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• Brookfield and Cellnex reportedly eying up DT’s towers for €20 billion

  30-05-2022 18:08
  
  Brookfield Asset Management and Cellnex Telecom are in talks about going in on a joint bid for German telco Deutsche Telekom’s tower unit for €20 billion, sources have told Bloomberg.
  Bloomberg reports that the sources, who don’t want to be identified, said any deal could value the towers business at something in the region of €20 billion. Brookfield could also swoop for the towers on its own, while other private equity and infrastructure funds – such as Stonepeak and
  
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• Paddington Station’s new Elizabeth to Bakerloo line tunnel

  30-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although the majority of people arriving at Paddington’s deep underground Elizabeth line station will take the escalators up and out, a small number will take a set of escalators that go down even deeper underground.The original Crossrail Act in 2008 authorised the construction of a shallow tunnel under Paddington mainline station to link the Elizabeth and Bakerloo lines, but in 2014, this was radically changed to a deep level tunnel, requiring a special authority to deviate from the appro
  
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• 5G and how to secure the transportation revolution

  30-05-2022 14:45
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece James Cater, EMEA VP for Spirent Communications, takes a look at the implications of 5G for the transport and logistics sectors.
  5G and connected technologies are going to bring about a revolution in transportation.
  While automated transportation has been theoretically possible for a long time – mobile technology has not been capable of living up to the pr
  
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• TIM signs MoU to merge fibre network with Open Fiber

  30-05-2022 14:35
  
  Italian telco TIM and Open Fiber – as well as investors CDP, Macquarie and KKR –  have signed a document designed to bring the two fibre networks under one roof.
  CDP, KKR, Macquarie, Open Fiber and TIM have all signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ designed to enable integrating the fibre networks of TIM and Open Fiber. TIM says this will kick start a process aimed at creating ‘a single, non-vertically integrated telecommunications network operator, controlled
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G, telco M&A and Nokia

  30-05-2022 14:31
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · 5G, telco M&A and Nokia
  
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• Telecom Italia agrees to merger of fixed network assets with Open Fiber

  30-05-2022 13:46
  Move paves way for single broadband champion in Italy
  
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• Telecom Italia agrees to merge fixed network assets with Open Fiber

  30-05-2022 13:46
  Move paves way for single broadband champion in Italy
  
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• Telecom Italia agrees to discuss merger of fixed network assets with Open Fiber

  30-05-2022 13:46
  Move paves way for single broadband champion in Italy
  
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• Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of Leighton House

  30-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few minutes from Kensington High Street is a remarkable artist’s home, and while it’s undergoing restoration works, there are tours of the building. Leighton House, was custom built in the 1860s for the artist, Sir Frederic Leighton with a huge studio space and rooms for entertaining. It’s a mansion based on an Italian palazzo, austere and plain on the outside, but a festival of decoration inside.
  If you’ve ever seen the original video to The Stranglers Golden Brown, th
  
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• Ericsson to hire 250 boffins to work on 5G cloud research

  30-05-2022 12:48
  
  Swedish kit vendor will hire 250 cloud native software developers, engineers and architects to its R&D facility in Ireland to work on 5G projects.
  Ericsson intends to bring in the software developers, data scientists, architects, cloud and mobile communication engineers over the next three years. Ericsson says its Irish operation has grown 25% over the past five years and currently employs 1200 people at its Athlone Research and Development Centre, where the new staff would be based.
  The new
  
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• Rakuten: ‘This is the most important industry and it shouldn’t be left to chance’

  30-05-2022 11:02
  
  INTERVIEW: We caught up with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO at Rakuten Symphony, who explained the dangers of ‘doing the new thing the old way’, his thoughts on OpenRAN, political pressure on telecoms, and more.
  There are two parts to Rakuten. Rakuten Mobile is the new kid on the block operator in Japan which uses a software based approach to telecoms infrastructure, a business model which is more or less unique. Though Dish in the US and 1&1 in Germany are now making moves towards that
  
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• Pints of IPA beer for 6p today only

