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• Transparent antenna seeks to solve 5G mmWave FWA challenges

  31-03-2022 18:25
  
  German smart antenna startup Alcan Systems has invented a transparent antenna that you stick on a window to allow high frequency spectrum to get through.
  The embrace of millimetre wave by the 5G era was celebrated as opening up vast new swathes of spectrum real estate that would enable hitherto unimaginable wireless data rates. There was just one problem, however – the propagation characteristics. While traditional low-frequency radio waves penetrate walls and windows as if they weren&rsqu
  
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• Flats on Arnos Grove tube station car park approved on appeal

  31-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to build 162 flats on top of the car park next to Arnos Grove tube station on the Piccadilly line have been approved after an appeal against the council’s decision to block it was upheld.
  What’s being planned is for there to be four blocks of flats built for rental, with the blocks on one side set further back so that they don’t overwhelm Holden’s tube station. The proposed scheme of 162 rental homes also provides 64 affordable units, 40% by habitable room, in the f
  
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• Telent provides fire and rescue station communications refresh in preparation for ESN transition

  31-03-2022 14:22
  
  Providing an end-to-end replacement of legacy networks, the system upgrades provide critical control room communications to fire stations across the UK Warwick, U.K, 31st March 2022 – Telent has completed a network refresh to support station end systems for a major fire and rescue service in England. The upgrade has replaced soon to be retired back-up networks and prepared the organisation’s mobilisation solution for ESN compatibility. The end-to-end proven solution from Telent is cu
  
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• From network planning to monetisation by cell: the critical role of Smart CAPEX

  31-03-2022 14:18
  
  What would make a mobile operator jitter the most when it decides to roll out 5G services? In all likelihood it would be the cost. When answering a recent Telecoms.com industry survey on 5G, 60% of all the respondents cited gear and deployment cost as the biggest impediment to 5G rollout.
  Something worth noting is that cost does not only occur at the time when the build-out contract is signed, and it does not only occur with the first deployment. Throughout the network lifecycle, be it a greenfi
  
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• Vodafone donates 3,000 active smartphones to refugees

  31-03-2022 13:46
  
  UK MNO Vodafone says it is donating 3,000 connected smartphones and 1,000 portable chargers to refuges including those fleeing Ukraine
  Vodafone says it is working with Charity Refugee council to distribute the equipment and has extended its Tech Appeal programme which allows individuals and businesses to donate more tech. It also recently announced that it would offer free connectivity to 200,000 refugees arriving in the UK from Ukraine.
  The Refugee Council works with 14,000 refugees and those s
  
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• Vodafone India raises $600 million, but it’s still not enough

  31-03-2022 13:29
  
  Vodafone Idea (Vi) is getting an equity funding injection of close to US$600 million from a trio of entities owned by its existing shareholders.
  While that sounds like good news for the troubled Indian telco, it will only have a quarter of the sum at its disposal, with the lion’s share going to pay monies owned to passive infrastructure specialist Indus Towers. And ultimately, that is not going to help Vi in its quest to build out network and compete with the bigger rivals that are fast le
  
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• Vodafone India raises $600 billion, but it’s still not enough

  31-03-2022 13:29
  
  Vodafone Idea (Vi) is getting an equity funding injection of close to US$600 billion from a trio of entities owned by its existing shareholders.
  While that sounds like good news for the troubled Indian telco, it will only have a quarter of the sum at its disposal, with the lion’s share going to pay monies owned to passive infrastructure specialist Indus Towers. And ultimately, that is not going to help Vi in its quest to build out network and compete with the bigger rivals that are fast le
  
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• Telefonica says it has ‘immersed itself in Web3 and the metaverse’

  31-03-2022 13:20
  
  Spanish MNO Telefonica has created a collection of NFT’s based on drawings by an artist called Ferran Adrià – a move which is says demonstrates its commitment to Web3 and metaverse.
  The collection consists of 114 unique NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) based on drawings by by Ferran Adrià, which are going for  0.1846 ETH (Ethereum) each, which is about €500. As is the custom, each NFT is accompanied by a digital certificate of authenticity registered in blockchain,
  
