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• Maximizing Broadband’s Global Potential

  09-06-2022 17:28
  
  For broadband service providers, fast digital access speeds have long been a defining feature. Today, both consumers and industries are focusing on broadband quality of service (QoS), reliability and consistency to ensure the next stage of low latency, end-to-end services. To further these goals, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) promotes a global perspective on current and future uses of broadband technology across industry verticals (i.e., manufacturing, healthcare, automotive, etc.) as w
  
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• First test train to use a new signalling system on the Northern City Line

  09-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The testing of the new digital signalling on the Northern City Line has commenced with the running of the first Great Northern train between Finsbury Park and Moorgate under the new system.
  The testing is carried out with a Great Northern Class 717 train and marks an important milestone in a project that will ultimately see traditional signals removed from the tracks along this route. Digital signalling intends to reduce delays and hence offer a more reliable service.
  The first test train ran in
  
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• VMO2 pitches gigabit broadband to SoHo sector

  09-06-2022 13:09
  
  Virgin Media O2 is going after data-hungry small businesses with a new broadband plan that tops out at 1 Gbps.
  It is being offered as part of a refreshed line-up of SoHo (small office, home office) services called Voom Fibre. It comes in four flavours starting at £33 per month for 400 Mbps download/40 Mbps upload. If that’s not zippy enough, then customers can fork out a bit extra for either 600 Mbps, 800 Mbps or the range-topping, £60-per-month 1 Gbps, each of which offers a s
  
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• London’s Public Art: Allies, W1

  09-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of London’s more famous works of public art can be found on New Bond Street in central London, and shows Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt chatting together on a wooden bench.It also shows a lot of shine on the bronze as people regularly squeeze between the two men to have their photo taken. It’s been here since 1995, and I am writing about it today instead of ages ago as the other week was the first time I have ever walked past and it didn’t have someone sitting i
  
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• Telefónica jostles for position in the metaverse

  09-06-2022 12:46
  
  Telefónica Chairman José María Álvarez-Pallete says ‘the metaverse will be the most profound change the Internet has undergone’ – but is it time the telecoms sector got specific as to what its place is in all this?
  During an event called South Summit Telefónica Chairman José María Álvarez-Pallete took part in a panel called ‘Accelerated innovation; a values driven change’ in which he espoused the virtues of inn
  
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• Twitter reportedly set to make concession to Musk

  09-06-2022 12:43
  
  US social media giant Twitter is reportedly going to finally meet would-be acquirer Elon Musk’s demands for more data, but it might not be quite what he has in mind.
  We know this because the Washington Post has had one of its Deep Throats whispering in its ear again. This Twitter insider told the WaPo the social media company plans to comply with Musk’s demands for access to a massive trove of data referred to at a ‘firehose’. The move seems to be in direct response to Mu
  
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• ATOM to spend big on Myanmar 5G launch

  09-06-2022 12:39
  
  ATOM, the operator formerly known as Telenor, has unveiled plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Myanmar in the coming years, one of its goals being to launch the market’s first 5G service.
  ATOM, or Advancing Telecommunications of Myanmar, to give it its full title, officially launched in Myanmar on Wednesday. The company came into being as a result of Telenor’s decision to pull out of the market amidst security issues stemming from last year’s military coup. It br
  
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• CWCS Acquires Stripe 21 to add Telecoms Service to its Managed Hosting Portfolio

  09-06-2022 12:37
  
  Acquisition demonstrates CWCS’s ambition and expanded market standing Nottingham, 9th June, 2022: Supreme Bay Holdings Ltd, the parent Company of CWCS Managed Hosting, has acquired Stripe 21 Group Ltd, one of the UK's leading telecoms specialists. The acquisition means that CWCS (www.cwcs.co.uk) will be able to add the integrated, future-proof, cloud communications technologies offered by Stripe 21 (www.stripe21.com) to its portfolio of managed hosting services. CWCS’s customers will
  
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• ‘OpenRoaming Live’ Lights Up High Performance, Secure Wi-Fi Hotspots In Chicago For WBA Wireless Global Congress

  09-06-2022 10:56
  
  Convenient, Fast, Enterprise Grade Secure Public Wi-Fi Showcased in Chicago Chicago, USA, June 9 2022: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced that it will provide Wireless Global Congress attendees and visitors with free, seamless access to OpenRoaming™ Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the conference, held June 6-9 at the Hilton Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. Visitors to the conference area of the hotel can use WBA OpenRoaming to get and stay securely connected throughout the 4...S
  
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• TEOCO adds FWA planning capabilities to ASSET

  09-06-2022 10:00
  
  FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 9 June 2022 – TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide, has today announced the launch of ASSET Q2 2022, the latest release of its leading radio network planning tool. ASSET Q2 2022 contains advanced features that will enable operators to plan and launch 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services accurately and efficiently. ASSET is deployed by CSPs worldwide and...Sour
  
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• A preview of Boston Manor’s impressive restoration

  09-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1622/3, when all around here was fields, a grand manor house was built in West London, and 400 years later, it’s about to reopen to the public after years of restoration work. This is Boston Manor, a Jacobean manor house that has had, what can be fairly described as a varied history in its long life, with many famous names being involved in its early history.
  Boston Manor house
  A manor estate has existed since probably the 1170s, and once owned by a priory, was part of King Henry VIII&r
  
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• Telefónica Tech and Cisco strengthen collaboration around converged networks and security

  09-06-2022 02:00
  Telefónica Tech, Telefónica's digital business unit, and Cisco® have announced a strategic alliance and an innovative global managed service, which includes SD-WAN, security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures.This new service, designed to address the needs of both large companies and SMBs, will consist of an integrated connectivity and security offer to connect enterprises across data centres…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sampath the disrupter aims to shake things up at Verizon

  09-06-2022 02:00
  The empty seat at Verizon Business left by Tami Erwin who announced her departure last month will be filled from 1 July by the promotion of Chief Revenue Officer Sowmyanarayan Sampath to CEO …read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liberty Global looks to Vodafone to fill senior leadership role

  09-06-2022 02:00
  Previously CNO for Germany at Vodafone, Madalina Suceveanu joined Liberty Global in April and has now been announced as Managing Director…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Five million commemorative Pride 50p coins going into general circulation

  09-06-2022 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Check your coins later this year, as the Royal Mint has decided that the previously announced 50p Pride coin will be going into general circulation rather than just being something for collectors to own.
  Five million coins will also enter general circulation later this year, making the landmark design accessible to all.
  The 50p design, revealed by The Royal Mint last month, features Pride in London’s values of Protest, Visibility, Unity, and Equality in rainbows on the reverse (tails) of t
  
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