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• TfL style contactless payments extended to Windsor and Henley

  29-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  TfL style contactless touchpoints are arriving at Windsor and Eton station as contactless payments for train tickets, already valid on GWR and TfL Rail services between London Paddington and Reading are being extended onto the Henley and Windsor branch lines.
  Just as on TfL services, any contactless payment including bank cards, Apple Pay and Android Pay can be used by touching the card or mobile device on the yellow reader located at ticket gatelines. Pay as you go with contactless was first in
  
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• EU messaging interoperability demands raise concerns

  29-03-2022 18:20
  
  The part of the EU’s Digital Marketing Act concerning messaging interoperability is getting some heat from the tech world – but the bigger question is how would such a thing curb big tech dominance?
  The EU’s Digital Marketing Act is attracting some criticism from the tech world for the potential damage to security that would come with ‘messaging interoperability’ – or allowing people to communicate with each other through different message apps. The other ques
  
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• Rail upgrade to increase train frequency at Meridian Water station

  29-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A railway upgrade has been approved on one of the Lea Valley lines in northeast London to increase the number of trains that can serve a nearby housing development.
  The plan will enable more trains to call at the new Meridian Water station to support the huge housing development that’s under construction next to it. At the moment there are two trains per hour into London from the new station, but with more housing being built, Enfield Council wants to increase that to four trains per hour
  
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• Zen Internet to offer services across CityFibre’s entire footprint

  29-03-2022 14:02
  
  ISP Zen Internet has signed a deal to extend its services to 285 cities, towns and villages across full fibre infrastructure firm CityFibre’s UK network.
  Zen Internet committed to four initial locations with CityFibre in 2020, a number which has since expanded to 31. This deal represents a commitment to extend that further to 285 locations by 2025 as CityFibre continues its infrastructure rollout. CityFibre’s is targeting coverage of eight million homes in a £4bn investment pro
  
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• Russia urges telcos to nurse networks

  29-03-2022 13:39
  
  Bans on tech exports to Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine, have made it harder to maintain and upgrade the country’s comms infrastructure.
  That’s why in a statement this week the Ministry of Digital Development urged mobile operators to maintain a “uniform load” on their networks to ensure consistent quality of service. Which sounds like an instruction for operators to not push the limits of their infrastructure in case something goes pop.
  “In the context of
  
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• Nokia enlisted to boost Chunghwa Telecom 5G network in Taiwan

  29-03-2022 13:10
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has signed a two year deal with Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom to enhance its 5G network across Taiwan’s central and southern regions.
  Equipment will be installed in 4000 new sites with the aim of boosting the performance and capacity of Chunghwa Telecom’s 5G network. There is also an emphasis being placed on it reducing the carbon footprint of the network.
  Nokia will deploy various units from its AirScale Single RAN equipment portfolio including macro base
  
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• BT: ‘we went too early’ on digital voice

  29-03-2022 13:05
  
  BT is putting its digital voice service rollout on ice due to the fact it caused more disruption to customers than the telco had anticipated.
  Whether it should have anticipated it is up for debate but surely It’s reasonable to suggest that it could have.
  The UK incumbent started rolling out Digital Voice last year. As the name suggests, it’s a VoIP product that runs over its broadband network rather than the old analogue network. As the telco itself notes, it’s a necessary upgr
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of St Alfege Greenwich’s church crypt

  29-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sitting in the heart of Greenwich town centre is the imposing St Alfege Church, and they’ve started offering semi-regular tours of the crypt underneath the church. The crypt sits underneath the main church, and the tours take in both the underground space, and the church above.
  Hidden spaces tours (c) St Alfege Church
  There’s been a church on this site since medieval times, but the current church dates from 1712-14, and was one of the first to be designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, as a
  
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• HomeGrid Forum certifies first G.hn embedded module for Industrial IoT with Teleconnect

