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• Vantage Towers turns to wind power in Germany

  20-01-2022 16:36
  
  Vantage Towers has agreed to buy more than 750 wind turbines from renewable energy start-up Mowea to power its sites in Germany.
  You could be forgiven for assuming that such a large number of wind turbines – there are 752 in total – would cover a large number of Vantage’s mobile sites, but in fact they will power just 52…and even then, not all the time. That said, this deal is more than just a nod to the green agenda – those turbines will generate a lot of power &n
  
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• Where is all the 5G standalone we were expecting?

  20-01-2022 16:20
  
  Telcos have launched just 19 standalone 5G networks to date and that slow pace of development is understandably having an impact on mobile core spending, according to a new analyst report by Dell’Oro Group.
  Apparently the slow uptake of 5G standalone networks has had an impact on mobile core network growth, which it predicts will come in at a CAGR of 3% globally over the next five years.
  “The cumulative revenue forecast for the period 2022 to 2026 is over $50 billion. The overall rev
  
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• MediaTek teases Wi-Fi 7 kit

  20-01-2022 16:08
  
  Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek has demonstrated its new Wi-Fi 7 products to key customers and partners.
  Apparently everyone is champing at the bit to play around with real-time virtual reality and stream in 8K, so tech firms have begun to work on the new generation of wifi to support these applications.
  Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek wants to steal a march on its rivals, which is why this week it revealed its offering. Wi-Fi 7 is the ‘street name’ for the IEEE’s 802.11be extremel
  
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• Superheroes to go on display at the Foundling Museum

  20-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new exhibition opening is all about Superheroes, but with a twist — they were all orphaned or abandoned at birth. The exhibition at the Foundling Museum will be the first major exhibition to explore the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees, and foster children in comics.
  DC’s Superman, who was found by his adoptive parents, is one of many comic heroes who are orphans: Spider-Man’s parents die in a plane crash; Batman’s parents are killed in a street robbery,
  
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• Piccadilly line moquette clothing from adidas and Arsenal

  20-01-2022 14:38 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  You can now wear Piccadilly line moquette clothing, if you don’t mind them also having a football logo on them as well.
  (c) TfL
  The shirts are a collaboration between adidas and Arsenal football club, which sits close to the Arsenal tube station on the Piccadilly line, and they are the prematch jersey and warm top, which the players will wear to warm up in ahead of games between now and the end of the season.
  The range celebrates Arsenal station – the only Underground station to be n
  
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• Nokia details what it reckons the point of 6G will be

  20-01-2022 14:24
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has decided to have a go at describing what the next generation of mobile communication technology will be all about.
  Specifically it was Bell Labs and its Core Research President Peter Vetter, in a blog/press release titled ‘Nokia’s vision for the 6G era’. If you want to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, check out Vetter’s video at the bottom of this story.
  “Imagine a world that fuses the digital, physical and huma
  
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• Orange cheers 6 million FTTH customers

  20-01-2022 14:12
  
  Orange is very excited about hitting its latest full fibre uptake milestone, but there are still plenty of people in France still to sign up to FTTH from the incumbent or a rival.
  The French telco has signed up 6 million customers to its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network and says it is connecting close to 10,000 per day. That’s a great effort, and one that should be celebrated. But the race to full fibre is not yet over.
  “Over half of all Orange internet customers in France now enjoy
  
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• Telia Carrier basks in the warm glow of a corporate rebrand

  20-01-2022 13:57
  
  Clouds briefly parted this week as a shining ray of ethereal light bestowed a new name upon Swedish telco Telia Carrier, bringing unbridled joy to all.
  That’s probably how any brand consultant worth their salt pictures a rebranding, anyway. What actually happened was wholesaler Telia Carrier on Wednesday changed its name to Arelion (pronounced ‘ah-ray-li-yon’) and treated itself to a new logo.
  Apparently it centres on the word ‘reliable’, but according to a statemen
  
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• Telenor dives further into the public cloud with new AWS deal

  20-01-2022 13:44
  
  Norwegian telecoms group Telenor has signed a new public cloud deal with AWS to help it expand its 5G and edge computing offering.
  The deal is presented as both a move to ‘accelerate modernisation of telecommunications’, and a joint venture which will enable Telenor to better sell 5G and edge computing installations into manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, and automotive customers.
  Telenor already works with AWS through its MVNO in Sweeden, Vimla, whose entire mobile core now
  
