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• Tickets Alert: Derelict church to be lit up

  08-11-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A former church in Mile End will be lit-up this weekend as part of an arts event in the newly formed Heritage and Arts centre.
  The former Holy Trinity Church was built in 1834-41, but closed as a church in the 1980s and although rented out, it was largely left without any investment in repairs.  Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund the building was made watertight in 2019 and renamed The Heritage & Arts Centre Bow.
  Visitors are now invited to participate in an immersive subterranean a
  
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• Christmas jumpers from London’s venues

  08-11-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tis fast approaching the season to sit in front of your computer on a video call wearing nothing except a Christmas Jumper. You might not be commuting to work as much these days, but there’s still no excuse not to terrify your work colleagues with your taste of garish clothing over the next couple of months.
  The Christmas Jumper is increasingly a staple product of the museum shop, so a look around finds the following “delights” for you from London venues.Doctor Who Museum
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• Viasat lands Britain’s Inmarsat in $7.3bn deal

  08-11-2021 15:52
  More merger activity expected as satellite sector consolidation hots up
  
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• Telekom Srbija gets a bit of help from its friends at Vodafone

  08-11-2021 15:14
  
  Serbia’s biggest telco Telekom Srbija has decided it could be even more successful following a strategic partnership with Vodafone.
  Despite the name, Telekom Srbija is not part of DT group and is instead mostly state-owned. As the former state monopoly it’s the dominant landline player as well as accounting for around half of the mobile market. Vodafone group, of course, doesn’t have a presence in Serbia, which is what allows it to help out other operators there via its Partner
  
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• BT robots: coming to a street near you

  08-11-2021 14:20
  
  BT plans to use robots to help it install fibre infrastructure, be it atop telephone poles or underground.
  The UK incumbent has opened a new robotics research facility at its Adastral Park R&D site in Suffolk. Its goal is to develop innovative robotics solutions to speed up the deployment of infrastructure.
  It’s a broad project, looking to develop solutions that will be used to address civil engineering challenges in telecoms and others utilities in the UK and further afield. But it ob
  
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• Five key reasons why wireless is in your WAN future

  08-11-2021 14:07
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece James Bristow, SVP EMEA at Cradlepoint, highlights some key strategic uses for wireless WAN.
  The shift from wired networks has put Wireless WANs in the spotlight, and this “network transformation” has only been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The historical shift from wired Ethernet LANs to Wi-Fi is a great example of what’s in store for
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Huawei, fibre and C-band

  08-11-2021 13:23
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Huawei, fibre and C-band
  
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• A rare black diamond is displayed at the Natural History Museum

  08-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A large naturally black diamond has gone on display in the Natural History Museum’s minerals vault after being loaned to the museum for a year.
  All diamonds are coloured by impurities in the crystal, but a pure black diamond is quite unusual as only one in 10,000 natural diamonds is classed as fancy coloured, and out of these, only a handful of them are truly black. In addition to being unusual in colour, at 93 carats, it’s also the largest diamond currently on display at the Museum.
  
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• Brazil gets a new nationwide mobile player

  08-11-2021 12:27
  
  The lion’s share of new 5G spectrum in Brazil has gone to the big three, as expected, but half a dozen small players also won frequencies, with one picking up a national licence.
  The country launched the sale process late last week, almost two years later than it originally intended. Despite the delays, the auction was done and dusted in a couple of days, enabling regulator Anatel to announce that it had raised 47.2 billion reais (US$8.5 billion), which is roughly what industry watchers ex
  
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• MTN reportedly mulling takeover of Telkom South Africa

  08-11-2021 11:39
  
  Consolidation of the South African telecoms market may be on the cards if a report from Bloomberg has any substance.
  Those handy ‘people familiar with the matter’ told Bloomberg that MTN Group – Africa’s largest operator group – recently made a takeover approach for Telkom South Africa. Having said that, when Bloomberg asked MTN for confirmation all it got was this statement: “There is no deal on the table in relation to this matter.”
  All this points to
  
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• London’s Alleys: Mills Court, EC3

  08-11-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is one of those industrial alleys that Shoreditch is cleaning up into decorative residential areas, but still has plenty of character left to it.
  The area was fields until the 1750s, when Charlotte Road was laid out with two blocks of houses and Mills Court between them.
  R Horwood Map 1799
  Although pure speculation, it was possibly named after a mill in the area when it was fields.
  Although the houses with back gardens have long since been replaced with larger industrial properties, the T-s
  
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• Viasat to acquire Inmarsat for $7.3bn

  08-11-2021 01:00
  Today, Viasat has announced that acquisition of Inmarsat for $7.3 billion, giving its global broadband and narrowband networks a major boost both in terms of the number of satellites as well as available spectrum.The deal comprises around $850 million in cash, $3.1 billion in equity to Viasat, and the assumption of around $3.4 billion in debt.The move will see the two companies combine their terrestrial and satellite assets…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Lockheed Martin and Verizon to advance 5G innovation for US Dept. of Defense

  08-11-2021 01:00
  Verizon and Lockheed Martin have signed an agreement to collaborate on 5G.MIL™ technologies that will provide ultra-secure, reliable connections for U.S. Department of Defense systems, bringing together high-tech platforms into a cohesive network spanning air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. "Verizon is at the cutting edge when it comes to building out reliable…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT looks to civil engineering robotics to speed up fibre rollout

  08-11-2021 01:00
  The UK fibre rollout is progressing at a startling pace, racing towards the government’s gigabit Britain goals of 85% coverage of full fibre by 2025. But despite the rollout acceleration we have seen over the last few years, deploying this crucial infrastructure remains a challenge, especially in areas with more complicated geography or regulations. With the easy-to-reach areas around the country quickly becoming saturated…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• $1.2tn infrastructure bill will see $65bn US broadband boost

  08-11-2021 01:00
  Late on Friday, the House of Representatives approved President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, passing the legislation with a vote of 228 to 206.  The bill’s journey towards becoming law has been a bumpy one, facing opposition from both sides of the political fence. Naturally, the majority of Republican representatives opposed the bill, dubbing it as an excessive use of taxpayer money and a slippery slope towards ‘big government’. Nonetheless, 1
  
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• $1.2tn infrastructure bill will see $65bn broadband boost

  08-11-2021 01:00
  Late on Friday, the House of Representatives approved President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, passing the legislation with a vote of 228 to 206.  The bill’s journey towards becoming law has been a bumpy one, facing opposition from both sides of the political fence. Naturally, the majority of Republican representatives opposed the bill, dubbing it as an excessive use of taxpayer money and a slippery slope towards ‘big government’. Nonetheless, 1
  
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