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• Tickets Alert: Star Trek stage-set appearing in Piccadilly Circus

  10-06-2022 20:36 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a couple of weeks later this month, replica stage sets from Halo and Star Trek: Discovery will be in Piccadilly Circus.
  It’s a PR launch for the Paramount+ TV channel (yes, another one) so they are doing a load of publicity events in the latter weeks of June and July to drum up some subscribers. What they are calling the “Paramount Plus Experience” will give you the chance to “immerse yourselves in your favourite films and shows through pop-up sets, memorabilia, stunt
  
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• Leyton tube station upgrade gets additional funding

  10-06-2022 17:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to upgrade Leyton tube station in East London have received a boost after the Mayor of London approved additional funding to complete design work on the plans for the station.
  Currently, Leyton station is frankly, a fairly basic shed above tracks type of tube station in need of refurbishment, but is also overcrowded during the rush hours. The overcrowding can result in queues in the morning building up outside the station, where the pavement is quite narrow. In the evening, crowds can buil
  
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• Pay a visit to the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret

  10-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden away above an old church next to London Bridge station is one of the earliest surviving medical operating theatres, and it’s also open to the public.Opened 200 years ago inside the roof of the old church as an operating theatre for women, it was literally a theatre, with rows of raised stands around for people to watch the surgery, which in an age before anaesthetic, had to be carried out as fast as possible.
  A women’s medical ward stood next to the operating theatre, and once
  
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• Philippines’ Globe Group selects MYCOM OSI’s Experience Assurance capability to support its digital transformation strategy

  10-06-2022 14:22
  LONDON, UK – Jun 10th, 2022 – MYCOM OSI, a leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to some of the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), has been selected by Globe Telecom, the Philippines’ top mobile network operator and digital solutions platform, to introduce its Experience Assurance capability. Experience Assurance covers Service Quality Management, and Automated Service Quality and Impact Analyser Solutions, ena
  
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• Half-price tickets to see Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap

  10-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Famously the world’s longest consistently running play – pandemic excepted – Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has now been running for 68 years, and is one of those plays that everyone is presumed to see once in their lives. The murder-mystery storyline is set in “the present”, which presumably means England as it was around the time when the play came out in 1952, including the postwar continuation of World War II rationing.The play is based on a short story b
  
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• Ofcom wants new spectrum licences for drones

  10-06-2022 12:48
  
  UK comms regulator Ofcom is proposing a new license for commercial drone operators following trials that include drone delivered post by the Royal Mail.
  Ofcom currently allows drones to use airwaves designated for model aircraft or wi-fi without a licence, but this won’t cut the mustard for commercial drones doing longer and more complex trips, it seems, so new spectrum licences that allow operators to use mobile and satellite networks are being proposed.
  The comms regulator has backed rec
  
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• Ericsson confirms US investigation into its Iraq history

  10-06-2022 12:35
  
  It comes as no great surprise to learn US authorities have opened a formal investigation into its historical activities in Iraq, but its shares still took another hit on the news.
  It was fair to assume the consequences of Ericsson admitting corrupt behaviour by its representatives in Iraq was already priced into its shares but this latest development seems to have spooked investors further. The company issued a short announcement, confirming the US Securities and Exchange Commission has started
  
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• Fibre builders keep building, but customers can’t pay

  10-06-2022 11:42
  
  Consumers in the UK are struggling to pay for Internet access, according to a new study shared by London fibre builder Community Fibre.
  Given the economic pressures in the UK at present, that conclusion is hardly surprising. And if you were feeling cynical you could argue that the data is a thinly-veiled excuse for the operator to promote its own lower-cost fibre broadband plans.
  But there is an important point in here too: if pressure on consumers’ wallets is causing them to rethink broad
  
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• Millicom to plough $700m into Central America networks

  10-06-2022 11:36
  
  Latin American operator Millicom will spend $700 million over the next two years to maintain and expand its fixed and mobile networks in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
  The three markets, together known as the Northern Triangle, are the subject of a US-led initiative to stimulate economic development as a means of curbing migration. It was launched as a call to action by vice president Kamala Harris last May and has since morphed into an independent organisation called the Partnership for
  
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• Telefónica Tech and Cisco buddy up on converged network and security services

  10-06-2022 11:13
  
  Spanish Telco group Telefónica and US networking firm Cisco will together launch a new portfolio of managed services based on Cisco SD-WAN, Security, and SASE solutions.
  The deal between the two firms is described as a ‘strategic alliance’ no less, and they will collaborate on an integrated connectivity and security offer for enterprise customers. From Cisco’s side, it will be providing Cisco SD-WAN solutions, along with the Cisco Meraki cloud-managed platform and wirele
  
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• Telefonica strikes deal with German fibre association to connect 5G sites

  10-06-2022 02:00
  Germany has been rolling out its new 5G networks for a number of years now. The German telecoms regulator, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), announced at the end of last year that coverage had reached the half-way point, with 53% coverage, but there is clearly still much work to be done and many new 5G sites to be deployed. Backhaul solutions must be arranged for all of these new sites, delivering the mobile data from the sites back to the network core…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Startup Stories: Boxing clever

  10-06-2022 02:00
  Tell us about your startup
  Jangala is a not-for-profit startup that produces self-developed, accessible and portable Wi-Fi systems for use by communities in need of humanitarian assistance or broader development support. To date, we have provided internet access to over 50,000 people in refugee camps, schools and clinics across Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Europe. Our mission is to enable societies everywhere to meet the challenges of today and prepare for the uncertainties of tomorr
  
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• ITU’s Partner2Connect project sees $18.5 billion in pledges to connect the unconnected

  10-06-2022 02:00
  This week, the ITU has announced the major success of its Partner2Connect programme, finding major support from both the public and private sectors, which pledged over $18.5 billion to improve internet access for the global population. According to the ITU, around 2.9 billion people worldwide remain unconnected to the internet…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Enterprise opportunities in the 5G era

  10-06-2022 02:00
  The 5G era of change for telcosThe telecoms industry, it is undeniable that 5G is one of the most exciting and influential technologies we have seen in recent years, bringing with it not only greatly improved data speeds and capacity, but also a host of new use cases never seen before. But for society at large, including in the enterprise sector, 5G may have something of an identity crisis, often being conflated with the numerous alternative and complimentary connectivity technologies on t
  
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• Enterprise data opportunities in the 5G era

  10-06-2022 02:00
  The 5G era of change for telcosThe telecoms industry, it is undeniable that 5G is one of the most exciting and influential technologies we have seen in recent years, bringing with it not only greatly improved data speeds and capacity, but also a host of new use cases never seen before. But for society at large, including in the enterprise sector, 5G may have something of an identity crisis, often being conflated with the numerous alternative and complimentary connectivity technologies on t
  
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