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• Photos from Crossrail’s trial train evacuations

  04-03-2022 20:59 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Crossrail has released some photos of what it’s like to participate in a trial evacuation of an Elizabeth line train, should it ever be needed.
  The Trial Operations stage of preparing to open the Elizabeth line puts all the evacuation plans into test to make sure they work as planned, and to show that the line is safe to open for the public.
  Several thousand staff working for TfL, and associated organisations were invited to offer their time off work to play passenger for a few hours as st
  
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• Horse and Carriage rides over Easter weekend

  04-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For four days over Easter, there will be regular horse and carriage rides for the public through Bushey Park in southwest London.
  On the trips, Shire horses from Operation Centaur will haul a Charabanc for passengers to sit in, a replica of those that used to arrive at Bushy daily, on their way to Hampton Court Palace. Queen Victoria was the first monarch to open the Palace to visitors, and these charabancs were the vehicle of choice to arrive at Hampton Court.
  (c) Operation Centaur
  The 25-minut
  
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• Tours of the Kingsway tram tunnel announced

  04-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Rarely opened to the public since it closed in 1952, there will be tours of the Kingsway tram subway in Holborn for a couple of months this summer.
  Holborn tram station (c) LT Museum
  The subway is one of those hidden in plain sight parts of London’s disused transport network, as the slope that runs down to the tunnel is easily seen from Southampton Row to the north of Holborn. From there, it dips down to the tunnel, which once included a dedicated underground stop for the trams next to Hol
  
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• How telecom operators can succeed in 2022

  04-03-2022 14:49
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Nilay Akdemir, Senior Director of Simon-Kucher & Partners Middle East, has some top tips for the rest of the year.
  The telecommunications industry is undergoing dramatic changes due to new customer expectations, increasingly digitized experiences and services, and the rise of new technologies like artificial intelligence.
  For telecom firms to stay ahead of t
  
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• Indosat signs up Nokia for 4G and 5G expansion in Indonesia

  04-03-2022 14:24
  
  Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has taken on kit Finnish vendor Nokia to expand its 4G and 5G coverage in a new three year deal.
  Nokia will serve up solutions from its ReefShark-powered AirScale portfolio which includes base stations and 5G Single RAN as part of the deal, which will cover an area of 1.4 million square kilometers including Sumatra island, Kalimantan island, Central Java and Surabaya city.
  Spectrum owned by Indosat will be merged into a single network, and upgrades to 5
  
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• UK approves Cellnex acquisition of 6,000 cell sites from CK Hutchison

  04-03-2022 14:21
  
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has OKed its part of Cellnex’s mega-passive infrastructure M&A, with one condition.
  When the deal was announced back in 2020 it seemed like a done deal but the CMA had other ideas. A regulators are inclined to do, it took its sweet time looking into the implications for the UK telecoms sector. Over a year later the CMA declared the resulting market would look far too much like a duopoly for its liking.
  So imagine our surprise to see a pres
  
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• 5G HAPS inches forward with Saudi trial

  04-03-2022 13:58
  
  UK-based Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) has announced what it claims is the world’s first successful demonstration of a HAPS-based 5G base station.
  Representing more signs of the momentum behind the effort to deliver 5G coverage from the stratosphere, the demonstration took place in Saudi Arabia, and saw an SPL stratospheric mast – which for the purposes of the demonstration had been installed on a civilian aircraft – deliver high-speed mobile coverage from an altitude of 14 kil
  
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• Nextel’s back in the US and shooting for a $30bn valuation

  04-03-2022 13:45
  
  The owner of the Nextel brand is heralding its re-entry into the US market and is looking for investors to help it along the way.
  But looking beyond all the whooping and hollering, and talk of a return to the halcyon days of a US$30 billion market valuation – which was never Nextel’s alone, incidentally – it’s clear that there’s a lot of hot air here.
  Nextel Mobile Worldwide, which owns the IP related to the Nextel brand that disappeared from the US mobile market al
  
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• Save up to £47 on Grease the Musical tickets

  04-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the world’s most popular musicals is back touring theatres across the UK and is showing at the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road.
  This time even grittier and more glamorous than before! After a moonlit summer romance between leather-clad greaser Danny and goodie-two-shoes Sandy, the holidays come to an end and so does their love affair. Until the pair are expectedly reunited when Sandy transfers to Rydell High for senior year.
  Grease the Musical will be at the Dominion Theatr
  
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• Rajant named 2022 "Best Places to Work in Kentucky" for second year

  04-03-2022 10:59
  
  Morehead, KY Operations Among 39 Companies in the Small-Sized Employer Category Morehead, KY – March 4, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with manufacturing and development operations in Morehead, Kentucky, is among the 2022 “Best Places to Work in Kentucky”. This second-year distinction was announced yesterday by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Manageme
  
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• Activist investor Cevian demands sweeping reforms at Ericsson

  04-03-2022 09:00
  Confidence in telecoms equipment maker hit after possible payments to Isis terror group
  
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• Regulator gives Cellnex six country tower deal the thumbs up

  04-03-2022 01:00
  The final regulatory hurdle to Cellnexacquiring more than 24,600 CK Hutchison’s sites in six European countries has been given approval.
  The series of agreements first announced in November 2020covered Austria…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Commit to wiring every single American - or fall further behind

  04-03-2022 01:00
  David McCourt, Chairman of National Broadband Ireland gave a stark warning to the US, "If the U.S. doesn’t provide universal access, it will ensure that the Americans who are already struggling to compete in the global economy will fall further behind&quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Champagne time? Rogers acquisition of Shaw loses its sparkle

  04-03-2022 01:00
  Twelve months ago Canada's Rogers Communications agreed to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at CAD 26 billion, proclaiming the combination of the two networks would create the possibility of “unprecedented wireline and wireless broadband and network investments…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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