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• US airlines warn of ‘chaos’ as telecoms groups roll out 5G

  17-01-2022 23:58
  Lobby group says new services will cause ‘incalculable’ disruption to passengers and cargo
  
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• Spain moves to regulate crypto asset advertising

  17-01-2022 18:40
  
  New rules in Spain means crypto currency promotions targeting over 100,000 people will need to be approved by the Spanish National Securities Market Commission ten days before deployment.
  Any promotional activity around crypto assets will also need to include warning labels outlining the associated risks. Considering there’s such an anti-establishment thread running through crypto culture, presumably those involved in Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc, will have wildly different takes on what the pro
  
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• Is OpenRAN a reset for the GSM MoU?

  17-01-2022 17:49
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece John Baker, SVP of Business Development at Mavenir looks at what it is about OpenRAN technology that is whipping up the storm in the industry and even in politics.
  GSM technology and its supporting ecosystem were conceived within a committee meeting in Paris and developed in the laboratories of the European Telecoms Standards Institute.  Originally motivate
  
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• Tickets Alert: London’s Open Garden Weekend

  17-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, around 100 normally private gardens will open their doors to the public, and discounted tickets have gone on sale.
  London Square Open Gardens Weekend is now in its 22nd year, after a break due to the pandemic, and showcases a range of green spaces from the historic and traditional to the new and experimental.
  It owes its name to the many private garden squares that dot the posher parts of London that are usually only open to residents, but for one weekend will be open to anyone. In
  
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• Amazon scraps scheduled ban on UK Visa payments

  17-01-2022 14:22
  
  Technology and online shopping leviathan Amazon has said it no longer plans to stop accepting UK-issued Visa credit cards for payments this month.
  According to the BBC, Amazon stated: “The expected change regarding the use of Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk will no longer take place on January 19.” It also said that it was working with Visa on “a potential solution that will enable customers to continue using their Visa credit cards”.
  In November last year A
  
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• AT&T spent big in US 3.45 GHz auction with Dish not far behind

  17-01-2022 14:12
  
  US operator AT&T was widely tipped to be the biggest spender in last year’s 3.45 GHz spectrum auction in the US and we now know that this was indeed the case.
  The regulator finally shared the names of the winning bidders and the amounts pledged for spectrum following the conclusion of the assignment phase of the auction. The high-value clock phase ended in November, with bidders having committed US$21.89 billion to the cause, while the assignment phase, which ran until early January, a
  
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• IP Telecom recruits Nokia to expand Portuguese fibre network

  17-01-2022 13:57
  
  IP Telecom has enlisted kit vendor Nokia to extend its fibre optic network around metro areas in Portugal, with a key emphasis on quantum security.
  Nokia will supply IP Telecom with networking equipment to build an encrypted optical data centre interconnect (DCI) solution. The network will use 100Gbps and 200Gbps data rates and will apparently be ready to deliver 400GE services in the future.
  Nokia claims there has been a rise in sophisticated data theft and the line encryption is supposed to pr
  
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• UK government reportedly plans anti-encryption marketing campaign

  17-01-2022 13:55
  
  The UK state’s obsession with end-to-end encryption shows no sign of abating, with a questionable £0.5 million ad campaign set to be launched.
  We have Rolling Stone to thank for the scoop. It got hold of some documents that indicate the UK government has hired ad agency M&C Saatchi to launch a publicity campaign designed to convince the public that end-to-end encryption, especial in direct messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, is bad.
  As with most state attempts
  
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• NTT hopes to succeed where Google Loon and Facebook Aquila failed

  17-01-2022 13:03
  
  Offering connectivity from balloons and drones is proving a tough nut to crack, but NTT has lined up some partners that it hopes will deliver a breakthrough.
  The Japanese telco has teamed up with its mobile arm DoCoMo, aircraft maker Airbus and Japanese satcoms provider Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation to conduct a feasibility study on high altitude platform stations (HAPS). Deployed at altitudes of around 20 kilometres, they are essentially flying base stations that can provide coverage to a radius
  
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• East-End London’s last Victorian funeral parlour to be restored

  17-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The shabby remains of a Victorian funeral parlour in East London is to be restored to its original appearance following the awarding of a grant by the Heritage of London Trust.
  Situated on the busy Commercial Road near Canary Wharf, the small building dated from the 19th-century and had been a funeral parlour owned by the same family right up to 2008. They sold the ongoing business, but the new owner stripped away the building’s unique Grade II listed façade and removed all its hist
  
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• London’s Alleys: Graces Alley, E1

  17-01-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a short alley leading to a former public square lined with nice houses, but the alley is now much more famous than the public square.Originally called Well Close Square, the area was laid out in 1694, with a Danish and Norwegian Church in the centre. Daniel Defoe mentions the square is his book “A tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain” (1724). He says that there used to be a well in the centre of the square. It was also known as Goodman’s Field’s Well
  
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• Mayor of London warns of threat to jobs if TfL funding deal not settled

  17-01-2022 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has issued the latest in his round of announcements to explain what will happen if TfL’s funding is cut by the central Government.
  The announcement comes just after the Mayor was due to submit a revised plan to the Department for Transport (DfT) to secure funding for TfL, after the plan due last month was submitted, reportedly late and missing information about future revenue sources.
  While the facts in the Mayor’s announcement on jobs are correct, th
  
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• Startup Stories: creating a marketplace for tower sites

  17-01-2022 01:00
  Tell us about your start up
  Sitenna is a digital platform that brings site acquisition and management into the modern era. Our platform empowers the stakeholders across the industry to meet the challenges and capture the opportunities of the expected explosion in sites not just for 5G today, but for future network technologies.
  Our enhanced digital search speeds up the process from months to minutes, and we love working with emerging technologies such as digital twins to enhance the experience.
  
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• Orange and Engie team up to shift African data centre to solar power

  17-01-2022 01:00
  Built back in 2016 and situated in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, the GOS (Groupement Orange Services) data centre is a major component in Orange’s broader data centre network throughout Africa. The site covers 16,600 square metres and hosts IT and telecoms equipment to support all 18 of Orange’s Middle East and Africa subsidiaries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Italy kicks off ‘Italia a 1Giga’ plan with €3.7bn tender

  17-01-2022 01:00
  On Saturday, Italian state-owned infrastructure company Infratel announced the launch of a tender process aiming to bring gigabit-capable broadband infrastructure to almost 7 million homes by 2026. The process will primarily target homes situated in grey areas across the country, which are locations where commercial operators currently have no plans to deploy next generation access infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• IP Telecom strikes deal with Nokia to defend against quantum cyber attacks

  17-01-2022 01:00
  Today, Nokia has announced it has struck a deal with IP Telecom to expand the latter’s data centre cloud connectivity infrastructure to metro areas in Portugal. The deal will see Nokia build an encrypted optical data centre interconnect (DCI) solution, including upgrades to multiple 100Gbps and 200Gbps wavelengths. In future, the solution will be able to deliver 400GE services.IP Telecom currently operates three major data centres in Portugal &ndash…read more on TotalTele.
  
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• $22.5bn 5G auction sees AT&T win big

  17-01-2022 01:00
  Back in November, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) completed its latest mid-band 5G spectrum auction, raising $22.5 billion. Now, the winners of the auction have been announced, with AT&T and Dish the top spenders.The auction, which began in October last year, offered a further 100MHz of midband spectrum in the 3.45GHz and 3.55GHz bands to the operators. Following this auction, US operators will have a total of 530MHz of mid…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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