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• One of our dinosaurs isn’t missing – Dippy’s back at the Natural History Museum

  29-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Natural History Museum’s Diplodocus has returned from its UK tour and will be going on display again inside the museum, for the rest of this year.
  Dippy in the Hintze Hall January 2016
  Dippy first arrived at the Museum back in 1905, after King Edward VII remarked how much he’d like to obtain a Diplodocus specimen while visiting the home of the millionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie, who owned the bones of a specimen found in Wyoming in 1899, duly commissioned a repli
  
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• Ofcom opens investigation into Shell Energy’s telecoms division

  29-04-2022 18:59
  
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into Shell Energy, with regard to rules around end-of-contract and annual ‘best tariff’ notifications to broadband and landline customers.
  Ofcom introduced new rules in 2020 which stated that broadband, mobile, home phone and pay-TV companies have to warn their customers when their minimum contract period is coming to an end, and how much they could save by signing up to a new deal, as well as remind any customers who remain out
  
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• Huawei’s David Wang: Driving Industry Development with F5.5G

  29-04-2022 17:15
  
  At the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Summit (HAS), Informa Tech held the Towards F5G Evolution, Promoting Industrial Prosperity session. At this session, David Wang, Huawei Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, gave a keynote speech titled Driving Industry Development with F5.5G.
  “The broadband industry has seen rapid development since the release of the F5G standard,” said Wang. “Gigabit access has become universal for homes in Chi
  
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• Crossrail’s funding gap increases

  29-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The gap between the funding that’s available and how much it will cost for Crossrail to complete the Elizabeth line has widened.
  It had been known earlier this year that there was a shortfall of around £150 million needed to complete the railway, and at a GLA Transport Committee meeting in March, TfL’s Commissioner, Andy Byford indicated that the shortfall had increased to £174 million.
  A letter from Crossrail’s CEO, Mark Wild to the Chair of Parliament’s Publ
  
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• London Underground to resume normal Met line services next week

  29-04-2022 15:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London Underground is resuming a normal Metropolitan line timetable from next week, after announcing an urgent cut in services on the Metropolitan line earlier this month due to problems with the wheels on its trains.
  The problem is understood to have been related to a wheel lathe at Neasden depot, which is used to reprofile the wheels on Met line trains, and may have been misconfigured.
  Apart from issues such as reducing long term wear on wheels and tracks, and reducing wheel noise, there&rsquo
  
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• New telco alliance wants to turn 5G start-ups into global powerhouses

  29-04-2022 13:28
  
  A group of five operators plus one towerco have joined forces to give budding young companies the ability to reach a worldwide audience.
  Called Alaian, the group comprises Telefónica, MTN, Bouygues Telecom, KPN and WindTre, which between them boast 700 million customers spread across 50 markets in Europe, Africa and Latin America. Passive infrastructure provider Cellnex is also a founder member. The group has pledged to share best practices when it comes to innovation, and collaborate on
  
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• Discounts on tickets to The Tina Turner Musical

  29-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The musical is based on the life of Tina Turner made a huge splash in the UK during its West End premiere, and is based on the often tumultuous life and legendary music of international recording artist Tina Turner.Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock and raised in Nutbush, Tennessee. From humble beginnings, Tina would rise to fame as the Queen of Rock n Roll and go on to sell more concert tickets than any other solo artist. After her abusive marriage came to an end, Tina rebuilt her
  
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• Smartphone shipments fell globally in Q1, dragged by a Chinese slowdown

  29-04-2022 12:46
  
  Global smartphone shipments fell by 12.9% in Q1 2022 to 308 million units, representing the third consecutive quarter that figure has gone down, according to analyst firm Omdia.
  Much of the drop can be attributed to s sharp fall in shipments by Chinese manufacturers due to a slowdown in the regional market, according to Omdia. Resurgent waves of Covid there has played havoc with supply chain, as major cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai have seen new and characteristically brutal lockdowns. The re
  
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• Huawei’s steady decline continues

  29-04-2022 12:18
  
  Chinese vendor Huawei has issued one of its minimal quarterly numbers bulletins and it reveals yet another fall in revenues.
  For Q1 2022 Huawei says it brought in CNY131 billion in revenue, with a net profit margin of 4.3%. That’s all you get, no segmentation, year-on-year comparisons, or anything like that. Thankfully we wrote an equivalent report a year ago, which allows us to calculate that Huawei’s most recent revenues declined 14% YoY. Margin, meanwhile was 11.1% back then.
  Such
  
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• Doubt creeps into the mmWave business case

  29-04-2022 11:27
  
  Question marks are appearing over the use of millimeter wave (mmWave) technology for 5G, with growth in investments in the sector slowing last year.
  While the numbers do not directly point to problems in the mmWave market, particularly given that it outperformed expectations in the previous couple of years, it is not too much of a stretch to say that we still need some convincing on the use of the technology.
  New statistics shared by Dell’Oro this week show 15%-20% growth in mmWave revenue
  
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• UK govt announces new Open RAN guidelines

  29-04-2022 02:00
  The government’s commitment to Open RAN has been growing steadily in recent years. The technology first appeared to come to their attention while the government was mulling whether to designate China’s Huawei a ‘high risk’ vendor and order its removal from UK networks back in early 2020. At the time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson notably called upon the telecoms industry to “tell us what the alternative is” and, since then, it appears that the answer has incre
  
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• Lucid Drones partners T-Mobile to enable cleaning drones

  29-04-2022 02:00
  T-Mobile has announced that Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen the Un-carrier to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm’s way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The companies also plan to leverag
  
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• Lucid Drone Technologies partners T-Mobile to enable cleaning drones

  29-04-2022 02:00
  T-Mobile has announced that Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen the Un-carrier to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm’s way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The companies also plan to leverag
  
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• Airtel launches 5G connected ambulance

  29-04-2022 02:00
  Today, Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced it has collaborated with Apollo Hospitals and Cisco to demonstrate the potential of 5G-connected ambulances to support patient care during transit to medical facilities. The 5G Connected Ambulance demonstration, which took place in Bengaluru, was specially built including various patient monitoring applications, medical equipment and other devices, aimed at relaying vital patient information back to the hospital in real-time over 5G. 
  
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