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• Christmas drinks tastings at Leadenhall Market

  12-11-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month there will be a number of Christmas food and drinks tastings in Leadenhall Market, and tickets for them will be released next Friday (19th Nov).
  The tastings and a number of other events take place on the evening of Wednesday 8th December, as part of the market’s late-night shopping event. In addition to the shops and events, the Market’s famous shoeshine team will all continue through the evening until 8pm.
  The special events are:Christmas Wreath workshop: 6-7pm
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• Tickets offer for Matilda the Musical

  12-11-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Roald Dahl’s beloved childhood story comes to life on stage in this musical interpretation.
  Matilda’s parents think she is a nuisance and she thinks, quite rightly, they are only interested in watching telly. Life is not much better at school, where the monstrous headmistress Miss Trunchbull terrifies both students and teachers alike. Then one day Matilda discovers she has a very special power and decides it’s time the grown-ups were taught a lesson. Be warned, the children are
  
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• South Kensington tube station development recomended for approval

  12-11-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to redevelop the land around South Kensington tube station have been recommended for approval by a planning inspector report, although the final decision lies with the Councillors.
  The proposal will see the existing shops and flats to the north of the station redeveloped behind the facade to modernise the facilities. The empty space along the south side of the station, which used to be houses in the past will be rebuilt as flats, and the single-story “bullnose” in front of the
  
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• India’s 5G auction likely pushed into next financial year

  12-11-2021 12:28
  
  India’s next 5G spectrum auction is unlikely to happen before the end of the financial year because the regulator is still some way from making any firm decisions on the process.
  We are by now used to the preamble to the spectrum allocation process dragging on for longer than expected in India, so the news comes as no great surprise. We were looking ahead to a multi-band frequency auction before the end of March, but according to local press reports, an April or May timeframe now seems mor
  
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• Vivendi feud with the TIM board flares up again

  12-11-2021 12:24
  
  Telecom Italia isn’t having an easy time of it so major investor Vivendi has apparently started moaning again.
  It’s been a while since we checked in on TIM’s boardroom soap opera. Back in 2019 a sullen truce was agreed after Vivendi’s attempts to control the company without going to the hassle and expense of buying it were scuppered by the intervention of activist investor outfit Elliott. At the time Vivendi reluctantly decided to give the TIM top brass appointed by Ellio
  
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• Ofcom gives BT a break on broadband obligations

  12-11-2021 11:10
  
  Ofcom has made changes to the UK’s universal service obligation that ultimately ease some of the cost burden on BT when it comes to providing high-speed broadband in hard-to-reach areas.
  The broadband USO has been the subject of much debate since its rules were set out in 2018, and this time last year the telecoms regulator upset incumbent operator BT by opening an investigation into the way it chose to calculate the cost of delivering a 10 Mbps broadband connection to customers’ pre
  
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• Millicom makes big bet on Guatemala in $2.2bn telecoms deal

  12-11-2021 01:47
  Investment from Luxembourg-headquartered company is the largest on record for the Central American country
  
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• Vodafone partners VMware for core network automation throughout Europe

  12-11-2021 01:00
  Vodafone has selected VMware (NYSE: VMW) as its strategic technology partner to deliver a single platform to automate and orchestrate all workloads running on its core networks across Europe, starting with 5G standalone (5G SA).Vodafone previously announced its selection of VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure as its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform. Last year, Vodafone completed the rollout of Telco Cloud Infrastructure across all its European business and 21 markets in total. The
  
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• The 5G-aliser: Time to pump up the volume

  12-11-2021 01:00
   In early 2020, as a growing number of operators were launching commercial 5G services, it was clear that there were a wide range of factors that would affect the development of the market, from availability of spectrum and devices, to demand for high bandwidth services and private networks, and maturity of underlying technology and standards.To make sense of how 5G would evolve – and amuse ourselves in the process – the STL Partners research team, Dean Bubley (of Disruptive An
  
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• Millicom takes full control of Guatemalan JV in $2.2bn buyout

  12-11-2021 01:00
  Today, Latin American operator group Millicom has announced that it will buy out its joint venture partner, Miffin Associates, to gain full control of Tigo Guatemala.  The deal will see Millicom pay $2.2 billion in an all-cash transaction to acquire Miffin Associates’ 45% stake in the company. According to the Financial Times, the move marks the largest ever single foreign investment in Guatemala…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• How innovation is helping to maximize the value of 5G

  12-11-2021 01:00
  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a popular phrase, especially in 5G era. What do you think about the relationship between AI and 5G, and how does ZTE develop 5G with AI?AI and 5G will develop and evolve together with each other, and this is a two-way channel, benefiting both technologies. AI is built in multi-layers of 5G to form the ubiquitous AI capability. The AI capabilities are designed in a modular form at the network equipment layer, O&M layer, and service layer, which enables constru
  
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• BT introduces ‘epidemiological AI’ Inflame to combat cyber attacks

  12-11-2021 01:00
  Many of us have become only too aware of virus transmission methods in the past couple of years, but BT thinks that understanding epidemiology could be more useful to the telecoms sector than simply helping us stay healthy.  Today, the operator has announced its ‘Inflame’ prototype, which uses deep reinforcement learning to help enterprises to automatically anticipate and detect cyber threats…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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