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• Ericsson and EE team up for Green Planet 5G showcase

  12-01-2022 18:01
  
  Kit vendor Ericson and UK MNO EE have put together The Green Planet AR Experience, which seems to be designed to show off edge computing 5G capabilities.
  The Green Planet promises to ‘take guests on an immersive journey into the secret kingdom of plants.’ A 5G private network and edge computing infrastructure will power the augmented reality graphics at an installation in Central London.
  Some of the funding seems to come from the DCMS – in January last year it announce it had r
  
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• Tickets Alert: Immersive event inside the Cabinet War Rooms

  12-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For three days in March, Whitehall’s Cabinet War Rooms will be host to an interactive theatrical event.
  Based on stories from the Second World War, you will be asked to solve missions inspired by the real people who worked in this secret government headquarters.
  With five different journeys to choose from, become part of the mysterious Department as you take on challenges to uncover the stories hidden underground in the labyrinthine corridors of Churchill War Rooms.
  The performances take p
  
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• Apple in Korea climbdown after third-party payment ruling

  12-01-2022 15:23
  
  The iPhone maker, which recently saw its market cap briefly top $3 trillion, returned to Earth with a bump this week.
  South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday that Apple has submitted compliance plans relating to a new law that bans app store providers from forcing developers to use their in-app payment systems. These proprietary systems typically charge a high commission – in Apple’s case it’s up to 30% – every time a user makes an in-app purchase. It&r
  
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• Vodafone promises free data to 200,000 ‘digitally excluded’ Britons

  12-01-2022 13:09
  
  UK MNO Vodafone has pledged 24 million GB of data to the Good Things Foundation’s National Databank.
  The data is described as sufficient to connect 200,000 people for six months. Vodafone has worked with Good Things Foundation on so called digital exclusion projects since 2020 and has said it will connect one million people living in digital poverty by the end of 2022.
  Community groups will be able to apply for the free data later this month through the Good Things Foundation website. It w
  
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• See over 600 varieties of snowdrops at Thenford Arboretum

  12-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not far from Banbury is a large arboretum which amongst many things, is noted for its collection of snowdrops that fill the grounds in February.
  Thenford Arboretum, owned by Lord and Lady Heseltine, makes for a wonderful day out at any time of year, but its huge range of snowdrops — over 600 different species at the last count — are famous for the huge spread across the grounds.
  Snowdrops have grown in Thenford’s woodlands and churchyard for decades, carpeting the ground with a
  
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• Telenor Myanmar to hike prices following regressive tax

  12-01-2022 12:41
  
  Myanmar’s authoritarian regime has taken steps to wind the clock back to a time when mobile services were barely affordable.
  Telenor Myanmar warned customers over the weekend to expect increases in the cost of SIM cards and mobile data, after the military junta imposed new taxes in a thinly-veiled effort to exert further control over the population.
  Announced last week, the taxes include a flat 20,000 kyat (£8.27) tax on the sale of new SIM cards. Telcos are also subject to a 15 perc
  
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• Vodafone Idea CEO insists government won’t control company

  12-01-2022 12:27
  
  Following the news that Indian government is set to become the largest single shareholder on troubled operator Vodafone Idea, its boss reckons he’ll still be calling the shots.
  The declaration was made at a press conference so we’re reliant on the Indian media for an account. “In all of our interactions with the government leading up to the package itself, and even after they announced the package, I think it has been very clearly stated by the government that they do not want
  
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• Zain Jordan Selects Infovista for End-to-End Autonomous Wireless Network Testing and Benchmarking

  12-01-2022 10:00
  
  Hybrid all-in-one benchmarking data collection enables static, walk and drive testing from a single device, while data analytics platform will allow better network planning and optimization Paris, France Wednesday, January 12th 2022 -- Infovista, the global leader in Network Lifecycle Automation (NLA), has announced that Zain Jordan, the leading Jordanian mobile network operator and part of the Zain Group, has selected Infovista’s TEMS Sense, TEMS Director and Planet products to provide ne
  
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• We downloaded 230 billion apps in 2021

  12-01-2022 09:00
  
  Analytics firm App Annie claims 230 billion apps were downloaded and $170 billion was spent on apps globally in 2021.
  The firm’s annual State of Mobile report threw out a swarm of stats covering almost every conceivable mobile economy data set.
  China took gold in the the most downloaded apps Olympics, clocking a staggering 98.4 billion. Second was India with 26.6 billion and third was the US with 12.2 billion. China also came top on consumer app spend at $56.8 billion. Second was the US wi
  
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• Subsea sabotage? World's most northern cable knocked offline by unknown event

  12-01-2022 01:00
  Disruption to submarine cables systems is a fairly common occurrence, with cables potentially being damaged by everything from undersea tremors to trailing anchors from vessels above them. The cause of these interruptions is usually quickly identifiable, with submarine cable operators using various methods to closely monitor potential dangers to their subsea assets.  On Monday, however, Space Norway, the operator of the world’s most northern submarine cable, the SUCS, announced
  
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• Senegal’s SHARE subsea cable is one step closer to completion

  12-01-2022 01:00
  The 720km SHARE cable will connect Dakar in Senegal and Praia in Cape Verde. The system, which has a total design capacity of 16Tbps, is expected to be ready for service in Q1 2022…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Indonesia latest to jump on 5G mining trend

  12-01-2022 01:00
  With its low latency, excellent reliability, and high capacity, 5G is being heralded as a game changer for numerous industries, helping to enable edge computing, AI, and the IoT. Perhaps one of the most prominent industries to emerge as a proponent of early 5G adoption is mining, where 5G is expected not only to increase operational efficiencies through automation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 4G remains the mainstay for IoT, says new report

  12-01-2022 01:00
  Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research has been actively monitoring the activities of 52 IoT cellular module vendors for the previous two years, collating all available information about their module portfolios into a single central repository, to offer a thorough overview of all that is available. The first release of this dataset contains information about the vendors, technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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