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• National and London rail strikes announced by the RMT union

  07-06-2022 21:22 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The largest strike to affect the national railway network in decades will take place later this month, as 40,000 RMT union members walk out on strike.
  This is the largest rail strike since July 1989.
  The union says that it will hold 24-hour strikes on Tuesday 21st, Thursday 23rd and Saturday 25th June.
  It’s also likely that there will be widespread disruption on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, as trains and staff will be in the wrong locations the day after the strike.
  In effect, it’s
  
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• EU confirms USB-C charging ports will be mandatory from 2024

  07-06-2022 18:14
  
  The EU Council, Commission and Parliament have all agreed that from April 2024, when it comes to charging ports for mobile devices and laptops, there can be only one.
  The proposed law has been wafting around the EU corridors of power for a while now, and the latest agreement by the three bodies seems to have cemented it. Going under the awkward title ‘Radio Equipment Directive’, the law essentially enforces one common standard charger type – USB-C – for all electronics in
  
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• Funding needed to restore the Metropolitan No.1 steam train

  07-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The restoration of the last surviving Metropolitian line E-Class steam locomotive is underway, and the owners are fundraising to complete the work in time for its 125th birthday.
  (c) Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
  Built in 1898, Metropolitan No.1 is the sole surviving example of the E-Class 0-4-4 designed for use on the Baker Street to Verney Junction service. The locomotive hauled the last steam-hauled LT passenger train in 1961, and survived in use until 1965, when it narrowly survived being s
  
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• The UK’s first Stolperstein or “stumbling stone” has been installed in Westminster

  07-06-2022 14:37 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A small brass plaque has been laid in the pavement in Golden Square, Soho to commemorate the life of former resident Ada van Dantzig, who died in Auschwitz.
  Stolperstein – Photo (c) Westminster Council
  Ms van Dantzig was a Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator working at the National Gallery who came to London in the 1930s and worked and resided in Golden Square in Soho, but later re-joined her family in the Netherlands. In early 1943, she was arrested in France along with her mother, father,
  
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• Apple WWDC 2022: a new MacBook Air and lots of software goodies

  07-06-2022 14:32
  
  At its worldwide developer conference, US gadget giant Apple unveiled a new lappy and refreshes of the operating systems that run its armada of high-end gadgets, including smart home and smart car updates.
  Apple dropped an array of updates at WWDC 2022, it’s annual ostensibly developer conference which doubles as a launch extravaganza. Ranging from the interesting to the incremental, here is a roundup of what was announced.
  iOS 16
  The iPhone operating system has always been about evolution
  
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• Comcast to do the heavy lifting for Deutsche Telekom’s TV service

  07-06-2022 13:13
  
  Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV service has opted to migrate its back-end platform to Comcast’s Cloud TV Suite (CTS).
  Deployment is already underway in Austria and will take place in other DT markets throughout 2022. The German incumbent said adopting CTS will harmonise the technology and services it uses for TV, enabling it to deliver a consistent experience across both devices and countries.
  More specifically, it means Magenta TV will use the same cloud-based, centralised management
  
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• Spain offers tower companies €150 million for 5G

  07-06-2022 12:58
  
  The Spanish government plans to award €150 million in funding to passive infrastructure companies willing to support the rollout of 5G in areas with poor mobile data coverage.
  The state on Monday laid out the conditions for the scheme, which forms part of its post-Covid national recovery plan, known in English as the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. It hopes to attract network players to the contest: we’re talking the likes of Cellnex and American Tower, here, while Spani
  
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• One Million UK Mobile Numbers Activated by x-Mobility

  07-06-2022 11:47
  
  Three UK’s largest CPaaS enabler continues growth London, 7th June, 2022: x-Mobility (www.x-mobility.com), a leading provider to the CPaaS sector and the pioneers of the digital MVNO, has today announced that it has supplied its one millionth UK mobile number. Thanks to its long partnership with Three UK, x-Mobility is one of the leading providers of UK mobile numbers to the CPaaS sector. All the numbers x-Mobility provides are powered by Three UK and are...Source: RealWire
  
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• A new “satnav” for cyclists launched

  07-06-2022 11:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An upgraded route finder device that uses live traffic information from other cyclists to plot routes has been launched by London based Beeline. It’s a combination of a smartphone app to plot a journey, and a “satnav” that’s fitted to the bike that then guides cyclists along the route as an in-car device would do for motorists.
  (c) Beeline
  The added feature though is that to reduce delays for cyclists, Beeline gathers data from Beeline rides, as well as bringing together
  
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• TfL’s revenues recovering from the pandemic

  07-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  TfL’s revenues over the past financial year nearly doubled as the economy recovered from the pandemic, but still fell far short of where it needs to be as passenger numbers are still below pre-pandemic levels.
  The cost of keeping TfL services running (pdf) during the 2021/22 financial year came to £7,771 million, but thanks to the pandemic, revenues came in at just £4,313 million, while that’s nearly double the previous year, it’s still sharply down on pre-pandemic
  
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• Orange Poland signs 10-year network expansion deal with Nokia

  07-06-2022 02:00
  Nokia today announced that it has won a ten-year extension to its contract with Orange Polska (Orange). The move will support Orange’s strategy of delivering best-in-class services to its customers.Under the contract, Nokia will upgrade all existing networks including equipment supporting phasing out Orange&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Helios Towers & Rakiza to purchase Omantel towers

  07-06-2022 02:00
  Today, London-based independent tower company Helios Towers has announced that it has found a partner with which it intends to purchase Omantel’s mobile tower business.Helios Towers is now set to purchase a 70% stake in the Omantel-owned holding company, while Rakiza Telecommunication Infrastructure, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oman Infrastructure Fund…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ex-Openreach MD to become G.Network CEO

  07-06-2022 02:00
  Last month, G.Network announced that its CEO and co-founder, Sasho Veselinski, would be stepping down from the business for “personal reasons” with immediate effect. The company’s COO and fellow co-founder, David Sangster, has since been acting as interim CEO while the company searched for a full…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• e& partners with DataRobot to launch AIaaS

  07-06-2022 02:00
  Earlier this year, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based operator Etisalat underwent a major rebrand, renaming itself ‘e&’ and restructuring numerous divisions in an attempt to transform itself from a traditional telco to a world-leading tech company. One such new division was ‘e& enterprise’, aiming to focus on providing digital technologies and expertise to businesses around the world and assisting them with their digital transformation…read more on Tota
  
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