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• Ofcom gets a new spectrum boss

  07-04-2022 19:15
  
  Dan Lloyd (pictured) will join Ofcom in May as Group Director, Spectrum bringing with him 20 years of wireless/tech experience in ten countries.
  The role oversees Ofcom’s Spectrum Group, which manages how the UK’s wireless spectrum is used. This includes deciding which airwaves are best used by what tech, supervising the UK’s spectrum plan, optimising capacity, avoiding interference, working on international standardisation, and handling the licenses.
  Most recently he was Group
  
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• Cargo bike hire scheme coming to Wandsworth

  07-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A cycle hire scheme will be launching soon in Tooting, Clapham Junction and Battersea that will let people rent cargo bikes in the local area.
  Cargo bikes are bikes that have very large panniers on front – typically about double the capacity of two Ikea blue bags, and offer an alternative to using a taxi or hiring a small van to get stuff around.
  Often used by small businesses, they are open for private users as well, who might struggle otherwise to carry parcels, crates of beer, or shoppi
  
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• Advantages of 8T8R in 5G NR Sub-6 GHz Networks

  07-04-2022 18:47
  
  5G promises all kinds of new opportunities for mobile operators to deliver enhanced capacity and end-user experience to customers to address the ever-growing demand for data. But you need to prepare the groundwork correctly, and that means making the right choice of antennas and RF paths.
  There are challenges to address on the road to 5G: which radio configuration is best suited to your needs? How many beams do you need for specific sites? What’s your MIMO strategy?
  This paper explores the
  
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• Zero-Error Systems (ZES) partners with Antaris to bring Ultra Reliability Electronics to Space

  07-04-2022 16:36
  
  7th April 2022, Singapore – Zero-Error Systems (ZES), a space startup based in Singapore offering innovative solutions for high reliability radiation hardening by design power reliability and data integrity solutions, and Antaris, a space startup based in Silicon Valley that provides software-defined satellite platform in software-as-a-service business model, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the flight of ZES proprietary technology, as a part of Antaris&rsq
  
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• Concept train interior offers more space for luggage

  07-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A concept design for a new fleet of trains has been shown off with a novel seat design that creates more space for luggage next to the passenger.
  At the moment, luggage is typically left in racks near the carriage doors where it’s unattended or squashed awkwardly into spaces next to seats, but the concept, by PriestmanGoode turns aisle seating into flip-up seats that can either be used for luggage or sitting on.
  (c) PriestmanGoode
  The idea is that the flip-up seats are not just more sensib
  
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• Samsung Electronics set for best profit in years

  07-04-2022 14:08
  
  Despite everything, Korean tech giant Samsung has guided significant year-on-year increases in sales and operating profit for the first quarter.
  These guidance announcements are usually short and sweet, and this was certainly no exception to that rule. Samsung Electronics guided that it expects to book sales of around 77 trillion won, which would represent a 15% increase on Q1 21, and operating profit of around 14.1 trillion won, up a massive 33% year-on-year.
  There were no canned quotes provide
  
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• Deutsche Telekom pitches itself as a beacon of Western civilisation

  07-04-2022 14:07
  
  Shareholder meetings are an appropriate forum for an inspirational speech or two but judging the volume of rhetoric to employ can be tricky.
  Deutsche Telekom on Thursday took the ‘floodgates open’ approach. In a statement issued ahead of its AGM, CEO Tim Höttges cast his company as nothing less than “an anchor of stability” in uncertain times. The Ginsters Steak Slice might have something to say about that, but Höttges is entitled to his opinion.
  “Never in
  
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• Thousands of small businesses vulnerable to cyber attack, warns BT

  07-04-2022 13:00
  
  UK telecoms group BT has commissioned some research which concludes thousands of small firms in the UK are without business grade security, leaving them open to cyber attack.
  BT commissioned a survey of 1,000 ‘decision makers’ at UK businesses, which found that many thousands of small firms in the UK are open to cyber attacks due to insufficient security measures. It estimates 51% of the ‘micro business’ sector is using security software or protocols designed for consumer
  
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• A colourful confection of clothing at the V&A Museum

