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• Three-Vodafone may become third UK option

  12-05-2022 19:39
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• Look out for these limited edition Elizabeth line branded Oyster Cards

  12-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Look out for a limited edition Oyster Card appearing in tube stations ahead of the Elizabeth line’s grand opening in a couple of weeks time.
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  Although more and more people are paying for travel in London using their bank’s contactless payment cards, there are still a lot of people who use Oyster cards, and there’s even a market in collecting unusual designs. This is the sixth time TfL has produced limited edition Oyster cards, following cards being produced to celebrate
  
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• Vodafone/Three: consolidation is needed to dial up improvements

  12-05-2022 17:44
  A cost-cutting merger that boosts shareholder returns is justified
  
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• The Tower of London’s Triennial Battle with All Hallows Church

  12-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Later this month will see the Triennial Battle outside the Tower of London between the Beefeaters and the parish of the neighbouring church of All Hallows.
  On the evening of Thursday 26th May, the Beefeaters will parade around the outside of the Tower of London and clergy from the tower carrying sticks will beat the Tower’s boundary markers that mark its ancient liberties boundary.This is a version of the Beating the Bounds, an ancient custom still carried out by some churches to parade ar
  
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• Google is building its own gadget ecosystem

  12-05-2022 14:05
  
  The tech giant signals its growing intentions in the devices market, unveiling new Pixel phones, a smartwatch, a tablet, high-end earbuds and more at its annual announcement parade in California.
  Years ago Steve Jobs turned Apple product announcements into stage performances, complete with comedy bits and live audiences, and soon after the rest of the tech industry decided they all fancied a bit of that. Now it seems you can’t release a USB cable onto the market without the fanfare of a We
  
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• Voda-Three merger is the rumour that refuses to die

  12-05-2022 13:17
  
  Rumours of a possible merger between Vodafone and Three UK were beginning to wilt a bit, so they have been freshened up again with some new ones.
  It has been nearly four months since Bloomberg cited ‘some people with knowledge of the matter’ who claimed that Vodafone had approached Three parent CK Hutchison late last year to discuss the possibility of a deal. Nothing materialised and industry commentators were beginning to parch, but luckily the Financial Times swept in on Thursday t
  
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• BT Sport gets a new lease of life with Warner Bros Discovery deal

  12-05-2022 13:08
  
  BT has inked a joint venture deal with Warner Bros Discovery to merge their respective sports content offerings into a new entity, but they have yet to make a call on a new brand.
  For now, BT Sport and Eurosport UK will retain their separate brands and services, but they will be brought under a single identity and some undisclosed point “in the future,” BT said, in a statement issued on Thursday alongside its full-year results announcement.
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• A is for Atlas: Wonders of Maps and Mapping

  12-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The world as a jester, the unseen effects of comets, non-existent islands, the secrets of the stars, make up a richly decorated compendium of maps from the National Maritime Museum.It’s a book that opens with a globe, of the earth, but one that was repainted in 1909 to show the landscape of Mars, with its seas and canals, as they were thought at the time. But it went beyond the simple recording of what could be seen, as the artist, Ingeborg Brun also gave places names invoking a mix of her
  
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• Informa CEO Stephen Carter to join the Vodafone board

  12-05-2022 12:56
  
  Stephen Carter (pictured), the head of business information giant Informa, will become a non-executive director of UK telco group Vodafone in a few weeks.
  The appointment, which will come into effect after the company’s AGM on 26 July, is subject to shareholder approval but that seems like a formality. On paper Carter is such a natural fit for Vodafone that the most surprising part of this move is that it didn’t happen. Full disclosure – Telecoms.com is owned by Informa.
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• The Power of Location in Networks Without Borders

  12-05-2022 12:15
  
  As borders come down, operators not only gain (and need) visibility, they also gain (and need) flexibility.  In a virtualized network they get to choose what goes where. Which function should be kept in a centralized location or in the cloud? Which ones should be moved instead towards the edge? And where is the suitable edge- the cell site, the basement of an enterprise, the central office, or the metropolitan data center? How distributed should the network be? And how should different traf
  
