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• Wider pavements and fewer cars planned for the West End

  10-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to permanently widen pavements along parts of the West End to make more space for pedestrians have been shown off by the local business group.
  Subject to planning approvals, the scheme could see both Charing Cross Road and St Martin’s Lane pavements widened and new planting added, cleaner wider pedestrian spaces between Green Park and Piccadilly. The scheme could also see a new arts quarter created in the back streets to the south of Leicester Square.
  The proposals are being put forw
  
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• EE persists with advertising absurd use-cases

  10-12-2021 14:21
  
  From the people who brought you robot shaving, we now have remote air traffic controlling.
  When EE chose to illustrate how great its 4G and 5G network is by using it to remote control a robot arm into shaving a bloke with a cut-throat razor on top of a mountain, we had some sympathy for its marketing department. As far as the average punter is concerned 5G doesn’t really bring much new to the table, so operators are forced to be somewhat creative in their attempts to generate demand.
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• EU inches forward with quantum network security

  10-12-2021 13:14
  
  An EU-backed consortium this week said it now has a blueprint for quantum network architecture that will secure the bloc’s critical comms infrastructure.
  The group, which includes Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, defence giant Thales and its satellite arm Thales Alenia Space, and the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), have been conducting a study since April with the aim of figuring out how to make all this quantum security stuff work.
  This month, this so-called QSAFE (quantum net
  
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• Vodafone and Volvo deploy IoT gadgetry to catch car thieves

  10-12-2021 13:08
  
  Vodafone’s new IoT-based stolen vehicle recovery service is available for all Volvo cars in the UK.
  The Vodafone Automotive VTS S5 technology, produced in collaboration with Trinsic Connected Car, uses GPS tracking to provide location monitoring across the UK and Europe, and also detects attempts to tow vehicles, tamper with batteries or cut wires.
  The tracking function can apparently pinpoint a car’s location down to 10 metres, and if it detects it has been stolen it will send local
  
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• Flash sale on Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!

  10-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tchaikovsky’s score and Anthony Ward’s sets and costumes combine with Bourne’s choreography to create a charmingly irreverent interpretation of the traditional Christmas favourite.
  Expect a sprinkling of delicious new surprises in this reinvented production for 2021.
  With family-sized helpings of Bourne’s trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Nutcracker follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from a darkly comic Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’ Orphanage, through
  
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• Verizon on track with C-band rollout but launch could be further delayed

  10-12-2021 12:44
  
  Verizon is upbeat about its progress in rolling out 5G, but the US aviation industry could still derail its – and its rivals’ – plans.
  The US telco’s headline announcement is that it has exceeded its year-end target of rolling out 14,000 new 5G Ultra Wideband cells sites, and that as a result 5G UWB data usage has increased by 750% over the past 12 months as a result.
  “This year our team has nearly doubled its 5G deployment versus the past two years and exceeded the
  
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• Tube strike on the Night Tube tonight and Saturday

  10-12-2021 11:51 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Night Tube services on the Central and Victoria lines will be hit by strike action again from tonight, as the RMT continues an ongoing campaign against changes to driver rosters.
  Transport for London (TfL) is warning that both the Victoria and Central lines could be severely disrupted from 7pm onwards on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th December.
  The impact of the strike action depends on the number of drivers booking on each weekend, so customers are being advised to check before they travel o
  
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• Rostelecom and VEB Ventures partner to deliver Europe-Asia fibre connection

  10-12-2021 01:00
  Rostelecom and VEB Ventures have signed a legally binding parity agreement which will see the investment fund acquire a stake in Atlas, an operating company founded by Rostelecom in 2020. Through Atlas, the Russian digital service provider and VEB Ventures (part of the Russian bank VEB…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Charter Communications showcases public-private partnership as a model for expanding rural broadband access across the USA

  10-12-2021 01:00
  Cherokee County in the US state of Georgia doesn't strike you as a hotbed of innovation. The county seat is Canton which lies some forty miles north of Atlanta and has a population of around 30,000 people out of a county total of a little over 200,000 people. If you look for things to do or famous residents you find little beyond it being home of actors Josh Holloway and Blair Redford or the Ball Ground Burger Bus…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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