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• Cheap Saturday Night Fever tickets on Sundays

  21-01-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Coming to the Peacock Theatre for a few weeks Bill Kenwright’s production of Saturday Night Fever will be showing for a limited 8-week run this Spring.
  Based on the 1976 hit John Travolta film of the same name, Saturday Night Fever tells the story of Tony Mareno and his devil-may-care journey to dancing his way to the top. This musical pays tribute to the original film but delivers more music and new choreography.
  Slightly ironic for a show about a Saturday Night, if you go to see it on a
  
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• Tube stations trialling services for cyclists and home storage

  21-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A number of tube stations have been chosen for a year-long trial of two different locker services aimed at improving facilities for cyclists, and temporary storage.
  One of the firms selected, Spokesafe will supply secure secure cycle parking lockers to make it easier for people who currently drive to the tube station to switch to cycling instead. Customers can choose to use the lockers on a pay as you go basis or by signing up to its membership scheme.
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• BT whacks up prices but offers EE customers Apple freebies too

  21-01-2022 13:03
  
  UK telecoms group BT takes with one hand in the form of a price increase and gives with the other thanks to some generous Apple content subs through its mobile arm EE.
  BT has announced that from March 31 most of its customers will see a price hike of 9.3%, which it estimates to be an average increase of £3.50. The group made pains to explain its hand was forced by rising costs, which it seems to be largely attributing to people ploughing through more data over the pandemic period.
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• Visit a museum inside the Foulness military firing range

  21-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy visiting a small museum in the middle of a military firing range, then you may want to put some dates into your diary.
  The Foulness Heritage Centre can be found deep inside a military firing range island on the far edge of Essex facing out to the North Sea. Being military grounds, the whole island is off-limits, save for a few farmers who still live there, and on just one Sunday per month during the warmer seasons, one road opens to the public.After going through security, and a 5-m
  
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• Ericsson and Apple renew patent hostilities

  21-01-2022 12:30
  
  Negotiations over patent fees have once more broken down between Apple and Ericsson so they thought it would be fun to sue each other instead.
  We are almost totally reliant on the FOSS Patents blog for the gory details of this latest legal spat, especially since neither company seems to have made any public comment. The author has been covering tech patent disputes for as long as we can remember and probably offers the best analysis you can get of such things for free.
  The blog concedes that the
  
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• Virgin Media Business investment in Greater Manchester bearing fruit

  21-01-2022 01:00
  Back in early 2020, Virgin Media Business announced it had partnered with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to help deliver fibre optic connectivity to more than 1,500 public sector sites throughout the region. The move came as part of the UK government’s broad Local Full Fibre Networks Programme (LFFN), with the £23.8 million deal in Greater Manchester the largest of its type in the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Netomnia begins fibre rollout in West Yorkshire

  21-01-2022 01:00
  Netomnia will provide FTTP broadband infrastructure to more than 71,000 premises in Wakefield and 48,000 premises in Pontefract, delivering access to its robust and reliable broadband network, helping to future-proof and diversify the local economy. Wakefield and Pontefract are among the fastest growing economies in the region1 and the deployment of ultrafast and reliable broadband will provide new opportunities to enhance their internationally renowned business sectors including digital&h
  
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• M1 Group finds a Burmese partner to greenlight Telenor Myanmar deal

  21-01-2022 01:00
  As a result of the military coup in February 2021, providing services as a telecoms operator in Myanmar has become harder and harder. For Telenor, one of the country’s largest operators, the situation soon became untenable, with the company writing off their investment in May last year. By July, the Norwegian operator had agreed to sell the struggling unit to Lebanon&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Is GalaxySpace China’s answer to Starlink?

  21-01-2022 01:00
  Chinese state media is reporting that burgeoning satellite firm GalaxySpace is planning to launch 1,000 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, ultimately aiming to compete with SpaceX’s high-profile Starlink constellation. According to the media, the first batch of six satellites have already been produced, tested, and delivered to their launch site.Naturally, this new constellation will have some catching up to do, with Starlink having already launched around 2,000 devices, with plans to
  
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