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• Sale on tickets to Pride and Prejudice (*sort of)

  05-11-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story.
  Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate all-female adaptation, where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance.First seen at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in 2018, Isobel McArthur’s acclaimed comedy of manners is now playing in London at the Criterion
  
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• London Underground to close part of the Northern line next year

  05-11-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The long-planned closure of the Northern line bank branch has been confirmed by TfL today so that it can complete the upgrade of Bank tube station.
  The closure is needed so that a new tunnel and platform that’s been dug next to Bank tube station can be joined into the existing railway. As that needs the existing railway tunnel to be knocked through into the new, trains can’t run through the tunnels, so the line needs to close.
  The new southbound platform in 2018
  The closure has long
  
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• London’s Christmas lights switch on dates and times

  05-11-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s Christmas lights season again, and a lot of councils and local organisations will be holding formal lighting ceremonies.
  Below is a list of the ones I have been able to find around London. Many more areas have lights, but don’t seem to have formal lights-on events.
  It’s also been a bit of an issue that so many organisers haven’t included what time the lights switch-on event is taking place, so you may need to check local press or just phone up the council and ask the
  
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• There’s a statue of a dead parrot in Greenwich

  05-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thousands of people walk past it, but hardly any will ever notice that they just walked past the statue of a dead parrot.
  It’s a sculpture by John Reardon, called initially called “Unwanted Gift” as there wasn’t an agreement as to where it would be sited, but unsurprisingly, it’s is much better known as the “Monument to a Dead Parrot”.The name is a play on the famous Monty Python sketch about a dead parrot, although that parrot was a Norwegian Blue, not
  
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• Deutsche Telekom fibre rollout boosted by new investor

  05-11-2021 12:58
  
  German telco Deutsche Telekom has created a fibre expansion joint venture with investment company IFM, which is putting €900 million into it.
  DT hadn’t got around to issuing an English press release at time of writing so, as well as Google Translate, we’re reliant on IFM for the details. IFM is an Australia-based global investment fund with a soft spot for infrastructure. Its investment buys is a 50% stake in GlasfaserPlus, which has been created to rollout fibre in rural German
  
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• Brazil finally gets its 5G act together

  05-11-2021 12:26
  
  Brazil’s long-awaited auction of spectrum for 5G mobile services is finally underway.
  If it feels like a long time since Nokia predicted that Brazil would soon hold the biggest 5G auction ever, that’s because it is. It was summer 2019 when the Finnish vendor’s chief technology officer in Latin America Wilson Cardoso made such a comment to Reuters that was subsequently excitedly re-reported across the industry.
  At that time we were expecting the auction to take place in the firs
  
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• Concerns over aviation interference delay US C-band rollout

  05-11-2021 12:20
  
  The mid-band 5G spectrum known as C-band, which US operators shelled out billions for at the start of this year, has encountered an unexpected obstacle.
  According to a report in the WSJ, US operators AT&T and Verizon are delaying their planned rollout of services across the 3.7-4.2 GHz band because comms regulator FCC and aviation regulator FAA are worried they may interfere with airplane cockpit safety systems. Presumably they also use that frequency.
  “Aviation safety and technology l
  
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• Energy costs hit Telefónica’s Q3 earnings in Spain

  05-11-2021 11:27
  
  Telefónica turned in a solid performance in the third quarter of this year, buoyed by its German unit and businesses in Latin America, but all is not rosy at its domestic operations.
  The Spanish incumbent crowed about its record net income figure for the first nine months of the year, driven by asset disposals, and confirmed its full-year guidance, but seemed keen to draw attention away from Spain itself, where earnings took a sizeable hit.
  Telefónica España, which accounts
  
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• IBM spins off digital transformation services as a separate business

  05-11-2021 01:00
  The ringing of the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange marked the start of Kyndryl existence as a separate business to IBM and the journey for what claims to be the world&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FCC concludes Boeing’s satellite broadband ambitions are in the public interest

  05-11-2021 01:00
  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order states “we conclude that grant in part of the Boeing Application will serve the public interest” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel went on to say &ldquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom forms joint venture with IFM to accelerate FTTH roll-out

  05-11-2021 01:00
  Deutsche Telekom has announced a 50-50 joint venture with IFM, an Australian investment firm, to create GlasfaserPlus GmbH.IFM will invest through its IFM Global Infrastructure Fund and its 50% stake will be worth 0…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 20 years of driving connectivity in Somalia

  05-11-2021 01:00
  2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Hormuud Telecom, Somalia’s largest broadband and telecommunications provider. In 2002, Somalia was just emerging from a protracted civil war. Hormuud Telecoms was established in the heart of Mogadishu, with a group of small shareholders and just 16 telecommunication sites. Twenty years on, the company continues to see exponential growth, driven by one core purpose: to deliver products and services that bring value to customers and im
  
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