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• Thames Clippers river bus expanding to Barking Riverside this May

  23-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s river bus service is expanding and will be reaching Barking Riverside in May. When it opens, they expect that services will run at peak times on weekdays and throughout the day at weekends, with a 20-30 minute frequency.
  The Thames Clippers service will link the Barking Riverside housing development with central London, with journey times from Barking Riverside to Greenwich and Canary Wharf will take 28 and 40 minutes respectively, with central London (Tower Pier) accessible in ap
  
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• Princes Risborough railway signal box open day

  23-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The UK’s largest surviving Great Western Railway signal box can be found half an hour from central London, and occasionally, it’s open to the public to have a look inside.
  The next open day has now been announced.
  This is the last survivor of two signal boxes that used to control a complex set of junctions at Princes Risborough, on what is now part of Chiltern Railways. Opened in 1904, it closed in 1991 when signalling control for the whole area was shifted to a modern facility based
  
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• NBN to drop $750 million on fixed wireless upgrades for rural Australia

  23-03-2022 13:23
  
  Australian network operator National Broadband Network and its government are collectively pouring $750 million into the county’s fixed wireless network to hook up semi-rural, regional and remote areas.
  The Australian government will shell out $480 million and NBN $270 million in order to fast-track and scale 5G millimetre wave technology across NBN’s fixed wireless network, which is particularly useful in remote or rural parts of Australia due to the size of the country and relative
  
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• Synspective works with the World Bank and NDRRMA to assess slope instability-related geohazards in Melamchi, Nepal

  23-03-2022 13:08
  
  InSAR-based Approach Discovers Spatio-temporal Slope Susceptibility Tokyo, Japan, 23rd March 2022 – Synspective Inc., under the supervision of the World Bank and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA), Government of Nepal, investigated the land displacement hazards in the upstream part of the Melamchi River, Nepal in response to the destructive flood disaster that occurred there on June 15, 2021. The results demonstrated that Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data
  
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• Guided tours of Harrow School

  23-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Four times a year, there are tours of the famous posh private school in northwest London, and tickets for the next tours are on sale.
  (c) Harrow School
  The tours take in the historic rooms and buildings at Harrow School including the Fourth Form Room, Speech Room, Chapel and War Memorial Building, amongst others, accompanied by their guides. The tour offers the chance to get a real behind-the-scenes look and learn more about Harrow School and its history, including its use as a film location for
  
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• CDN sector set to double, helped by metaverse mania

  23-03-2022 12:58
  
  Content delivery networks are for more than just content, we’re being led to believe.
  The market is evolving to accommodate new use cases, according to ABI Research, which is good news from a financial point of view because it expects the value of the sector to more than double by 2030 to $23.9 billion.
  Some of these new opportunities have arisen due to the overlap between CDN, multi-access edge computing (MEC) and cloud (CDN specialist Akamai paying $900 million for alternative public clo
  
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• ZTE shares spike after it is let off another US naughty step

  23-03-2022 12:46
  
  Chinese kit vendor ZTE has been on some kind of probation ever since it was caught violating US trade sanctions five years ago, but not anymore.
  In an investor announcement ZTE said the Court for Northern District Texas has decided not to extend this probation, which was imposed to ensure ZTE stuck to the compliance promises it made as part of its settlement with the US. The main purpose of the probation seems to have been for the US to keep a close eye ZTE to ensure it didn’t lapse into i
  
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• Verizon spends more for early C-band access

  23-03-2022 12:42
  
  Verizon has pledged to spend an additional US$170 million for early access to some of the C-band frequencies it acquired last year.
  That’s no small sum of money but, given that the US telco was by far the biggest spender in the much-hyped $94 billion C-band auction with a bill of almost $53 billion, this latest outlay is something of a drop in the ocean.
  That said, the fact that Verizon is willing to add so many tens of millions to its spend serves to further demonstrate how important the
  
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• Behind the scenes at HS2’s gigantic Colne Valley viaduct factory

  23-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just inside the M25 motorway in northwest London is a huge worksite for the HS2 railway, building two tunnels heading north, but also the viaduct bridge that will span the Colne Valley as the railway heads towards London.
  Colne Valley Viaduct (c) HS2
  At the moment, it’s a vast construction site, but when all the mucky boots and hard hats have been hung up for the last time it will be landscaped into a nature reserve. But that’s a few years away yet and at the moment it’s a hive
  
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• Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom fill 2,000 German 4G grey spots

  23-03-2022 01:00
  Back in 2019, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Deutschland, and Telefonica Deutschland signed a joint agreement to tackle areas of Germany with no 4G coverage at all, known as ‘white spots’. This encompassed the building and sharing of around 6,000 new mobile sites around the country, though only the sites&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three ways for your ISP to tackle UK broadband compensation for cost-effective customer care

  23-03-2022 01:00
  Although coronavirus lightened some regulations, Ofcom is now getting back to business as usual and even more focused on ensuring Telco compensation. As the pandemic proved, broadband connection is a must-have in our lives. Over 90% of UK Telco customers are part of the scheme with major Telcos joining like BT, Virgin Media, Sky, EE, Hyperoptic, TalkTalk, Vodafone (Openreach customers only), Utility Warehouse, and Zen Internet.  Together with the rising international cry for broadband
  
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• The submarine cable market according to Hexatronic

  23-03-2022 01:00
  This week Total Telecom caught up with Anders Ljung, Business Manager for Submarine Cable Solutions at Hexatronic, to learn about the company’s progress and applaud the Swedish supplier for putting sustainability at the forefront of its agenda.Welcome Anders. What do you consider to be the most exciting markets for the submarine cable industry right now? Across the globe the subsea cable business is booming; entering 2022 the demand for capacity is as insistent as it was in preceding
  
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• Telstra prepares trio of Australian teleports for OneWeb

  23-03-2022 01:00
  Australian telco Telstra has announced a new ten-year deal with UK-based satellite player OneWeb, promising to build and manage three new ground stations and help expand  The three teleports will be built in Darwin (Northern Territory), Charlton (Queensland), and Perth (Western Australia); in effect, this will put OneWeb gateways on the West, North, and East coasts of Australia. The Darwin site will be completed first, scheduled to begin operations in July. The news builds on a M
  
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• Ethiopia puts the brakes on Ethio Telecom stake sale

  23-03-2022 01:00
  The road to liberalising Ethiopia’s telecoms sector – until recently one of the last remaining telecoms monopolies in the world – has been a bumpy one. While the wider liberalisation of Ethiopia’s economy had been discussed for many years, it was Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who first set the ball rolling in earnest in June 2019, announcing plans to make two new operating licences available for foreign operators to win at auction…read more on TotalTele.com &raqu
  
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• 'Fiber connectivity is the main driver for a digital society'

  23-03-2022 01:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your current role?My name is Christian Humpert and I have been Managing Director of DB broadband since March 2021. Initially responsible for Operations (COO), before taking over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in August 2021.Before joining Deutsche Bahn, I spent over 20 years in the Telco industry, more than 12 years in various management positions at Vodafone in Germany and abroad. Where does DB broadband fit into Germany’s connectivity ecosystem?DB b
  
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