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• UK government creates an NFT in bid to become a ‘cryptoasset hub’

  04-04-2022 19:56
  
  The UK government has announced vague plans ‘to make Britain a global hub for cryptoasset technology and investment’, which includes having the Royal Mint issue an NFT.
  In a statement bursting at the seams with fintech buzzwords, the government announced stablecoins will be recognised as a valid form of payment, that it will legislate for a ‘financial market infrastructure sandbox’ to help firms innovate, it will launch an FCA-led ‘CryptoSprint’, and will work
  
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• Minimum Oyster card top-up halved to £10 from £20

  04-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The minimum automatic top-up allowed on a pay as you go Oyster card has been halved to £10 from the minimum of £20 that used to apply.
  The reduction comes after a campaign by London Travel Watch which had expressed concerns that at a time of both rising cost of living and fewer journeys, people may have difficulties if their Oyster card were to automatically deduct £20 from their bank account.
  The automatic top-up system applies to Oyster Cards with an online account where peop
  
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• 5G stadium base station antennas

  04-04-2022 18:30
  
  Stadiums face some unique challenges when the seats are filled with bandwidth-consuming fans who want to see their own instant replays, share videos with friends and family at home, and take advantage of the latest virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) live experiences. These hard-to-cover venues are even more challenging for high-density 5G deployments. That’s why CommScope purpose-built the 5G Stadium base station antenna to meet these unique needs and suppo
  
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• Summa Networks expands its presence in North America and announces partnership with Cirrus Core Networks

  04-04-2022 17:00
  
  Subscribers Data Management leader Summa Networks announces partnership with CCN (Cirrus Core Networks), enlarging its footprint in the North American region Madrid (Spain) and Boca Raton (US), April 4th, 2022 - Summa Networks is the European-based market specialist in Subscribers, Policy and Identity Management. Its solution is a complete software suite that includes UDM, UDR, AUSF, UDSF, HLR, HSS, AAA and PCRF/PCF to guide carriers in their transition to 5G, while still supporting their 2G,...
  
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• Reshaping the future of fibre: The opportunity for AltNets

  04-04-2022 16:03
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Tipu Ali, Networks Account Manager at Telehouse, looks at the evolving political and regulatory environment for UK telcos.
  The UK’s communications infrastructure is set to move into the ultrafast broadband lane. With the current UK broadband network not upgrading fast enough and rapidly becoming insufficient for services like online streaming and the Inter
  
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• Strawberry Hill House campaigning to bring Horace home

  04-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham, created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, is in a race to raise enough money to purchase a rare and highly significant portrait of Horace Walpole as a child, painted by William Hogarth.
  The Gothic revival house, now a museum, needs to raise the remaining £12,000 by Thursday 14th April to secure the painting for its collection.
  (c) Strawberry Hill House
  The return of the painting will be significant as not only is of Walpole himself, but most of the
  
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• Elon Musk becomes the largest Twitter shareholder

  04-04-2022 15:40
  
  Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk (pictured) has bought 73.5 million shares representing 9.2% of microblogging platform Twitter.
  The US Securities and Exchanges Commissions has released details of the filing which took place on March 14th. It is widely being reported that the move makes Elon Musk the largest Twitter shareholder, and the BBC claims this is four times the 2.25% holding of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who has recently vacated the CEO position.
  Musk has 80 million followers on the
  
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• Singtel’s ATN pays a high price for Australian towers

  04-04-2022 15:20
  
  Australian Tower Network has agreed to acquire Axicom and its 2,000 telco towers for A$3.58 billion, over a billion dollars more than its own business was apparently worth just six months ago.
  Singtel, which currently holds a 30% stake in ATN but will control a smaller share of the merged entity, announced the deal. However, it’s pretty clear that the driving force behind the acquisition is its partner, superannuation fund AustralianSuper, which picked up the other 70% of ATN from Singtel
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: decentralization, deglobalization and Huawei

  04-04-2022 15:19
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Decentralization, deglobalization and Huawei
  
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• Tickets Alert: Take a trip on Southern Railway’s last Class 455 train

  04-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The last ever British Rail Class 455 train to run on Southern Railway tracks will be running a special all-day tour on the last day of the trains being in passenger service.The charity charter will operate on the last day of operation of the class, being the last day of the current timetable Saturday 14th May. Following that Saturday, all of Southern’s Class 455 units will be withdrawn from service, and the new timetable will be operated by Southern’s other electric multiple-unit (EM
  
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• TIM aims to hammer out single network deal this month

  04-04-2022 12:58
  
  Italian operator group TIM has formally agreed to begin talks with CDP with a view to defining the terms of a merger with Open Fiber by the end of April.
  At this stage, the two companies have simply signed a non-disclosure agreement to enable them to open discussions, but this could be an important step in the creation of a single high-speed fibre network in Italy through the integration of TIM’s fixed network assets and Open Fiber’s wholesale fibre infrastructure.
  And the move could
  
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• UK government asks telecoms firms to ‘raise awareness’ of cheaper tariffs

  04-04-2022 12:52
  
  UK Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries has written to BT, Virgin Media O2, KCom and others to ask them to ‘outline plans for promoting low-cost social tariffs’ for people on benefits.
  The secretary of state also asked telcos to provide their estimates of take-up over the coming twelve months of social tariffs. Ofcom described social tariffs are deals which are only available to those on certain government benefits.
  The thrust of the argument seems to be that while lower cost deals for b
  
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• CCS Rebrands as Aurora

  04-04-2022 11:00
  
  LONDON, UK - Leading managed print and ICT provider, Corona Corporate Solutions (CCS), has rebranded as Aurora with immediate effect. The company has relaunched with new values, new differentiation and new propositions. Specifically, Aurora is launching a new solution to assist customers with home workers and a new range of service packages. CEO, Andy Moffitt, commented “we are transforming to become more relevant to the changed world we find ourselves in. Whilst we remain proud...Source:
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bath Court, EC1

  04-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a Clerkenwell alley that has survived many attempts to remove it and today snakes between a posh hotel and into a private car park.The alley leads off what was known as Great Warner Street, which shows up initially in the 1740s as the area was slowly developed from fields into houses, but the area where the alley is was still fields at the time. The alley though can be clearly seen as more housing was added, and it appears on the Horwood map of 1799 as a link between Great Warner Street
  
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• TIM starts formal talks with CDP for building Italian single network

  04-04-2022 02:00
  This week, Italy’s largest operator TIM has announced that it has signed a non-disclosure agreement with state investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to begin official talks for the merger of their fibre network with that of rival Open Fiber.  The government-owned CDP, which owns a 60% stake in Open Fiber and a 10% stake in TIM, has long been in favour of such a merger.  The idea of merging the two companies&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Crafting the perfect digital foundation: DE-CIX and the importance of regional expansion

  04-04-2022 02:00
  It is well established that the coronavirus pandemic has served as a catalyst for enormous digitalisation all over the world, leaving enterprises, governments, and individuals more reliant on connectivity than ever before. Underpinning this vital global connectivity are internet exchange points (IXPs), physical locations containing network switches that route traffic between different internet service providers’ networks. Currently, even the most advanced markets in the world rely on
  
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• Connecting Germany: Building the fibre that underpins 5G

  04-04-2022 02:00
  Can you introduce yourself and your current role?I have been chairman of the management board of the leading Bavarian fiber networks provider M-net since December 2018 and member of the board at the German fiber association Bundesverband Glasfaseranschluss e. V. (BUGLAS) since May 2019. In my role at M-net…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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