  30-05-2022 09:51 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Greene King pubs are offering pints of India Pale Ale (IPA) for just sixpence today only as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The choice of 6p a pint has been chosen as, according to Greene King, that was the average cost of a pint in 1952 when the Queen was crowned.
  Anyone visiting a Greene King pub or Flaming Grill site today will be able to buy a pint of Greene King’s IPA by using the password “1952“.
  Andrew Gallagher, marketing director at Greene King Local Pubs, s
  
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• London’s Alleys: Hyde Park Gardens Mews, W2

  30-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is one a classic of the posh mews style prevalent in parts of London as former cheap stables near Hyde Park were turned into expensive homes.The area was still all fields to the north of Hyde Park in 1800, but was earmarked for grand property development. Rather than rows of houses and stables, an ornate crescent of buildings was planned – a circus similar to those at Bath and the Regents Park. This was part of the Tyburnia estate development in the 1820s to a design by Samuel Pepys C
  
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• UK ISPs form Rebel Alliance to combat cost-of-living crisis

  30-05-2022 02:00
  Five UK ISPS – Gigabit Networks, Triangle Networks, Air Broadband, Highnet, and Trunk Networks – have announced the formation of a new consortium, dubbed the Rebel Alliance, seeking to ease the financial burden of purchasing broadband services for customers in the UK. The group appears to have been formed, at least in part, in reaction to the recent price hikes from major ISPs in the UK earlier this year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Startup Stories: customer satisfaction starts before the first connection is made

  30-05-2022 02:00
  Tell us about your start up
  We are a Street Works consultancy, delivering a management, coordination and planning package to our clients. We are based in Southampton, but work on contracts all over the UK. We have a growing reputation of going the extra mile to meet targets for our clients, adding that personal touch along the way. We work tirelessly to build and maintain relationships with all parties, from Local/ Highway Authorities, Works Promotor, traffic management…read more on Tota
  
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• Singtel deploys mmWave 5G at semiconductor fab in Singapore

  30-05-2022 02:00
  Singtel today announced that it has been appointed by Micron Technology to deploy its 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) solutions with localized edge core at the semiconductor manufacturer’s 3D NAND flash memory fabrication plant in Singapore.The customised solutions will be deployed at Micron’s cleanroom to support the development of a variety of digitally enabled and enhanced applications – from automated visual inspections of individual chips to augmented reality (AR) for operati
  
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• Nokia taps Microsoft for Industry 4.0 platform

  30-05-2022 02:00
  Through the integration, Nokia MXIE and private wireless solution customers have seamless access to the full Azure ecosystem offering on MXIE.Aimed to support industries including automotive, manufacturing, energy, logistics and government, the powerful combination will enable use cases by allowing customers to run applications in the traditional cloud, as well as directly on their premises…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Brookfield and Cellnex eyeing Deutsche Telekom’s towers

  30-05-2022 02:00
  Deutsche Telekom has been looking to spin off its German tower business, Deutsche Funkturm, since at least December 2021, following a broader trend across the telecoms industry to sell off passive infrastructure in exchange for quick cash.At the time, Deutsche Telekom said it would be open to selling up to a 51% stake in the business, but would also be open to approaches for smaller pieces of the business…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Over a million trips on the Elizabeth line in its first week

  30-05-2022 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The central section of the Elizabeth line that opened to the public last Tuesday has already clocked up over a million passenger journeys. And not all of them by train geeks and people coming to see this huge new thing that’s been built deep under London.
  Including the whole line, which stretches from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, more than two million journeys have been made now that the TfL Rail services have also joined the Elizabeth line bran
  
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• ST Engineering iDirect partners with NiAT to deliver critical VSAT connectivity to ACTIVATE Brunei

  30-05-2022 01:00
  
  Its iDirect Evolution® Platform will deliver maximum flexibility and highest performance for delivery of essential communication services to unserved regions of the country Brunei Darussalam and Herndon, Va., May 30, 2022 – ST Engineering iDirect and Network Integrity Assurance Technologies (NiAT) will answer the heightened demand for satellite-based broadband communication services across Brunei as a result of the global pandemic. Like the rest of the world, Brunei experienced a COVID
  
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