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• BT hires doctors to bolster smart healthcare offering

  21-12-2021 17:14
  
  BT will create a ‘Clinical Advisory Board’ to drive the growth of new connected healthcare technology.
  Eight NHS clinicians will join the new division in January, although for some reason BT only named five of them: Dr Peter Ingham, Dr Michael Quinn, Professor Ann-Marie Cannaby, Dr Sandeep Bhansal and Dr Mateen Jiwani.
  They are there, it seems, to provide a bridge between the techies dreaming up bleeding edge smart healthcare products and services somewhere in a BT basement, and the
  
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• UK’s largest Tunnel Boring Machine on its way to East London

  21-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The UK’s largest tunnel boring machine (TBM) has passed its factory acceptance tests, and will shortly be shipped from the factory in Germany to the UK, to arrive in East London and start digging the Silvertown road tunnel under the Thames.
  TBM at Herrenknecht (c) Riverlinx/TfL
  The Silvertown Tunnel is a new “pay to use” road tunnel being built under the River Thames, linking North Greenwich and Silvertown, and once open, the tolled crossing is aimed at reducing congestion at t
  
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• Telent acquires the Harlequin Group

  21-12-2021 14:58
  
  Warwick, U.K., 21st December 2021 - Telent has today announced that it has acquired the Harlequin Group, a specialist technology services company. Complementing Telent’s existing business operations, building telecom infrastructure for mobile network operators (MNO) and service providers, the acquisition significantly enhances its professional services capability in the site acquisition and design arena. This will allow Telent to provide a comprehensive and expanded ADC (acquire, design &a
  
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• China Mobile could raise almost $9 billion from Shanghai IPO

  21-12-2021 13:40
  
  Having been booted out of the New York Stock Exchange, China Mobile is doing the sensible thing and offering its shares in China.
  The world’s biggest mobile operator announced the move in a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today, where it’s already listed. If China Mobile sells every single share it’s making available the total amount raised will be 56 billion RMB, which converts to around $8.8 billion. That’s a serious chunk of change, much of which will presumab
  
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• China Mobile: local investors are beneficiaries of US blacklist

  21-12-2021 13:28
  State-owned companies and defensive sectors look increasingly attractive
  
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• Westcon-Comstor signs new agreement to distribute Nokia industrial grade private wireless solutions to the German market

  21-12-2021 13:22
  
  Agreement provides the channel with the industry leading private wireless solution for reliable, low-latency, high performance connectivity for even the most demanding environments LONDON, UK – 21st December – Westcon-Comstor, the global technology distributor, today announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with Nokia, which sees Westcon-Comstor bringing the Nokia industry grade private wireless solution - Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) to the German market. As digi
  
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• See the Holly Man and the Devil perform their Twelfth Night revels

  21-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, Beelzebub himself will rise up from the River Thames, as the Twelfth Night revels make a long-awaited return to Bankside.Bankside’s Twelfth Night celebrations are a revival of medieval-style mummers plays, and put on by The Lions Part, a troupe of actors who perform the Twelfth Night revels as a free show and parade along Bankside.
  The 27th Twelfth Night revels will start outside Shakespeare’s Globe with the arrival of the Holly Man by a barge on the Thames, decked in gre
  
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• Three and EE throw weight behind London Underground 4G project

  21-12-2021 12:50
  
  UK Operators Three and EE have teamed up with infrastructure firm BAI Communications to pipe in 4G and later 5G to commuters on the tube.
  The deal is for 4G and ‘5G ready’ connectivity, and the two operators will work with BAI, which was awarded a 20 year concession by Transport for London to deliver mobile connectivity to the tube earlier this year.
  Apparently all mobile operators will be able to access the London Underground wifi, as well as BAI’s neutral host mobile network
  
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• The unbuilt plans for large hotels above South Kensington’s tube station

  21-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the years, there have been many attempts to build something above South Kensington tube station, from modest to grandiose. How different would South Kensington look today if previous plans for hotels and shopping centres had gone ahead?
  There have been plans for hotels, huge office blocks, shopping centres, total demolition, partial reuse, all sorts of plans. And some of them even secured planning permission to be built, only to fail to get started because of financial problems.
  But, as you
  
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• London Underground tunnels to get mobile phone coverage from Three and EE

  21-12-2021 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The company rolling out mobile phone coverage on the London Underground has signed its first two commercial contracts, with Three and EE.
  Although Wi-Fi coverage is available in the stations for all networks except Vodafone, and mobile coverage is available on all networks along the length of the Jubilee line extension, that was a pilot installation carried out by London Underground to test the service.
  Earlier this year, a 20-year commercial contract was signed with BAI Communications to extend
  
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• Three and EE first to sign up to London Underground 4G network

  21-12-2021 01:00
  In June this year, BAI Communications announced that it had won a contract to build a neutral host mobile network for the London Underground following a competitive tender process. The project is set to deploy a 4G-ready and 5G-capable mobile system by 2024, with BAI pledging to invest £1 billion in investment over the next 20 years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India–China relations strained by new OPPO deal

  21-12-2021 01:00
  Tensions between India and China have run high in 2021, following on from border clashes in the summer of 2020 that left numerous soldiers dead. By January 2021, India had permanently banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, and introduced various measures to safeguard the country’s national infrastructure from Chinese investments.But now, despite these tensions, it appears that the ISRO has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese smartphone maker OPPO&rsquo…re
  
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• China Mobile seeks $8.8bn as it migrates to Shanghai Stock Exchange

  21-12-2021 01:00
  Back in November 2020, in one of then-President Trump’s numerous final blows to China, the US government ordered that Americans would be banned from investing in Chinese companies deemed to have links to the Chinese military, a measure that included all three of China’s major mobile operators: China Telecom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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