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• SK hynix plots Arm swoop

  31-03-2022 13:15
  
  Less than two months after Nvidia gave up its dream to own Arm, the chip designer could already be back in play.
  It emerged this week that South Korean memory chip maker SK hynix has eyes on Arm and is on the lookout for like-minded partners.
  “We are reviewing possibly forming a consortium, together with strategic partners, to jointly acquire it,” said Park Jung-ho, vice chairman and CEO of SK hynix, in this Yonhap report on Wednesday.
  It’s worth remembering that as well as hea
  
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• TfL testing a chemical-free way of eliminating Japanese Knotweed

  31-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has been carrying out a trial of a method of killing Japanese Knotweed infestations using electricity instead of chemicals.
  Japanese knotweed is an invasive species introduced to the UK in the 19th-century and has been a problem ever since. It is extremely hardy, grows incredibly fast, damages buildings, oh and is very difficult to remove, so it’s now covered by legislation to try and control its spread. If you found any on your property, you would usually need t
  
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• New exhibition looks at the fascinating (yes, really) history of the Post Code

  31-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Something that permeates most of our lives but which we give hardly a thought to is the Post Code, that short set of digits at the end of an address that more than anything above it ensures letters get to the correct place.
  And an exhibition about the history of the Post Code has opened, appropriately enough at the Postal Museum.Starting with one of the museum’s most asked questions, an introduction to how postcodes work, the exhibition jumps back to the beginnings of postcodes in London,
  
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• Telecom Italia looks to put troubled past behind it with break-up

  31-03-2022 06:00
  One-time monopoly seeks sounder footing after years of upheavals and decline
  
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• Huawei faces dilemma over Russia links that risk further US sanctions

  31-03-2022 02:15
  Chinese tech group has been early winner from Ukraine war but remains wary of Washington threat
  
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• Startup Stories: how respeak are facilitating conversations and feedback with your customers

  31-03-2022 02:00
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  Engaging customers, employees, and partners in a continuous conversation is critical for companies to learn and improve. Therefore, respeak offers the easiest software to build digital conversations that scale communication. Our use cases include user research, employee engagement, and customer feedback in which companies are experiencing high costs and large effort of getting to the real ‘why’ something is good, ‘why’ something is bad, and &l
  
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• One STEP at a time: Vodafone introduces road safety platform

  31-03-2022 02:00
  This week, Vodafone has announced its new vehicle-to-everything (V2X) platform, STEP, allowing road users and transport authorities to share data with one another in real time.For many years now, vehicles have been growing increasingly more computerised and connected, with various commentators comparing modern cars to smartphones on wheels. This increase in vehicle digitalisation has many clear benefits, from mobile applications using location data to warn drivers of upcoming traffic to externa
  
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• LatAm’s costly copper conundrum: The impact of cable theft

  31-03-2022 02:00
  Like so many parts of the global economy, copper prices were deeply affected by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Temporary closures to copper mines and stockpiling in various markets, particular China, saw prices soar as supply was outstripped by demand.  Now in 2022, copper prices are spiking once again, facing something of a perfect storm on an international scale. In Chile, the world’s largest copper producer, accounting for roughly 28% of global production, poor ore qu
  
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• ARSINOE subsea cable system comes into operation

  31-03-2022 02:00
  Cyta announces the start of operations on the ARSINOE optical fiber subsea cable system, which will cover the country’s increased need for international connectivity in crucial areas, especially for Internet and Cloud services. It reinforces security on alternative routing of digital communications between Cyprus and the rest of the world and responds to the need for services that require a brief delay in data transmission…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G’s multifunctionality potential is still there to be exploited

  31-03-2022 02:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your current role?As Technology Advisor I´m translating the requirements and needs of professional users into technologies and innovations. With 5G, this starts in standardization, in which the requirements of the industry e…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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