  07-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition about clothing opens in a room of statues notable for not wearing any clothing whatsoever, and a giant fig leaf created to save Victorian ladies the sight of a pre-Adam vision of mankind.
  This is the V&A’s big look at men’s clothing, an often overlooked aspect of fashion with its obsession with the female form, and commercial clothes shops that often relegate the men’s section to the farthest reaches of the store. Yet, as the exhibition shows, men were once dr
  
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• Digicel ditches Panama as M&A kills competition

  07-04-2022 12:54
  
  Digicel is closing down its operations in Panama, claiming that it has been squeezed out as a result of an anti-competitive environment.
  Specifically, the Irish-owned Caribbean telco group blames the merger of two of the market’s big three mobile operators, Cable & Wireless and Claro, which was recently given the go ahead by competition authorities. While the tie-up leaves a three-player market in Panama – previous market leader Tigo and Digicel being the other two – Digice
  
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• WBA OpenRoaming™ Primed for Deployment Across European Municipalities Following Successful Phase Two Trial

  07-04-2022 10:05
  
  Fast, secure, and frictionless public Wi-Fi ready to make life easier for citizens and businesses across Europe following rigorous testing throughout several municipalities in Belgium London, April 7th, 2022 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the successful completion of rigorous testing around the deployment of WBA OpenRoaming, priming the innovative Wi-Fi roaming standard for adoption throughout Europe. This brings the possibility of a fast, secure, and seamless publ
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Bramber Green, WC1

  07-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Originally constructed on a WW2 bomb damaged housing site, Bramber Green in King’s Cross was created in the early 1960s to accompany an orange coloured block of flats after which it was named, Bramber House.Before the war, the streets were lined with well to do Georgian terraces and mews running behind, with houses facing into what is today the park, but was at the time, streets and housing.
  OS Map 1914
  One of the more interesting buildings was on a side alley, Lucas Place that today is un
  
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• Vodacom expands m-mama mobile maternity transport app across Tanzania

  07-04-2022 02:00
  Vodacom’s m-mama mobile service, developed by the Vodacom Tanzania Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, is set to be scaled up to cover over half of Tanzania using a $10 million investment over the next six years. The m-mama programme aims to help pregnant women received vital medical assistance as quickly as possible, especially in rural areas where ambulances are rarely available. To do this, the m-mama app creates a network of local taxi drivers, each ready to transport a pregn
  
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• The Greater Manchester Authority talks digital investment at Connected North 2022

  07-04-2022 02:00
  Digital skills? What steps must be taken to ensure that communities and enterprises have the digital skills they need to make the most of improved connectivity in 2022??? Having a good level of digital skills is increasingly important. Greater Manchester’s digital economy is growing very rapidly with a 165% increase in jobs advertised in the last 12 months and the pandemic has accelerated the shift online for many businesses and public services.Strengthening our digital talent p
  
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• Spectrum Coordination Act set to smooth collaboration between FCC and NTIA

  07-04-2022 02:00
  Earlier this week, the US government voted to approve the Spectrum Coordination Act, a bill obligating the FCC and NTIA to update their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) over spectrum coordination for the first time since 2003. It would seem, however, that this bill is something of a formality, with formal work to increase collaboration between the two governing bodies already underway. The FCC and NTIA held their first meeting last week as part of a joint Spectrum Coordination Initia
  
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• Africell launches mobile services in Angola

  07-04-2022 02:00
  Africell has launched commercial mobile services in Angola, having won the licence roughly 14 months ago.For decades, the Angolan mobile market has been served by just two players, Unitel and Movicel. Discussions surrounding the introduction of a new competitor have been underway for years, but it was not until 2019, alongside a wider government Program for Integral and Partial Privatization of Public Enterprises (PROPRIV), that plans to auction a third telecoms licence began…read more o
  
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• Telenet partners with Netcracker on its digital transformation journey

  07-04-2022 01:09
  Telenet has announced that it has selected to deploy Netcracker Technology’s Online Charging System (OCS) as part of its ongoing digital transformation programme. Netcracker’s Digital BSS solution…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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