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• Booking opens for London Craft Week

  01-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After a pandemic switch to online and autumnal events, the annual springtime London Craft Week will be back next month, and apart from lots of displays and short exhibitions, there are a range of bookable tours and talks.
  The full programme of events has been published, and I’ve trawled through the lot looking for the events that need booking in advance so you can get an early chance at grabbing tickets.
  Enjoy!
  Monday 9th May
  Talk with Trompe L’Oeil and Mural Artist, Alan Dodd
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• Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer at the BFI mezzanine

  01-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The open exhibition space at the BFI Southbank is currently devoted to the British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist, Jill Craigie.One of the most photographed directors of her time, she was dubbed ‘Britain’s first woman filmmaker’ by the press, while she herself championed community voices and performers. Some of her most notable films looked at how cities could be rebuilt after WW2, focusing very much on the human side of the reconstruction plans.
  Her only feat
  
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• Samsung launches self-repair service for Galaxy devices

  01-04-2022 12:44
  
  Consumer electronics giant Samsung has announced that Galaxy owners will be able to repair their own gadgets starting from this summer.
  The self-repair programme applies to the Galaxy S20 and S21 range and the Galaxy Tab S7+. Collaborating with iFixit, known for its gadget ‘teardowns’ and which is apparently ‘the leading online repair community’, customers will be given access to device parts, repair tools, and repair guides in order to fix their busted phones and tablets
  
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• Orange and DabaDoc offer doctors ‘sans’ borders

  01-04-2022 11:00
  
  French operator group Orange and e-health platform DabaDoc have made it easier for folks living abroad to nag family members back home about seeing a doctor.
  Called DabaDoc Consult, it enables people from Africa residing in Europe and the US to cover the cost of a video consultation between a doctor and family living in their country of origin. It borrows concepts used in the remittance market and by companies like Uber Eats, and mashes them together. Here’s how it works: the person living
  
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• Nokia and Meta partner with… who?

  01-04-2022 10:30
  
  The company formerly known as Etisalat has partnered with the company formerly known as Facebook, essentially to highlight the significance of its recent rebrand.
  Meanwhile, the company formerly known as Etisalat’s domestic arm in the UAE, which is still known as Etisalat, has inked a 5G private networks partnership with Nokia, which hasn’t had a name change since the 1800s…unless you count that brief Siemens dalliance.
  In a move that engendered a collective ‘eh? what?&r
  
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• Buckingham Palace tube station to open for the Queen’s Jubilee

  01-04-2022 07:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s been announced that the until now secretive tube station built underneath Buckingham Palace is to be opened this summer for people to visit as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
  The tube station was built at the height of the Cold War as part of a longer emergency escape railway built for the government and runs between the former government bunker at Marsham Street in Whitehall to a junction with the Piccadilly line at Green Park.
  Commissioned by the Chief of Staff, General B
  
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• Australian pension fund and Singtel buy mobile tower group for $2.7bn

  01-04-2022 04:24
  Acquisition of Axicom from investment bank Macquarie follows funds buying up infrastructure assets
  
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• Vodafone extends Tech Appeal with Refugee Council

  01-04-2022 02:00
  Vodafone has donated 3,000 smartphones, connectivity and 1,000 portable chargers to the programme and is extending its popular Tech Appeal, so the UK public and businesses can donate tech to the cause.This follows Vodafone’s recent announcement that it is offering free connectivity to 200,000 refugees arriving in the UK from Ukraine through its everyone…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• The leadership of kindness: Six empathic tactics for telecoms collections teams

  01-04-2022 02:00
  In January 2022, research from debt charity StepChange revealed that the number of people finding it hard to keep up with bills and credit commitments has doubled since the start of the pandemic, and that one in three UK households is now struggling. The report reveals that 6.4 million adults are feeling the pressure of debt and that this has negatively impacted health, relationships and the ability to work.In addition, 15 million people in the UK are worried about paying the rising energy cost
  
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• Startup Stories: sometimes only made-to-measure will do

  01-04-2022 02:00
  Tell us about your start up
  Sytronix is a high-performance computing company specializing in the designing and manufacturing of storage and compute servers. The main products we manufacture are NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers for data storage and GPU (graphics processing unit) servers for high intensity computational workloads.
  Our NAS servers allow for storage of large amounts of data, collaborative working and will provide security to prevent loss of data, making them perfect for busin
  
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• Standalone 5G networks will enable true 5G game changers such as slicing & ultra-low latency

  01-04-2022 02:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your role? My name is Kerstin Larsson-Knetsch, I am responsible for consulting and solution design at Vodafone Business Germany. Staying true to our motto "Co-Create. Digital. Future" my team and I co-create digital and innovative solutions with our enterprise customers. Part of our portfolio are 5G solutions, which we implement in all kinds of industries (e.g. automotive, media, smart factory and health).  What have been the biggest developments in
  
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• Special delivery for BT as it partners with DHL

  01-04-2022 02:00
  This week, BT has announced that it has scored a major contract with German logistics group DHL, aiming to deploy various technological solutions to support DHL’s operations in 27 European markets. The 8-year deal will see BT deploy a “flexible, resilient and secure” network for the logistics player, which they are calling a “key enabler” to help DHL digitalise and automate their operations.  The deal builds on a longstanding relationship between the
  
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• Special delivery for BT as it makes partnership with DHL

  01-04-2022 02:00
  This week, BT has announced that it has scored a major contract with German logistics group DHL, aiming to deploy various technological solutions to support DHL’s operations in 27 European markets. The 8-year deal will see BT deploy a “flexible, resilient and secure” network for the logistics player, which they are calling a “key enabler” to help DHL digitalise and automate their operations.  The deal builds on a longstanding relationship between the
  
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• Germany is on the right path to achieving it's future connectivity goals

  01-04-2022 02:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your role? My name is Norbert Westfal, and I am the president of BREKO, the leading German Broadband Association, since November 2014 and the managing director of EWE Tel since 2011. I have previously worked for companies such as Mannesmann, Arcor, and Vodafone in various capacities.In my role as BREKO president, I represent over 410 member companies (including over 225 network operators) which are responsible for 80 % of the competitive fibre deployment (FTT
  
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• AustralianSuper and Singtel consortium buy Macquarie’s Australian tower business

  01-04-2022 02:00
  Back in October last year, Singtel announced that it had sold a 70% stake in its wholly owned mobile infrastructure subsidiary, Australian Tower Network (ATN), to Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, for $1.43 billion.ATN’s assets comprised around 2,300 mobile network towers and rooftop sites. As part of the agreement, ATN also pledged to build a further 565 new towers in the coming three years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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