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• Tickets for the Last Night of the Proms 2022

  28-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Prom season is starting again and it’s time to enter the ballot to get tickets to attend the Last Night of the Proms. Due to the intense popularity of the evening, the tickets are allocated in two separate ballots.The five concerts ballot
  The largest ballot is reserved for people who attend the Proms – which is perfectly understandable – and if you buy tickets to at least five performances, then you can opt into the ballot, which is for about 3,700 seats.
  Just remember to tick
  
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• The inevitable Musk Twitter backlash gets off to a faltering start

  28-04-2022 15:01
  
  Those who would dictate the parameters of public discourse are unhappy Twitter is being acquired by someone they can’t control.
  Tellingly, the thing that seems to alarm Musk’s critics the most is his stated commitment to free speech. By definition free speech means allowing speech not everyone likes. In fact, that’s just a definition for all speech, since you can’t please all of the people all of the time. Letting the upper bounds of that policy be set by lawmakers seems
  
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• KT Cloud could be worth $2 billion

  28-04-2022 14:50
  
  KT is reportedly mulling selling off a chunk of its recently-created cloud business, a move that could value the unit as a whole at US$2 billion.
  The South Korean telco, which now styles itself as a digital platform company, separated out its cloud and data centres assets into KT Cloud in February. According to Bloomberg, it is now making plans to sell a minority stake in the business.
  The newswire’s unnamed sources claim that the company is on the verge of selecting a financial advisor fo
  
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• Nokia’s Q1 profit drops 17% thanks to Russia and supply chain issues

  28-04-2022 14:18
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia’s profits for the first quarter of 2022 clocked in at €219 million, down from €263 million YoY thanks mainly to Russia, but the firm says it is still on track to hit its yearly targets.
  There were some mildly positive data points in Nokia’s Q1 financials, but the standout figure was the 17% drop in profit, clocking in at €219 million down from €263 YoY. Ongoing supply chain issues were cited as one pain point for Nokia, but the report stre
  
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• Comcast boosts dividends as Peacock streaming subscribers grow

  28-04-2022 14:02
  Media and telecoms group launches $3bn share buyback after earnings beat estimates
  
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• Bank of England museum reveals an unexpected link to the slave trade

  28-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new exhibition has opened at the Bank of England’s museum that reveals not just how it was involved in the financing of slave traders, but an unexpected discovery that the Bank itself owned slaves.
  As one of the major financial institutions of the country, it’s not that big a surprise that it was involved in financing people involved in the slave trade. In fact, it would be a shock if it hadn’t been, as it’s a bank and banks lend to businesses, sometimes businesses invo
  
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• Bell launches AWS-powered edge services

  28-04-2022 12:50
  
  Bell’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnership reached a new milestone this week with the commercial launch of multi-access edge computing (MEC) services.
  The Canadian telco has been working with the hyperscaler since last summer to overhaul its business and consumer. The agreement also encompasses the rollout of AWS Wavelength, which puts AWS storage and compute resources at the edge of Bell’s 5G network. Tuesday saw the country’s first AWS Wavelength Zone go live in Toronto. Ot
  
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• Barbican Centre to spend up to £150 million on major revamp

  28-04-2022 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The team that will lead the revamping of the Barbican Centre has been announced, and they have a pot of between £50-£150 million to spend.
  The architects brief outlines that the Barbican wants to open up some spaces that may not be fully used at the moment, while improving accessibility across the entire site, without changing, too much, the core appeal of the main building. The redevelopment of the Barbican Centre was chosen as the alternative to building a new concert hall on the s
  
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• Small Cells World Summit returns to London this May with commercially focused agenda and exclusive private networks workshop

  28-04-2022 11:20
  
  Leading industry speakers will cover topics including enterprise connectivity, shared and flexible infrastructure and Open RAN technologies 28 April, 2022, London – SCF, the global organization committed to supporting agile, low-cost mobile infrastructure through small networks, has released details of Small Cells World Summit 2022, which will take place live in London 24-25 May, followed by virtual summits in June. The conference brings together mobile network operators, neutral hosts, en
  
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• Visit the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

  28-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy visiting a museum devoted to an iconic aircraft manufacturer, then you can find it at the end of a narrow country lane on the edges of the M25 in North London. This is the de Havilland Aircraft Museum and shows off the heritage of one of the UK’s earliest and most successful aircraft builders, but one that was to be doomed by being a bit too innovative a bit too early.If arriving by bus, a short walk down a country lane takes you past the privately-owned Salisbury Hall, which
  
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• Understanding the technologies reshaping the subsea cable market

  28-04-2022 02:00
  Ahead of Submarine Networks EMEA 2022 next month, Total Telecom sat down with Bertrand Clesca, Director of Client Solutions at Pioneer Consulting to hear his views on which technologies are shaping the submarine cable market and to learn about the projects that Pioneer Consulting is currently engaged with.At Submarine Networks EMEA next month, you’ll be moderating a panel on “Innovations in subsea cable design.” In your view, what technologies are currently having the biggest
  
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• India now eying June for 5G auction

  28-04-2022 02:00
  India’s first 5G spectrum auction has been delayed by over two years now, first impacted by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and since then by major disagreements between the Indian operators and regulatory bodies. Since late 2021, it has been clear that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been aiming for the auction to finally take place in late 2022…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• German regulator bans zero-rating mobile tariffs

  28-04-2022 02:00
  Since 2015, the European Union has had legal protections in place supporting the concept of net neutrality, which guarantees users’ rights to access content on the internet without discrimination from the telecoms companies that operate the network. In short, net neutrality means that operators cannot restrict or throttle traffic to certain internet addresses or impose restrictions on certain types of traffic, with a few exceptions for legal and security reasons…read more on TotalT
  
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• Enabling 5G at sea

  28-04-2022 02:00
  Located along the southeast coast of China, Fujian Province sits along the coastline of over 3000 kilometers. Generations of Fujian people live in peace and contentment with its unique marine resources. With the continuous evolution of 5G technologies, ZTE and China Mobile Fujian Branch have recently jointly built a TDD+FDD two-layer three-dimensional continuous coverage network to help the marine economy set sail.All-round Marine Communication Driven by Three-dimensional CoverageZTE has propos
  
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