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• Ravenous VMO2 customers used 39 billion gigabytes of data in a year

  01-06-2022 18:16
  
  One year to the day since the merger which created it, UK telco group Virgin Media O2 reveals what the 39 billion gigabytes of data its customers have gobbled up was used on.
  The 39 billion gigabytes in question encompasses the group’s fixed and mobile networks, and the firm has released some other stats related to what it calls an ‘eyewatering’ amount of network data, voice traffic and TV usage it has handled over the past year.
  116 billion minutes of mobile voice traffic was
  
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• An outstanding Jubilee exhibition of tiaras and paintings at Sotheby’s

  01-06-2022 17:48 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A room full of glowing jewels has opened its doors for the Jubilee showing off that most regal of headwear, the tiara. The display ranges from the 18th-century to the modern-day, with a range from private collections of jewels owned by the nobility to jewels worn by royalty.Here’s the tiara designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria, and there’s the one worn by Princess Diana on the day she got married. The exhibition aims to show the evolution in designs over the two centuries tha
  
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• West End shows to perform for free in Trafalgar Square

  01-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A host of West End shows will put up free performances in Trafalgar Square later next month as part of the West End Live event to show off Theatreland’s offerings.
  West End LIVE remains free and unticketed as in previous years and takes place on the following dates:Saturday 25th June: 11am – 5pm
  Sunday 26th June: 12 midday – 5pmNo tickets are required and entry is on a first come, first served basis.
  (c) West End Live
  List of shows appearing at West End LIVE 2022
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• Telia offloads 49% of its towers in Sweden

  01-06-2022 14:23
  
  Swedish operator group Telia has completed the sale of a minority stake in its Swedish tower business to investors Brookfield and Alecta.
  The deal was announced in January 2022, and now that all regulatory approvals have apparently been received, on closing Telia will get SEK 5.5 billion for the 49% stake in its towers in Sweden.
  Telia sold 49% of its Norwegian and Finnish tower business in December 2021 to Brookfield and Alecta, and all the tower assets now fall under Telia Towers AB which is 5
  
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• Circuit board style tube maps

  01-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fancy a tube map with a difference? How about one made from a circuit board – with lights that show live train movements?
  I can hear the geeky squeals of delight already. A clever fusion of modern computer API data to provide the tube movements and traditional circuit board design come together in the TrainTrackr.
  They showed off their first product, a full tube map a couple of years ago, but have recently expanded the range to individual lines.
  (c) Traintrackr
  Currently, they have the Cen
  
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• UK regulator launches probe into BT and Warner Bros merger

  01-06-2022 12:49
  
  The UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating the proposed joint venture between BT and Warner Bros Discovery, which would to merge their sports content into a new entity.
  The deal was announced last month, and would involve BT Sport, which includes Premier League football coverage, and Warner Bros Discovery owned Eurosport UK being brought under a single identity at some undisclosed point in the future.
  In terms of how much the deal is worth, the initial announcement stated
  
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• Visit one of London’s last aristocratic mansions – Spencer House

  01-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next to Green Park is a palace and a long row of grand houses, and one of those grand houses is open to the public. It’s not that well known it seems, but Spencer House is everything you could want from a visit to a grand mansion, but one that’s right in the middle of London.
  You’ll have a big building, a grand staircase, richly decorated rooms and enough paintings to fill an art gallery, but there’s a twist, much of what you see is not from this house.
  To explain, we lea
  
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• Etisalat and Telecom Egypt team up for new submarine cable

  01-06-2022 02:00
  The MoU was signed in Riyadh by Eng. Salman Al-Badran, CEO of Mobily, and Adel Hamed, Managing Director, and CEO of Telecom Egypt.The agreement explores various new ways to connect international capacity to Europe in the west, through Telecom Egypt's network, and to the GCC in the east, through Mobily's network, which is made possible by expanding the two companies' networks and connecting them to neighboring countries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Court orders IBM to pay $1.6bn to BMC Software over AT&T account

  01-06-2022 02:00
  IBM has lost a major court battle against rival BMC Software this week, with a US court ordering the technology specialist to pay $1.6 billion to BMC in reparations. The case relates to the two companies’ relationship with US telecoms giant AT&T, with BMC accusing IBM of stealing the operator as a client, breaking various agreements in the process.Back in 2007, BMC struck a deal with AT&amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Allianz and CDPQ inch closer to stake in Telefonica’s rural fibre network

  01-06-2022 02:00
  In recent years, numerous European telcos have been making moves to reduce their debt and generate a positive cash flow in the wake of intense competition, typically through the monetisation of high value infrastructure.  Indeed, in October last year, Telefonica said it was considering the sale of a minority stake in its Spanish fibre network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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