  29-03-2022 12:24
  
  The GHN.SOM.PLC module from member company Teleconnect boosts device performance and resilience in industrial networks Mainz, Germany, 29 March 2022: Ahead of the Connected Germany event, HomeGrid Forum has certified its first G.hn solution for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications as G.hn technology continues to bridge the gap between telecom-optimized systems and the demand for fast connectivity in industrial settings. The certification of the GHN.SOM.PLC module, a powerful small f
  
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• Rajant Showcases Machine-To-Machine Communications to Empower Supply Chain Autonomy at Modex

  29-03-2022 10:38
  
  Live Demos Include Extended-Range Communications with Asset Tracking and Augmented Reality Malvern, PA – March 29, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and its distribution partner Tessco are attending Modex in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Rajant is showcasing its latest products for supply chain automation - MeshTracer and the ES1-2450CS and ES1-5050CS. Both are in stock now. MeshTracer software tracks people and asset locations ac
  
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• Japanese Space Industry Startup "Synspective" Raises US $100 Million in Funding

  29-03-2022 09:00
  
  Cumulative funding reaches over US $200 million in total TOKYO, 2022, March 29 – Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and solutions provider, announced that the company has raised US $100M (11.9 billion yen) including a Series B funding round. The latest funding was led by Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), Nomura SPARX Investment, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), and Pavilion Capital Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) among others, as well as bank loans, and it is supposed...Source: RealWire
  
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• Behind the scenes at Bank tube station’s huge upgrade project

  29-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Deep under the streets of central London, huge tunnels have been dug to create a vastly transformed Bank tube station, and the first phase opens in a few weeks time.
  This is the Bank station upgrade project.
  The new southbound platform for the Northern line
  Away with narrow crowded platforms on the Northern line, and in with wide-open spaces. Away with cramped corridors and stairs to the Central line, and in with a moving walkway. Away with long walks between the street and platforms, and in wit
  
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• Zen further deepens partnership with CityFibre, goes nationwide

  29-03-2022 02:00
  UK internet service provider, Zen Internet, first teamed up with CityFibre back in 2020, agreeing to launch commercial services over the CityFibre network in Newcastle, Leicester, Ipswich, and Worthing.Since then, CityFibre’s fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) footprint has grown enormously as part of their £4 billion rollout plan, seeing new locations added across the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• US Air Force adds latest batch of companies to $950m Command and Control project

  29-03-2022 02:00
  Earlier this month, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced the implementation plan for the military’s JADC2 initiative they have planned since 2020, aiming to create a unified and secure network to share information between units on the battlefield in real time.In the past, the various branches of the US military – the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and now the burgeoning Space Force – have each created their own tactical network through which they convey crucial b
  
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• The role of collaboration in delivering seamless global connectivity

  29-03-2022 02:00
  With the global growth of the IoT and machine learning, cross-border connectivity has never been more important.In a recent conversation with Total Telecom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Startup Stories: We are the future of loyalty

  29-03-2022 02:00
  Tell us about your start up
  White Label Loyalty is an enterprise loyalty platform, which offers an innovative approach to customer engagement and loyalty with its event-based system. This means businesses can now reward loyalty program members for any customer behaviour, going beyond just transactions. The event-based engine allows not only for more flexible, customised loyalty incentives, but also for increased customer engagement and retention.White Label Loyalty operates on an API-first and
  
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• Canada gets 5G standalone courtesy of Rogers

  29-03-2022 02:00
  Rogers Communications has announced it has launched the first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network in Canada and one of the first globally, turning on the next-generation service after completing the rollout of Canada’s first national standalone 5G core and the country’s first 5G standalone device certification, continuing its leadership in the rollout of 5G technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• "The introduction of 5G capabilities in real production are enabling new connected mobility services"

  29-03-2022 02:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your role?Dr. Johannes Springer, Lead 5G Automotive Program at Deutsche Telekom, representing Deutsche Telekom in various groups around connected and automated mobility…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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