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• Higher council tax to help fund TfL’s defecit

  15-12-2021 21:32 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Londoners are likely to face a hike in council taxes and changes to fares to help TfL shrink the deficit in its income caused by the pandemic.
  Although TfL is still in negotiations with the Department for Transport (DfT) over a funding settlement to keep London’s transport network running, it’s clear that the DfT wants TfL to make up more of the shortfall in its income by raising revenue from within London.
  TfL is currently being required to put in place plans to raise future revenue
  
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• Infrastructure in the sky: why telcos should embrace satellite operators

  15-12-2021 19:41
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece James Harrison, Acting Managing Director, EMEA at Telstra, makes the case for low earth orbit satellite connectivity.
  Telcos are facing a growing number of pressures as they look to provide increasing levels of coverage for customers hungry to consume content. The rise of mobile-first streaming models in the consumer market, and the introduction of digital
  
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• Ericsson has seen the future and it’s a massive 6G powered tech-mall

  15-12-2021 19:05
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has indulged in a bit of future gazing with a concept-heavy report that proposes ten society-changing tech trends.
  The company has filtered the results of its latest ‘Ericsson ConsumerLab 10 Hot Consumer Trends’ report, which it has been publishing for 11 years, into a vehicle to chew on ideas around where bleeding edge tech might lead us to by 2030.
  It decided to communicate those ideas via the medium of a fictional shopping mall of the future, in which r
  
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• Large scale tube strike this weekend (17th-18th Dec 2021)

  15-12-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Five lines on the London Underground will be hit by a large walkout by RMT drivers this weekend as part of an ongoing dispute over the Night Tube staffing rosters.
  Unless it’s called off at the last minute, the tube strike on Saturday 18th December will affect the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines all day with little or no service in places. It is also likely to mean much busier services on the Tube lines that are not affected by the strike (Bakerloo, Circle, Distri
  
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• Using AIOps solutions in the telecoms industry: a market assessment

  15-12-2021 17:52
  
  Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is helping shape automations and transformations across the telecoms sector, combining big data with machine learning (ML) to support the automation of key operations. AIOps has reached an advanced stage of development in network assurance functions, including event correlation and analysis, anomaly detection, root cause analysis (RCA), alert prioritisation, and natural language processing to augment report creation and searches.
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• Watch the Space Station fly over London on Christmas morning

  15-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you can drag yourself out of bed early on Christmas Day, there’s a chance to see Father Christmas heading home after delivering his presents — or more accurately, the International Space Station flying over London.
  They look the same and depending on the age of your kids, choose which of the two explanations you will prefer to use.
  To spot the space station/Santa flying over London, what you want to do is find a nice place with a decent view of the sky — a park, or anywhere
  
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• UK belatedly realises phone OS duopoly harms consumers

  15-12-2021 14:43
  
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has been looking into the mobile ecosystem space and has worked out that a duopoly isn’t great for competition.
  There’s a slightly surreal air to the CMA announcement, as the mobile platform space has effectively been a duopoly for a decade, since the likes of Blackberry and Windows fell by the wayside. Furthermore, Google’s Android is a monopolist in the non-Apple market that accounts for the vast majority of all smartphones in the worl
  
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• Deutsche Telekom targets 2 million new fibre connections in 2022

  15-12-2021 14:38
  
  German operator group DT has been crowing about its FTTH achievements this week as part of an ongoing effort to shed its image as a fixed-line-Luddite.
  The incumbent said it hit its target of adding 1.2 million full fibre connections this year, a target that it will increase to 2 million next year. By 2024, Deutsche Telekom hopes to cover 10 million households with FTTH. From that point onwards, the telco aims to add an average of 2.5 million FTTH connections per year. That means by 2030, Deutsc
  
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• EE promises to light up more rural not-spots with 4G expansion

  15-12-2021 14:36
  
  Leading operator EE says it will expand 4G to an additional 1532 rural areas by 2024 as part of the Shared Rural Network programme.
  EE says it has upgraded 853 rural areas with 4G since the Shared Rural Network deal was signed in March 2020 – 449 in England, 265 in Scotland, 97 in Wales, and 42 in Northern Ireland.
  With today’s pledge of a further 1532 upgrades, the total number of rural areas it has promised to reduce ‘partial not-spots’ in by 2024 now stands at 2385 (92
  
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• Terminus Treasures: new study reveals best day out at the end of tube lines

  15-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A company claims to have found the best things to do at the ends of the railways in London. Spoiler – they haven’t.
  Companies sometimes issue these statements based on an intern doing some thin research and they put it out hoping to garner some pr coverage. Whenever you read the results of a survey in the news, check if it’s a survey by a legitimate survey firm or maybe someone pumping out dubious statistics to get some cheap publicity.
  Normally I just bin them, but this one wa
  
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• UK business centres to get new fibre next year

  15-12-2021 12:56
  
  Neos Networks is making a lot of noise about its new full fibre metro networks in a handful of major UK cities, but it hasn’t actually launched any of them yet.
  The UK altnet and business services provider is working hard to add full fibre to its portfolio, and this week talked up the benefits that infrastructure will bring to businesses in Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and London…eventually. The firm says it is on track to go live with its first fibre access network in Liverpoo
  
