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• South London’s Petts Wood station to get step-free access

  25-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A scheme costing nearly £11 million to make Petts Wood railway station fully accessible for the first time is about to get underway.
  At the moment, the station splits the town in half, so the station has a public footbridge across the railway which also allows entry to the station from either side. However, both sides need stairs up to the footbridge, and naturally down to the two island platforms.
  Aerial view of Petts Wood Station (c) Google
  To enable step-free access, four lifts are bein
  
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• Exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Heath Robinson’s birth

  25-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Heath Robinson, a man so famous for the fantastical drawings that he ended up in the dictionary.Born in Hornsey, North London, on 31st May 1872 to a family of artists, and started his career illustrating for books, but it was his comic satires during WW1 that started his famous line of ever-increasingly bizarre contraptions.
  So popular were his drawings, that the term “Heath Robinson contraption” gained dictionary recognit
  
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• Speedcast Adds 13 Gbps of New Capacity to Its Unified Global Platform at Record-Setting Pace to Meet Customer Growth Surge

  25-05-2022 15:22
  
  Strategic network expansion supporting European and Alaskan cruise sectors and global energy market demand Speedcast made substantial investments in network management technologies, with future-ready, software-defined services that helped make the capacity acceleration possible Major increase to the company’s total network capacity from 2020 pre-pandemic levels was completed at rapid pace over a five-week period Houston, Texas — May 25, 2022 — Speedcast announced today that in
  
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• Free entry to the London Transport Museum over the Jubilee weekend

  25-05-2022 15:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Adults can visit the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden for free each afternoon over the Platinum Jubilee Weekend (Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 June), if you book a ticket in advance.In total, 70 tickets per afternoon are being released that give free entry between 2pm and 5pm, and need to be booked from here. Normally, adult tickets to visit London Transport Museum cost £21 and offer free return entry for a whole year – and kids go free.
  In addition, over the Platinum Jubilee Weeken
  
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• TIM and Open Fiber pick up €3.4 billion in broadband funding

  25-05-2022 13:57
  
  Italian telcos TIM and Open Fiber have won government funding worth a total of €3.4 billion to roll out high-speed fixed broadband to uneconomic areas of the country.
  Italy’s Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition (MITD), headed up by telecoms veteran Vittorio Colao, has announced the results of its Italia 1 Giga tender, through which it offered  close to €3.7 billion in funding to telcos willing to tackle connectivity in tricky places.
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• Verizon security report finds record rise in ransomware

  25-05-2022 13:52
  
  US telco Verizon warned this week that corporate ransomware attacks are increasing at an “alarming” rate.
  In its 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – which analyses security incidents to identify among other things the type of attack, their origin, success rate, and attack vectors – Verizon Business found that the number of ransomware attacks on organisations has grown 13 percent year-on-year. That’s more than the last five years combined. Ransomwa
  
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• Catch a London Overground train to Battersea Park station

  25-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Of all the stations that a London Overground fan would want to visit, Battersea Park is probably the hardest, but one Sunday in June is your chance.
  Battersea Park does not appear on the main London Overground maps, as trains only call there a handful of times at to keep the line active. At the moment, the normal timetable sees a London Overground train start/stop at Battersea Park only at the very start and end of the day. On Monday to Saturdays, one London Overground train leaves Battersea Par
  
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• Amdocs to acquire Mycom OSI for $188 million

  25-05-2022 12:44
  
  Israeli telecoms software firm Amdocs has agreed to buy UK based Mycom OSI, which specialises in cloud-native assurance applications for 5G networks and wireline operator networks.
  Absorbing Mycom OSI will beef up Amdocs’ roster of services to include Mycom’s service assurance suite, which includes performance management, fault management and service quality management, and artificial intelligence and machine learning tools designed to detect and predict anomalies and enable ‘i
  
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• Simplifying on-board Wi-Fi deployment with a new compact active rail antenna from HUBER+SUHNER and ELTEC Elektronik

  25-05-2022 12:05
  
  A new active in-carriage antenna launched today by HUBER+SUHNER and ELTEC Elektronik is designed to simplify the deployment of Wi-Fi on trains and help rail operators achieve higher data throughput for a better on-board Wi-Fi experience. Featuring an integrated highly compact Wi-Fi access point from ELTEC, the HUBER+SUHNER SENCITY® Rail ACTIVE In-Carriage antenna can provide multiple access points along the carriage ceiling. This builds on previous systems which have one fixed access point t
  
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• OpenRoaming Surpasses 1 Million Global Hotspots as WBA Launches OpenRoaming Release 3

  25-05-2022 10:08
  
  Consumers & Businesses Benefitting From Automatic, Secure, Private & Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Across Offices, University Campuses, Arenas, Airports, Hospitals and More London, UK, May 25th, 2022: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced that the number of OpenRoaming™ hotspots has passed 1 million worldwide. This milestone is the latest example of WBA OpenRoaming’s success in providing Wi-Fi users seamless and automatic network access, enterprise-grade security and &m
  
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• SCF Small Cell Award Winners for 2022 Announced

  25-05-2022 09:30
  
  Industry gathers to celebrate best small cell deployments and technology innovations of the year London, UK 25th May 2022 – Small Cell Forum (SCF) has announced the winners of the SCF Small Cell Awards 2022, recognizing outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the global small cell industry. The awards were presented at a ceremony during Small Cells World Summit in London last night. Open to the whole industry and judged independently of SCF by a...Source: RealWire
  
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• A Queer Britain museum gallery has opened in King’s Cross

  25-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new museum opened earlier this month, in King’s Cross devoted to all things alphabetical — the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum.
  It’s actually called Queer Britain, which the museum says in an explanatory sign is because Q is “the most inclusive letter in the evolving LGBTQ+ umbrella”. It’s a bit of a concern when the first thing you do in a museum is to justify your name. That’s usually the sort of thing that very old buildings named after inconvenient
  
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• Malaysian telcos continue to clash with govt over 5G

  25-05-2022 02:00
  When it comes to 5G, Malaysia’s strategic approach has been somewhat unorthodox, with the government setting up a national wholesale 5G network operator, DNB, back in 2021.This approach, the government claimed, would allow for a more efficient rollout of 5G infrastructure across the country and ensure fairer prices for the country’s citizens. The nation’s telcos, however, disagreed, saying that the wholesale prices proposed by DNB were too high and that it would be more effect
  
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• Lithuania begins long-awaited 5G spectrum auction

  25-05-2022 02:00
  While most of Europe is now in the process of rolling out 5G networks, the Baltic countries have been notably slow to adopt the new technology, having faced various delays to the auction processes, from the onset of the coronavirus pandemic to internal squabbles surrounding licencing obligations.  Latvia was the first of the three to successfully award spectrum back in January this year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European fibre networks to grow by over 50% in next five years

  25-05-2022 02:00
  Following its annual conference in Vienna, the FTTH Council Europe has announced that Europe now has 200 million homes able to receive fibre-to-the-home/building (FTTH/B) services, with this number expected to increase by over 50% in the next five years. Based on the latest data from Idate for the council…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Amdocs buys Mycom OSI in $188m deal

  25-05-2022 02:00
  This week, US software specialist Amdocs has announced the acquisition of UK-based Mycom OSI for $188 million, aiming to expand its service offerings with Mycom’s 5G assurance, automation, and analytics capabilities. Mycom OSI ’s service assurance suite comprises performance management…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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