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• TfL imposes public transport ban on e-scooters

  09-12-2021 14:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Following a couple of fires on the London Underground, TfL has decided to impose a ban on all e-scooters and e-unicycles across its entire network and its stations.
  From Monday (13th Dec), customers using either sort of device will not be permitted to enter any premises on TfL’s network or travel on any of its services, including on the Tube, buses, Overground, TfL Rail, Trams and DLR.
  The reason for the ban being introduced is that there have been two fires in recent months involving the
  
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• HS2 signs £2 billion contract for fleet of high-speed trains

  09-12-2021 12:57 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A contract worth £2 billion to build a fleet of 54 high-speed trains in the UK has been signed today by HS2. In total, 54 new trains, each capable of reaching 225mph will be built by Alstom and Hitachi Rail, at their factories in County Durham, Derby and Crewe.
  The contract is considerably cheaper than had been previously expected coming in at around £2 billion compared to the £2.75 billion that had been estimated in 2017 when the procurement process started. This was put down
  
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• Cloud Fintech innovator fonYou secures €7 Million growth funding from Banco Santander’s Smart Fund

  09-12-2021 12:43
  
  Banco Santander financing agreement will support fonYou’s ambitious growth strategy and accelerate international market expansion Barcelona, Spain, December 9th 2021---Fintech innovator fonYou today announces that it has secured €7 Million in growth funding from Banco Santander’s Smart Fund, in a financing deal that will support fonYou’s future technology development and market expansion as it rolls out its innovative fintech solutions across key regions – including
  
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• How MNOs are monetising businesses in the 5G era

  09-12-2021 10:56
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Corine Suscens, VP Global Marketing at Creativity Software, looks at how MNOs are transforming into data intelligence providers.
  According to the GSMA, 70% of mobile operators see the enterprise sector as the most important incremental 5G revenue opportunity. In the meantime, it’s becoming a priority for organisations across industries to become more insig
  
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• AWS outage paralyses many digital services

  09-12-2021 10:23
  
  An Amazon Web Services region in the US was unable to provide web services for a bunch of customers, including Netflix, this week.
  The AWS service health dashboard tells the technical story that, for a big chunk of the working day, anyone who was reliant on the US-EAST-1 AWS region for their cloudy business. ‘The root cause of this issue is an impairment of several network devices,’ said the bulletin, helpfully, before repeatedly chanting the inevitable mantra about doing everything
  
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• CityFibre challenges Ofcom ruling on Openreach FTTP pricing

  09-12-2021 10:19
  
  CityFibre wants Ofcom to backtrack on its decision to let Openreach offer lower prices and long lock-in periods for its wholesale FTTP services.
  The UK altnet has lodged an appeal against the regulator with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in a bid to have it look again at the potential competitive impact of Openreach’s so-called Equinox plan.
  To summarise as simply as possible, despite all the legalese in the CAT document, CityFibre is angry that Ofcom essentially dismissed the poten
  
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• Telefonica Tech and Ecoembes unveil the bin of the future

  09-12-2021 10:14
  
  Digital transformation firm Telefonica Tech and environmental organisation Ecoembes have teamed up to produce a series of 5G enabled ‘smart bins’ in Spain.
  This project has seen 16 containers deployed in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona.
  The ‘smart yellow bins’ identify what trash is being deposited into them via a barcode reader ring, and that information is transmitted to a data analysis centre via 5G narrow band connectivity, supplied by Telefonica Tech.
  What do they e
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens, N1

  09-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a small park next to the Regents Canal in Barnsbury, that was created as a result of changes to the rules about walking along the canal.
  The pocket park itself was created during the construction of the housing mews next to the canal in 1981 replacing an old warehouse building next to the canal and a small row of houses facing the main road.The pocket park sits right where three terraced houses used to be and was included as a public park as a condition of the planning approval for the r
  
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• Startup Stories: tales from the show floor

  09-12-2021 01:00
  At Connected Britain in September the Startup Zone was sponsored by Huawei in conjunction with Cambridge Wireless. The team from The Tech Podcast were onsite throughout the event and produced two episodes…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Private 5G will become the standard network choice claims new report

  09-12-2021 01:00
  Companies leveraging private 5G will have an unprecedented competitive advantage, says Shahid Ahmed, Group EVP, New Ventures and Innovation at NTT Ltd., pointing to research showing that “adoption of private 5G is happening now” His comments tie in with a new report compiled by Economist Impact…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange partners with Mirova to launch €50 million carbon fund

  09-12-2021 01:00
  The fund will invest, both directly and indirectly, in global carbon sequestration projects such as afforestation, reforestation, and the restoration of natural ecosystems (mangroves or agroforestry projects)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Moscow is Russia’s 5G hub

  09-12-2021 01:00
  A statement issued today by the Moscow Department of Information Technologies flags that about half of all 5G pilot projects in Russia this year have taken place in Moscow.
  In October 2020 a 5G Demo Center launched in the city with a focus on solving city problems &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Colt expands UK metro network with CityFibre partnership

  09-12-2021 01:00
  Colt Technology Services has partnered with CityFibre to expand the reach of its metro network to eight new cities in the UK. The partnership will see Colt gain presence in Bristol, Leeds, Slough, Bracknell, Reading, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, and Glasgow…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Canadian telecom workers legally required to be vaccinated against COVID

  09-12-2021 01:00
  As countries around the world continue to battle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic amid the new threat of emerging variants such as Omicron, Canada has reacted to its own growing case load (7% growth in new cases in the last 7 days) by making it a legal requirement for workers in federally…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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