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• New Zylpha annual document bundling awards celebrate legal innovation

  15-12-2021 12:19
  
  Leading legal software innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) has announced the launch of its new ‘Innovation Awards’. The annual Awards scheme will acknowledge and recognise the legal practices and lawyers that have used Zylpha's document bundling software most extensively and creatively within their practices, often digitally transforming previously manual document management systems. Commenting on the awards, Miranda Evans, Zylpha’s Marketing Manager says; “Beyond the clear
  
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• Supernet Unlocks Global Service Offering Through SatADSL's neXat Platform

  15-12-2021 12:11
  
  Brussels, Belgium and Islamabad, Pakistan, 15th December 2021 – Supernet Limited (“Supernet”), Pakistan’s largest satellite communications systems integrator and service provider, and Belgium based SatADSL S.A. (“SatADSL”) have announced the signing of an agreement empowering Supernet to benefit from the global service offering opportunities via SatADSL’s neXat platform. neXat is a cloud-based, complete OSS/BSS that enables Supernet to extend the reach o
  
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• Ookla snaps up network analytics rival RootMetrics

  15-12-2021 11:04
  
  Speedtest and network analytics provider Ookla has acquired competitor RootMetrics for an undisclosed sum.
  Both firms provide services to mobile operators, network infrastructure providers and governments to allow them to analyse and optimise their networks.
  Combined with Ookla’s purchase of Solutelia and its Wind software suite earlier this year, the deal means Ookla now claims to offer a more diversified way of analysing network speeds. Its own Speedtest.net portal crowdsources data and
  
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• Report from KX Plots a Path for Telco Operators to Capture The $200Bn Opportunity

  15-12-2021 10:03
  
  Report Addresses The Gap Between Operator Excitement Around Edge And Ability To Monetise Services In The Short Term London, 15th December, 2021 : KX, a worldwide leader in real-time streaming analytics, in partnership with STL Partners, a leading telecoms consulting and analyst firm, has published a new report outlining the key strategies operators should adopt to accelerate their go-to-market strategy for edge computing. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with operators and enterprises ac
  
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• New Report from KX Plots a Path for Telco Operators to Capture The $200Bn Opportunity

  15-12-2021 10:03
  
  Report Addresses The Gap Between Operator Excitement Around Edge And Ability To Monetise Services In The Short Term London, 15th December, 2021 : KX, a worldwide leader in real-time streaming analytics, in partnership with STL Partners, a leading telecoms consulting and analyst firm, has published a new report outlining the key strategies operators should adopt to accelerate their go-to-market strategy for edge computing. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with operators and enterprises ac
  
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• See the homes of Christmas Past at the Museum of the Home

  15-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A tradition has returned as the Museum of the Home in East London puts on a display of homes decorated for Christmas as they would have been in the past. They’ve done this annually for many years as the Geffrye Museum, but the display was put on hold when the museum closed for several years for its refurbishment.
  So it’s a delight to see them back again, both the same as ever, but also slightly different this year.
  It’s a reminder to use that so many of our cherished traditions
  
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• Patrick Drahi: the aggressive dealmaker forced to play the long game at BT

  15-12-2021 05:00
  Franco-Israeli telecoms entrepreneur has hired advisers to strengthen his hand in UK
  
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• Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners acquire Dense Air to rethink 5G

  15-12-2021 01:00
  Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP), a spin off from Google’s parent company Alphabet, has acquired Dense Air Networks for an undisclosed sum, aiming to develop shared network infrastructure that operators more like a utility. Following the acquisition Dense Air will become part of SIP’s CoFi platform, designed to “bridge the digital divide by enabling open and shared wireless networks&rdquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EE scaling up 4G upgrades for Shared Rural Network

  15-12-2021 01:00
  The Shared Rural Network (SRN) project was first announced by the government back in March 2020, aiming to improve geographic coverage of 4G in the UK to 95% by the end of 2025. The £1 billion project involves joint investment from both government and industry, who have both pledged to invest £500 million to help work towards the goal. In addition to building new infrastructure and upgrading older technologies…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom targets 2 million new FTTH connections in 2022

  15-12-2021 01:00
  This week, German incumbent Deutsche Telekom is showing off what a successful year it has had in both fibre and 5G, noting that its fibre rollout in particularly is set to accelerate even further in 2022. According to the operator, the company has laid more than 70,000km of fibre throughout Germany this year, bringing the total length of the company’s network to 650,000km. This equated to 1.2 million additional homes gaining access to a FTTH connection in 2021, over double the amount
  
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• 1,300 illegal telecoms towers discovered in Abuja, Nigeria

  15-12-2021 01:00
  Authorities in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, have announced that they have discovered around 1,300 mobile masts and towers operating illegally within the Federal Capital Territory. All of these towers have been erected without first obtaining permission from the relevant local authorities and will subsequently face appraisal and potentially decommissioning…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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