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• Broadcom swoops for VMware in $61 billion deal

  26-05-2022 18:24
  
  Chip and component manufacturer Broadcom has agreed to pay a whopping $61 billion a cash and stock transaction for cloud services firm VMware, and will also assume $8 billion of its net debt.
  Following the transaction the firm intends to rebrand the Broadcom Software Group division as VMware, incorporating its existing infrastructure and security software portfolio into VMware’s platform. It’s being pitched as a move that will provide a larger presence and a wider set of software ser
  
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• BT/Altice: Drahi stakebuilding is worthy of M&A watchdog’s scrutiny

  26-05-2022 17:31
  Leveraged private investment vehicles do not look like natural owners of national telecoms infrastructure businesses
  
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• Piccadilly line trains to call at South Kensington tube station again

  26-05-2022 16:44 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Piccadilly line trains will start to call at South Kensington tube station again next week – from Wednesday 1st June following work to replace all five escalators in the station.
  (c) TfL
  Trains on the Piccadilly line stopped calling at South Kensington station in February 2021 for 15 months of escalator works which had to be done all at the same time and required a considerable amount of rebuilding works underneath the old escalators to fit the new ones into place. As well as being more en
  
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• Atmospheric photos show a lost world of British industry

  26-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you were the sort of person to read trade magazines about heavy industry in the 1950s-80s, the chances are that the photos inside were taken by one man, Maurice Broomfield.Broomfield broke the mould on how photographs of modern industry should be composed, away from bland photos of empty factories and close-ups of machines, and in with dramatic artistic photos, often including the people who did the hard work in the factories. Men in front of hot furnaces, women inspecting aircraft engine fan
  
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• G.hn recognized as backbone for 5G and IoT home automation infrastructure at IEEE 5G++ Summit

  26-05-2022 13:58
  
  German developer Teleconnect shows how a home gateway can be used to securely isolate various independent functions Dresden, Germany, 26 May 2022: The utilization of G.hn as a backbone for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) services showed significant industry momentum at the IEEE 5G Summit++, in Dresden, with Teleconnect, the German developer of hardware and software for telecommunications and data transmission systems, showcasing how a Home Gateway can be used to provide different independent...S
  
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• Spain splashes out €12 billion on chip making

  26-05-2022 13:16
  
  The Spanish government has approved plans to spend more than €12 billion of public money on the manufacture of semiconductors.
  The Council of Ministers green lighted what it terms PERTE Chip, or the Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation of Microelectronics and Semiconductors. The project is designed to strengthen R&D and design in the microprocessors space, as well as covering the construction of manufacturing facilities in Spain and incentives for chip manufact
  
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• Nokia and MiR to put on a 5G powered robot fleet parade

  26-05-2022 13:10
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia and robot manufacturer Mobile Industrial Robots will showcase autonomous mobile robots at the Stuttgart based logistics event LogiMat.
  The firms claim it will be the first demonstration of private 5G wireless running AMR’s at an international logistics event – which has a few caveats baked in but we’ll take their word for it.
  The demonstration will describe how 5G can be used for managing robots in factories and warehouse settings. MiR will plug some of
  
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• Transport for London seeking a partner for its property developments

  26-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has started a search for a new joint venture partner to create a portfolio of three new commercial office developments at Bank, Paddington and Southwark.
  Paddington development – (c) TfL / Grimshaw-Architects
  TfL has traditionally tended towards leasing the sites above its stations to property developers who then buy the rights to build what they want, within the planning and structural constraints. TfL is now moving to a model where it retains a stake in the pro
  
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• Altice’s BT investment faces national security probe

  26-05-2022 12:56
  
  The UK government is feeling twitchy about billionaire Patrick Drahi’s 18 percent stake in operator group BT.
  Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Thursday launched a full national security assessment of Drahi-backed Altice UK’s move last December to increase its holding in BT to 18 percent from 12.1  percent. Under UK regulations, Drahi was prevented from upping his stake again for a further six months. With that standstill period expiring in mid-June, fresh takeover speculatio
  
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• DT, Inmarsat and Tampnet use oil rigs to improve inflight connectivity

  26-05-2022 12:49
  
  The European Aviation Network (EAN) inflight broadband solution uses terrestrial base stations, of which there are few in the middle of the sea.
  So, counter-intuitive though it might seem at first, it makes sense to stick macro cells on oil rigs to help resolve all manner of maritime and aviation connectivity challenges. Inmarsat has been a major advocate of the EAN for some time and, in this case, teamed up with Deutsche Telekom and offshore connectivity specialist Tampnet to extend mobile cove
  
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• ‘Quality of Experience’ a Major Focus for ETSI F5G Group

  26-05-2022 09:50
  Having released its first specification for F5G Network Architecture, ETSI’s 5th Generation Fixed Network group (ISG F5G) is now focusing on “quality of experience” for users, according to group Chairman Luca Pesando.
  In an interview with Light Reading about the group’s accomplishments and future plans, Pesando said ISG F5G has accomplished what it set out to do in the first two years of its mandate by releasing its first specification, ETSI GS F5G 004 and deliv
  
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• UK government to probe Altice’s BT stake

  26-05-2022 08:44
  Business secretary uses new ‘call-in’ powers to examine national security implications
  
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• Science Museum’s cancer exhibition offers a hopeful view of the future

  26-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As a disease, cancer is something that affects around half of the population and yet it’s also relatively rare, and the Science Museum’s newest exhibition seeks to explain this conundrum.
  Filled with a wide range of objects from the medical science to the human stories, it’s a large exhibition that’s both aiming to explain but also to reassure.
  To answer the oddity about seemingly affecting a lot of people while being rare is because the average human contains around 37 t
  
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• Peru pulls plug on tender to run the country’s national fibre backbone

  26-05-2022 02:00
  Back in March, Pronatel announced that it would launch a tender process for the operation and maintenance of Peru’s national fibre backbone, the National Fiber Optic Dorsal Network (RDNFO), following the cancellation of the contract with its previous operator, Mexico’s Azteca Communications. The RDNFO spans roughly 13,600km throughout the country, linking 180 of Peru’s provincial capitals and connecting with 21 regional broadband projects…read more on TotalTele.com
  
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• Patrick Drahi’s stake in BT scrutinised over national security

  26-05-2022 02:00
  Today, BT has announced that it has received notification from the UK government that billionaire Patrick Drahi’s newly acquired 18% stake in the company is set to be examined due to national security concerns. This comes as a direct result of a decision by business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, who is exercising new powers granted to him by the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act 2021…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DTAC and True absence leaves merger detractors unchallenged at regulatory meeting

  26-05-2022 02:00
  According to reports, both True and DTAC were absent from a regulatory hearing today, despite saying yesterday that they would present their plans to ensure the market remained competitive after their prospective merger.  The meeting was a public hearing held by the NBTC focussing on consumer protection, presided over by telecoms commissioner Prawit Leesatapornwongsa, who was quick to emphasise that no decision had yet been reached regarding permitting the merger. True and DTAC,
  
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