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• Vodafone in talks to merge UK arm with CK Hutchison’s Three

  11-05-2022 23:46
  Latest effort to consolidate British mobile telecoms comes as activist investor exerts pressure
  
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• Vodafone in talks to combine UK arm with CK Hutchison’s Three

  11-05-2022 23:46
  Latest effort to consolidate British mobile telecoms comes as activist investor exerts pressure
  
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• Potter mania at the V&A Museum

  11-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not that Potter, but the other one, the Beatrix Potter who introduced the world to Peter Rabbit, dour Mr McGregor, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. An exhibition running to the end of this year looks at both the life of Beatrix Potter and the works she created in her little books that still sell a copy every 15 seconds.Although born in London, and she lived here until her late forties, Potter disliked the city and longed for the countryside, her repeated visits to which inspired much of
  
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• Airtel Africa: underserved Nigeria is an opportunity for mobile payments

  11-05-2022 17:13
  Telecoms group is not without competition but digital banking shows great potential to boost revenues
  
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• A Middle-Earth style map of London

  11-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One does not simply walk into Morden…
  A Canadian artist with a flair for making Tolkein inspired maps of cities has turned his attention to London and produced a map that wouldn’t look out of place on the inside cover of Lord of the Rings.Middle Earth is a rather mountainous realm, and while London lacks mountain ranges, it has manmade mountains, in the form of buildings, so you can sort of see an air of London in the mountains as skyscrapers.
  The Royal Parks are forests, and the Ci
  
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• VMO2 pushes fibre rollout as competition bites

  11-05-2022 15:18
  
  Virgin Media O2 is shouting about its plans to crack on with full fibre rollout, but its latest quarterlies show it is starting to feel the heat from the competition.
  The UK mobile and broadband provider, which came into being in its current form in Q2 last year, on Wednesday shared Q1 numbers that show weakness at its fixed customer base, despite the operator’s best efforts to gloss over it. Instead, VMO2 talked up earnings growth – rightly so – a stable mobile performance, an
  
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• Apple is set to kill off the Lightning port, claims analyst

  11-05-2022 14:25
  
  Consumer tech giant Apple will drop its proprietary Lightning charging and earphone port and replace it with the more widely used USB-C next year, according to an analyst.
  Ming-Chi Kuo, analyst at TF International Securities, who describes his MO as ‘sharing observations and predictions of tech industry trends’ dropped a couple of tweets predicting the end of the lightening port today:(2/2)It’s expected to see existing USB-C-related suppliers of Apple’s ecosystem (e.g., I
  
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• EE extends in-store mobile repair service to 218 sites

  11-05-2022 13:23
  
  UK MNO EE has extended its two hour in-store repair service for mobile phones to stores across the rest of the UK.
  The two hour in-store repair service was originally launched in Bluewater, Nottingham and Portsmouth in 2020  but is now being extended to 218 of its stores. According to its site it has 553 stores across the UK, so that’s about half the portfolio.
  Typical repair times are apparently 1 to 2 hours, though where there is an intermittent fault or a more complex repair is nee
  
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• Three’s 3G shutdown should be smoother than its launch

  11-05-2022 13:20
  
  Three UK’s 3G network was its launchpad, but now the company is pulling the plug with a view to channelling investments and spectrum into newer technologies.
  The mobile operator plans to switch off its 3G network by the end of 2024, which makes sense, given that 4G – and increasingly 5G – have already taken over as the mobile technologies of choice; the gap is only likely to widen over the next two and a half years.
  Indeed, Three notes that 5G usage exceeded 3G usage just under
  
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• Cezanne comes to the Tate Modern

  11-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Something to look forward to, as Tate Modern is bringing together a once-in-a-generation exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Cezanne. The exhibition is expected to include over 20 works never seen in the UK before.
  Paul Cezanne The Basket of Apples, c.1893. The Art Institute of Chicago Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
  Famously referred to as the “greatest of us all” by Claude Monet, Cezanne remains a pivotal figure in modern painting who gave license to
  
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• How the modern colour purple was invented in London

  11-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, an awful lot of purple will be evident in London, from regal jubilees to the opening of the Elizabeth line, and not many people know that the modern colour purple was invented in London.
  TfL publishes the Elizabeth line Design Idiom
  Purple had been around for millennia, but it cost a literal King’s ransom to manufacture it, as a useable purple dye was only produced by a type of sea snail and it required thousands of snails to make a single cloak. So expensive was the colour th
  
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• Taking the lead on IT automation

  11-05-2022 03:00
  
  IT automation is now a strategic initiative and long-term IT strategy. The division between the stated importance of IT automation and its lack of widespread use could be due to the way these tools have historically been employed.
  Implementing a unified IT automation strategy is critical for companies to improve efficiencies and pursue digital transformation efforts. This can be achieved by starting with a well-defined use case with a clear payback.Implementing a unified IT automation strategy i
  
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• Three UK to switch off 3G mobile services by 2025

  11-05-2022 02:00
  Three UK has today confirmed its decision to switch off 3G mobile services by the end of 2024.  Three, which began operations back in 2003, was the UK’s first 3G-only operator and, as such, the decision to disconnect its 3G services is a pivotal one. Following similar shut down announcements by Vodaphone and EE…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• People and teamwork: Hexatronic talks core competencies and taking subsea tech to the next level

  11-05-2022 02:00
  To say that the submarine cable industry is booming right now would be a major understatement. According to research from TeleGeography released last month, the next two years will see $10 billion-worth of subsea systems enter service, with hyperscalers like Facebook (now Meta) playing an increasingly large role in driving cable investment.For fibre optic infrastructure specialist Hexatronic, this surging demand for new cable systems not only presents the company with a wealth of commercial opp
  
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• Ofcom opens the door for mmWave 5G in the UK

  11-05-2022 02:00
  This week, UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced the first steps towards making mmWave 5G a reality for the operators, launching a consultation on its proposal to release spectrum in the 26GHz (24.25–27.5GHz) and 40GHz (40.5–43.5GHz) bands.Currently, UK operators provide 5G services across a variety of spectrum bands between 700MHz and 3.8GHz, already offering considerably lower latency and higher speeds than were previously available to customers using 4G LTE. mmWave spect
  
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• Drone company Skyward crash-lands as Verizon pulls plug

  11-05-2022 02:00
  US operator giant Verizon has notified customers that it is closing down its drone software company, Skyward.  Skyward, founded in 2012 and purchased by Verizon in 2017, specialised in drone management, providing a software platform, drone hardware, and training for customers interested in integrating drones within their own operations. At the time of purchase, Verizon hoped that Skyward’s platform would provide a focal point for all their drone…read more on TotalTele.com
  
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• Driving down the cost of deploying and operating O-RAN – RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)

  11-05-2022 02:00
  
  The RIC enables the optimization of RAN resources through near real-time analytic processing and provides adaption recommendations. The RAN intelligent Controller (RIC) is cloud native, and a central component of an open and virtualized RAN network. It helps operators to optimize and launch new services by allowing them to make the most of network resources. It also helps operators to ease network congestion. VIAVI is enabling operators to test the RIC and in doing so is helping to expedite the
  
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• 48m American households could get subsidised broadband – but for how long?

  11-05-2022 02:00
  Twenty US internet companies, including AT&T, Frontier, Cox and Verizon have committed to provision of high-speed internet services to qualifying low-income households for no more than $30 per month. Combined with existing federal Internet subsidies means that for many the government will cover the full cost of connectivity…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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