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• London Christmas tree recycling collections 2021/22

  16-12-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It might seem a bit Scrooge to be talking about getting rid of the Christmas tree before the event is over, but it can help to know what to do before 12th night comes along.
  Most councils have a facility to collect and recycle real Christmas trees, although it ranges in scope from good services collecting from the home to an expectation that you will lug it yourself somewhere not very convenient to get to if you don’t own a car.
  They all have pretty much the same rules — remove all t
  
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• Virgin Media O2 uses apparition of Usain Bolt to flog broadband

  16-12-2021 18:15
  
  More end of year larks saw VMO2 launch a promotion for its gigabit broadband by projecting Bolt’s hologram into someone’s front room.
  The video depicts the ‘living room of the future’, in which world-renowned sprinter Usain Bolt appears virtually in a ‘megafan’s’ house in order to play him at Fifa.
  What follows is less ‘the living room of the future’ and more of ‘an awkward interaction with a celebrity athlete of the present’, who
  
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• How to get National Theatre tickets for £10

  16-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On Friday’s the National Theatre has a “Friday Rush” where they offer tickets for unsold seats to shows the following week for just £10 per person. The way it works is that at 1pm on Fridays, the countdown timer on the National Theatre’s Friday Rush page becomes a button and you press it to be allocated a random number in the queue.
  If the number is below 100, you stand a decent chance of getting some cheap theatre tickets, although it can be worth staying in the qu
  
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• Inmarsat celebrates moving into the LEO space

  16-12-2021 14:44
  
  UK geosynchronous satellite player Inmarsat isn’t about to let the likes of Elon Musk steal its thunder and has announced the activation of its first low earth orbit satellite.
  The cunning plan is to integrate these new LEO satellites with geosynchronous orbit (GEO), highly elliptical orbit (HEO) satellites, and a terrestrial 5G network to make a mega network. Apparently to emphasise the harmony between these disparate birds, the whole system has been branded ‘Orchestra’, which
  
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• Ofcom reckons around half of the UK population is now covered by 5G, sort of

  16-12-2021 14:19
  
  UK comms regulator Ofcom says the number of 5G base stations in the UK doubled in 2021, and coverage is now ‘outside 42-57 percent of premises.’
  This was just one of a load of data points offered in its Connected Nations 2021 report. The broad stroke of the report implies roughly half the UK is now covered by at least one provider – though the phrasing was slightly grey.
  The number of mobile base stations providing 5G services has more than doubled over the last year to over 6,
  
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• Deutsche Telekom chief gets 5 years…longer as CEO

  16-12-2021 13:29
  
  Tim Höttges (pictured) has been doing such a great job as chief executive of Deutsche Telekom that its board has voted to keep him on for another five years.
  The German incumbent also announced that chairman Ulrich Lehner will not serve another term “for reasons of age”. The board has proposed appointing DHL chief executive Frank Appel as his replacement.
  Höttges’ new deal will kick in when his current term expires at the end of 2023. In mobile technology terms, that
  
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• Liverpool Street station plans for a £1.5 billion redevelopment

  16-12-2021 13:08 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Initial plans have been revealed for a £1.55 billion redevelopment of Liverpool Street station that would see it become a two-level station with a much larger entrance built next to the tube station.
  The station is the third busiest in the UK and has significant overcrowding problems which are expected to worsen over future years. To deal with this, Network Rail is looking at fixing by adding a lot more floor space for people to wait in, while also improving access into the station.
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• It’s Groundhog Day as TIM issues another profit warning

  16-12-2021 12:58
  
  TIM this week warned that earnings at its domestic business in 2021 will be lower than it had previously forecast.
  There’s a Groundhog Day vibe about this announcement. It’s the third time this year alone that the Italian incumbent has issued a profit warning, with its previous forecast downgrade coming as recently as October. That’s not great, by anyone’s standards.
  The telco said it expects organic EBITDA AL for its domestic business unit to decline in the “low te
  
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• In Marylebone, a large stone plaque celebrates Charles Dickens

  16-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Normally, buildings occupied by someone famous get a small blue plaque, but when you’re Charles Dickens, you get a huge stone mural instead.This stone mural sits on a 1950s office block in Marylebone and is here because Charles Dickens lived in a house just slightly down Marylebone High Street at 1 Devonshire Terrace, a side road that’s lost under the office block, but seems to have been roughly where the car park entrance at the back to the office is today.
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• Telefonica Germany signs up Intelsat to help support 4G in rural areas

  16-12-2021 01:00
  Telefónica Germany is now using the Intelsat CellBackhaul managed service through Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS) to bring 4G LTE mobile coverage rapidly, cost-efficiently, and reliably to customers in some of its most rural coverage areas. Telefónica Germany is always working to strengthen and expand its national network coverage…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefónica Global Solutions signs up Intelsat to help support 4G in rural Germany

  16-12-2021 01:00
  Telefónica Germany is now using the Intelsat CellBackhaul managed service through Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS) to bring 4G LTE mobile coverage rapidly, cost-efficiently, and reliably to customers in some of its most rural coverage areas. Telefónica Germany is always working to strengthen and expand its national network coverage…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• OTE ups FTTP target to 3m by 2027

  16-12-2021 01:00
  In a meeting between officials from OTE and Deutsche Telekom with the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis earlier this week, the Greek incumbent operator OTE said it is ready to greatly increase its investment in FTTH until 2027.The company says it will invest over €3 billion in the fibre rollout over the upcoming five years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange installs private 4G/5G network at Polish Nokia factory

  16-12-2021 01:00
  Today, Orange Poland has announced that it has been selected as the partner in the creation of a private 4G and 5G network at Nokia’s factory and R&D facility at Bydgoszcz. The network will cover the entire 13,000 square metre facility, providing the location’s 6,000 employees with access to faster, more reliable communications…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Inmarsat tests LEO satellite to fine tune its ORCHESTRA network

  16-12-2021 01:00
  Earlier this summer, UK-based satellite operator Inmarsat announced that it had plans to create a network that combines geosynchronous (GEO), highly elliptical orbit (HEO), and LEO satellites with a terrestrial 5G network, thereby creating an especially versatile network for government and mobility customers. They dubbed the project ORCHESTRA.  At the time of the announcement, Inmarsat said the project would involve the launch of up to 175 LEO satellites…read more on TotalTele.
  
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