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• Cruise ships are returning to London in 2022

  05-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The cruise ships are returning to London in 2022, disgorging tourists for a few days of sightseeing, and for us Londoners, a chance to see big boats up close.
  Cruise ships vary from the smaller posher sleeker ships of Edwardian times through to the massive white leviathans of modern-day cruising. In London, the mega-boats usually moor up at Tilbury, although some can get to Greenwich. Then there’s the mix of smaller modern cruise ships and the more elegant older boats that can just about f
  
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• Mine’s bigger than yours: German operators vie for 5G bragging rights

  05-04-2022 14:40
  
  For all their talk of services and enabling a digital lifestyle, sometimes telcos just want to show off about the size of their networks.
  It seems to be Germany’s turn this week, with three operators each putting out announcements on the same day, each one talking up a rollout of one sort or another.
  Incumbent Deutsche Telekom pointed out on Monday that when it comes to its 3.6-GHz 5G deployment, “more than 5,000 antennas are now part of Telekom’s high-speed 5G network. Around
  
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• Thai mobile merger close to completion

  05-04-2022 13:34
  
  The merger of Thailand’s second and third largest mobile operators looks set to happen sooner rather than later, with the shareholders of both companies having now approved the move.
  DTAC and True Corp both held shareholder meetings on Monday and both subsequently announced that the proposed deal had been given the green light by an overwhelming majority. 99% of True shareholders voted in favour, as did 89% of DTAC holders.
  The vote marks a crucial step forward in the companies’ ques
  
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• 3,500 homes to be built next to Dagenham Dock railway station

  05-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new housing estate is to be built on a former Dagenham car factory site that sits right next to the Dagenham Dock railway station on the C2C rail line.
  Historically the site was primarily used as a press shop to produce vehicle panels for Ford and has a strong industrial history such as the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike for women’s equal pay and the ‘Made in Dagenham’ movement.The site, being developed by Peabody, and called Dagenham Green, will see up to 3,502 new homes
  
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• Broadband prices ranked – UK is 92nd cheapest in the world

  05-04-2022 11:37
  
  Price comparison site Cable.co.uk has released a report listing what it reckons are the cheapest and most expensive places to buy broadband across the world.
  The study was based on of 3,356 fixed-line broadband deals in 220 countries between 19 January 2022 and 30 March 2022. Syria apparently has the cheapest fixed-line broadband with an average monthly cost of $2.15 per month, which the report attributes to a collapse of the Syrian Pound (SYP) against the US dollar. Burundi meanwhile came in at
  
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• Speedcast Signs Partnership Agreement with Lars Thrane to Deliver Iridium® Safety Solutions

  05-04-2022 11:15
  
  Speedcast portfolio addition offers certified safety communications services for maritime customers Aberdeen, United Kingdom — April 5, 2022 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, announced today its partnership with Lars Thrane, offering a suite of terminals and the ability to deliver Iridium® Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) services. Following Iridium’s launch of the GMDSS service in 2020, this contract formalizes the addition o
  
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• Meng Wanzhou is added to the Huawei rotation

  05-04-2022 09:21
  
  Recently released Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou (pictured) will probably get a go at running the whole show later this year because she has been added to the ‘rotating chair’ roster.
  They seem to like a rotating chair in China, with some notable exceptions. Huawei is a private company and can run itself however it wants, but says it has a ‘collective leadership model’. The pool from which its rotating chairs are chosen every six months is pretty small, however. Ken Hu, who serv
  
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• Meng Wanzhou is added to the Huawei chair rotation

  05-04-2022 09:21
  
  Recently released Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou (pictured) will probably get a go at running the whole show later this year because she has been added to the ‘rotating chair’ roster.
  They seem to like a rotating chair in China, with some notable exceptions. Huawei is a private company and can run itself however it wants, but says it has a ‘collective leadership model’. The pool from which its rotating chairs are chosen every six months is pretty small, however. Ken Hu, who serv
  
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• Behind the scenes at the new Museum of London

  05-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not far from Farringdon station, a huge tent of scaffolding envelopes an empty Victorian meat market that’s being turned into the new home for the Museum of London.The Museum of London is currently based in a 1970s complex of buildings in a complicated location near London Wall, but it’ll be moving in a few years time into a complex of buildings in a much easier location near Farrington tube station.
  The plan is for three empty buildings that were part of the Smithfield markets to be
  
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• Spain prepares €11 billion semiconductor investment

  05-04-2022 02:00
  At the ‘Wake up, Spain!’ economic forum event this week, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has outlined plans to invest €11 billion in the country’s burgeoning semiconductor industry.The expenditure will take place as part of broader government strategy known as Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE). Announced at the end of 2020 to help map the expenditure of European coronavirus relief funds…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New tax in Papua New Guinea could complicate Digicel Pacific sale

  05-04-2022 02:00
  Late last month, the PNG government announced that it had imposed a new tax that could see Digicel Group’s PNG operations liable to pay a one-time fee of around $100 million, with a further $14 million due for non-payment.The Additional Company Tax comes as parts of reforms to the Income Tax Act and specifically targets telecoms and banking companies that control over 40% of their respective markets in PNG…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Controversial DTAC–True Thai mobile merger approved by stakeholders

  05-04-2022 02:00
  In November last year, Total Access Communication (DTAC) and True announced they would seek to merge their businesses, a move that would shrink the number of mobile players in Thailand from three to two. The deal would be worth an estimated $7.5 billion, creating a new market leading entity with roughly 50 million subscribers and a 53.4% market share. AIS, with 44 million subscribers, would control the rest of the market. The shareholders of both True and DTAC approved the merger
  
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