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• TfL expected to drop face mask mandate on London Transport shortly

  21-02-2022 21:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The condition of carriage that requires a face mask to be worn on London’s public transport is likely to be dropped shortly, with the requirement changed to a suggestion.
  Following the Prime Minister’s announcement that England’s legal powers requiring people to self-isolate following a positive covid test will be cancelled in favour of a recommendation to stay at home, the Mayor of London said that “in light of falling infection levels in London, it is expected that wear
  
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• Fish and chips on a steam train

  21-02-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Epping Ongar railway, a heritage line that runs along a disused part of the Central line is resuming its Fish & Chip train runs, with supper or lunch on steam and diesel heritage trains.
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  A two-course meal on board their heritage carriages for £27.50 per person for food and travel.
  The price includes 2 return trips by train from North Weald to Ongar, hauled by steam or diesel locomotives, according to crews and locomotive availability, and onboard entertainment with a
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and GenCell complete ‘zero emission’ mobile site fuel cell tests

  21-02-2022 18:16
  
  German MNO Deutsche Telekom and green power manufacturer GenCell have completed joint lab tests of a hydrogen-based backup power system for mobile sites called GenCell Box.
  The test was conducted at GenCell’s Tel Aviv facility and is part of a project to validate and produce zero-emission fuel cell setups which will apparently enable carbon-neutral power for Deutsche Telekom mobile sites. There are also ongoing lab tests being conducted on an ammonia-based off-grid power solution.
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• There’s a museum in a telephone box

  21-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An old phone box outside the front of the British Museum has been turned into a miniature museum of its own – the Visionary Brit Museum.Despite its name, it’s more an art gallery than a museum though, it mainly shows off art for sale. Wander past, and you can open the door to step inside the gallery and with a bit of contorting, take a look around at the art on display.
  It opened to the public at the start of this year, and you can step inside London’s smallest art gallery betw
  
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• Can Open RAN be the silver bullet for rural connectivity?

  21-02-2022 14:55
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ankit Agarwal, Managing Director at STL, looks at the potential for Open RAN to resolve coverage issues.Open RAN is becoming a hot topic of discussion within the telecom community of the United Kingdom. The government has set a goal to boost Open RAN deployments considerably, aiming to reach a target of 35% of the country’s mobile network traffic bein
  
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• Telstra and TPG Telecom reach agreement over network and spectrum sharing

  21-02-2022 14:40
  
  Two of the three Australian mobile network operators have agreed to share network assets for the next decade.
  The joint statement, which we can only see on the TPG website, refers to a ground-breaking ten-year regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) commercial agreement. There’s oblique reference to ‘regional’ Australia which seems to mean some more sparsely populated bits where the ROI on building infrastructure from scratch isn’t there for smaller TPG. So instead it
  
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• DT dispatches Robbie Williams and an AI Beethoven to MWC

  21-02-2022 13:59
  
  German MNO Deutsche Telekom will kick off Mobile Word Congress with a collaboration between Robbie Williams and an AI facsimile of Beethoven, in what is defiantly not a publicity stunt.
  AI boffins apparently created the ‘Beethoven X project’ in order to complete Ludwig van Beethoven’s 10th Symphony, and now they have used the same algorithmic system to rearrange Robbie Williams 90’s warbler Angels in the style of the composer, whatever that means.
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• Finchley Road development moves to planning phase

  21-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large space of underused land between two tube stations is set to be developed into housing now that a formal planning application has been filed.
  Landsec owns the shopping centre and most of the land behind, and they are planning to redevelop the site. The plans, to develop the car park and shopping centre between Finchley Road and West Hamstead stations on the Jubilee line have been under consultation for several years, and the developers have now filed their formal planning request with Cam
  
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• Two new board members for independent broadband organisation

