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• London’s cycle hire scheme had busiest year ever

  13-01-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  With just under 11 million hires in 2021, the London cycle hire scheme had its busiest year since it was set up in 2010, boosted by people switching from trains and buses to bikes.
  The cycle hire scheme registered 10.9 million hires in 2021, surpassing the previous best target set in 2018 by 371,000 hires. More than 1 million individual customers used the cycle hire scheme last year, the first time this milestone has been reached in a calendar year, and 178,000 new members joined the scheme in 2
  
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• Confusion over future of Beam Park station in East London

  13-01-2022 15:22 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The finishing stages should be underway for a new railway station at Beam Park near Dagenham that will provide services for a planned 10,000 new homes, but there’s no sign that construction will ever be completed. The station would sit on the C2C line offering a fast link into the City, and is a key component of a £1 billion regeneration project of the area which will see two new schools, lots of new infrastructure, and thousands of new homes.
  However, with the GLA having committed o
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: OpenRAN, roaming and Huawei

  13-01-2022 14:13
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · OpenRAN, roaming and Huawei
  
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• Italian government wants control of TIM’s assets after any takeover

  13-01-2022 13:53
  
  As the KKR takeover bid for Telecom Italia hangs in the air, the Italian government has signalled that it wants to control key strategic assets.
  Private equity firm KKR launched the €0.505 per share takeover bid in November last year, which valued the Italian incumbent at €10.79 billion (with TIM’s net debt, and that valuation jumps to €32.95 billion). It requires the approval from the board and management, as well as the support of 51 percent of shareholders and the Italian
  
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• New plans for the Museum of London site

  13-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the Museum of London moves from its current London Wall site to Farringdon in a couple of years time, it will leave a large empty space behind, and now plans have been shown off as to what might happen. The site had originally been earmarked for a new concert hall, but that was cancelled last February in favour of upgrading the Barbican instead. Since then, the City of London has been looking at what could go there instead.
  Part of the reason for the museum move is that both the current bui
  
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• DAZN reportedly on cusp of sealing $800m BT Sport deal

  13-01-2022 12:47
  
  A fresh batch of rumours claim UK sports media company DAZN is really close to buying BT Sport, and that an agreement could be reached this month.
  Reuters reported late on Wednesday that the long-running negotiations are expected to culminate in an $800 million (£582 million) deal that will give DAZN those much-coveted rights to show English Premier League and UEFA Champions League football in the UK.
  The sports streaming service has supposedly been in the frame to acquire the unit since l
  
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• DirecTV-Dish merger on the cards as market flounders

  13-01-2022 12:34
  
  Talk of a merger between DirecTV and Dish has resurfaced once again, but this time the broader market conditions could make such a move more likely to get regulatory approval.
  The two US pay TV operators – one a spin-off from AT&T, the other on the cusp of launching its own mobile service – are holding talks that could lead to a merger, the New York Post reported earlier this week, citing anonymous sources. The companies are currently trying to iron out the details of a deal, the
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Arnold Estate, SE1

  13-01-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a small park in Bermondsey that used to be the site of a Victorian music hall, the Star of Bermondsey, and an adjacent pub-hotel.
  The area was heavily built up with terraced housing, but facing onto the main road, at the time Neckinger Road, but today an extension of Abbey Street, was a large pub and hotel, the Star and Garter Hotel built in the 1830s.
  A few decades later, the building next to it was redeveloped into the Star Music Hall, and that opened in October 1867, right in the midd
  
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• Reliance set to invest $80bn in green energy projects

  13-01-2022 01:00
  Facing pressure from investors, Reliance Industries, owned by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, has today announced that it will invest over $80 billion in green energy in Gujarat.The lion’s share of this investment – around $67 billion &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CTIA forms new 5G Security Test Bed

  13-01-2022 01:00
  Since 5G was first conceived many years ago, one of the technology’s major selling points was its increased security compared to 4G and older generations of mobile technology. Now, some years after widespread deployment, this premise has largely been proven true for commercial networks, partly through the ability of 5G to encrypt more data, but also via the nature of its architecture itself, being more software and cloud-based and thus allowing for better monitoring of security threats&he
  
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• Backed by Rostec, ER-Telecom acquires majority stake in Akado Telecom

  13-01-2022 01:00
  This week sees the Russian telecoms market undertake considerable consolidation, with the dominant independent telecoms operator in Moscow, Akado, being majority purchased by rival ER-Telecom.ER-Telecom and Rostec have reportedly created a new joint venture, ‘M-Com’, specifically for the purpose of making this acquisition…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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