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• Ex-London Underground trains to be tested on the Greenford branch line

  15-02-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A mainline rail line in West London will take part in a trial later this year, replacing its existing fleet of diesel trains with former London Underground trains that have been converted to run on batteries.
  The trials will take place on the Greenford branch line, which is operated by GWR and mainly runs between Greenford and West Ealing. The line is currently served by a 2-car Class 165 Networker diesel passenger trains, and as the line is unlikely to be electrified any time soon, to reduce po
  
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• EU takes on SpaceX and Amazon with its own satellite internet system

  15-02-2022 18:51 via ft.com
  Brussels seeks standalone coverage despite internal watchdog previously raising doubts over proposals
  
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• Sigmund Freud’s chinese collection goes on display

  15-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1938 a collection of Chinese Jade carvings was taken out of Nazi-occupied Austria and brought to the UK, and now they are on display at the Freud Museum.
  They are in fact part of the Sigmund Freud collection, as the famous psychoanalyst was a modest collector of antiquities for his home in Vienna.
  Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, it became increasingly obvious the Freud family was in danger, and Sigmund along with some of his family was able to negotiate escape from Vienna la
  
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• AMD completes purchase of Xilinx

  15-02-2022 14:50
  
  US chip vendor AMD has acquired fellow semiconductor player Xilinx for around $50 billion, in what it describes as the largest ever merger in the sector.
  AMD, which primarily produces CPUs for PCS and servers, put in the bid in October 2020 for Xilinx, which has more direct relevance to the telecoms sector. It invented the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) chip which is supposed to have specialised potential in 5G installations, and launched the Zynq RFSoC DFE radio platform, designed for 5G
  
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• Investors are apparently hot for 5G

  15-02-2022 14:40
  
  Technology solutions provider World Wide Technology asked some big shot financial investors where the smart money is in relation to 5G speculation.
  The survey, put together alongside a firm amusingly called Walnut Unlimited, comprised of 100 interviews with VCs and investors across the UK and US, who were selected on the basis of their active interest in telecoms and/or IT.
  Apparently more than half of the respondents manage assets of over $2 billion, while 2 in 5 manage assets of over $5 billio
  
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• Virgin Media O2 flirts with Londoners

  15-02-2022 14:16
  
  UK telco VMO2 has issued an announcement apparently designed to improve its standing in the country’s capital.
  The milestone that moved VMO2’s marketing department to act was the claim that two thirds of London’s population now has access to its 5G signal. This factoid provides the platform for VMO2 to bang on about how it’s investing in the region, as if that’s an act of philanthropy as opposed to an investment it expects handsome returns on.
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• 5G For TOUGHBOOK G2: Panasonic Announces 5G Support For Its Best-Selling Rugged Tablet

  15-02-2022 14:00
  
  Ideal for mobile power users that require high-bandwidth connectivity in the most extreme environments. BRACKNELL, UK. 15th February 2022 – Panasonic today announced 5G support for its best-selling fully rugged tablet the TOUGHBOOK G2. Ideal for mobile power users that require high-bandwidth connectivity in the most extreme environments, the 5G version of the TOUGHBOOK G2 tablet will be available to order from February 2022. “As the roll-out of the 5G network across Europe continues
  
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• Cellular IoT market expected to double by 2026

  15-02-2022 13:31
  
  Low-power wide area (LPWA) networking is expected to fuel a 97 percent rise in the value of the cellular IoT market.
  This is according to a report published by Juniper Research, which predicts it will be worth more than $61 billion by 2026, compared to $31 billion in 2022. It expects NB-IoT and LTE-M to be the growth engines, with the low cost of connectivity and devices stimulating adoption in sectors like agriculture, smart cities and manufacturing. Migration from 2G and 3G networks is also ex
  
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• Spain acts on 5G TV interference

  15-02-2022 13:27
  
  Spain has set out a series of proposals to ensure that 5G mobile services do not affect terrestrial TV reception and putting the onus on telecoms operators to keep viewers in the loop.
  That’s all well and good, but it begs the question why the proposals are being published now, as operators race to bring 5G services to market. The regulator admits that the situation is “urgent” to avoid delays to 5G rollout, but surely this type of due diligence could have come sooner.
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the Chatley Heath semaphore tower

  15-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A unique remnant from the Napoleonic era, the only surviving semaphore tower in Britain can be found next to the M25 and is having an open weekend in June.
  (c) Landmark Trust
  It was once a cutting-edge building at the forefront of technology and design, a vital link in a signalling chain that transmitted semaphore messages from Admiralty House in London to Portsmouth Docks in just a few minutes. Once semaphores went the way of the Dodo, it was occupied as a home until the 1960s, and was badly da
  
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• Cerillion Named in Two Gartner® Market Guide for Telecoms BSS/OSS Solutions reports

  15-02-2022 09:30
  
  - One of only 10 companies to be recognised in both highly respected analyst reports - London, 15th February 2022 – Cerillion (AIM: CER), an innovator in digital monetisation and customer management solutions, today announced that it has been recognised by Gartner in two recent industry reports – the Market Guide for CSP Customer Management and Experience Solutions[1] (CM&X) and the Market Guide for CSP Revenue Management and Monetization Solutions[2] (RM&M). According to the
  
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• Southwark’s dog on a pole with a bowl — and Charles Dickens

  15-02-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Opposite Southwark tube station is a tall pole, and on top of the pole is a dog and a bowl, and they are there in memory of Charles Dickens.
  How so you might wonder?It was erected by Southwark Council in 2013, to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens birth in 1812, and marks the location of a shop that had a famous shop sign hanging outside, of a dog and a pot, which was a local landmark. Charles Dickens would often pass it in his early years as a journalist as it was on his route to and from
  
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• EU to take on SpaceX and Amazon with its own satellite internet system

  15-02-2022 06:00 via ft.com
  Brussels wants standalone coverage but internal watchdog has previously raised doubts over proposals
  
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• Verizon spends latest $1bn green bond on renewable energy

  15-02-2022 01:00
  Verizon has fully allocated its latest $1 billion green bond, using the funds to sign numerous renewable energy purchase agreements (REPAs) in a bid to make their operations more environmentally friendly. Combined, these REPAs cover roughly 910 megawatts of new renewable energy generating capacity across seven states…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica debuts its new OpenRAN 5G standalone small cell

  15-02-2022 01:00
  Telefónica is announcing the successful validation of its new Open RAN all-in-one 5G Standalone small cell. With this ORAN-compliant solution Telefonica targets to increase the small cell ecosystem by delivering an innovative product that enables a wide range of use cases for different vertical markets.The all-in-one 5G small cell, developed by Askey, is powered by the Qualcomm® FSM100 5G RAN Platform; a high performance and low power solution for small cells, and with Node-H’s
  
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• Plans to save TIM from KKR takeover could include major job cuts

  15-02-2022 01:00
  Back in November, US investment firm KKR approached Italian incumbent operator TIM, offering €10.8 billion to take control of the business. The offer came following the latest profit warnings issued by the operator, which has found itself battling for slim profits in a highly competitive domestic market while also rolling out expensive 5G and fibre networks in recent years.The offer from KKR was quickly followed by the stepping down of TIM&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com &
  
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• NTT partners with ServiceNow for workflow automation with private 5G

  15-02-2022 01:00
  NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider, today announced a partnership with ServiceNow to simplify and accelerate the adoption of private 5G through an AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform. To extract value from private 5G, customers need to digitize new and existing business processes to bridge the gap between their workflows and private 5G network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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