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• Harry Kane exhibition opening at the Museum of London

  13-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition about the life of the England football team captain, Harry Kane will be opening at the Museum of London next week.
  The exhibition will include rarely seen personal items, family photos and objects to document Harry’s career so far: from his first club, to winning golden boot awards and being named England captain.
  Kane grew up in Chingford, East London and lived just 15 minutes away from the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in north London. He began his football journey at the age o
  
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• OneWeb and Telefónica pledge to hook up remote areas

  13-05-2022 17:10
  
  Low Earth Orbit satellite firm OneWeb and operator Telefónica have teamed up to bring network connectivity to rural and remote parts of Europe and Latin America.
  OneWeb and Telefónica Global Solutions – a subsidiary of Telefónica that handles international wholesale, global roaming, multinationals and US businesses – have got together and signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding to improve connectivity services across Europe and Latin America.’
  Which see
  
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• TfL to expand contactless payments outside London

  13-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over 230 mainline rail stations around London are to be brought into Transport for London’s contactless payments system over the next couple of years, under an agreement with the Department for Transport (DfT).
  Following an initial consultation back in 2019, a year ago, the DfT decided that around 233 stations would be upgraded to accept contactless payments to allow customers to travel to/from London using a single tap in/tap out with their bank card, and put out a tender to suppliers. Th
  
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• WBBA Martin Creaner: Broadband Generational Roadmap Initiative

  13-05-2022 15:06
  
  Recently, Informa, a well-known UK analysis and research institute, jointly held the “F5G Evolution Summit 2022” in Shenzhen with the participation of several operators, ETSI, WBBA and Huawei.
  WBBA Director General Martin Creaner, a guest speaker on the day, disclosed that a number of industry leading companies are cooperating to address the next generation of common challenges facing the future broadband industry and that 5 initiatives have been launched by the WBBA in order tackle
  
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• Google sprinkles AI on everything at I/O

  13-05-2022 14:07
  
  As well the new gadgets that were paraded on the catwalk of Google I/O yesterday there were a myriad of other updates to Google’s ludicrously wide product set, usually involving AI enhancements.
  The most headline grabbing things to come out of Google’s announcement extravaganza I/O yesterday was its roster of new gadgets – including the Google Pixel Watch – all of which seem to signal Google’s intentions on becoming more  of a player in the devices market and c
  
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• Rajant Named a Winner of Security Today’s 2022 “Govies”

  13-05-2022 13:17
  
  Rajant’s Peregrine LTE BreadCrumb® Awarded Gold-Level for Intelligent Communications Malvern, PA – May 13, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, is a Security Today (1105 Media magazine and securitytoday.com) 2022 winner in “The Govies Government Security Awards” competition. The Govies honor outstanding government security products in a variety of categories. Rajant’s Peregrine LTE B
  
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• Victorian peepshow of the Thames Tunnel up for sale

  13-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A popular toy of Victorian times was the peepshow, and a paper peepshow of the Thame Tunnel is up for sale next week.
  (c) Tennants auction house
  In the years leading up to the completion of the tunnel, a number of firms sold concertina paper peepshows that gave the viewer a three-dimensional view into what the tunnel would look like when it was completed. As a marvel of engineering, as the world’s first tunnel under a river, it attracted a lot of attention during its construction, and thes
  
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• Deutsche Telekom bullish after a solid Q1

  13-05-2022 12:51
  
  German telecoms group DT tweaked up its guidance after posting better than expected numbers for the first quarter of the year.
  Revenues were up six percent to €28 billion, which was slightly above consensus expectations. As a consequence DT upgraded its guidance for the full year, although not by much. It now reckons it post EBITDA AL of more than 36.6 billion euros in 2022, up from the previous guidance of 36.5 billion euros. “This was a strong start to the new year,” said CFO
  
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• Deutsche Telekom raises forecasts as Sprint acquisition pays off in US

  13-05-2022 11:26
  Group increases subscribers and net profit quadruples on back of T-Mobile Netherlands sale
  
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• Nokia’s new SaaS offering targets five-fold increase in energy savings

  13-05-2022 11:04
  
  Finnish kit maker Nokia has launched a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) designed to help telcos reduce their environmental impact.
  It is called AVA (analytics, virtualisation and automation) for Energy, and it uses AI to constantly monitor network traffic patterns in multi-vendor environments and make real-time adjustments to power consumption. Nokia claims that compared to non-AI systems that perform scheduled resource shutdowns, AVA for Energy can deliver a two-to-five-fold increase in energy
  
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• VMO2 and Three UK call on Amdocs for customer service help

  13-05-2022 10:55
  
  Virgin Media O2 and Three UK are both working with Amdocs on projects designed to improve their service offerings and provide a better experience for customers.
  And given the state of play for both in the UK telecoms market at present, it’s probably not a bad idea.
  Virgin Media O2 this week revealed that it is losing broadband customers – 1,000 of them in Q1, to be exact – at a time at which it is finally making a concerted push towards rolling out fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP)
  
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• Elizabeth line gets final authorisation to open

  13-05-2022 09:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Office of Rail and Road, the railway regulator, has formally authorised the Elizabeth line (nee Crossrail) to open on Tuesday 24th May. When TfL announced the opening date, they did add a small caveat that it was subject to final regulatory approvals, which have now been granted.
  Regulations set out that no new or upgraded infrastructure or rolling stock can be put into use on or as part of Britain’s rail system unless ORR has provided an ‘interoperability authorisation for the p
  
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• Southern Cross, with Pioneer Consulting, Announces Provisional Acceptance of the NEXT Subsea System

  13-05-2022 02:00
  Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fiber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, along with Southern Cross, announces that the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable project has been granted Provisional Acceptance. The culmination of the submarine segments of the cable system marks the nearing completion of a project six years in the making that will be the largest and lowest-latency route connecting Australia…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Guidelines for residential Wi-Fi sensing published by the WBA

  13-05-2022 02:00
  Wi-Fi networks in the home are set to become more interactive after the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) published new deployment guidelines on Wi-Fi Sensing which will enable new applications and revenue streams in markets such as home security…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Enterprises need faster 5G upload speeds

  13-05-2022 02:00
  Research conducted by CELLSMART, a division of French managed services provider SmartCIC, has found that 5G upload speeds are in many cases insufficient to support data transfer for enterprise applications…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Connectivity in the APAC region set to be boosted by the SEA-H2X subsea system

  13-05-2022 02:00
  The new 5,000km SEA-H2X system will connect Hong Kong, Hainan, the Philippines, Thailand, East Malaysia, and Singapore. There will also be options to extend onwards to Vietnam…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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