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• The Great British Beer Festival returns in August

  23-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Great British Beer Festival will be returning to Olympia London from 2-6 August 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
  The Great British Beer Festival, now in its 45th year, will once again feature beerd from across the British Isles. Craft brewers will join stalwarts of the brewing industry in a collaborative effort to celebrate and showcase the very best beer Britain has to offer. This year visitors will also be sample American cask beers, thanks to a cask beer exchange set
  
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• BT presents a straightforward use case for 5G at live sports

  23-05-2022 18:02
  
  UK telco group BT used the Gallagher Premiership Rugby match between Saracens v Northampton Saints as a showcase for an understated but practical sounding bit of private 5G.
  BT Media & Broadcast (the media focussed bit of BT) installed its Vena network and hooked up cameras in the stadium to a private 5G network, and these cameras’ feeds then formed part of the live BT Sport coverage of the match.
  What’s the presence of 5G bringing to the table? BT says that broadcast cameras usu
  
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• Elizabeth line to add over 300 new advertising sites to London

  23-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the Elizabeth line opens on Tuesday morning, alongside the huge new central London stations, what will also be noticed is a new look to advertising inside the stations. No more posters plastered on walls, and in with large digital display screens, and screens that can be tied together to show adverts running the length of platforms and escalators.
  With the adverts switched off. (c) TfL
  Some may decry the need for advertising in the stations, but it’s a commercial necessity these days,
  
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• 5G Slicing-based Cloud Phone Verified — Shanghai Mobile and Huawei Deliver Optimal Experience

  23-05-2022 15:34
  
  [Shanghai, May 20, 2022] On this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, China Mobile Shanghai (Shanghai Mobile) and Huawei released the result of their verification of China Mobile’s 5G network slicing-based cloud phones. The result shows that with 5G slices, China Mobile’s cloud phones can deliver optimal experience in multiple respects like bandwidth, latency, and jitter.The 5G slicing-based cloud phone can benefit various application scenarios. For busin
  
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• London tube station staff to go on strike

  23-05-2022 14:33 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The RMT union has called a tube strike for two weeks time, and says that some 4,000 station staff will walk out.
  Around 4,000 staff will walk out on Monday 6th June from midnight for 24 hours, meaning that many tube stations will have to close all day.
  The union says that the strike is because TfL is looking to cut around 600 jobs from the stations. However, TfL is not currently planning to make people redundant but has been looking at whether people should be replaced if they leave.
  The plans,
  
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• Three UK claims population coverage crown from EE

  23-05-2022 13:27
  
  UK mobile operator Three reckons its 5G network now covers 54% of the population, which is a bit better than EE.
  There’s not a lot more substance to the announcement than that, but the timing of it is intriguing. Not only does it come just a couple of weeks after rival EE did a spot of coverage chest-beating, but it also coincides with the day Three is reintroducing roaming charges. It’s almost as if the Three comms team were charged with manufacturing a distraction.
  “We are re
  
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• Italy falters again on 5G funding

  23-05-2022 13:24
  
  The Italian government has opened a tender for more than €500 million worth of funding for the provision of 5G connectivity to areas without high-speed mobile coverage.
  That seems like a positive step, until you consider that this tender is essentially a re-issue after a previous attempt to allocate cash for 5G in problem areas failed to draw any interest. This time around the state has changed the parameters, including reducing the total sum available to €567 million from the €97
  
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• Unusual tanker ship passing through Tower Bridge

  23-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tower Bridge usually opens for cruise ships and sailing ships, but in a couple of weeks time, a tanker ship will be visiting London and passing through Tower Bridge.
  (c) Furetank
  The chemical tanker, M/T FureVinga is owned by Swedish shipowner Furetank, and is the seventh in a series of ten vessels that are being designed with a special focus on minimal impact on the environment. The vessels have a battery hybrid solution and several innovative features that reduce fuel and energy consumption re
  
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• Qualcomm makes flagship Snapdragon chip a bit better

  23-05-2022 12:47
  
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has further complicated its new Snapdragon naming scheme by throwing a ‘plus’ into the equation.
  It has only been six months since Qualcomm unveiled the fruit of its product marketing department’s labours. The new cunning plan involved ditching the old three-number Snapdragon naming scheme in favour of a single number – 8  – followed by ‘Gen 1’. We inferred the next one would be ‘Gen 2’ and so on, in referen
  
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• Ofcom wants to let Vodafone and O2 refarm 4G spectrum for 5G

