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• 2021 Glotel Awards winners unveiled

  23-11-2021 18:18
  
  The winners of the telecoms industry’s most prestigious awards event have finally been revealed.
  A healthy range of companies were represented this year, with the 20 awards spread among no less than 13 winners. The big kit vendors all did well, with Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia each winning more than once, while SK Telecom was again crowned operator of the year. The winning entries also represented the latest trends in telecoms, including 5G, OpenRAN and telco cloud.
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• Half-price train and bus travel for jobseekers

  23-11-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s less well known than it should be, but job seekers can claim half-price travel on the railways and London buses with a free Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount Card, and it’s not limited to just trips to job interviews.
  The railcard covers Anytime Day tickets, Off-Peak Day tickets and Season tickets for up to three months on the national rail network, and can be applied for via the Jobcentre.
  The rail industry has offered the discount for some years, but reports that take-up has drop
  
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• Location tracking consolidation as Life360 acquires Tile for $205 million

  23-11-2021 15:13
  
  Life360, which calls itself a ‘family safety platform’, is buying device tracking company Tile to give it a fuller location tracking offering.
  On one level this is a fairly niche area. While technologies that enable you to track the location of devices are useful, it’s hard to imagine they represent an especially big or exciting market, especially given the relatively modest $205 million price tag. Having said that, any parent will confirm that the ability to see where their ki
  
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• China is closing in on 700 million 5G subscribers

  23-11-2021 14:41
  
  Chinese telcos added 43.8 million 5G subscribers during October, putting the country on course to comfortably surpass 700 million this month.
  The country’s biggest operator by customers, China Mobile, continued to lead the way, adding 24.33 million 5G subscribers, leaving it with a total of 355.52 million. Second-placed China Telecom increased its 5G customer base to 168.49 million, up by 12.95 million on September. Finally, China Unicom added 6.57 million, giving it a total of 143.51 mill
  
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• Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea both hike prices, citing the need to increase ARPU

  23-11-2021 13:54
  
  Two of the three major Indian mobile network operators have felt forced to increase the price of many of their tariffs so they can pay their bills.
  Yesterday Bharti Airtel announced a bunch of tariffs would go up in price by 20% or so starting at the end of this week. It took just a day for Vodafone Idea to conclude that’s a great idea and announce similar hikes that come into effect a day sooner – i.e. this Thursday. At time of writing there didn’t seem to be any equivalent mo
  
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• It’s all Greek to the Science Museum

  23-11-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exploration of how the ancient Greeks saw the convergence of art and science has opened at the Science Museum, featuring ancient Greek objects, many of which have never been seen in the UK before.
  Ancient Greek philosophers defined themselves as ‘lovers of wisdom’ and, for them, art, religion and science were inseparable. They turned to the gods and Muses for intellectual inspiration as they sought to understand the world around them and question its workings.
  The exhibition takes
  
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• Orange Belgium in €1.8bn takeover talks with VOO

  23-11-2021 12:55
  
  Convergence is the name of the game in Belgium, which is why Orange hopes to hammer out a €1.8 billion cableco deal there.
  Following a competitive selection process, Orange revealed on Tuesday that it has been chosen by Belgian conglomerate Nethys to begin exclusive negotiations that could result in Orange acquiring a 75 percent stake in Nethys’ VOO unit.
  VOO offers quad-play services in Belgium’s southernmost region Wallonia, and part of Brussels. Its top-end broadband package
  
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• HS2 starts construction of the Old Oak Common station box

  23-11-2021 11:39 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Construction work has started on the large subterranean concrete box that will eventually house the HS2 platforms at the new Old Oak Common station.
  Work to construct the 850m-long station box at HS2’s Old Oak Common station began as the concrete frame and substructure specialist, Expanded, started on site. The station box is a reinforced concrete structure that will form the frame and base for the HS2 station building. When completed, the station box will be 850m long – the length o
  
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• There’s a museum in James J Fox, London’s oldest cigar shop

  23-11-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a small shop in St James that’s said to be the oldest cigar shop in the world, and it houses its own museum, that’s also open to the public.
  The cigar shop at 19 St James’s Street is thought to have been here since 1787 when it traded at Robert Lewis. A separate cigar dealer, James J Fox was set up in Dublin in 1881, and opened their first store in 1947. In 1992, the two firms merged, and the store was renamed James J Fox, but only the name above the door changed,
  
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• The return of the private equity mega-deal

  23-11-2021 06:00 via ft.com
  Plus, the SEC takes aim at McKinsey’s private hedge fund, and how the battle for Unilever’s tea business boiled down to a win by default
  
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• The growing relevance of 6GHz for 5G

  23-11-2021 01:00
  “In the future we will target the 6GHz band as we see it very important for our future capacity needs and growth in Europe. The upper part of the 6GHz band is available which we believe is ideal for network operators to evolve network capacity beyond 2028 and 2030. In the future we do believe that 6GHz will complement our 3.5GHz spectrum asset,” says Nadia Benabdallah, Network Strategy and Engineering Director, Vodafone at the recently concluded Mobile Broadband Forum 2021.
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• Startup Stories: How an award winning startup is making construction safer

  23-11-2021 01:00
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  PLINX is a safety system designed to make construction sites safer. The system protects construction workers and employers by restricting access based on role and purpose to areas of hazardous activity. We create reliable and easy to deploy network infrastructure that connects people, plant and places without reliance on third parties. We deliver this data to you to positively Affect the safety, security and quality…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange furthers convergence strategy with bid for VOO in Belgium

  23-11-2021 01:00
  Today, Orange Belgium has announced that it has began negotiations with Nethys for the acquisition of a 75% stake, minus one share, in fixed line operator VOO. The deal values VOO at around €1.8 billion.VOO’s network is situated primarily in Wallonia, the French-speaking southern half of Belgium, along with a significant presence in the nation&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NTT DOCOMO and JTOWER partner to promote infrastructure sharing

  23-11-2021 01:00
  DOCOMO will acquire shares in JTOWER, which are currently held by DOCOMO’s parent company NTT, and will become a shareholder with 2.5% voting rights. Founded in 2012, JTOWER Inc was the first Infra…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Israel may finally permit Palestine to upgrade to 4G

  23-11-2021 01:00
  For many years now, the overt political tensions between Israel and Palestine have led to the repression of Palestinian mobile companies and their networks, leaving Palestinian customers in reliant on 3G, even as Israel itself pushes forward with the deployment of 5G. In fact, operators in the West Bank only received permission to operate 3G services as recently as 2018, while those in Gaza are currently limited to 2G services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FCC greenlights Verizon’s TracFone purchase

  23-11-2021 01:00
  Back in September 2020, Verizon announced that it would seek to purchase pre-paid mobile phone provider TracFone Wireless for $6.25 billion. TracFone, the largest reseller of wireless services in the US, has around 21 million subscribers and 90,000 retail locations, all of which would greatly enhance Verizon&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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