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• Guided tours of the Aga Khan Centre have resumed

  09-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unassuming white building behind King’s Cross conceals a wonderful interior and rooftop garden. This is the Aga Khan Centre, opened in 2018 to house several divisions of the Shi‘a Ismaili charity and its design incorporates a collection of gardens, courtyards and terraces all based on Islamic principles.
  While it looks like a conventional office block from the outside, it’s inside that the real action takes place. A central floor to ceiling courtyard space dominates, but wha
  
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• Cellnex opens three new offices in the UK

  09-03-2022 17:31
  
  Spanish telecoms infrastructure provider Cellnex has opened three new offices in Manchester, Leamington Spa and North Lanarkshire which will host 150 staff.
  The new hubs are supposed to help the firm deliver localised support to customers and aid in ‘partnerships and collaborative projects’ in the regions, but more broadly to help deliver on its growth ambitions. The firm says it has invested £6.1 billion in its UK operations over the last 18-months, and now owns over 9,000 act
  
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• BBC’s Antiques Roadshow filming at Clissold Park, North London

  09-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve ever fancied having something valued by the experts at the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, one of the new series is filming in London later this year, and tickets are now available.
  The London recording will take place on Sunday 10th July 2022 at Clissold Park in Stoke Newington. The heart of the park is Clissold House, a Georgian mansion house that was restored back to public access in 2012.
  Normally you don’t need tickets, but to manage crowds this year, they will be ticke
  
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• 5G and IoT are driving demand for private mobile networks

  09-03-2022 15:21
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Gearoid Collins, Chief Commercial Officer at Vilicom, takes a look at the booming private network market.
  5G technology is the foundation to mission critical wireless communications in industry 4.0, critical infrastructure and digitized healthcare, and private mobile networks are bridging the gap in the absence of universal public 5G networks.
  The global pr
  
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• Paysend And Banco Rendimento Unite to Provide Faster and More Affordable Money Transfers to Brazil Via Pix

  09-03-2022 14:54
  
  LONDON – 09 MARCH, 2022 – Paysend, the card-to-card pioneer and international payments platform, today announced the expansion of its money-transfer services to Brazil with Pix, the instant payment platform created and managed by the Central Bank of Brazil. Through an existing partnership with Banco Rendimento, a main player in the foreign exchange market in Brazil and a robust Payments structure, Paysend’s users will be able to transfer funds faster, more securely and affordab
  
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• MTN feeling bullish on solid 2021 results and strong fintech growth

  09-03-2022 14:04
  
  South African operator group MTN delivered its 2021 numbers and they seem to be headed in the right direction.
  MTN operates in 19 markets across Africa and the Middle East, so its performance is a decent barometer of how the telecoms industry is faring across that extended continent. Annual service revenue grew by 18% in 2021, with EBITDA up 24% and margin up a couple of percentage points. MTN’s shares were up by 4% today.
  “We adapted to the extraordinary circumstances brought about
  
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• China enters the LEO space race

  09-03-2022 13:42
  
  Chinese start-up GalaxySpace has boldly gone where many other companies have gone before.
  The company this week launched China’s first low-Earth orbit (LEO) broadband satellite constellation, reported state-owned news outlet CGTN, which it hopes will one day offer an alternative choice to SpaceX’s Starlink service.
  Six 5G-capable satellites were deployed, joining a seventh test satellite that was launched back in January 2020. Each one boasts 40 Gbps of capacity and can provide 30 mi
  
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• KKR still wants TIM, but reportedly drops price

  09-03-2022 13:37
  
  KKR is apparently still interested in acquiring TIM, but has reportedly shaved around a fifth off its original offer price.
  That may seem like an odd move, given that many inside the Italian incumbent oppose the proposed takeover in part because it undervalues the telco. But with the operator’s board being far from united on that front, and TIM’s share price having taken something of a spanking in recent weeks, you can see why the private equity firm is taking a punt; it’s inte
  
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• We’re the next big thing after 5G – Lynk

  09-03-2022 13:21
  
  We caught up with satellite base-station company Lynk at MWC, who told us they’ve now signed with 8 MNOs and that within ten years they’ll be providing the fastest speeds in mobile broadband via satellite.
  Lynk uses satellites to establish a direct connection directly to a device, as opposed to using a terrestrial hub. It does this through some proprietary technology that makes the device think it’s dealing with a regular base station – essentially creating a cell tower i
  
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• Charles Dickens museum entry prices rising in April

  09-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve thought of visiting the Charles Dickens Museum but have not gotten around to it yet, then the next few days would be a good time to pay a visit.
  The current exhibition about Oliver Twist ends on Sunday 13th March, but also in April, the cost of entry will be rising, although they are then including a new audio guide in the visit price. The museum shows off the house that Charles Dickens and family lived in for some years, with the various rooms laid out as they would have seen th
  
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• HS2 shows off London Euston station designs

  09-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Revised designs for HS2’s station at London Euston have been shown off, replacing the curved arch roof with an angular design and adding more information about how the station will integrate with the local area.The HS2 station is being built with ten platforms next to the existing Euston station, along with a new underground station that will also include tunnels to nearby Euston Square tube station – creating a Bank/Monument style connection. Although understandably most of the atte
  
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• Two Huawei UK directors step down as firm stays quiet on Ukraine

  09-03-2022 01:00
  According to a Sky News report, Huawei UK non-executive directors Sir Andrew Cahn and Sir Ken Olisa are set to step down from their positions in protest against Huawei’s silence regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine.  Sources suggest that the two directors had pressed the company to release a statement to condemn the Russian invasion, which began on the 24th of February, but were turned down. The news comes as wave after wave of companies have announced that they would cease
  
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• Startup Stories: protecting your privacy at home

  09-03-2022 01:00
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  We allow internet service providers to stay competitive and keep their customers happy by making broadband subscriptions smart.Our cloud analyses network traffic via a combination of rule-based and AI-assisted threat detection, allowing customers to live securely in their digital home. At the same time, we allow ISPs to get new insights into their customer's home network that can be utilised for tailored marketing, faster internet problem troubleshooting or reduction
  
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• CityFibre’s 100th Fibre Exchange deployed in Glasgow

  09-03-2022 01:00
  CityFibre’s Fibre Exchanges (FEX) are a network of purpose built, power-efficient, micro-edge data centres, each about the size of a shipping container, used to deliver, manage and monitor live services and data across their network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Better late than never: South Africa begins spectrum auction

  09-03-2022 01:00
  After copious delays spanning years, the first stage of South Africa’s long-awaited spectrum auction is now complete. South African mobile operators have long been crying out for additional spectrum from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), having not been allocated new spectrum licences for around 17 years.  This all changed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G services launch in Montenegro for the first time

  09-03-2022 01:00
  Back in January, Montenegrin regulator EKIP (Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services) announced the conclusion of the country’s latest spectrum auction. The auction sold 220MHz of spectrum in the 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2GHz and 2.6GHz bands, raising around $8 million. Now, less than two months later, Crnogorski Telekom is already putting that spectrum to good use…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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