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• House and Garden tours of the medieval Charterhouse

  07-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Resuming in April, tours of the medieval Charterhouse at Barbican and its private gardens will be resuming.
  Apart from the cluster of stone houses and gardens to visit, there is also the Great Chamber — originally built by Edward North in the 1540s, and referred to as the “Throne Room” after both Elizabeth I and James I held their Privy Councils there before entering London to be crowned. The Great Chamber was recently restored and improved to undo some of the post WW2 changes
  
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• Discounts on Zippos Circus tickets

  07-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The travelling circus is coming to town this summer and is offering 30% off tickets bought in March.
  The line-up includes the motorbike Globe of Death from the Brazilian Lucius Team; fast juggling and whip-cracking from Czech Republic star Toni; contortion from Mongolia; aerial antics from the Irish Garcia Duo; Teeterboard thrills from Cuba; comedy from the UK starring Whimmie Walker; bouncing trampoline capers from Havana with Poli; sensational tumblers from Kenya and daredevils Brian and Matai
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Live from MWC 2022

  07-03-2022 15:01
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Live from MWC 2022
  
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• EE deploys 200 new small cells across UK

  07-03-2022 14:14
  
  UK operator EE has built 200 new small cells across its network to boost 4G coverage in Leeds, London and Manchester, with hundreds more promised over the next 18 months.
  Small cell deployments are designed to boost capacity in high density areas where it’s impractical to build larger macro sites. EE’s new 4G small cells apparently use licenced 1800MHz and 2600Mhz spectrum bands as well as unlicensed 5GHz, and have been bolted onto a variety of existing street assets, including CCTV
  
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• Vodafone NZ owners look to make money from towers

  07-03-2022 14:12
  
  The telecoms industry’s latest towers transaction is underway in New Zealand, where investors have confirmed the sale of Vodafone’s masts is going ahead.
  Vodafone New Zealand’s investor owners recently communicated that a capital release through the sale of the telecoms tower assets could be on the cards and on Monday revealed that they have signed up advisors to get the job done. Or at least one of them did. The information comes from New Zealand-based investor Infratil, which
  
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• Telecoms industry walks a tightrope over Ukraine

  07-03-2022 14:10
  
  As the rest of the world scrambles for the correct response to the Ukraine crisis, telcos and tech companies have come under the spotlight.
  Such has been the unprecedented cascade of international reaction to Russia’s invasion of its neighbour that many reactions seem knee-jerk and panicked. The extraordinary level of sanctions levelled at Russia by the West and its allies has compelled the business world to follow suit, or risk being named-and-shamed in the resulting frenzy.
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• Ericsson boss sued as major shareholder calls for changes

  07-03-2022 13:37
  The fallout from Ericsson’s alleged dodgy dealings has taken a new turn, with CEO Börje Ekholm (pictured) named in a class action lawsuit, and one of its biggest shareholders agitating for change.
  A filing in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York late last week alleges that Ekholm and CFO Carl Mellander “made materially false and misleading statements regarding the company’s business, operations, and compliance policies”. The plaintiffs argue that i
  
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• TfL plans to refurbish its Kilburn railway arches

  07-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway arches underneath the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines in Kilburn that are rented out to tenants are to be restored, following a public consultation launched by Transport for London (TfL).
  The refurbishment follows the success of the bid to receive funding to restore the arches in the Mayor’s High Streets for All challenge last year, and TfL is now asking for the local community to have their say in the plans to bring new life to Kilburn. More than 90 per cent of TfL’s curr
  
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• UK and Japan promise more telecoms collaboration

  07-03-2022 12:32
  
  The UK and Japan have announced their intention to work together more closely on solving telecoms supply chain issues and developing new technologies such as 6G and OpenRAN.
  The UK Minister for Digital Infrastructure Julia Lopez and Japan’s Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Yuji Sasaki (pictured above) met last week and agreed on some joint initiatives designed in part to ‘reduce the global over-reliance on a small number of suppliers to build and m
  
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• London’s Alleys: Hunt’s Court, WC2

  07-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a short grim dank smelly alley behind Leicester Square more notable for the rubbish bins pilled up inside it, and yet, it has a long and sometimes unexpected history.The alley first shows up in the 1740s when the area was developed with Leicester Fields where the Square is today, and the alley was likely a way of providing rear access to the houses and workshops around it.
  The alley itself is named after Samuel Hunt, a highly regarded late 17th-century carpenter who was based in a worksh
  
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• Why digital investment is deeply intertwined with Levelling Up the UK

  07-03-2022 01:00
  Three years is a long time for these issues of regional inequalities to sit unaddressed.  Post-COVID, the issue has become even more critical. Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that COVID-19 has intensified many of the disparities between regions that the Levelling Up plan seeks to address. As the nation moves to life post-lockdown, the shift towards hybrid working has already started to unlock the potential of digital transformation when it comes to leve
  
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• Vodafone NZ latest to pursue tower sale

  07-03-2022 01:00
  Vodafone NZ has reportedly engaged financial services firms Barrenjoey and UBS to explore the sale of its New Zealand towers. The operator has the largest tower portfolio in the country, with its roughly 1,500 towers providing mobile coverage to around 98% of the population. The company says it remains committed to building additional sites to “maintain its relative coverage and capacity position in the future&rdquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Rakuten Symphony starts harmonising with MTN for African Open RAN

  07-03-2022 01:00
  MTN Group and Rakuten Symphony have announced that they will work together on three new proof of concept trials in South Africa, Nigeria and Liberia. The trials, which are set to start later this year, will make use of Open RAN technology from the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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