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• City of London’s oldest map to go on display

  25-03-2022 17:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A 450-year old map that shows one of the earliest surviving contemporary images of London will go on display next month.
  The Civitas Londinium, also known as the Woodcut or Agas map, was made by an unnamed map maker in the 1570s and gives a unique bird’s eye view of London, across the Thames from Southwark towards the hills of Hampstead and Highgate. The map was printed from woodcut blocks on eight sheets, and in its present state measures approximately 2 feet 4 inches high by 6 feet wide
  
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• Over 2 million journeys since the Northern line extension opened

  25-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s just two stops and opened during a pandemic, but the Northern line extension to Battersea power station has already clocked up its 2 millionth journey.
  Since opening the line six months ago, Transport for London (TfL) is now recording approximately 60,000 passengers entering or leaving the new Battersea Power Station tube station each week and around 30,000 entering or leaving Nine Elms per week.
  The two new step-free Zone 1 stations opened on 20 September 2021 following the completio
  
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• Huawei Operation Transformation Press Conference 2022

  25-03-2022 15:00
  
  Key talking points from the Huawei Operation Transformation Press Conference held at MWC 2022 in Barcelona.
  At MWC Huawei held a round table looking at digital transformation within the telecoms industry. In it, a panel of experts from Huawei took questions from journalists on subjects including best practice, partnerships how operators can manage their own services. The panel consisted of:
  Jacky Zhou, Vice President, Marketing & Solution, HuaweiSimon Liang, Director, Consulting & System
  
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• Europe moves to clamp down on internet gatekeepers

  25-03-2022 13:28
  
  The EU bureaucracy has unveiled its latest initiative designed to curb the power of US internet giants, called the Digital Markets Act.
  As ever with the EU, it has taken it ages to get to this point and this announcement still only concerns the provisional agreement of the text of the bill. Its core aim seems to be to bring US internet platforms to heel, in the name of protecting vulnerable European punters from their unbridled predations. To that end it will blacklist certain practices ascribed
  
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• National Gallery explores artisic damage in new sculpture show

  25-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unusual exhibition has opened in the National Gallery, looking at the times that paintings are attacked and if they should be repaired afterwards.
  Paintings sometimes attract people who attack them, sometimes for political reasons, sometimes for the glory, and sometimes because the voices told them to — and the art is hurriedly covered up and conservators spend months repairing the damage.
  The National Gallery’s “artist in residence”, Ali Cherri has taken a look at thi
  
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• Vodafone taps Nokia for European fixed-line upgrade

  25-03-2022 10:22
  
  Nokia has bagged a significant deal involving Vodafone’s 143 million European fixed broadband customers.
  Under the agreement, Voda will conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) trials of Nokia’s Altiplano SDN manager and controller (SDN-M&C) services for multi-access fixed networks. If all goes well, the two companies will begin a broader rollout later this year.
  “The last few years have proven that the resilience of economies depends on our ability to quickly respond to changing soc
  
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• China Mobile exceeds 200 million 5G network users

  25-03-2022 10:22
  
  China Mobile ended last year with more than 200 million customers using its 5G network, an increase of almost 50 million in a single quarter.
  The Chinese telco’s full-year financial report, published this week, shows that 5G network customers numbered 207 million as of 31 December. It did not provide a comparative figure for the same date a year earlier, having started reporting 5G network customers as recently as Q1 last year. At that stage it had just shy of 93 million 5G customers, risi
  
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• Startup Stories: speed demon!

  25-03-2022 01:00
  Tell us about your start upIn a world where modern enterprises face increasingly rapid data growth and high real-time requirements Xelera's software platform enables the easy deployment of accelerator technologies, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), to address these challenges.
  Big Data algorithms in data centres, clouds and edge clouds are accelerated to run up to 100 times faster as well as far more energy efficient. The guaranteed low latency
  
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• Optus calls foul on Telstra–TPG network sharing

  25-03-2022 01:00
  Last month, Telstra and TPG Telecom signed a ten-year network sharing agreement, helping to boost each operator’s coverage of rural Australia. As part of the deal, TPG will gain access to roughly 3,700 of Telstra’s mobile network assets, increasing TPG’s 4G coverage from 96% to 98.8%. In return, TPG will give Telstra access to spectrum across both 4G and 5G, as well as roughly 169 mobile sites. In addition, it deal will allow TPG to decommission around 725 of its mob
  
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• Conservative peer Lord Grade picked as UK govt's preferred candidate for Ofcom chair

  25-03-2022 01:00
  In early 2020, Ofcom announced that they would be appointing Dame Melanie Dawes as CEO, replacing Jonathan Oxley who had been serving as interim CEO since late 2019. At the same time, the UK regulator also announced that the company Chairman, Lord Burns, would stand down, with the government seeking a new Chair more suited to overseeing Ofcom’s increased regulatory powers over internet content…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre’s £21m Full Fibre rollout sparks Lincoln jobs boost as contractor appointed

  25-03-2022 01:00
  CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has awarded a £21m contract to Trust Utility Management Ltd. to deliver its network rollout in Lincoln, a project which has sparked the creation of more than 80 local jobs. The latest milestone has incited a recruitment drive with new workers needed to support throughout the build process. CityFibre and employment agency Carbon60 are supporting Trust Utility Management Ltd in hiring across various roles…read mo
  
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