after originally arriving in Dunton in 2017 with an interim wireless solution, which immediately increased broadband speeds from less than 1Mbps to up to 30Mbps.And the benefits were immediately noticed throughout households and bus
  
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