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• London Transport Museum depot opens its posters archive

  16-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London Transport Museum’s storage depot in Acton is throwing open its doors for a few days in April for visitors to explore the Museum’s century worth of transport posters, as well as the rest of the depot.
  The museum’s poster archive, which is usually closed to the public will be open and guides will show how poster design has characterised London and its transport for over 100 years.
  The London Transport Museum Depot is a trove of transport treasure housing more than 320,000
  
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• Dorset is loving its 5G

  16-03-2022 17:01
  
  5G RuralDorset – a programme led by Dorset Council and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport – has put out a video explaining some 5G use cases, and it doesn’t do a bad job of selling it.
  The mission statement of the £7 million R&D programme is to find out how greater mobile connectivity – 5G namely – can benefit businesses and people visiting rural areas such as Dorset. As such it’s funded a few projects and businesses which are in some way us
  
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• V&A Museum to return to all-week opening

  16-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has confirmed that it will return to pre-pandemic opening hours from next month.
  At the moment, the V&A is open Wednesday to Sunday, and is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Also, you need to book a visitor’s ticket in advance before visiting.
  From Monday 4th April they will be open seven days a week once more between 10am to 5:45pm, and you won’t need to book a ticket in advance to visit.
  They are also resuming their monthly Friday lates on
  
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• EU gives green light to Amazon buyout of MGM

  16-03-2022 14:02
  
  The European Commission has unconditionally approved Amazon’s acquisition of MGM, concluding it ‘would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area.’
  The bid by tech giant Amazon to buy one of the most recognisable media companies in the world was confirmed in May 2021 for a cool $8.45 billion, and we speculated at the time that antitrust authorities might have something to say about it given Amazon’s dominant position in other digital markets. It’s a
  
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• Investor makes A$3 billion bid for Australia’s Uniti

  16-03-2022 13:58
  
  Uniti Group has confirmed that a group of funds led by HRL Morrison & Co has tabled a takeover bid worth in excess of A$3 billion.
  The Australian telecoms operator, whose extensive fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) infrastructure was doubtless a draw for the investors, responded to media speculation on the bid that triggered a halt in trading on the ASX.
  “Uniti confirms it has entered into exclusive discussions with HRL Morrison & Co, on behalf of its managed funds and clients,” t
  
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• Ericsson and SmarTone unveil network slicing speed boost app

  16-03-2022 13:53
  
  Network slicing is beginning to make waves in the consumer mobile market, courtesy of Hong Kong operator SmarTone and Ericsson.
  This week these two companies took the wraps off a new app that uses network slicing to enable both 4G and 5G customers to temporarily boost the speed of their connection. The idea behind it is that an end user might want to stream video from a busy location like a stadium, or an enterprise customer might have to remotely attend an important Zoom meeting, or a gamer mig
  
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• Nokia wins Ethisphere ‘honor’ yet again

  16-03-2022 13:33
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has once more been declared one of the world’s most ethical companies.
  “We take great pride in our work to embed trust, ethical practices, and positive social impact at the heart of everything we do,” said Nassib Abou-Khalil, Chief Legal Officer at Nokia. “We are honored to be recognized once again as one of the world’s most ethical companies. This recognition is shared by the entire Nokia team for their continued efforts to meet the highest
  
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• Discounts on tickets to visit Hatfield House

  16-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A short trip out of London can be found Hatfield House, a Jacobean mansion built in 1611, and has been in the same family ever since. It’s the sort of ornate grand house you’d expect considering that’s it’s very large, very old, and owned by a family that’s included Prime Ministers in its lineage.During the summer months, the house and extensive grounds are open to the public, and if you buy tickets before the end of March for a visit from late May onwards, you can
  
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• SCF Small Cell Awards 2022 announces two new categories dedicated to neutral host and private network deployments

  16-03-2022 12:10
  
  Prestigious Awards ceremony will take place during SCWS in London London, 16 March 2022 – Entries are open for the SCF Small Cell Awards 2022, with new categories added to showcase neutral host and private network deployments, as well as updated categories on the topics of small cells Open RAN and small cells technology. The Awards ceremony will take place during a prestigious gala dinner in London at Small Cells World Summit 2022, on 24...Source: RealWire
  
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• Verizon attempts to muster up 5G buzz with an ‘AR thriller’

  16-03-2022 10:51
  
  US operator Verizon has teamed up with 30 Ninjas and Novelab to produce an ‘AR adventure thriller’ which is supposed to take full advantage of 5G ultra wideband.
  The three firms announced today that they are working on a narrative mobile Augmented Reality adventure called Helios which utilises 5G connections to create an ‘unbelievable immersive experience.’ The game will use volumetric video (3D holograms) to tell a story involving ‘a missing sister, a coverup, a ha
  
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• Visit London’s Ukrainian Cathedral

  16-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For obvious, and less obvious reasons, right now is a very good time to pay a visit to the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London, which can be found just off Oxford Street in central London.The obvious is because of what’s happening in that country, but the less obvious is that unusually for a Catholic Cathedral, the doors are usually locked. My hairdresser (very good by the way) is next to the Cathedral, and the handful of times the doors were unlocked when I popped past, it was was for
  
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• Turkey now left with one privately owned operator following Türk Telekom buyout

  16-03-2022 01:00
  TWF, which already owns 6.68 percent of the operator, had been negotiation the deal with LYY Telekomünikasyon &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Skills shortages are holding back industrial IoT adoption

  16-03-2022 01:00
  A study of 450 leaders across agriculture, utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics has identified that business lack skills to to develop…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Remembering Crissi Williams

  16-03-2022 01:00
  The loss of Crissi is unfathomable and deeply felt by all of us here at the ITP. Crissi was our straight-talking and down to earth CEO, and not only have we lost an inspirational leader, but a mentor and friend.For many, Crissi was a role model; living and breathing the values she so passionately promoted. She openly discussed the fact she left school without any qualifications but demonstrated that with hard work and determination anything was possible.
  Crissi originally joined the ITP in 2008
  
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• NTT & Schneider Electric collaborate on private 5G network trial

  16-03-2022 01:00
  Building on their existing partnership, NTT and Schneider Electric’s latest collaboration will seek to enable a secure and on-premises end-to-end digital platform which will enable different industries to reap the benefits of private 5G.NTT’s private 5G solution will be trialled in Schneider&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson and Vodafone announce UK’s first on-demand 5G network slice

  16-03-2022 01:00
  In a joint pilot, Vodafone and Ericsson demonstrated an on-demand 5G network slice which was delivered using Ericsson’s containerized core architecture and 5G RAN slicing. The trial enabled the two partners to demonstrate both the low latency and high bandwidth required for the virtual reality use case…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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