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• Burnham station completes Elizabeth line upgrades

  08-02-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Another station has completed its upgrade works ahead of the Elizabeth line opening, this time at Burnham in Buckinghamshire.
  The railway runs on a viaduct above the street level, with the old station entrance and ticket office in front of the arches underneath the railway — with stairs up to a central platform.
  Improvements include the opening of a new larger ticket office building with an accessible ticket window, new ticket vending machines, automatic ticket gates, and customer informat
  
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• EU unveils €43 billion microchip manufacturing splurge

  08-02-2022 18:50
  
  The European Union has announced a huge investment strategy to scale up its semiconductor sector, in a belated bid to achieve chip autonomy.
  Th European Chips Act is a strategy to mobilise €43 billion of public and private investments into the European chip sector. This includes €15 billion (or €11 billion depending in which of the EU documents released today you look at) to be directly provided under something called the Chips for Europe Initiative to finance research, design and
  
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• France’s Iliad bids for Vodafone Italian business

  08-02-2022 18:31
  Xavier Niel wants to consolidate in what would be test of regulatory appetite for shake-up
  
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• Major cancer exhibition coming to the Science Museum

  08-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition that’ll include the first-ever example of cancer in a dinosaur fossil, will open shortly at the Science Museum. It’s an exhibition that comes at a time when half of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime, yet with improved cancer treatment and care, more of us than ever before are living longer and better with the disease and beyond.
  Visitor looking at the 3D tumour sculpture in the Cancer Revolution exhibition (c) Science Museum
  On display in the exhibition w
  
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• Nvidia inevitably gives up trying to buy Arm

  08-02-2022 14:27
  
  US semiconductor giant Nvidia has decided to stop wasting everyone’s time over its futile attempt to gain control of the world’s main source of chip designs.
  Nvidia’s bid to buy Arm from Japanese conglomerate Softbank was always a baffling move. Arm’s business model involves it licensing its cutting-edge chip designs to the likes of Nvidia… and all its competitors. How could it ever make sense to allow one of its ecosystem of customers to have complete control over
  
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• Ofcom says broadband and mobile complaints are down across the board

  08-02-2022 13:03
  
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its latest quarterly report on the number of complaints it receives related to landline, broadband, mobile and pay-TV services.
  Covering the period between July and September last year, Ofcom claims in general complaints across the board are at all time low levels. Specifically broadband, landline and pay TV saw reductions in complaints during the period, with nearly all providers seeing an improvement in their figures. For pay-monthly mobile, complaints we
  
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• Wapping park extension to sit on top of a sewer

  08-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to landscape one of the Thames super sewer building sites have been approved and will enlarge the existing King Edward Memorial Park (KEMP) in Wapping. At the moment, a large construction site sits in the river next to the park, to give access to the sewer deep under the Thames, as well as leaving behind an access site for maintenance.
  Approved landscaping design (c) Thames Tideway Tunnel
  The King Edward Memorial Park is the location of one of the most polluting sewer overflows into the ri
  
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• M&A looms in Southern Europe as Iliad and Orange reportedly make overtures

  08-02-2022 12:41
  
  Iliad has reportedly made a takeover bid for Vodafone’s Italian unit, while Orange is exploring the possibility of a merger with MasMovil in Spain, according to the industry rumour mill.
  It’s hardly surprising that mergers and acquisitions are on the cards in those two Southern European markets, where the competitive environment has been fierce for some time. And the players involved are also some of the most likely candidates to be shaking things up.
  Furthermore, the Italy story is
  
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• M&A in Southern Europe as Iliad and Orange reportedly make overtures

  08-02-2022 12:41
  
  Iliad has reportedly made a takeover bid for Vodafone’s Italian unit, while Orange is exploring the possibility of a merger with MasMovil in Spain, according to the industry rumour mill.
  It’s hardly surprising that mergers and acquisitions are on the cards in those two Southern European markets, where the competitive environment has been fierce for some time. And the players involved are also some of the most likely candidates to be shaking things up.
  Furthermore, the Italy story is
  
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• BT poaches Vodafone smart tech execs

  08-02-2022 12:32
  
  Former Vodafone exec Tom Guy and his team have jumped ship to oversee BT’s start-up accelerator programme.
  BT announced Guy has been appointed Managing Director of Incubation. A division within BT Digital, it’s tasked with finding and fostering companies that offer new connected products and product categories relevant to any area of BT’s business.
  “I’m looking forward to joining BT Digital at such an exhilarating time for the unit and the business as a whole. Toget
  
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• Myanmar activist warns Telenor that sale will endanger junta’s opponents

  08-02-2022 08:45
  Norwegian telecoms company is struggling to appease both regime and human rights campaigners
  
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• Unbuilt London: The Edgware Road and Victoria railway

  08-02-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Had it been built, there would today be a tube line running between Victoria station and Kilburn, and could have altered the route of the Jubilee line.
  What was proposed was a tube railway that would run between Victoria station[1] and Kilburn, calling at Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch, Edgware Road, Maida Vale, Kilburn High Road, and terminating roughly where Kilburn and Brondesbury stations are today.
  Black line showing the rough route of the railway on a modern tube map.
  The description was fo
  
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• Optus deploying Ericsson’s triple-band RU to help boost 5G rollout

  08-02-2022 01:00
  Today, Ericsson has announced the deployment of its triple-band Radio 4466 solution by Australian operator Optus, allowing three spectrum bands to be deployed by a single radio unit.  The new solution will allow Optus to deploy both 4G and 5G services across 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz, and 2.6 GHz spectrum layers via one device…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• M&A rumours abound in Spain as Orange and MasMovil talks revealed

  08-02-2022 01:00
  Today, Spanish newspaper Expansion is reporting that Orange is in talks to merge its Spanish unit with that or rival group MasMovil, citing anonymous sources.  According to sources, the move would create a 50:50 joint venture, half of which would be held by Orange, with the remaining 50% held by Masmovil’s owners: KKR, Cinven, and Providence. The trio of investment funds themselves took control of MasMovil back in 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Iliad reportedly bids for Vodafone Italy

  08-02-2022 01:00
  In the past few weeks, rumours have been circulating that Vodafone and Iliad have entered talks to discuss combining their Italian business units.Now, it seems that those rumours are well founded, with further sources telling the media that French telecoms giant Iliad submitted a takeover bid to Vodafone just last week. The Italian mobile market is currently highly competitive, largely as a result of Iliad&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Iliad confirms rumours with bid for Vodafone Italy

  08-02-2022 01:00
  In the past few weeks, rumours have been circulating that Vodafone and Iliad have entered talks to discuss combining their Italian business units.Now, it seems that those rumours are well founded, with further sources telling the media that French telecoms giant Iliad submitted a takeover bid to Vodafone just last week. The Italian mobile market is currently highly competitive, largely as a result of Iliad&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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