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• Tower of London moat to be filled with flowers next year

  01-12-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The moat of the Tower of London will be filled with millions of flowers next Summer, for a floral display celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. While visible from all around the Tower, there will also be a walking route in the moat through the flower meadows, and tickets to get into the moat go on sale next week.
  Test planting this summer (c) HRP
  To prepare for the Summer event, next spring, some 20 million seeds will be sown in the Tower’s moat, and they’ve been chosen to
  
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• Tickets Alert: Candlelit photography in Southwark Cathedral

  01-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Southwark Cathedral will be lit with candles for a special evening of photography that’s open to all.
  Taking place on the evening of Candlemas, the Cathedral will be bathed in the candlelight of hundreds of candles. This is a chance to experience the Cathedral as it would have been lit in the past and without the crowds at this after-hours event on the evening of Candlemas.The event is open to all photographers, amateur and professional, and for the evening, unlike normal open days, camera
  
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• Telefonica looks to shed over-50s in new redundancy plan

  01-12-2021 15:15
  
  Telefonica is reportedly looking to lose around 3,000 staff from its payroll in Spain by offering a new redundancy plan to employees of a certain age and career longevity.
  The Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), or General Workers Union, told Reuters the Spanish operator plans to offer a voluntary redundancy package to staff born before 1967 and with at least 15 years of employment at the firm. The deal could cover as many as 3,261 members of staff, but Telefonica will limit uptake to 60
  
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• Private 5G to drive Japan’s enterprises transformation delivering on security and data needs

  01-12-2021 14:14
  
  Japan’s spectrum liberalization of multiple create a positive environment for private 5G. Alongside spectrum availability, the country’s enterprises’ needs to better leverage data in a secure way to drive digital transformation and meet challenges such as production increase and labor shortages are making Japan one of the leading countries for private 5G adoption.
  This is the time for enterprises to use private 5G to gain a competitive edge as the market is shifting from a tria
  
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• Telecoms industry remains optimistic despite everything

  01-12-2021 13:39
  
  Seven out ten respondents to the 2021 Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey are largely happy with how this year went and more are expecting a strong 2022.
  It’s been apparent for a while already that telecoms is one of the few sectors of the global economy that have had a “good” pandemic. The industry has not only withstood the surge in demand for communications during the beginning of Covid-19 but has also derived new opportunities from the severe challenges. The success has hel
  
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• How Telco Network Operations Leaders Can Help Implement and Manage Change around 5G

  01-12-2021 13:32
  
  Upfront deployment of 5G analytics is essential to the operational and cultural transformation that 5G migration requires. And that requires buy-in from the top down.
  By Kevin KeschingerVice President of Customer Success at Guavus (a Thales company)
  By now, network operators have realized that 5G architectures are complex and fundamentally different from those of previous mobile generations. As such, 5G requires traditional telecom companies to transform themselves, not just from an infrastructu
  
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• Qualcomm unveils its latest flagship Snapdragon chip

  01-12-2021 13:31
  
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm is so happy with its latest top-end SoC that it has even revamped the naming scheme.
  The3 successor to the Snapdragon 888 is called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, for some reason. Presumably the next one will be Gen 2, and so on, and maybe the option to change the 8 will come when Qualcomm reckons its managed something revolutionary. Whatever. All that really matters is whether there’s enough of a performance enhancement to keep Qualcomm ahead of the likes of Mediate
  
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• Proximus may list TeleSign despite quest for a unicorn

  01-12-2021 13:25
  
  Proximus has announced that it may seek to list TeleSign, as it seeks to drive growth at the business while also keeping control.
  The Belgian incumbent made the announcement on the back of media speculation about the future of the business, a Communication Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) outfit, or authentication specialist, if you prefer, its now fully-owned BICS unit acquired in 2017. It did not go into detail on the nature of the rumours, but clarified that it “has initiated preliminary d
  
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• Ten exhibitions to visit in London during December

  01-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  My monthly roundup of ten excellent exhibitions to visit during December 2021 while you’re dodging the TV repeats and 15th serving of turkey.The world’s most expensive stamp
  Stanley Gibbons, Strand
  FREE
  (note, closes on 18th December)
  The world’s most expensive stamp – nicknamed “the Mona Lisa of the stamp world” – is on display for a few weeks at the London store of its owner, Stanley Gibbons. Stanley Gibbons has created a series of exhibits around the
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Hanover Square, W1

  01-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is one of London’s oldest formal squares, just to the south of Oxford Street, and usually, the sort of park only used by locals who know about it, but soon to get a lot busier.Hanover Square was developed shortly after the accession of the first Georgian monarch, King George I in 1714, which gave the square its name. The farmland, on the edge of London, was developed into upmarket housing, mainly on behalf of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough between 1713-21.
  As such it attracted
  
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• Full-fibre broadband fuels investor appetite for fixed line

  01-12-2021 06:21
  
  New generation of smaller alternative networks are forcing incumbents to increase investment in broadband
  
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• FT-Omdia Digital Economies Index: spotting the next tech growth markets

  01-12-2021 06:00
  
  Which countries offer the most potential for handsets, broadband networks, payment cards and streaming?
  
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• We built this city on IoT

  01-12-2021 01:00
  Think about green cities. People will generally understand what that means - clean air, leafy spaces, with sustainability built-in to create an altogether healthier, more liveable environment for all. In contrast, when we talk about ‘smart cities’, what do we mean? The definition matters because, to create connected, efficient and intelligent cities, we need to establish what they are and set out a compelling vision so everyone can align activity and effort behind it. In t
  
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• Viettel joins rivals in launching mobile money services

  01-12-2021 01:00
  Last week, MobiFone became the first Vietnamese mobile operator to launch mobile money services, with Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) hot on their heels. At the time, Vietnam’s largest operator, Viettel, was notably silent on the mobile money front, but today they too have announced they will begin offering these services to customers.According to sources, the slight delay to Viettel receiving the licence was merely due to delays in processing the application…read
  
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• Telenet to begin deploying 5G from next week

  01-12-2021 01:00
  Telenet (Base) has announced that it will next week begin its deployment of its 5G network, almost two years after being allocated temporary spectrum by the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT).The deployments will first take place in Leuven…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica presses on with staff cuts

  01-12-2021 01:00
  Last month, Telefonica announced that it was aiming to cut between 2,000 and 4,000 jobs in the first half of 2022. Now, representatives from the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, the General Union of Workers) has confirmed that voluntary redundancy is set to be offered to any staff member born in or before 1967 and with at least 15 years of employment by the company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Solar-powered broadband balloons to deliver connectivity to Africa

  01-12-2021 01:00
  From deploying fibre underground to putting up mobile masts, deploying broadband infrastructure is expensive.  In recent years, we have seen a flurry of innovation attempting to make these deployments more cost effective and less time consuming, from Facebook’s Bombyx robot, that crawls along existing power cables and wraps them in lightweight fibre, to the HAPS Alliance, seeking to deliver broadband through a solar…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• LTE and 5G Private Mobile Networks to unlock the era of connected industries

  01-12-2021 01:00
  The demand for Private Mobile Networks (PMNs) based on LTE (and increasingly 5G) is being driven by the data, security, digitisation and enterprise mobility requirements of modern business and government entities. Organisations of all types are combining connected systems with big data and analytics to transform operations, increase automation and efficiency or to deliver new services to their users.  Private mobile networks – what are they? A private LTE/5G network is a mo
  
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