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• Cold war bunker – 2022 open days announced

  15-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy a nice day trip to the picturesque town of Cuckfield to see a relic of nuclear war, then some open days have been announced.The Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps post is a small underground bunker, one of over 1,500 that were built to monitor the fallout from a nuclear war. Closed down in the 1990s as no longer needed, most are derelict or flooded, but some have been restored, such as the one in Cuckfield.It’s been restored to the state it was when it closed down, with newspaper
  
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• 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G…6G? What’s awaiting us in 2022 and beyond

  15-03-2022 14:48
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Maria Lema, Co-Founder, Weaver Labs, anticipates the evolution of mobile network technology over the next few years.
  Vodafone has recently announced that it will be switching off its 3G network so as to be able to focus on expanding its 4G and 5G networks. This follows the news last summer from BT of similar plans and timeline for EE to retire its 3G legacy
  
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• India hit 31% growth in 4G mobile data in 2021 – Nokia

  15-03-2022 14:14
  
  Nokia’s annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report claims 4G mobile data in India increased by 31% in 2021, while average monthly data traffic per user grew by 26.6%.
  The report presents more stats besides, including the claim that India has more than doubled its mobile broadband subscribers from 345 million to 765 million in the last five years, while average mobile data consumption is ‘touching’ 17GB per user per month.
  Apparently 40 million subscribers were added or upgrade
  
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• Turkey now has just one privately-owned operator

  15-03-2022 13:47
  
  The stage is set for a dramatic reshaping of Turkey’s telecoms market.
  Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund TWF late last week struck a deal to buy out LYY Telekomünikasyon – the group of Turkish banks that owns 55% of Turk Telekom – for $1.65 billion. TWF, which already owns 6.68 percent of the operator, had been negotiating the acquisition since December.
  TWF said the acquisition demonstrates its trust in the long-term outlook of Turkey’s telecommunication industry
  
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• Vocus and 2degrees merger to reshape NZ broadband market

  15-03-2022 13:35
  
  New Zealand’s competition body has given the go-ahead for a merger between 2degrees and Vocus, creating a stronger third player in the country’s telecoms market.
  The Commerce Commission revealed on Tuesday that it is happy for the tie-up to go ahead, noting that it will not lessen competition in the sector, despite the fact that it will see the market’s third mobile network operator subsume its largest MVNO.
  Aside from building a little scale in the mobile market, the deal will
  
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• Bot myths and fallacies leave two-thirds of businesses at higher risk of malicious attacks

  15-03-2022 13:32
  
  New report from Netacea uncovers the bot myths believed by businesses —leaving them vulnerable Manchester, UK—15th March 2022—Netacea, the bot detection and mitigation specialist, today announced results from a new report showing that most businesses do not fully understand the threat bots pose, leaving those organisations vulnerable to threats. The report, The Bot Management Review: Separating Bot Fact from Fiction, surveyed 440 businesses across the travel, entertainment, eCo
  
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• Vodafone and Ericsson trial the best thing since sliced bread

  15-03-2022 13:30
  
  Right now you only use networks in one big lump, but a collaboration between UK operator Vodafone and Swedish kit vendor Ericsson seeks to split into manageable slices.
  They completed a trial in a Vodafone lab, using Ericsson-built 5G Standalone containerised core architecture, which they claim was the first time 5G network slicing with on-demand quality of service control had been done in the UK. Apparently it took just 30 minutes to create a special slice of the network optimised for a VR use-
  
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• Vodafone and Ericsson combine for the best thing since sliced bread

  15-03-2022 13:30
  
  Right now you only use networks in one big lump, but a collaboration between UK operator Vodafone and Swedish kit vendor Ericsson seeks to bring us into the 21st century.
  They completed a trial in a Vodafone lab, using Ericsson-built 5G Standalone containerised core architecture, which they claim was the first time 5G network slicing with on-demand quality of service control had been done in the UK. Apparently it took just 30 minutes to create a special slice of the network optimised for a VR us
  
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• Priceless Japanese screens repaired with Victorian train timetables go on display

  15-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A pair of large Japanese paintings sent to Queen Victoria that were later patched up with old train timetables are to go on public display for the first time.
  Conservators preparing one of the two screen paintings for display in the exhibition Japan: Courts and Culture – Royal Collection Trust / (c) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022
  The large screens are two survivors from a diplomatic gift from the Japanese shogun (military leader) in 1860 of eight screens, and had been thought to have
  
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• Building a Green and Low-Carbon Optical Network

  15-03-2022 12:29
  
  Recently, IDATE, a well-known French analysis and research institute, jointly held the Green Optical Network Summit with carriers and equipment vendors in Barcelona. Maria Yolanda Crisanto, Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) of Globe Telecom, a leading digital solution group, described Globe’s Net Zero strategy and a pathway to low-carbon networks by emerging green technologies.
  As a purpose-driven organization, sustainability at Globe is anchored on The Globe Purpose and aims to contribut
  
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• Research concludes UK youngsters are happy to socialise in the metaverse

  15-03-2022 11:59
  
  New research from Zen Internet claims 18% of British 16-24 year olds are already making friends in the metaverse, while 46% are considering doing so in the future.
  And it’s not just the youth who are eagerly anticipating making new chums via avatars in some virtual realm – Zen reckons 22% of people in general are ‘intrigued’ by the metaverse and plan to learn more about it this year. That figure rises to 30% for those surveyed aged 35-44, while 37% believe the metaverse w
  
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• Huawei still leads the telecoms kit market despite US sanctions

  15-03-2022 10:21
  
  Despite being impacted by the US sanctions, Chinese vendor Huawei remains the market leader for telecoms equipment globally according to market analysis from Dell’Oro Group.
  The telecom equipment market grew by 7% in 2021, representing a fourth consecutive year of growth driven by ‘surging wireless revenues’, wireline-related equipment demand, and double-digit growth both for RAN and Broadband Access, claims Dell’Oro. The firm has added up the whole market and reckons rev
  
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• Progress on unlocking Beam Park station in East London

  15-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The stalled plans to build a new railway station at Beam Park in East London looks to be making some progress after the surprising decision last year to refuse permission for it to open.
  The station was planned back in 2014, when it was authorised by Havering Council, with the housing developer picking up some of the cost of building the station, which would then be fitted out by Network Rail and operated by C2C.
  Beam Park site plan
  However, and the details are still unclear, somehow along the p
  
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• Vodafone UK appoints two new board members amid group-wide restructure

  15-03-2022 01:00
  A restructuring at Vodafone Group will see the creation of a European Digital & IT team as well as an integrated European network. From a UK perspective, there will be three major changes.Firstly, Scott Petty, who currently holds the position of UK CTO will become Group Director of Digital &amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• “The People’s Network” expands into Vietnam

  15-03-2022 01:00
  A new partnership between IoT company Kerlink and Vietnams VIoT Group, a pioneer is enabling rollout of Vietnam’s first nationwide LoRaWAN® IoT network, and VIoT’s plan to support Helium’s “The People’s Network”. VIoT specialise in smart urban &amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MP Jamie Stone welcomes multimillion pound digital infrastructure investment in the far north

  15-03-2022 01:00
  The Liberal Democrat MP told the John O’Groat Journal “It is an issue which I have raised again and again ever since then. Now, fingers crossed, I believe we may see the light at the end of the tunnel…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FullFibre refreshes the towns other providers cannot reach

  15-03-2022 01:00
  FullFibre, the altnet committed to delivering gigabit infrastructure to communities overlooked by larger telecom companies has announced that their Midlands South region is to expand to offer homes and businesses in Bewdley and Shipston…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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