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• London Underground tube strike on Friday (26th Nov)

  25-11-2021 18:17 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s going to be a tube strike on the London Underground tomorrow (Fri 26th Nov), with several lines subjected to severe delays all day.
  The RMT’s planned strike action is expected to cause severe disruption on five Tube lines (Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria) all day if it goes ahead. At the moment, there’s no realistic expectation that it will be cancelled as talks haven’t progressed in the past couple of days.
  The dispute is over changes to how t
  
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• In praise of augmented analytics for enterprise AI in telecom

  25-11-2021 18:13
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Suresh Chintada, CTO at Subex, explains why enterprise AI and augmented analytics are important technological trends for telecoms.
  Powering all manner of person-to-person, machine-to-machine, and machine-to-person communications, the telecommunication industry is undergoing deep shifts. Competition is stiff; trends like deregulation and consolidation makes
  
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• The Market Upside with Open RAN

  25-11-2021 17:49
  
  Open RAN is a new architecture that aims to lower the barriers to entry in the radio access network (RAN) market, reduce vendor lock-in, improve vendor swap costs, and accelerate innovation. Open RAN provides operators with more supplier options, so they can continue to tackle new opportunities and operate profitably in an environment with constrained topline growth. But not all Open RAN is the same. Learn about Open RAN with this white paper that covers:What are virtualized and Open RAN?
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• Discount on Cycle Hire annual subscriptions

  25-11-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a “Black Friday” offer on the cost of an annual subscription to the cycle hire scheme, offering a 25% discount.
  The annual membership fee is usually £90, but with the discount, it works out at £67.50, or the equivalent of 18p per day to use the cycle hire bikes.
  The annual subscription comes with a key (if you don’t already have one) that unlocks the bikes, and then you can cycle for free for up to 30 minutes before needing to redock the bike. You can
  
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• Vodafone looks into wind-powered mobile masts

  25-11-2021 15:38
  
  UK operator Vodafone reckons one solution to connecting remote areas might be mobile masts that power themselves.
  Vodafone has been working with a company called Crossflow Energy, which has a cunning technology called Transverse Axis Wind Turbines. The turbines look more like something you’d find on a paddle steamer, but they’re apparently more efficient and reliable than regular ones. Vodafone’s plan is to use them, in combination with solar and battery tech, to make self-powe
  
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• Belgium aims to attract new player in 2022 5G spectrum sale

  25-11-2021 14:05
  
  The Belgian government has given the go-ahead for 5G licensing, approving a set of rules that could well allow a fourth player into the country’s mobile market.
  The green light from the Belgian parliament’s consultation committee is “an important milestone in the deployment of 5G in our country,” Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a Twitter post.
  Those are pretty standard words for any leader, but in this case, he really has a point. Belgium is one of Western Europe
  
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• Orange CEO steps down after French appeals court ruling

  25-11-2021 13:40
  
  Stéphane Richard (pictured), who has been Chairman and CEO of French operator group Orange for almost a decade, has been forced to throw in the towel by a recent court ruling.
  A French appeals court partially overturned a 2019 ruling that cleared Richard of any wrongdoing in back when he was part of the French government. The matter in question concerned a payment from the French state to businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008, overseen by then Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, so whom Richa
  
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• The Magic Circle’s season of Christmas magic shows

  25-11-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s not that well known, but the headquarters of the Magic Circle has a small private theatre, and they will put on a series of shows just before Christmas.
  It’s a magical season, so why not a magical show?
  The season runs for two weeks, just before and after Christmas.
  The tickets cost between £10.50 to £36.75 during the week of performances just before Christmas, and between £10.50 to £42.00 for the week between Christmas and New Year.
  Performances are at 2
  
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• Wind Hellas spins off €70 million fibre business

  25-11-2021 11:59
  
  Wind Hellas has unveiled plans to spin off its fibre broadband assets into a new company that will operate as an open access fibre wholesaler.
  The Greek mobile operator is transferring its fibre business to an entity to be known as Hellenic Openfiber, including physical infrastructure like ducts and sites, the fibre cables themselves, and active equipment, although Wind will retain the portion of active equipment that serves its mobile business. In all, Hellenic Openfiber will take over 3,379 km
  
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• Wind Hellas spins off €70 billion fibre business

