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• BT makes some promises to business customers in new ‘charter’

  18-05-2022 19:36
  
  BT has unveiled a new ‘charter’ for business customers, which is a grand way of saying it has published a series of intentions regarding research investment and commitments to roll out new services in the future.
  As part of this charter, it promises to invest almost £100 million over the next three years in its ‘Division X’ unit. Though the name suggests the unit might dabble in growing mutant super soldiers in a sinister looking lab, the money will go towards devel
  
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• Polo in the Park returns next month

  18-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Polo in the Park returns to Fulham next month, with several days of the fast action horsey sport. While Polo has a certain reputation as a sport for rich people, it’s really an exciting and very high-speed sport.
  Your correspondent spent many summers watching Polo at Guards Polo Club in Windsor, haven rather fallen for it when he was a member of the St Johns’ Ambulance, and we provided necessary first aid cover on match days.
  (c) Polo in the Park
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• Two tube stations to strike over Jubilee weekend

  18-05-2022 17:22 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Staff at two tube stations, Euston and Green Park will go on strike on Friday 3rd June 2022, citing allegations of bullying behaviour by management. According to the RMT, its members at both stations have suffered years of intimidation, bullying and unjustified sackings of colleagues by a manager who has created a toxic atmosphere in the workplace.
  Strike action is set to last all day on Friday 3rd June, which coincides with the Queen’s Jubilee.
  RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: &ldqu
  
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• Snails on stones — art in Aldgate

  18-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you head to Aldgate at the moment, you might come across a stone wall with some curious creatures on it. Resembling a crumbling curved section of wall or a dry-stone shelter on a mountain-top, the tactile work features hybrid creatures, from giant snail shells with human limbs to cross-legged snakes.It’s a work of art by Jocelyn McGregor, and as the inaugural Aldgate Square Commission, will be here until next May.Unlike most forms of public art, this has not been placed on a plinth with
  
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• Three partners with Currys to offer business services in store

  18-05-2022 13:53
  
  UK MNO Three has partnered with retail group Currys to offer its portfolio of business services through the firm’s chain of stores.
  Three’s business services will be offered through Currys partner distribution network, its direct sales teams and across its 300 odd stores, which apparently includes 50 dedicated Business Hubs. This is the first time the operator has partnered with a retail chain for its business products, it will have you know.
  Business customers will be able to buy ai
  
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• Bansal leaves as part of major Ericsson restructure

  18-05-2022 13:12
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has created two new divisions in order to capitalise on cloud-native networking and the adoption of private mobile networks.
  It is part of a broader corporate re-jig that also aims to simplify the vendor’s operations. It also heralds the departure of Ericsson veteran and current head of Europe and Latin America Arun Bansal.
  The first of the new divisions is called Business Area Cloud Software and Services, and is the result of a merger between Ericsson’s s
  
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• BT uses ‘excited atoms’ to supercharge 5G

  18-05-2022 13:10
  
  Captain’s Log, star date 18/05/22: UK telecoms group BT is trialling cutting edge quantum receiver technology, which it thinks could open up future 5G and IoT applications.
  BT is trialling a new hyper-sensitive quantum antennas using ‘excited atomic states’. It might sound like leftover Star Trek dialogue, but atomic radio frequency technology is apparently very much of the present and thanks to it having around 100 times the sensitivity of traditional receivers, could boost th
  
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• Telcos customer service still not good enough in UK and US

  18-05-2022 13:09
  
  Telecoms operators on both sides of the Atlantic still have work to do when it comes to customer service and satisfaction.
  That conclusion, drawn from a new Ofcom report in the UK and the latest iteration of the wireless segment of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), will come as little to surprise to anyone following this industry. Nonetheless, the results of these types of survey are always worth a closer look.
  The UK regulator on Wednesday published its latest annual report on cu
  
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• Large military flypast over London for the Platinum Jubilee

  18-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the highlights of the Platinum Jubilee weekend will be a large flypast over central London on Thursday 2nd June, featuring aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.
  The flypast will start in the vicinity of The Wash, The North Sea and Southwold, Suffolk and Southend then route from the hold via Swaffham and Thetford and Colchester towards London to overfly Buckingham Palace.
  The flypast over Buckingham Palace will be at 1pm, following the Trooping the Colour ceremony
  
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• The Elizabeth line could be carbon negative in a decade

  18-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although a lot of CO2 emitting concrete was used in building the Elizabeth line, it could be carbon negative in as little as a decade, according to Crossrail legacy estimates.
  Elizabeth line train being tested in a huge freezer – Dec 2016
  Crossrail has estimated that the CO2 emissions from the construction phase of the Crossrail project are in the order of 1.7 million tonnes. To put that into context, the UK’s average carbon footprint is about 10 tonnes CO2 per person per year &ndash
  
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• Universal access akin to the electrification of rural America

  18-05-2022 02:00
  The next phase of the US "Internet for All" initiative has kicked off with governors and other eligible leaders being invited to submit a letter of intent as a step towards unlocking $45 billion to give every U.S. resident access to high…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three key steps to advancing 5G

  18-05-2022 02:00
  Thailand’s True Corporation first turned on its 5G network over two years ago, back in March 2020, and since then the company has gone from strength to strength, leveraging the new technology to provide novel and improved services in both the B2C and B2B spheres. Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2022, True Corporation’s Head of 5G Working Group, Piroon Paireepairit, said that there were three main factors for the company’s success in the B2C space: coverage, new experien
  
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• The importance of submarine cable channel planning

  18-05-2022 02:00
  Different submarine cable capacity consumption modelsWhen bandwidth demands were comparatively low (compared to today) in the pre-ICP days, sub-lambda services were commonly sold carried by 5Gb/s to 10Gbs wavelengths. As bandwidth demands surged with the growth of the Internet, wavelengths became the currency of network services where end-users purchased entire wavelengths typically operating at 10Gb/s or 100Gb/s rates, still commonly used today. For end-users with massive capacity demands
  
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• Deutsche Telekom’s joint venture GlasfaserPlus secures fibre funding

  18-05-2022 02:00
  The funding round, the first for the joint venture, is part of Deutsche Telekom’s broader strategy of primarily funding the joint venture&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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