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• UK to trial running full fibre connections through water pipes

  06-04-2022 23:30
  
  A UK government-led Fibre in Water trial will see full fibre-optic cable deployed through 17km of live drinking water mains between Barnsley and Penistone.
  The government has stumped up £1.2 million for the design stage of the project, which is being run by Yorkshire Water, Arcadis and University of Strathclyde, with another £2 million on the table once this stage has been reviewed.
  Once installed, the idea is that broadband providers could then hook up 8,500 homes and businesses whi
  
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• M&S Oxford Street demolition decision being reviewed

  06-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to demolish the M&S flagship store on Oxford Street are being looked into by the Mayor of London following a backlash about the plans. M&S wants to demolish the 1930s store that’s at the Marble Arch end of Oxford Street and replace it with a smaller store and more office space, and their application was approved by Westminster Council last November.
  M&S Oxford Street (c) Google Street View
  The building could still be saved as the Department for Digital, Culture Media and
  
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• Telent to transform communications for more than 1,500 buses across the West Midlands

  06-04-2022 16:35
  
  Telent’s secure digital radio managed service will deliver increased flexibility and performance to support National Express West Midlands bus operations, integrating vehicle systems with its distributed control rooms Warwick, U.K., April 6th, 2022 – Buses and control rooms across the West Midlands are set to receive transformational communications upgrades over the next 12 months, as Telent has been awarded a contract by National Express West Midlands (NXWM) to implement upgraded Di
  
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• Ealing’s derelict Twyford Abbey could be restored

  06-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A sealed off park near Hanger Lane that contains the historic and derelict Twyford Abbey could be opened up to the public under plans currently being consulted on.
  Front of Twyford Abbey (c) Clarion Housing Group
  There’s been a manor on the site for around 1,000 years, but in the early 19th-century, the site was purchased by Thomas Willan, a stagecoach proprietor who tasked the architect William Atkinson to re-model the house as a gothic-style mansion. Consistent with the spirit of the tim
  
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• Northrop Grumman hopes AT&T can make it better at blowing stuff up

  06-04-2022 14:30
  
  AT&T and giant US defense contractor Northrop Grumman want to see how 5G can improve the efficacy of US armed forces.
  Northrop is currently helping the US Department of Defense (DoD) with its Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2 – pictured) programme, which will funnel sensor data from all branches of the military – land, sea, air and space – into a single tactical network.
  The aim is to give people in snappy uniforms whose fingers are poised over scary-looking butto
  
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• Lynk launches ‘first commercial-ready cell-tower-in-space’

  06-04-2022 14:10
  
  Satellite base-station company Lynk says it has successfully deployed Lynk Tower 1 into space, its first spacecraft covered by an FCC license to operate a satellite direct-to-phone service.
  Lynk Tower 1 is the firm’s sixth satellite which it says is now ‘in a position’ to be the world’s first commercial cell tower in space. It is an upgrade to the firm’s last iteration which last year was launched and connected ‘thousands of unique devices’ – which
  
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• Indian telcos rail against private 5G

  06-04-2022 13:59
  
  India’s three big mobile operators are apparently attempting to block companies seeking to roll out private 5G networks from participating in the country’s upcoming spectrum auction.
  Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea have joined forces in a bid to persuade the authorities to prevent corporates, specifically non-telcos, from buying spectrum and setting up private 5G networks, according to unnamed sources cited by the Financial Express.
  The operators are not exactly threat
  
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• PLDT reportedly in talks to sell 6000 Philippines towers for $1.5 billion

  06-04-2022 13:50
  
  Philippines telco PLDT has entered talks with Edgepoint and Edotco to sell 6000 towers in the Manilla area for a sum of $1.5 billion, according to reports.
  ‘People familiar with the matter’ told Bloomberg that Edgepoint (backed by DigitalBridge and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority) are in talks to buy 3000 towers in the greater Manila area, while Edotco are considering snapping up another 3000 towers outside of Manilla.
  Apparently the deals, which could valued at around $1.5 billion, m
  