  23-05-2022 12:30
  
  UK telco watchdog Ofcom wants to alter some of O2’s and Vodafone’s spectrum licences so they can reuse frequencies they already have for 5G.
  The regulator late last week launched a consultation in response to requests from the two operators to make spectrum they hold in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, and 2.6 GHz bands technology neutral. Freeing up more spectrum would help Voda and O2 close the gap on EE and Three, which have successively laid claim to having the country’s bi
  
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• Ericsson and DT collaborate over ‘sustainable’ 5G radio

  23-05-2022 12:11
  
  German telco group Deutsche Telekom and Swedish kit vendor Ericsson have built a solar and wind energy powered 5G site, which they say can be self sufficient given the right conditions.
  The site, which is in the Bavarian municipality of Dittenheim, has been part-powered by energy from solar panels since the joint initiative began more than a year ago and currently has 12 square meters of solar modules. Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have now added a wind turbine into the mix, which is apparently
  
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• Iskratel introduces energy-efficiency labelling, calls for industry-wide adoption

  23-05-2022 11:12
  
  The initiative is the “missing piece of the jigsaw” to unlocking a greener Europe and reducing operators’ carbon footprints Vienna, Austria, 23 May 2022 – Committed to open and transparent communication about the energy consumption of its equipment, Iskratel has started using energy-efficiency labels for all of its new broadband products. According to Iskratel, the labels will improve credibility and comparability, and enable operators to make informed decisions when sele
  
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• yoummday brings experienced service and digital expert onto its Advisory Board: Carola Wahl supports the company in its international expansion

  23-05-2022 10:09
  
  Munich, 23 May 2022 - The Munich-based technology company yoummday, a platform for 360-degree customer services, wants to grow further and position itself more closely to the capital market. On 1 May 2022, the first member was recruited for the newly founded Advisory Board: Carola Wahl, an experienced supervisory board member with many years of management experience in telecommunications and information technology, the insurance industry and retail, will support yoummday in its further expansion
  
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• London’s Alleys: Crossrail Path, SE18

  23-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not one of my usual dives into the history of an ancient alley as this is a brand new alley that only came into existence thanks to the arrival of the Elizabeth line station at Woolwich.
  When the Crossrail project was originally authorised, it didn’t include a station at Woolwich, but following a lot of political pressure, and a deal from the housing developer, Berkeley Homes to build the station box, Woolwich gained a new railway station. Part of the quid-pro-quo was that the housing deve
  
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• T-Mobile and Nokia team up for private 5G networks

  23-05-2022 02:00
  Today, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced they will work together to develop 5G Private Mobile Networks and Hybrid Mobile Networks. Customers now have a flexible solution that delivers real-world results and next-level performance.Until T-Mobile's launch of 5G Advanced Network Solutions today – solutions outside of private 5G networks were a challenge. As America's 5G leader, with the nation's largest and fastest 5G network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• OneWeb partners with Gogo Business Aviation for in-flight broadband

  23-05-2022 02:00
  Gogo's exclusive antenna assembly, designed in conjunction with Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), will be small enough for installation on the fuselage of business aircraft from super light jets and large turboprops to ultralong-range jets, and will operate on OneWeb's high-speed, low-latency broadband global network.To access the network, the new service will require just one Gogo AVANCE LRU inside the aircraft, which means existing AVANCE customers will only have to install the ESA antenn
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson tap wind and solar for 5G sites

  23-05-2022 02:00
  When it comes to sustainability, for telcos the largest challenge is reducing the energy consumption of their ever-growing networks. Many of the largest operators around the world, including the likes of Orange, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom, have already committed to reducing their carbon emissions to net-zero by 2040 – a target that will be very difficult to achieve without rethinking the way in which they view network energy consumption…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson combine wind and solar for 5G site

  23-05-2022 02:00
  When it comes to sustainability, for telcos the largest challenge is reducing the energy consumption of their ever-growing networks. Many of the largest operators around the world, including the likes of Orange, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom, have already committed to reducing their carbon emissions to net-zero by 2040 – a target that will be very difficult to achieve without rethinking the way in which they view network energy consumption…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Canada follows Five Eyes allies with Huawei ban

  23-05-2022 02:00
  An announcement by the Canadian government has banned Huawei and ZTE equipment from Canadian 4G and 5G networks.The Canadian government said that the ban was on the grounds of national security concerns, in particular that Huawei and ZTE are legally obliged to comply with Chinese government intelligence agencies, potentially handing over sensitive information…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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