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• Smart Data the Key to 5G Assurance and Security

  12-05-2022 12:15
  
  The disaggregated network functions of 5G with cloud RAN, Control and User Plane Separation (CUPs), network slicking, new 5G disaggregated core, edge cloud, NFV, SDN, containers, microservices, and much more will bring greater complexities, security vulnerabilities, and service visibility challenges for CSPs. Solving them will require two things: Pervasive Visibility and Smart Analytics.
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• Iskratel delivers supreme Wi-Fi 6 to Zeop with new home gateways

  12-05-2022 11:28
  
  Duo of home gateways introduced for unbeatable Wi-Fi 6 experience, with two more to be unveiled in June Kranj, Slovenia, May 12, 2022: Iskratel has today announced that its two latest home gateways have been successfully tested by several operators, as they strive to provide a premium Wi-Fi 6 experience. This includes its Innbox G92 that has been successfully trialled and tested by Zeop at La Réunion. The latest additions to Iskratel’s Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE)...Source: Rea
  
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• Aegiq closes oversubscribed investment round to bring quantum photonics platform to market

  12-05-2022 11:00
  
  A quantum photonics spin-out from the University of Sheffield lands significant investment from Black Quant and Quantum Exponential, as well as private angels, taking total funding to nearly £4m Oversubscribed follow-on investment round shows commitment to UK being at forefront of development of next-generation networking with quantum security Sheffield, UK; 12 May, 2022: Aegiq has today announced that it secured significant investment from Black Quant and Quantum Exponential, as well as p
  
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• WBA Issues Residential Wi-Fi Sensing Deployment Guidelines for Smart Homes & Next Gen In-home Applications

  12-05-2022 10:25
  
  Guidelines enable Wi-Fi service providers to expand into home-based applications using motion detection, gesture recognition and biometric measurement for healthcare, security, smart homes and more London, UK, May 12th, 2022: Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the publication of “Wi-Fi Sensing — Deployment Guidelines”, the latest in a series of deployment guidelines designed to help the industry, WBA members and a wide range of enterprises in different vertical i
  
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• Telia teaches 2000 employees how to use AWS

  12-05-2022 09:56
  
  Swedish operator group Telia has brought in Amazon Web Services to upskill 10% of its workforce to use cloud technologies over the next 3 years.
  Apparently it’s the largest in-house AWS training program in the Nordic region to date, which is one for the mantlepiece.
  Citing a growing need for expertise in cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, the training programme is apparently designed to accelerate the firm’s ‘cloud first strategy&rsq
  
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• BT signs sports deal with Warner Bros Discovery

  12-05-2022 08:54
  New venture will broadcast English Premier League and Uefa Champions League football matches
  
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• Chelesea’s unusual Moravian burial ground

  12-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not easy to find in Chelsea as it’s hidden behind high Tudor brick walls is an unusual burial ground – for the Moravian Church, and unlike most Christian burial grounds, here the graves are all the same with small stone plaques laid out in regimental order.The Moravian Church is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century, which saw movements against several practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church. The
  
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• Smart places: Why getting the governance right is vital to project success

  12-05-2022 02:00
  Without clear, specific objectives, it can be difficult to get buy-in from the people who need to implement the solutions and those it impacts, making it harder to demonstrate the value or benefits of solutions, risking wasting money on the wrong things. Often 'smart' solutions are aimed at improving existing services like waste management or public parking; however, without the necessary support of those responsible for delivering these services, it can be hard to persuade them to conside
  
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• Capturing new opportunities in the subsea market

  12-05-2022 02:00
  EXA Infrastructure, previously the infrastructure unit of GTT Communications, was acquired by I Squared Capital in September 2021, bringing with it all of GTT’s inter-route terrestrial footprint in Europe, three Hibernia transatlantic cables, and its network in the northeast US and Canada. Now, less than one year on, large-scale investment is beginning to be poured into the business, with numerous projects underway in Europe and beyond.“We’re seven months into EXA now and
  
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