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• Book – Tube station typologies 1924-1961

  03-02-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new book is being crowdfunded at the moment, which will be an annotated photobook documenting historic London Underground stations built between 1924 and 1961.
  (c) Philip Butler
  The book is the culmination of a two-year photographic project documenting the golden age of tube station design, centring on Charles Holden’s work for the Underground. It presents each period of development, line by line, with contemporary photos by Philip Butler of all 79 surviving stations.
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• BT Sport/Discovery: a joint venture is more home draw than away win

  03-02-2022 15:43
  Negotiations on the proposed deal may yet fail but it would have commercial logic
  
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  03-02-2022 15:04
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• Facebook shares tank as it pivots towards unproven metaverse strategy

  03-02-2022 14:44
  
  Despite a 20% Q4 revenue hike, stock in tech giant Meta/Facebook dropped 20% amid negative outlook for the next quarter.
  Meta posted $33.67 billion in revenue for Q4 2021, up 20% year-on-year. This would be a win were it not for the fact it has spent a significant amount of money this year investing in new business units, particularly around the metaverse. Total overheads were $21 billion, up from $15 billion the previous year – a 29% increase.
  This meant net income was $10,285 billion com
  
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• London’s public transport faces years of managed decline

  03-02-2022 14:43 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has outlined more details about the cuts needed and how it will charge more for services in order to deal with the hole in its income caused by the pandemic and rising inflation.
  TfL currently has a funding deal that expires just before midnight tomorrow (Friday 4th February) and is in talks to secure both a funding deal to keep services running this year and also a commitment to medium-term investments to keep the services running in years to come.
  (c) TfL
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• Spotify holds firm over Rogan, for now

  03-02-2022 14:37
  
  Quarterly season has come at an awkward time for streaming platform Spotify, with calls to censor the JRE podcast it hosts continuing.
  The first question asked of Spotify in its earnings call concerned, not the weak outlook that seems to be the main reason behind a pre-market share price fall of 10%, but the fuss around the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, published exclusively on Spotify, and its tendency to feature guests who sometimes have controversial opinions.
  Spotify CEO Daniel Ek attempted
  
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• Infovista launches 360° Assurance solutions to deliver predictive, real-time and ubiquitous customer experience assurance across any operator's entire network

  03-02-2022 13:30
  
  Customer experience driven solutions deliver proactive service management and pre-integrated use-case based assurance solutions for rapid monetization of specific service categories Paris, France – February 3rd, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced its 360° Assurance set of solutions to support predictive, real-time and automated customer experience assurance across any operator’s end-to-end network, from a single ap
  
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• Nokia revives dividend following strong turnaround

  03-02-2022 13:10
  
  A strong end to 2021 led Nokia to make a whole host of crowd-pleasing announcements on quarterlies day.
  The Finnish kit maker revealed plans to pay a €0.08 per share dividend for fiscal 2021, the first payout since 2019. It also launched a two-year, €600 million share buyback programme.
  Further details about the scheme will be shared closer to when the process begins. A quick look at Nokia’s share price shows that at around €5.00, they are trading at less than half that of r
  
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• Uber Boats offering a Gravesend/Tilbury to London service this half-term

  03-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a couple of days later this month, Thames Clipper will be offering a service from Tilbury and Gravesend to London, and back again.
  From Gravesend, the boat will take 40 minutes to reach Greenwich Peninsula (North Greenwich Pier), or 60 minutes to London Bridge (London Bridge City Pier). The service leaves Gravesend and Tilbury at 9:45am/10am, and returns from London Bridge at 4pm. Tickets need to be booked in advance from here.
  Sadly, there’s not an option for a day-trip to Gravesend f
  
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• BT staying in Sport for now, but full exit could still come

  03-02-2022 12:32
  
  BT is working on a deal to create a 50:50 sports broadcasting joint venture with Discovery, a move that means it will not exit the sports business altogether.
  The announcement came alongside a relatively weak Q3 results presentation from the UK incumbent, which included a topline decline and a warning that revenues for the full financial year will be lower than last year’s. As a result, the telco’s shares had taken a hit at the time of writing.
  But the sports deal served as a handy d
  
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• 6 GHz Wi-Fi spectrum is critical to enable technology innovation in Australia

  03-02-2022 10:00
  
  Washington D.C., USA, 03 February 2022: Australia should set aside the full 1200 MHz of available 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi applications under the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)’s Low Interference Potential Devices (LIPD) Class Licence. This will ensure that enough spectrum is made available to enable the next generation of Wi-Fi Gigabit technologies, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, to thrive alongside 5G and fibre. This is the message from the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance...Source
  
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• Eight more cycle hire locations coming to Southwark

  03-02-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The locations of eight additional cycle hire docking stations has been confirmed by TfL, as part of a previously announced expansion of the scheme in Southwark.According to the planning applications, six of the cycle hire locations are as follows:
  One docking station with space for 18 bikes will be based outside the Harris Academy on the north side of Southwark Park Road and next to an existing segregated cycle lane.
  The second with space for 22 bikes is to go on Brandon Street, near Nursery Row
  
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• Samsung and Amdocs teams up for private 4G/5G networks

  03-02-2022 01:00
  Samsung Electronics America and Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced the companies will collaborate to deliver end-to-end 4G and 5G private network solutions to U.S. enterprises to help businesses across key industries leverage next-generation communications applications and services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Samsung and Amdocs teams up for private 4G/5G network solutions

  03-02-2022 01:00
  Samsung Electronics America and Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced the companies will collaborate to deliver end-to-end 4G and 5G private network solutions to U.S. enterprises to help businesses across key industries leverage next-generation communications applications and services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Is ‘Buy American’ too tall an order for US telcos?

  03-02-2022 01:00
  In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, into law, pledging to spend $1.2 trillion to improve national infrastructure, including broadband access, clean water, electric grid renewal, public transport, and roads.For the US telecoms industry, this Bill has been a significant boon, with around $65 billion earmarked for broadband infrastructure projects across the country.However, maki
  
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• DITO mulls more foreign investment as Philippines eases restrictions

  03-02-2022 01:00
  In the years since the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic back in 2020, the world’s reliance on telecoms networks has only increased. Data traffic continues to surge, and discussions are beginning to arise as to whether connectivity should be viewed as a utility, akin to water, electricity, and gas.But while this definition merely a matter of semantics for many of us, officially designated as a utility company can have significant ramifications in many markets around the world. Th
  
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• BT scraps DAZN talks as it lines up sports streaming JV with Discovery

  03-02-2022 01:00
  Today, BT has announced its intention to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Discovery, a move that would see BT Sport merged with Discovery’s Eurosport.The venture would bring together various sports broadcasting assets, including the rights to show Premier League, Champions League, Europa League football, cycling Grand Tours, tennis Grand Slams…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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