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• Vodafone creates pan-European data hub to fuel AI analytics engine

  05-05-2022 18:41
  
  UK MNO Vodafone brought in Google Cloud and Cardinality.IO to help it build out a pan-European cloud software project called United Performance Management.
  UPM uses AI to process and analyse up to eight billion points of data every day across the 11 countries its mobile network spreads across. The real-time insights this generates apparently allow Vodafone to simplify core operations by performing analysis using AI tools from Google Cloud and Cardinality.IO.
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• TEOCO joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program

  05-05-2022 18:00
  
  FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 5 May 2022 – TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide, has today announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program, as part of its drive to deliver CSPs with flexible and scalable software solutions to plan, manage and run their networks. TEOCO’s, cloud ready, Helix Service Assurance solution will be further enhanced with the telecommunica
  
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• Signalling upgrade comes online on Great Northern line into Moorgate

  05-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new signalling system has been commissioned over the bank holiday, promising Great Northern rail passengers at 30 stations much more reliable journeys on the route to Moorgate in the City of London. The new equipment has replaced ageing components dating back to the 1970s — including some old tripcock systems that still ran on compressed air — on the Northern City Line between Finsbury Park and Moorgate stations.
  New signalling system (c) Network Rail
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• UK MPs ask Elon Musk to explain himself over Twitter

  05-05-2022 13:38
  
  A cross party committee has has taken to Twitter to openly invite Elon Musk (pictured) to appear before it and discuss the future of Twitter as he sees it.
  A committee in question is called the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which is set up to scrutinise the work of the government and is not to be confused with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, though it helpfully has almost the same acronym and concerns itself with similar things.
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• EE dabbles with Pilates for gamers

  05-05-2022 13:26
  
  The coronation of EE as the BT group consumer brand has apparently unlocked a new raft of whacky marketing initiatives.
  From the people who brought you robot shaving, air traffic control from the comfort of your own home and 5G clubbing, we now have workouts for gamers. The understandable premise is that people who play a lot of computer games are not usually the core constituency of the local gym and possibly don’t move about much at all. So EE has taken it upon itself to encourage them t
  
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• T-Mobile US attacks big broadband firms

  05-05-2022 12:38
  
  T-Mobile US is making a renewed push into 5G-based fixed wireless services for home broadband, in the process hitting out at the country’s established ISPs in its own unique style.
  The US mobile operator on Wednesday launched a new fixed wireless service for consumers, encouraging them to ‘cheat on’ and ultimately ‘break up with’ their fixed Internet provider, promising to pay early contract termination fees and to allow customers to lock in prices. It also presente
  
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• TIP wants to send engineers to Open RAN school

  05-05-2022 12:35
  
  The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Accenture have launched a training service to address the claimed open networking skills gap.
  Called TIP Academy, it will offer courses that centre on a various open, disaggregated solutions currently under development. The aim is to create a workforce that is better equipped to design, develop, test and deploy this budding new technology.
  In addition to Accenture, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom have signed up to be charter clients of TIP Academy, and as such w
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to accelerate FTTH rollout with new self-installation connectivity solution

  05-05-2022 11:25
  
  A new Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) modular connectivity solution by HUBER+SUHNER is the first on the market to enable subscribers to partially install their own fiber. Known as RESA, the new solution is designed for rural/suburban residential and commercial areas. It is an easy installation alternative for both carriers and end customers. RESA is designed to reduce the costs, time and resources required for rolling out FTTH networks, while giving subscribers more convenience and choice. “We ar
  
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• A day trip to – Ramsgate for Tunnels, Trains and Toys

  05-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ramsgate is a seaside town on the far edge of Kent that boasts a lovely seafront to wander along, an amazing tunnel network to visit, a Pugin chapel, and just outside town, Hornby railways.
  All this is just over an hour from central London.
  Hornby Visitor CentreAlthough not actually in Ramsgate, it’s so close than most regular readers of this website are going to want to visit – a whole museum of Hornby products, from the railways to Airfix and Scalextric
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• Vodafone teams up with Google Cloud for unified performance platform

  05-05-2022 02:00
  Today, Vodafone Group has announced a launch of its new UPM platform, which it says will help it to plan, build, and manage its networks throughout Europe.The UPM platform, built in collaboration with Google Cloud and data analytics specialist Cardinality.io, will serve to pool network performance data from all the markets in which it is deployed, making it easier to monitor and analyse using AI and machine learning…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TIP launches Academy to teach Open RAN skills

  05-05-2022 02:00
  TIP participants have expressed the need for an industry-led, operator and vendor neutral training service, designed to address a global skills and resource shortage in the telecom industry—creating a workforce which is more digitally fluent and better able to participate in or lead on the solution design, development, testing, and deployment of open and disaggregated network solutions. Moreover, research has found that companies with a digitally fluent workforce lead their peers in reven
  
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• TIP launches Academy to teach Open RAN

  05-05-2022 02:00
  TIP participants have expressed the need for an industry-led, operator and vendor neutral training service, designed to address a global skills and resource shortage in the telecom industry—creating a workforce which is more digitally fluent and better able to participate in or lead on the solution design, development, testing, and deployment of open and disaggregated network solutions. Moreover, research has found that companies with a digitally fluent workforce lead their peers in reven
  
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• TIM–Open Fibre merger days away from agreement

  05-05-2022 02:00
  After years of heated discussion, it appears that a deal to create a single national fibre in Italy could finally be on the horizon, with TIM CEO Labriola suggesting that a preliminary agreement to merge the company’s fibre assets with those of Open Fiber could be just days away.“There have been some delays... but stakeholders are interested in carrying out the project, I don’t see problems,” said Labriola at a press briefing on the company&rsquo…read more on
  
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• Telenor Infra strikes renewable energy deal with Hydro Energi

  05-05-2022 02:00
  Telenor’s infra, the Nordic region’s largest mobile tower company, has signed a power purchase agreement with Hydro Energi’s Hydro Rein subsidiary, a specialist in developing greenfield wind projects in Norway and Sweden.  The ten-year deal will see Telenor purchase 330 GWh of power annually from Hydro Rein’s 260 MW Stor-Skälsj&ouml…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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