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• Abseil down the side of St Thomas’ Hospital

  22-06-2022 20:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re feeling brave and can raise some money for charity, then there’s a chance to abseil over the edge of St Thomas’ Hospital’s tallest building.
  The North Wing building of the hospital is the 160 feet tall block right next to the Thames and Westminster Bridge, giving you views as you descend across the river to Big Ben* and Parliament.
  There are abseils taking place on Saturday 24th September or they have limited availability for Friday 23rd September 2022. Abseiler
  
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• Huawei Releases the New Vision of Optical Transport Network to Help Operators Succeed in Business Growth and TCO optimization

  22-06-2022 19:13
  
  [Barcelona, Spain, June 21, 2022] Recently at the 9th Huawei Optical Innovation Forum, Huawei released the new vision of optical transport network: λ to Everywhere, Premium Connectivity Lighting up the Digital World. The new vision stresses bringing the optical transport network (OTN) everywhere to provide ubiquitous premium connectivity and enables operators to monetize the network capability through new products and services while boosting their green credentials and lowering TCO.
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• Tech firms attempt to standardise the metaverse

  22-06-2022 19:04
  
  Meta (Facebook), Nvidia, Epic, Microsoft and others have signed up to The Metaverse Standards Forum, which wants to establish some consistency on open standards and terminology surrounding the metaverse.
  It’s hard to say exactly what the metaverse is. Is it a meaningless buzzword, the next level of human interaction, a bad bet by Mark Zuckerberg, or simply VR gaming by another name? You can find plenty of people describing it as all of these and more.
  Perhaps partly driven by a desire to a
  
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• New images of a rebuilt Stanford-le-Hope station shown off

  22-06-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to rebuild the Stanford-le-Hope station on the C2C line into Fenchurch Street have been shown off, with wider platforms, new canopies, and a footbridge with lifts.
  Artist impression (c) Thurrock Council
  During the station upgrade, the old footbridge will be removed and a modern replacement installed that will also provide step-free access from the entrance. Platform One will be widened to ease overcrowding during peak hours and to further improve passenger safety.
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• Speedcast Connecting 3,000 Retail Outlets in Mexico for Multinational Retailer

  22-06-2022 16:00
  
  Speedcast’s network integrates Comtech VSAT technology to increase the speed and resilience of electronic point-of-sale and new in-store applications Houston, Texas — June 22, 2022 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, has been awarded a multi-year contract by a large American multinational retailer to provide a managed VSAT backup network for close to 3,000 store operations across Mexico. The network will ensure the reliability of electronic point-of-
  
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• Food for a fiver around Carnaby Street

  22-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the next couple of weeks, until Sunday 3rd July, a load of restaurants and cafes around Carnaby Street are offering dishes for £5. To support the foodie event, they have installed 1,500 al-fresco seats for dining along Carnaby Street.
  The following venues are participating in the food for a fiver deal.
  Island PokéGrab a Poké Bao for £5.
  Jinjuu£5 Korean fried chicken pieces drizzled with their signature sauce.£7 Korean fried chicken burger.
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• IATA urges the rest of the world to learn from US 5G drama

  22-06-2022 14:16
  
  As if it doesn’t already have enough to worry about, the International Air Transport Association fears the US experience with 5G near airports applies elsewhere too.
  In the US, Verizon and AT&T keep having to delay the rollout of 5G using C-band near airports because the Federal Aviation Administration is worried it will interfere with aircraft altimeters, which use the same frequency. While it has always seemed absurd that this matter wasn’t addressed before the government extor
  
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• $3.3 billion 5G deal sees Dish become friends with T-Mobile again

  22-06-2022 14:16
  
  US mobile operators Dish and T-Mobile have settled their differences with a major new roaming agreement.
  It means that customers of Dish, including sub-brand Boost Mobile, will make use of T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network when they roam outside Dish’s network footprint, which might be quite often given how early Dish is in its own 5G deployment. Under the new deal, Dish will also pay lower rates to T-Mobile, which will apply retroactively back to 22 January this year.
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• Orange wants to teach the world to code, or at least how to email

  22-06-2022 13:25
  
  At the opening of the Orange Digital Centre in Brussels, we spoke to Deputy CEO of Europe Mari Noelle Jego Laveissiere about why Orange has taken it upon itself to address the problem of digital illiteracy.
  This week Orange opened doors to a new Orange Digital Centre in Brussels, which it describes as a hub to host fledgling start-ups dabbling in techy fields such as crypto, AI and IoT. It’s also a kind of community centre where those that don’t know how to do basic digital tasks suc
  
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• GWR’s rail franchise extended to 2025

  22-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  FirstGroup has been awarded a replacement National Rail Contract to continue running the Great Western Railway (GWR) until 2025.FirstGroup has been running the GWR franchise since it bought out its partners in their post-privatisation consortium in 1998, and has had its contract extended periodically ever since. The new National Rail Contract (NRC) replaces the pandemic era agreement where the government took on revenue risk, and was due to expire on 26th June.
  The new contract will run until at
  
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• Spain mulls public funding for 5G backhaul

  22-06-2022 12:58
  
  Spain has opened a consultation into the planned award of up to €250 million in funding for 5G fibre backhaul as part of its broader 5G coverage strategy.
  The country is striving for coverage of 75% of the population by 2025 and as such is taking advantage of EU funding to assist with investment in infrastructure.
  The 5G fibre backhaul project forms part of its UNICO – Universalización de Infraestructuras Digitales para la Cohesión, or Universalization of Digital Infrast
  
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• Air-Connected Mobility introduces its "Decisive Impact" eBook to help local governments become Smart Cities

  22-06-2022 10:00
  
  The second eBook in the Smart Cities series highlights the power of data to increase efficiency and productivity in local and city government Milan, 22nd June 2022 – Air-Connected Mobility today launches a new eBook, entitled "Decisive Impact: Smart Choices for Tomorrow's Smart Cities", the second in the "Smart City Series", which aims to help public sector bodies from small towns to large cities, to exploit mobility data and its analysis as a basis for...Source: RealWire
  
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• Vodafone targets growth with network upgrades focusing on scalability and agility

  22-06-2022 02:00
  Vodafone have signed a multi-year agreement with Oracle with an aim of modernising their European IT infrastructure and accelerating its transition to the cloud.
  A broad range of systems will be migrated to dedicated fully managed regions of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that will be deployed in Vodafone&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Jurassic Fibre connects 100,000 premises in South West England

  22-06-2022 02:00
  South West based full fibre provider, Jurassic Fibre, has announced this week that it has passed the milestone of 100,000 premises reached. This landmark achievement brings Jurassic Fibre one step closer to its target of connecting 500,000 homes and businesses across the South West of England by 2025…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Could a four-day week work for the telecom sector?

  22-06-2022 02:00
  As the world has moved back to the office, many companies are addressing how to make this more appealing to their staff. A recent report from CNBC said that 92% of people supported the four-day working week and claimed employees felt "it would improve their mental health and productivity."European Computer Telecoms AG (ECT) faced the same challenge as many others…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT doubles down on AIOps with Dynatrace, targets self-healing systems by 2025

  22-06-2022 02:00
  BT Digital today announced plans to consolidate all of BT Group’s application monitoring on the Dynatrace® Software Intelligence Platform as part of a new service management stack. Dynatrace will be deployed across the Group, with a goal to dramatically simplify, add intelligence to, and ultimately automate, service operations within BT in a new AIOps model…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Belgian spectrum auction raises 1.2 billion euros

  22-06-2022 02:00
  The main phase of Belgium’s mobile spectrum auction raised 1.2 billion euros, according to the Belgian regulator BIPT (The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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