  25-11-2021 11:59
  
  Wind Hellas has unveiled plans to spin off its fibre broadband assets into a new company that will operate as an open access fibre wholesaler.
  The Greek mobile operator is transferring its fibre business to an entity to be known as Hellenic Openfiber, including physical infrastructure like ducts and sites, the fibre cables themselves, and active equipment, although Wind will retain the portion of active equipment that serves its mobile business. In all, Hellenic Openfiber will take over 3,379 km
  
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• Stratford takes the title of the UK’s busiest railway station

  25-11-2021 11:58 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Stratford station in East London has taken the title of the UK’s busiest railway station, although mainly because the pandemic gutted rail travel to the major stations elsewhere in the country.
  According to estimates from the Office of Rail and Road, the pandemic saw rail passenger numbers plunge by 78% in the 2020-21 (1st April 2020 to 32st March 2021) period, and only five railway stations in Great Britain had more than 10 million entries and exits in 2020-21 compared with 43 stations in
  
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• neXat platform opens new global markets for MT

  25-11-2021 11:06
  
  neXat’s new eMarketplace feature will help the teleport operator offer more services and reach new markets Brussels, Belgium and Milan, Italy 25 November 2021 – The terrestrial and maritime sectors will benefit from greater access to VSAT connectivity options following the agreement of a partnership between Belgian satellite service provider SatADSL and satellite communications provider Milano Teleport (MT). MT will use the neXat platform to provide capacity over Africa and deliver a
  
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• The maternity scultpure by Denmark Hill station

  25-11-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Outside what looks like a row of houses, but aren’t, is a large metal sculpture, representing maternity, by the Greek sculptor, Fanis Rachoutis.The sculpture is said to represent a “curvilinear pregnant female form” and was inspired by the ancient mother goddess sculptures of ancient civilisations, which is apt as the sculptor is Greek.Now, you might think that having a large piece of public art next to your front garden would be a bit of a problem with people looking at it, an
  
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• The maternity sculpture by Denmark Hill station

  25-11-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Outside what looks like a row of houses, but aren’t, is a large metal sculpture, representing maternity, by the Greek sculptor, Fanis Rachoutis.The sculpture is said to represent a “curvilinear pregnant female form” and was inspired by the ancient mother goddess sculptures of ancient civilisations, which is apt as the sculptor is Greek.Now, you might think that having a large piece of public art next to your front garden would be a bit of a problem with people looking at it, an
  
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• Vodafone combining solar and wind for self-powered mobile masts

  25-11-2021 01:00
  Energy consumption has long been something of a bugbear for operators. As data traffic increases steadily year on year, so too does energy consumption, despite new technologies helping make networks themselves more efficient. The cost of network energy consumption represents a huge, growing financial burden for the operators, not to mention the increased carbon emissions associated with this energy production…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK ISP group takes on the telecom skills shortage

  25-11-2021 01:00
  Telcom Group who owns ISP brands including ClearFibre, WeFibre and Telcom is aiming to do its bit to address the crisis of skills to build future networks by launching the Telecoms Engineer Bootcamp through their social initiative Recode.The training course is a ‘No cost, no catch…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange CEO Stephane Richard steps down following conviction

  25-11-2021 01:00
  Yesterday, long-serving Orange CEO and chairman Stephane Richard handed in his resignation at a board meeting following his conviction in the misuse of public funds. The court case itself related to a 2008 settlement, back when Richard was chief of staff to then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. At the time, French businessman Bernard Tapie was in a dispute with the government following his sale of a stake in Adidas to a government…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Green 5G networks and the future of sustainable telecoms

  25-11-2021 01:00
  From the telecoms industry to politics, sustainability and climate change are among the defining issues of the modern age, but exactly how to tackle these crucial issues remains controversial.  The recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, which brought together the United Nations to develop a cohesive strategy to combat climate change, has broadly been denounced as a failure, demonstrating that the world is not on track to reach the targets set by the Paris Agreement. In fact, even if all
  
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• EllaLink and Equinix deliver first subsea cable between Europe & Latin America

  25-11-2021 01:00
  EllaLink and Equinix have announced that the first high-capacity submarine cable system between Europe and Latin America is now fully operational. The cable, delivered by EllaLink, connects to Equinix’s International Business Exchange data centres in S&atilde…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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