  21-02-2022 12:57
  
  Appointments recognise increasing importance of alt-nets to UK broadband sector London, UK, 21 February – INCA, the trade association for next generation broadband services, has made two new appointments to its board. Rosalind Singleton, CEO of Spring Fibre and Tim Stranack, Founder and Director of Community Fibre were confirmed in their new roles at the organisation’s recent Annual General Meeting. The appointments come at a time when the contribution of alt-nets to the development
  
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• Ericsson and DT reckon they’ve cracked global network slicing

  21-02-2022 12:51
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has teamed up with German operator group Deutsche Telekom to demonstrate a new network slicing proof of concept.
  The point of network slicing is to be able to tailor the characteristics of a network to the requirements of the user. So, for some maximum bandwidth might be the priority, while for others it could be to get the latency as low as possible. It seems that these priorities are, to some extent, mutually exclusive so network slicing was created to enable the ab
  
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• InCoax technology empowers consumers to switch broadband provider more easily following FCC ruling

  21-02-2022 12:16
  
  Operators now have access to existing in-building networks to bring MultiGigabit speeds at affordable prices to tenants in apartments and office buildings Lund, Sweden, 21 February 2022 – Broadband operators must now seize the opportunity to access existing in-building coaxial network infrastructure, to achieve quicker and less labor-intensive installations for MultiGigabit speed connectivity in multi-tenant environments, following a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling. The F
  
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• Telefonica will replicate its MWC stand in the metaverse

  21-02-2022 12:09
  
  Spanish MNO Telefonica is planning to go big on the very much in-vogue metaverse concept at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week.
  The firm will apparently host a virtual version of its stand at the show in the metaverse, which will include additional metaverse-only areas dedicated to ‘predictive maintenance with 5G drones’ and ‘cybersecure in the smart cities’.
  The release states: “The ‘demos’ of the stand and the Agora will be rep
  
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• London’s Alleys: The Watford Way subway, NW7

  21-02-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a subway under a busy road in Mill Hill Broadway that has two claims to fame, and the most obvious is that it’s decorated with images of the solar system.The subway is lined with what might be considered classic municipal subway tiles of blue and green, but what is very noticeable are the large murals of all of the planets and the sun that line the subway. Twice in fact, as they’re mirrored on each wall.
  Uranus is shown with its rings, which are vertical as the planet spins s
  
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• Work begins on SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable

  21-02-2022 01:00
  Following the in footsteps of its smaller predecessors in the SEA-ME-WE series, today has seen the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium announced that work has begun on the project.SEA-ME-WE 6 system will span roughly 19,200km between Singapore and France, landing at 12 locations across South East Asia…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• The Submarine Cable Market: A Bright Present and an Even Brighter Future

  21-02-2022 01:00
  There is no question that the submarine fiber optics industry is enjoying an unprecedented period of strong demand for new cable systems.  The end of 2021 marked an extraordinary eight years of solid and sometimes spectacular growth for the market.  For an industry that traditionally saw a boom and bust cycle ever three-to-four years, the strength of the market during this period is something that has never been seen before.In fact, the global submarine cable network is literally bein
  
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• Telstra and TPG agree to network sharing for regional Australia

  21-02-2022 01:00
  Telstra and TPG Telecom Limited today announced a ground-breaking ten-year regional MOCN commercial agreement, which will provide significant value to Telstra's wholesale mobile revenues, while providing TPG Telecom group's subscribers with 4G and 5G services within a defined coverage zone across regional and urban fringe areas. Under the innovative deal TPG Telecom will gain access to around 3,700 of Telstra's mobile network assets, increasing TPG Telecom's current 4G coverage from around
  
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• Huawei Digital Power plans new $632m HQ

  21-02-2022 01:00
  Huawei first announced its new Digital Power business unit last summer, aimed at developing low-carbon systems for various market segments, including data centres and electric vehicles. At the time, the Chinese vendor noted that reaching carbon neutrality had become a shared target for more than 140 markets worldwide, with many countries beginning to launch legislation to force businesses to adopt a greener future. The company also noted that electricity and transportation represented arou
  
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