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• Photos of The Queen covered in pink and yellow paint

  06-06-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An open-air gallery in St James is showing off loads of photos of The Queen with blobs of yellow and pink splashed over them.
  Sometimes the faces of other people are obscured, other times, lines are drawn around and over The Queen.
  It’s art, by MTArt Artist, Jennifer Abessira.According to the blurb… “The pink wave across the full installation represents the mighty ocean’s restlessness. It also represents faith, hope, and joy even in the deepest of troubles. This element
  
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• Truphone reportedly to be sold for £1

  06-06-2022 18:22
  
  UK eSim firm Truphone, which is partly owned by Roman Abramovich, is reportedly being sold for £1 to two investors following sanctions against Russian business people.
  The firm announced back in April that it had appointed FRP Advisory to ‘support the company in an immediate review of its strategic options’ following international sanctions placed on Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who they say has been a ‘minority investor since 2013.’
  The Financial Times rep
  
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• Musk set to bail on Twitter deal

  06-06-2022 17:35
  
  In a new SEC filing, Elon Musk claims Twitter’s refusal to provide him with the user data he wants provides grounds for termination of the merger agreement.
  The sticking point between Musk and Twitter remains the company’s assessment of the quality of its users. Twitter reckons less than 5% of them are spam or fake but Musk remains unconvinced and wants to do his own assessment. “Mr. Musk has made it clear that he does not believe the company’s lax testing methodologies a
  
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• British Museum shows off the first coin portrait of The Queen

  06-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As the Head of State, the Queen’s head appears on our currency, and a new exhibition looks at how that head was designed for the first coins of the second Elizabethan age.The designer of the first coins was Mary Gillick, and when her appointment was announced, the choice of a female artist in her seventies garnered great interest from the public. Gillick was thrust into the limelight, with photos of her posing with her design printed in newspapers all over the nation and abroad.
  Although h
  
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• T-Mobile US launches voice over 5G

  06-06-2022 14:41
  
  Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and Qualcomm all chipped in for the launch of TMUS’s voice over 5G service, which is now available in areas of Portland and Salt Lake City, as long as you have a Samsung Galaxy S21 5G.
  The service is expected to be available in more areas in the next year over T-Mobile’s standalone 5G network, and be accessible on more smartphones phones other than that one Samsung Galaxy.
  What’s the point of voice calls over 5G? ‘Slightly faster call set-up times
  
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• Telecoms fraud: how to manage and get ahead in 2022

  06-06-2022 14:30
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Kelvin Chaffer, COO at Lifecycle Software, explores the issue of telecoms fraud and what can be done about it.
  As fraudulent activity in telecoms continues to plague the industry with no signs of slowing down, it’s no surprise that fraudsters are becoming increasingly skilled in exploiting network operators and customers.
  Though not a new phenomenon,
  
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• NTT, Fujitsu, NEC and Nokia put their heads together for 6G trials

  06-06-2022 14:08
  
  An Avengers-style mash up of telecoms firms are collaborating on experimental trials of new communications technologies expected to be underpinned by 6G.
  NTT and NTT DoCoMo appear to be leading the trials, which are apparently designed to verify new mobile technologies, including those using frequencies in the millimetre and sub-terahertz (above 6 GHz) bands, and AI-based wireless transmission methods. The general idea is to accelerate the global standardization and commercialization of 6G befor
  
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• The tribute to the Euston Arch has appeared at Euston station

  06-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The lingering spectre of the Euston Arch hangs heavy over Euston Station, but now there’s a tribute to the arch installed where it once stood. That happens to be on the ramp leading down to platforms 8-11, which is a reminder of why it had to go in the first place, it was right in the middle of where the enlarged Euston station needed to be built.
  Using funding from the Railway Heritage Trust, Network Rail installed a couple of print replicas of the arch’s massive columns have been p
  
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• CityFibre raises a further £4.9 billion to fully finance its full fibre ambitions

  06-06-2022 12:35
  
  UK fibre infrastructure player CityFibre has managed to borrow almost 5 billion quid, which means its full fibre rollout is now fully financed.
  The plan is to connect 8m homes, 800k businesses, 400k public sector sites and 250k 5G access points to full fibre and kind of rollout doesn’t come cheap. When CityFibre boasted of raising £1.5 billion earlier this year there was little sign that it would need to triple that amount to be sure of getting the job done, but so it seems.
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• London’s Alleys: Hanover Place, WC2

  06-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an alley in Covent Garden that seems to have slipped through history barely leaving a mark, but it’s also an alley that’s had many names over its long life.It first shows up on William Morgan’s map of 1682 as Queen’s Head Alley. It’s likely, in line with common tradition at the time, that the alley was named after a local pub, as there was a pub called the Crown in the alley, later known as the Poet’s Head, after John Taylor, the water poet who managed
  
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• Learning to love 5G, and beyond | FT Tech

  06-06-2022 05:59
  
  Business uptake 5G has been slow, and the question of how to monetise its applications still looms large
  
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• Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr strike six deals worth $912.5m

  06-06-2022 02:00
  Today, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr have announced a number of new partnerships cumulatively worth EGP17 billion ($912.5 million).The agreements largely focus on allowing Etisalat to offer customers commercial services using Telecom Egypt’s network, with the largest deal, valued at around $670 million…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Oak Hill Capital investing $300m in New York fibre player Greenlight Networks

  06-06-2022 02:00
  Greenlight Networks ("Greenlight"), a leading fiber-to-the home provider in upstate New York, announced today that New York-based middle-market private equity firm Oak Hill Capital ("Oak Hill") has become its majority investor. The transaction announced in March of this year provides the financial backing to accelerate Greenlight's growth in building and connecting fiber…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DOCOMO and NTT announce raft of partnerships for 6G trials

  06-06-2022 02:00
  Today, NTT and NTT DOCOMO have announced their plans to collaborate on the development of 6G technology with numerous partners, planning trials with Fujitsu, NEC, and Nokia.While 6G technology is largely undefined, with most industry bodies aiming for commercialisation around 2030, it is already clear that the technology will be required to offer faster speeds, lower latencies, and a larger capacity than its predecessor wireless technology, 5G. To achieve this, higher frequencies than thos
  
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• CityFibre secure almost £5bn in debt financing

  06-06-2022 02:00
  CityFibre celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in their own special way at the end of last week, announcing that they had raised an additional £4.9 billion to fund their FTTP rollout across the nation. The move is one of the largest single financings for full fibre deployment in Europe, with CityFibre suggesting that the funds will fully enable their deployment target of 8 million homes by 2025, as well as their increasing their contribution towards the UK government&rsq
  
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