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• Dippy the dinosaur returns to the Natural History Museum

  27-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After a tour around the country to eight cities, Dippy the dinosaur has returned to its original home in the Natural History Museum. Not just to its home in the museum, but also in the very room where the skeleton cast was first shown when it arrived in 1905.Dippy is a 150-million year old composite Diplodocus skeleton discovered in 1898 and bought by the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. He wanted more people to be able to see the dinosaur than would be possib
  
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• A Giant Leap for 5G – An Executive Briefing (for everyone!)

  27-05-2022 14:38
  
  A short eBook, outlining the promise of 5G, balanced against the complexity of changes that are happening across the globe in RAN wireless infrastructure. It’s aimed at everyone working in the industry to give a simple overview of the steps that can be taken to achieve a giant leap for 5G. In other words, trouble-free service activation to support the all-important new vertical markets. Allowing your network to be competitive and gain market share.The only way you can confidently enable ne
  
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• Save on tickets to Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man

  27-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Based on the well-loved Bizet opera Carmen, this new staging of The Car Man has been adapted and reimagined specifically to best utilise the Royal Albert Hall. Dancers will be performing throughout the auditorium amongst the stellar new stage designs.Sir Matthew Bourne and his renowned dance company New Adventures are bringing their multiple award-winning show to the Royal Albert Hall for 14 performances only.
  The new production will boast an expanded company of 65 dancers and musicians as well
  
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• UK finally decides to probe Newport Wafer sale

  27-05-2022 12:56
  
  After dragging its feet for nearly a year, the UK government has launched a national security investigation into China-backed Nexperia’s acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab.
  “We welcome overseas investment, but it must not threaten Britain’s national security,” tweeted Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Wednesday.Today, I called-in the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia, a subsidiary of a Chinese company.
  There will now be a full assessment under the new National
  
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• Telefonica celebrates portable 5G base stations

  27-05-2022 12:49
  
  Telefonica has spent a few euros on the development of portable 5G base stations in Germany, with events like Munich’s Oktoberfest in mind.
  The telco has 60 mobile 5G base stations at its disposal, it announced this week. These have a part to play in emergency response connectivity, but hopefully more frequently at social events, where large numbers of people leave mobile networks creaking under the demand for data.
  Indeed, Germany’s telcos have long used the Oktoberfest beer festiva
  
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• China Telecom and ZTE unveil ‘self-adaptive’ network

  27-05-2022 12:43
  
  Operator China Telecom and Chinese vendor ZTE have put their best brains together and created a self-adaptive spatiotemporal cognitive network, which is easy for them to say.
  The self-adaptive spatiotemporal cognitive network is based on ZTE’s Radio Composer, which is designed to help maintain connectivity in ‘high-capacity scenarios’ – which presumably means where lots of people are trying to get on the network at once in a small area, like a football stadium.The spatiot
  
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• BT partners with MTN to offer business services across Africa

  27-05-2022 12:23
  
  UK operator group BT has embarked on a rare foreign adventure by partnering with the B2B arm of pan-African operator group MTN.
  The move is being positioned as a ‘strategic alliance’, no less, and seems to represent a major new international initiative for BT, which will offer stuff like managed connectivity, cloud security and voice services to MTN Business customers. While it’s being positioned as an MTN group thing, it seems the South African arm is taking the lead. Maybe it
  
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• Selective tube station closures announced for the Jubilee weekend

  27-05-2022 11:37 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Central London is going to be very busy over the Platinum Jubilee weekend, and a number of tube stations are going to be closing to manage the crowds. This is pretty routine for railway stations where they sometimes close a station or entrance that might be overwhelmed by crowds and direct people to another nearby station with the capacity to safely handle the crowds.
  TfL has already been warning that services and central London roads may be busier than usual, particularly on the Saturday night
  
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• The Connected Britain Awards are back!

  27-05-2022 02:00
  The Connected Britain Awards have become a regular and hotly contested element of the annual Connected Britain event, which returns to London on the 20-21 September 2022.This year’s awards promise to be the best yet with fourteen categories…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT partners with MTN for business service offerings

  27-05-2022 02:00
  A new strategic partnership announced this week will see BT’s business services become available to MTN’s enterprise customers.The first service to become available will be a security operations centre (SOC) service, featuring a cloud-based platform for security incident and event management…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• A1 Bulgaria buys local ICT firm STEMO

  27-05-2022 02:00
  A1 Telekom Austria Group said on Thursday that it has acquired Bulgarian ICT company STEMO.  STEMO was founded in 1991 and offers software services and other ICT management and support services to the international market.&nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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