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• Tube stations recovering to pre-pandemic traffic levels

  17-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ridership on the London Underground continues to recover, with some busy central tube stations now seeing the same sort of passenger numbers as they had before the pandemic.
  Comparing last Saturday (12th March) to its equivalent Saturday in 2019, TfL’s travel numbers saw a full recovery to pre-pandemic traveller numbers at a number of central London stations, including Barbican, North Greenwich, Tower Hill, Embankment and Waterloo.
  There also continues to be steady growth outside of Zone 1
  
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• Impact of 5G on CSPs Regarding Lawful Interception

  17-03-2022 17:50
  
  5G will improve efficiencies and advance technologies that touch us all, transforming physical, monolithic networks into cloud-based ones. Throughout this evolution, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must enhance their lawful intercept capabilities in anticipation of the new data speeds and throughput associated with 5G. In this whitepaper, we examine the challenges CSPs are facing as they transition from 4G to 5G, including:Lawful interception platform integration
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• OneWeb Partners With Axiros For Management Of Critical Customer Infrastructure

  17-03-2022 16:19
  
  Because reliability in space needs to be matched by reliability on the ground 17 March 2022 - MUNICH, GERMANY - When the nearest service engineer is a 2-hour helicopter flight away, manual troubleshooting and firmware updates really aren’t an option. So who does OneWeb trust for remote management of their user terminals? Axiros. As if it wasn’t demanding enough managing your core network components out in space, there are also extreme on-the-ground challenges for a...Source: RealWire
  
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• Tours of a Roman London bathhouse resume next month

  17-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A Roman bathhouse hidden underneath a London office block will reopen for tours next month having been closed to the public for the past couple of years.
  Discovered in 1848, Billingsgate Roman House and Baths, which is managed by the City of London, is home to one of London’s best-preserved Roman remains. It’s also not that well known as it can only be visited on guided tours and those tours only started a few years ago.
  Until the pandemic closed everything. But now they are resuming
  
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• UK moves to grant Ofcom and Parliament sweeping online censorship powers

  17-03-2022 14:01
  
  The Online Safety Bill is finally being introduced to Parliament and it seeks to make Ofcom the arbiter of online speech and activity in the UK.
  Since it was first proposed in 2019 the bill has gone through many tweaks and amendments, but a consistent aim from the start was to give communications regulator Ofcom a raft of legal powers to impose its will on the internet. The main mechanism for this is a greatly enhanced ability for it to punish internet platforms that don’t do what they&rsq
  
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• 5G phone sales overtake 4G, driven by Apple

  17-03-2022 13:57
  
  In January 2022 sales penetration of 5G-capable smartphones reached 51% globally, which represented the first time it exceeded that of 4G smartphones, according to Counterpoint Research.
  The analyst firm’s Global Monthly Handset Model Sales Tracker claims that China, North America and Western Europe were the biggest drivers of this growth. China clocked the highest 5G handset penetration in the world at 84%, while North America and Western Europe reached 73% and 76% respectively.
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• Malaysia wants telcos to buy into a single 5G network

  17-03-2022 13:32
  
  Malaysia is standing by plans to operate a single, national 5G network. But in a new and unusual twist it will allow telcos to buy into the network operator.
  The government once again discussed the rollout of 5G at a Cabinet meeting last week and agreed on a series of changes to its existing plans, chief among which was the decision to sell off as much as 70% of the state-owned entity set up to run the national network. Those eligible to buy into the operator will be the telecoms companies thems
  
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• UK 5G manufacturing trial showcases claimed benefits

  17-03-2022 13:30
  
  Five organisations including Nokia and BT have collaborated on a 5G trial to demonstrate how 5G-connected robotics, computer vision and edge computing can ‘boost’ UK manufacturing.
  West Midlands 5G, nexGworx, BT and Nokia teamed up to deploy the 5G private network at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry, a project which is part of the government’s 5G testbeds and Trails programme.
  The point of setting up this ‘demonstrator system’ is apparently to trial v
  
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• Harrow-on-the Hill station gets step-free access with new lifts

  17-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Harrow-on-the Hill has become London’s 91st step-free tube station, meaning that a third of Underground stations are now step-free.The new lifts have been installed at Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, providing a step-free route between the street and the trains. In addition, station signage has been enhanced to assist with wayfinding. Boarding ramps will continue to support customers boarding or alighting Chiltern trains that also call at the station, and with TfL’s Turn-up-and-go s
  
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• NTT bags US private 5G deal with Schneider

  17-03-2022 12:43
  
  Schneider Electric is looking to private 5G to support new industry 4.0 use cases.
  The industrial multinational this week selected Japan-based NTT – one of its existing technology partners – to deploy the networks, beginning with its plant in Lexington, Kentucky. It is already one of Schneider’s more advanced smart factories, making use of edge analytics, predictive analytics and IoT connectivity to improve productivity and energy efficiency.
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• Former Southeastern franchise fined for hiding HS1 funding

  17-03-2022 11:51 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government has fined the owner of the former Southeastern franchise a total of £23.5 million after it found that the company had hidden £25 million of lower costs from its HS1 rail service.
  Last September, the Department for Transport (DfT) unexpectedly stripped the franchise from London & South Eastern Railway Limited (LSER) and took over operations of the service under its Operator of Last Resort scheme after it said the company had been in a serious breach of its obligatio
  
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• Customer ‘retargeting’ on mobile driving 100x increase in sales, reveals new Upstream data

  17-03-2022 11:05
  
  Automated retargeting via mobile can drive campaign efficiencies while guarding against spam Athens, March 17, 2022 – ‘Retargeting’ a consumer via mobile that has already interacted with a brand is more than ten times more likely to result in an order or other positive engagement compared to an initial communication, according to new data from mobile marketing experts Upstream. The improvement is even greater, almost 100 times, if the mobile marketing campaign’s retargeti
  
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• See a large scale model of King’s Cross

  17-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a large scale model of the King’s Cross redevelopment that can be found inside the estate office, and it’s a bit of cat-nip to any fan of architectural models.The model is there to show off the estate to home buyers and office renters, but is also open to the public to wander in and point at things, so that’s what you should do.
  It shows the entire redevelopment estate, from the tower blocks of flats and student accommodation at the north to the junction with King
  
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• Zayo Group makes history with world’s longest 800G optical wave

  17-03-2022 01:00
  Zayo Group Holdings and Infinera today announced the successful completion of the world’s longest known terrestrial 800G optical wavelength in a commercial network — 1,044.51 km. The Zayo-owned fiber route stretches from Springville, Utah to Reno, Nevada and is lit and powered by Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three UK deliver strong full year results

  17-03-2022 01:00
  Three UK have reported strong full year results including the most significant growth incontract customer base since 2012 -adding more than half a million subscribers to bring the total to 8m…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Open Dutch Fiber expands FTTP network in Amsterdam

  17-03-2022 01:00
  T-Mobile Netherlands and Open Dutch Fiber (ODF), a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners & KKR, have launched a programme to add 29…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom domestic business unit doubles Berlin FTTH target

  17-03-2022 01:00
  Telekom Deutschland aims to provide almost all households and companies in Berlin with gigabit speeds by 2030, raising the goal forFTTH connections to 2 million.The plan was announced by Telekom Deutschland Board Member Srini Gopalan at a meeting with the Governing Mayor of Berlin…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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