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• Steam train tours of the Thames bridges

  03-12-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A steam train tour will run several times in December designed to take trips across several of the railway bridges that cross the River Thames. They’re all tours in the evening, so apart from chugging through West London in a steam train, passengers get some lovely views of the Thames and the buildings along it lit up at night time.
  The Steam Dreams tours depart from London Victoria station at 6:50pm, and take in a loop around West London crossing the Thames six times along the way, granti
  
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• Travel to the Swiss Alps inside the British Museum

  03-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a little-noticed exhibition at the British Museum at the moment full of watercolours and drawings of the Swiss Alps.
  It’s part of a collection amassed by Robert Wylie Lloyd, a businessman, art collector, entomologist and keen mountaineer, described in his 1958 obituary as ‘a remarkable and picturesque character who belonged essentially to the Victorian age’.
  His love of the Swiss Alps saw him foster a collection of over 5,000 Swiss prints and books, considered tod
  
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• Flash sale on Prince of Egypt theatre tickets

  03-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Based on the 1998 DreamWorks Animation film, the Prince of Egypt is one of the greatest stories ever told.
  A mother’s love leads one woman to send her child into the unknown, and another woman to hide the truth about where he came from. The saga of Moses and his brother Ramses who would become Pharaoh. The tale of a brother exiled, finally returning to his home and fighting to free his people from the bonds of slavery and lead them to the Promised Land.There’s currently a range of sa
  
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• Covid drives Internet uptake but many are still left behind – ITU

  03-12-2021 12:21
  
  Millions of people became new Internet users in the past two years, but over a third of the world’s population has still never gone online, according to new statistics from the ITU.
  The UN’s telecoms body identified what it terms a Covid connectivity boost, which pushed the number of people online to 4.9 million this year from 4.1 million in 2019, many of them driven by the need to work remotely, home educate, and access essential services, including news, health updates, online bank
  
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• US moves to prevent Nvidia acquisition of Arm

  03-12-2021 12:03
  
  The US Federal Trade Commission is suing to block Nvidia acquisition of Arm on fairly obvious competition grounds.
  When the $40 billion piece of mega M&A was first announced it was obvious there would be serious regulatory pushback. Arm is the dominant provider of semiconductor designs for energy constrained environments. Furthermore its reduced instruction set computing (RISC – the ‘R’ in the original ARM abbreviation) is pretty much the only alternative to Intel’s x
  
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• Unions playing an increasing role in European telecoms

  03-12-2021 10:30
  
  Labour unions have once again become pivotal players in the European telecoms sector, involving themselves in M&A and downsizing plans.
  Most of the headlines are coming from Italy, where strike action is on the cards as incumbent operator TIM mulls the €10 billion-plus takeover offer it received from private equity firm KKR just under a fortnight ago.
  Four of Italy’s telecoms unions – SLC Cgil, Fistel Cisl, UILCOM UIL, and Ugl Telecomunicazioni – this week issued a sta
  
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• Russia bans yet more VPNs providers

  03-12-2021 01:00
  Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has announced that it has banned six additional VPN products from the Russian market: Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Cloudflare WARP, Tachyon VPN, and PrivateTunnel…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Poland’s long delayed 5G auction set back to 2022

  03-12-2021 01:00
  The Polish regulator has now announced that it now intends to launch Poland’s first 5G spectrum auction next year. Like so many 5G spectrum auctions around the world, Poland’s has faced a tumultuous journey in reaching actualisation. Initially planned to take place in 2020, the auction was initially delayed by the onset of the coronavirus, but further delays have been mostly due to amendments being made to the country&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KDDI picks Nokia for standalone 5G core

  03-12-2021 01:00
  Nokia has announced that Japanese operator KDDI has selected Nokia’s 5G Core and Converged Charging software to support its transition to a fully automated, cloud-native 5G Core architecture.Nokia’s cloud-native 5G Core’s near zero-touch automation capabilities help operators drive greater scale and reliability. Following the evolution of KDDI’s networks to 5G standalone core…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Telecom told to cease US operations in January

  03-12-2021 01:00
  Back in October, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it had terminated China Telecom’s authority to provide communications services in the US. The decision was largely based on classified information supplied by US national security agencies, who said that China Telecom had the capability to access and disrupt US communications and could therefore potentially engage in espionage…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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