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• The City of London has its own official Tartan

  06-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tartan, that famous, mostly Scottish fabric design that adorns kilts and blankets, is often associated with specific people and groups, and the City of London has its own official Tartan.
  By official, that means it’s registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans, which was set up as a result of the Scottish Register of Tartans Act (2008). The registration says that there is a “tartan for the City of London, approved by Roger Gifford, elected Lord Mayor of the City of London in 201
  
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• Paysend Helps People in The UK Improve Their Financial Health with Paysend Grow

  06-04-2022 09:46
  
  LONDON – 06 APRIL, 2021 – Paysend, the UK-based fintech with over 6.5 million customers, today announces the launch of two new products to help customers improve their financial health: Credit Builder and Pay Later. Credit Builder lets people in the UK with little or no credit history automatically improve their credit score by simply using their Paysend card for their daily spending when linked to their Paysend Credit Builder account in the Paysend app....Source: RealWire
  
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• MVN-X hits one million subscribers with Cerillion

  06-04-2022 09:30
  
  - 18 MVNOs now running on the Cerillion platform - London, 6th April 2022 – Cerillion (AIM: CER), an innovator in digital monetisation and customer management solutions, today announced that its Convergent Charging System (CCS) has successfully enabled MVN-X to reach one million subscribers across its portfolio of MVNO brands. MVN-X is South Africa’s leading Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE), providing turnkey services and support to a burgeoning set of brands, including Standard
  
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• Challenging Bakerloo line tunnel completed at Paddington station

  06-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A set of new tunnels being dug between the Bakerloo line platforms at Paddington have been successfully completed despite the challenging conditions they presented.
  Excavating the new tunnels (c) Dr. Anmol / Bedi Consulting
  The new tunnels are needed as they will be used to provide a connection to a new tube station entrance that is being included in the Paddington Cube, a new office block being built next to the mainline station. When it opens, there will be more escalators down to the Bakerloo
  
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• PLDT to offload 6,000 towers to cut debt

  06-04-2022 02:00
  Philippines telecoms operator PLDT is reported to have begun discussions with two companies, EdgePoint and Edotco, aiming to sell 3,000 mobile telecommunications towers to each buyer. In total, the two deals are valued at approximately $1.5 billion.EdgePoint, backed by Digital Bridge and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, will reportedly acquire 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Creating a new 'norm' for the subsea cable industry

  06-04-2022 02:00
  In the run up to Submarine Networks EMEA 2022 next month, we caught up with Lynsey Thomas from Subsea Networks to hear her take on the biggest topics in the global submarine cable market.  In your view, what is the most exciting thing happening in the industry right now?It is really great to see all the projects that have been in the planning, financing and design phases starting to come to fruition. LinkedIn is scattered with images of new shore end landings and final splice deployme
  
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• Amazon’s Project Kuiper prepares for lift off with procurement deal

  06-04-2022 02:00
  From the enormous scale of Elon Musk’s Starlink deployment to the meteoric recovery of OneWeb from bankruptcy to billion-dollar investment, low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are one the hottest topics in the international telecoms sector.Able to provide broad geographic coverage in areas typically hard to reach by conventional methods, as well as providing lower latency and higher bandwidth that their geostationary counterparts, LEO satellites are becoming an increasingly via
  
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• 5G spectrum auction could offer Bite a taste of Estonian mobile market

  06-04-2022 02:00
  According to the TTJA, four mobile operators have applied to bid for the three 5G spectrum licences being made available in Estonia’s upcoming auction.Each licence will offer a 130MHz block in the 3.5GHz spectrum band, with a reserve price for these licences is set at €1.6 million.All three of Estonia’s existing mobile players – Telia, Elisa, and Tele2 – have confirmed their intention to take part…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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