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• Jubilee line extension gets permanent mobile phone coverage

  14-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The trial of mobile phone coverage on the Jubilee line extension has come to an end, but it’s been replaced with a permanent network, as part of plans to expand coverage across the London Underground.
  The work was carried out by BAI Communications, who signed a 20-year commercial contract last year with TfL to provide mobile phone services. Their first task was to replace and upgrade the temporary trial network that covered the tunnels between Westminster and Canning Town on the Jubilee li
  
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• Elon Musk makes stunning offer to buy Twitter entirely

  14-04-2022 17:37
  
  “Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it,” said the Tesla and Space X founder as he made an offer worth about $43 billion for the social media platform.
  The offer is for $54.20 per share, which is reckoned to be equivalent to $43 billion, and would mean taking the company private under ownership of Musk, who says this is the only way to enact the sort of change he thinks needs to happen. Twitter is currently listed with a market cap of $37 billion.
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• Tickets Alert: Take a trip through the Islington tunnel

  14-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Under the streets of Islington runs a tunnel – linking two parts of the Regents Canal, and next month tours of the tunnels will take place.
  The tunnel was dug under Islington to avoid the need to have a large set of locks at either end as Islington is on a hill and it was eventually decided that rather than going over the hill, they would go under it instead. This was more expensive to build, but considerably cheaper to operate the canal is they didn’t need to operate two sets of loc
  
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• Ericsson admits US fines ‘likely’ over possible Isis payments

  14-04-2022 14:51
  Swedish telecoms equipment group in talks with authorities over breach notices
  
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• Snapchat tops list of UK’s most deleted apps

  14-04-2022 13:56
  
  For every 100,000 UK Snapchat users, 971 are searching how to delete the app, according to a new bit of research.
  Spurred by the hunger to know which apps Brits delete the most, Bespoke Software Solutions has done a report analysing which were the most popular apps of 2021 and cross referenced it with monthly user data for each app and how many times people search for queries related to deleting the apps, based on info from analytics tool AHREFS.com.
  Based on that methodology, Snapchat is appare
  
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• Core Network Stability and Resilience Vital in the 5G Era

  14-04-2022 13:56
  
  The recent major outage of that happened to Telenor Pakistan’s mobile communication network brings the service provider into focus on the need on its core network stability and resilience.
  Across the country’s southern region, Telenor Pakistan’s fiber backbone network was interrupted in several areas, causing a widespread disconnection that shut down voice and data services for around five hours. For the duration of the outage, the operator notified its subscribers that its net
  
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• Ericsson shares sink further after tough Q1 earnings report

  14-04-2022 13:16
  
  A combination of historical misdeeds in Iraq and the need to pull out of Russia loomed heavy on Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s latest quarterlies.
  The Russia stuff was announced at the start of this week. While telecoms vendors have been agonising over the correct course of action to take with regard to doing business in that country after it invaded Ukraine, it looks like the EU took the decision out of their hands by removing a sanctions exemption for public telecommunication networks. No
  
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• Liverpool Street’s Edwardian Arcade is to become a Boxpark

  14-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An Edwardian shopping arcade opened in 1912 above the London Underground has been taken over by the operator of shops in metal boxes, Boxpark.
  The Arcade, just outside Liverpool Street station exists thanks to the advent of electricity — as it sits directly over the railway tracks of the Metropolitan line, which at the time was a steam railway. When the line switched to electric locomotives, they were able to build over the station and The Arcade opened on 11th March 1912, offering a long
  
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• UK’s full fibre rollout ramps up

  14-04-2022 12:12
  
  UK fibre infrastructure providers Openreach and Hyperoptic have announced an extension of their deployment plans to new locations.
  Openreach is planning on deploying gigabit-capable full fibre to 36 new locations as it targets 25 million premises in its network by December 2026. It says 1.5 million homes and businesses have already connected to the new network.
  Around half a million homes and businesses have been added to the rollout plan in Accrington, Lancs, Boldon, Tyne & Wear, Dudley, We
  
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• Brookfield pips Macquarie in $2.7bn move to buy Australian telecoms group Uniti

  14-04-2022 11:01
  Canadian investment giant’s deal underlines mergers and acquisitions boom in country
  
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• US mobile provider chooses USU Knowledge Management

  14-04-2022 10:42
  
  Möglingen, April 14, 2022. An American mobile communications provider has chosen USU Knowledge Management to optimize and deliver its customer service. Their aim is to create a high-quality and innovative service experience for customers anytime, and in any channel. The mobile phone provider will also use USU’s Help Center to extend their support information for self-service on their website, while still centrally managing it from their knowledge base and thus not requiring duplicate
  
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• By law, Easter was supposed to be last weekend

  14-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This weekend is Easter, but it was supposed to have happened last weekend if a law from 1928 — that fixed the date of Easter — were to be enforced.
  Easter, supposed to be the date that Jesus died then undied, should like most fairly terminal events in people’s lives be something that occurs on a fixed date. But Easter is religious, so ambiguity reigns and Easter is confusing the “first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox”.
  The most common date
  
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• SK Telecom signs contract with Morph Interactive to implement new metaverse functions

  14-04-2022 02:00
  Last year, South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom announced the launch of its metaverse platform, Ifland, aiming to deliver diverse virtual spaces with customisable and expressive user avatars.Ifland is considered one of the two major metaverse platforms in Korea, along with Naver’s Zepeto.Now, SK Telecom has announced a new partnership with Morph Interactive…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Parallel Wireless teams up with the Brazilian big four mobile operators for Open RAN trial

  14-04-2022 02:00
  Parallel Wireless, Inc., the U.S.-based Open RAN leader delivering the world’s leading All G, cloud-native Open RAN solution, is partnering with Inatel, Telecom Infra Project (TIP), Brisanet, Claro, TIM, and Vivo to conduct a field trial enabling leading-edge 4G and 5G broadband communications throughout Brazil and other LATAM countries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Jersey Telecom fined £90,000 for island-wide shutdown

  14-04-2022 02:00
  The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA) has imposed a £90,000 fine on Jersey Telecom (JT) after technical issues caused a shut down of the network in the summer of 2020. During the disruption, customers using the network could not access internet or mobile services, including calls to 999 and emergency services. Thankfully, it appears that no lives were lost as a result of the network issues…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson prepares for the worst as US mulls response to Iraq scandal

  14-04-2022 02:00
  Earlier this year, Ericsson announced that an internal investigation had revealed the company had potentially paid bribes to the terrorist group ISIS in Iraq as early as 2011. While the investigation is ongoing and the final recipient of many of these payments is unclear, it appears that the vendor had paid off terrorist organisations to secure their transport routes throughout the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ardian pays TIM €1.3bn for increased indirect stake in INWIT

  14-04-2022 02:00
  TIM and Ardian, a world-leading private investment house, have reached an agreement for the acquisition, by a consortium led by Ardian, of an additional 41% stake in the jointly owned holding company Daphne 3, which in turn holds a 30…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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