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• Behind the scenes at East London’s art-deco gem – The Troxy

  20-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of East London’s art-deco gems is being restored to its original glory as decades of clutter and mess are cleared away. This is the Troxy, built in the 1930s as a cinema, later an opera rehearsal site followed by two fat ladies as a bingo hall, and now being restored as a music and entertainment venue.It also contains hidden depths that the public rarely get to see.The Troxy was built on a block that was mainly occupied by the Commercial Brewery, with some houses at the rear and a pub
  
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• Infovista launches Planet Cloud bringing unparalleled scalability and automation to 5G network planning and optimization

  20-01-2022 11:54
  
  Cloud-native, AI-powered RF planning engine now available to help mobile operators make network-wide 5G RAN planning decisions Paris, France – Thursday 20th January 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced Planet Cloud, delivering the RF planning and optimization algorithms of its award-winning Planet solution in a cloud-native, API-based application to bring unparalleled scalability and automation. This allows operators to dynamicall
  
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• Real Wireless Research Shows One Third Reduction for Private Network Infrastructure Cost Using AccelerComm 5G physical layer IP solution

  20-01-2022 11:17
  
  Industrial private networks see considerable infrastructure savings by deploying AccelerComm solutions Southampton, UK – January 20th 2022 - AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with a complete physical layer solution which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced the findings of a report commissioned from Real Wireless, the independent wireless experts, which shows significant reductions in 5G Private network infrastructure costs by utilising AccelerComm&rsq
  
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• Aegiq secures seed investment to revolutionize trust in global telecommunications and computing with quantum photonics

  20-01-2022 11:00
  
  A quantum photonics spin-out from the University of Sheffield lands seven-figure investment from a syndicate, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, to develop next-generation networking with quantum security The investment comes along with funding from Innovate UK and brings Aegiq’s total funding to over £3.5m Sheffield, UK; 20th January 2022: Aegiq has today announced that it secured seed investment from an investor syndicate led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, with participation of D
  
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• Elizabeth line’s Bond Street station still 3-months behind schedule

  20-01-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Elizabeth Line Committee has that Bond Street station will still struggle to open with the rest of the Elizabeth line, which is currently officially still “as soon as possible in the first half of 2022”.
  Bond Street had been running a whopping 18-months behind schedule two years ago but had managed to catch up to being roughly 3-months behind schedule now.With the opening of the Elizabeth line imminent,Bond Street has now met its requirement to support Trial Operations, this mean
  
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• Telenor looks to go “beyond connectivity” with new AWS partnership

  20-01-2022 01:00
  Telenor has today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), aiming to extend its cloud footprint and develop additional 5G and edge services for industry customers.The agreement builds on Telenor’s existing work with AWS, which includes various explorations of private 5G in both Europe and Asia. Perhaps the most notable development of the companies’ collaboration so far is the development of Telenor’s “network on wheels (NOW)&rd
  
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• Safaricom’s first data centre reaches Ethiopia ahead of service launch

  20-01-2022 01:00
  In May last year, the Ethiopian regulator announced that a Safricom-led consortium, then named the Global Partnership for Ethiopia, had won one of two available licences to offer commercial telecoms services in the country. The special purpose acquisition company, now known as Safaricom Ethiopia, is majority owned by Safaricom (55.7%), who is joined by Sumimoto (27.2%), CDC Group (10.9%), and Vodacom (6.2%).The successful $850 million bid marked the end of one of the world&rsquo&hellip
  
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• Digitally transforming the German public sector: The path to a smarter society

  20-01-2022 01:00
  2021 was an exciting year for the Germany telecoms sector, a year which saw the rollouts of the latest mobile and fixed broadband technologies accelerate rapidly. Indeed, when it comes to fibre, for example, Germany achieved record network expansions in 2021, according to German fibre optic association BREKO. But building out infrastructure is just a small part of ensuring the digitalisation of society at large, where both individuals and organisations are often slow to take advantage of n
  
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• 76% of Brits willing to adopt digital IDs

  20-01-2022 01:00
  Vaccine passport technology has become an intrinsic part of society over the past year, as governments across the globe search for solutions that help protect citizens from the pandemic. This new familiarity could soon lead to digital IDs becoming an accepted method of verification, according to new research of over 12,000 consumers, including more than 2,000 in the UK, from Okta and Statista.  Over three-quarters (76%) of Brits would be comfortable having some of their data incorpora
  
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