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• Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens

  21-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Reopened in 2018 following restoration, but closed during the winter months, Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens in April.
  Although very occasionally opened to the public in recent decades, the Pagoda was falling into the at-risk category of old buildings, and it was given to Historic Royal Palaces (who already maintain two buildings in the gardens) to undertake a 6-year restoration project.The opening of the Pagoda also saw the legendary, and in some cases, controversial dragons restored to
  
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• OneWeb signs deal with SpaceX to resume satellite launches

  21-03-2022 18:00
  
  UK Low Earth Orbit satellite firm OneWeb has signed a deal which will allow it to send up satellites into space again by using SpaceX rockets.
  In early March, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the board of OneWeb voted to suspend all its upcoming satellite launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport located in Khazakstan and leased to Russia.
  The first launch with SpaceX, which is based in the US and will replace Baikonur, is expected this year. while this is presumably a commerci
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Network slicing, Rakuten and online safety bill

  21-03-2022 16:15
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Network slicing, Rakuten and online safety bill
  
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• Whitechapel tube station gets Bengali language signs

  21-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the enlarged Whitechapel station opened last year, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets asked for signs to be added in the Bengali language. And now they have been.Tower Hamlets has the biggest Bangladeshi community in the UK with around a third of residents of Bangladeshi heritage, and Tower Hamlets Council has funded dual language signs in English and Bengali outside and throughout the station. Transport for London (TfL) began installing the signs last week and is expecting them all to be in place
  
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• EE hosts a ‘hybrid club night’ somehow powered by 5G

  21-03-2022 14:35
  
  UK MNO EE put on a livestreamed clubbing event in Leeds which was supposed to showcase the capabilities of its 5G network.
  The number of DJs and locations involved in ‘the ultimate clubbing experience using 5G’ is at first glance a bit confusing, but the crux of it seems to be that there was an open air concert at Temple Arches in Leeds featuring performances which were livestreamed by 5G ‘for the first time’ (whatever that means) to Millennium Square nightclub in Leeds.
  
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• CityFibre has raised nearly £1.5 billion in six months

  21-03-2022 13:03
  
  CityFibre has raised £1.425 billion in capital in the past six months and that’s probably just as well, given how much the firm is spending on fibre rollout.
  The UK fibre builder announced its latest fund-raiser this week, revealing that existing shareholder Mubadala Investment Company, a UAE state-owned sovereign wealth fund, has committed to handing over a further £300 million in return for an unspecified equity stake.
  “This equity investment will support CityFibre&rsqu
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and gardens

  21-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Gifted to the nation for the use by a government minister, just outside London can be found a modest mansion that’s also open to the public, but only for a couple of weeks a year.
  Dorneywood House is the less famous of the three grand estates used by government ministers, after Chequers and Chevening House, and is also the only one that the public can visit.
  You can visit the gardens of Chevening House, or walk past Chequers, but only Dorneywood lets you inside the house as well. The garde
  
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• Speedcast and OneWeb Sign Partnership to Bring LEO Capabilities to the World’s Largest Network

  21-03-2022 13:00
  
  Technical testing and assessments validate LEO as a connectivity pathway, joining GEO, MEO and 4G/5G for high-demand applicationsHouston, Texas - March 21, 2022 - Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, announced today that it will become a OneWeb Distribution Partner, integrating OneWeb’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity into Speedcast’s Unified Global Platform (UGP). OneWeb is set to enter customer trials in mid-2022, bringing in LEO service for Sp
  
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• India set to finally merge state-owned telcos

  21-03-2022 12:57
  
  The Indian government is reportedly planning to further consolidate its alphabet soup of state-owned operators.
  The main source of this information is a report in the Hndu BusinessLine, which quotes BSNL Chairman and MD PK Purwar, speaking at a recent industry event. “The government has taken a policy decision that BBNL is going to be merged into BSNL,” said Purwar. “This means all work of BBNL at the pan-India level is going to come to BSNL.”
  BSNL stands for Bharat Sanch
  
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• Telenor gets approval for Myanmar exit

  21-03-2022 12:31
  
  Norwegian incumbent Telenor has overcome the last big hurdle to the sale of its Myanmar operation.
  The Myanmar Investment Commission late last week approved a plan that – as stipulated by the junta – paves the way for a domestic partner to acquire majority control of the business.
  “The security situation is extreme and deteriorating, and we must ensure that our exit does not increase the safety risk for employees. With limited options available, the sale of Telenor Myanmar is d
  
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• Ericsson board backs CEO amid ongoing Iraq scandal

  21-03-2022 12:28
  
  As the controversy around its alleged dodgy dealings in Iraq continues, Swedish kit maker Ericsson has today made a statement supporting its CEO.
  The statement issued today by its Chairman Ronnie Leten and the board of Directors reads as follows:
  While Ericsson since 2017 has taken significant steps in improving the culture of ethics and compliance, further efforts are underway to help ensure that the company operates at all times ethically and with integrity including in relation to the current
  
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• 450connect selects HUBER+SUHNER as the supplier for LTE450 MHz antennas and components for Germany’s 450 MHz network platform

  21-03-2022 11:27
  
  Cologne, Germany, 21 March 2022 - 450connect has partnered with HUBER+SUHNER for the supply of antennas and components to build the 450 MHz platform across Germany. 450connect builds and operates the secure 450 MHz platform for the digitisation of Germany’s critical infrastructure – a critical step in achieving the country’s energy policy goals. The use of HUBER+SUHNER antennas and components in this frequency range will deliver secure and reliable network communications, ensur
  
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• London’s Alleys: Green’s Court, W1

  21-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is one of those notorious Soho alleys for the ladies of the night, although in recent years, as with the rest of the area, it’s more cafes than carnalities these days.It first shows up with a few of the streets in the area starting to be developed in the 1660s, mainly as people moved west following the Great Fire of London but Green’s Court is still fields between houses in the 1680s.
  A few decades later, and an unnamed path between developed housing can clearly be seen on John
  
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• Togo pips Nigeria for first African landing of Google's Equiano cable

  21-03-2022 01:00
  First announced back in 2019, the Equiano system is the third international submarine cable to be owned by Google and their fourteenth submarine cable investment in total. It is named after Olaudah Equiano, an 18th century writer and abolitionist originally from what is now Nigeria. Enslaved as a child, Equiano purchased his freedom in 1766 and went on to play a major role in the British anti-slave trade movement of the 1780s…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• OneWeb leans on SpaceX to launch satellites as Russia cuts access to Soyuz

  21-03-2022 01:00
  OneWeb, the UK-based satellite firm, has been launching low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites steadily for the past two years, aiming for its constellation to reach global coverage later this year.However, in the past month these plans have fallen into jeopardy, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine throwing the company’s use of Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to launch additional satellites into doubt…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Newly rebranded e& deepens ties with Microsoft

  21-03-2022 01:00
   Last month, UAE telecom group Etisalat announced a major rebrand, renaming itself ‘e&’ to reflect its increasing desire to evolve beyond the traditional telco space and target verticals directly through technological innovation and strategic investments. As part of the rebrand, the company restructured several of its divisions…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 'We're seeing a sharp increase in the awareness of the need for high-speed connections'

  21-03-2022 01:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your role? My Name is Jens Prautzsch, I am the CEO of Unsere Grüne Glasfaser. I can look back on many years of experience in the fields of telecommunications…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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