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• A Jubilee exhibition in St Paul’s Cathedral

  27-06-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As the national place of worship, St Paul’s Cathedral has been the site of eight royal jubilees, and there’s now an exhibition telling their story.Among the items on display are the ornate copes, or ceremonial cloaks, worn at many of the Jubilee Services of Thanksgiving. This includes the celebrated ‘Jubilee Cope, designed by Beryl Dean for the 1977 celebrations, which is decorated with embroidered representations of the spires of the 73 churches in the Diocese of London as wel
  
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• MWC will stay in Barcelona until at least 2030

  27-06-2022 18:06
  
  The world’s biggest international trade show for the telecoms industry will stay put in its Barcelona home for at least another 7 years.
  The GSMA, which organises Mobile World Congress, announced the show will stay at the Fira de Barcelona until the end of the decade, and that the city ‘is a critical element in making MWC the mobile ecosystem’s must-attend tech event.’ That and the tapas, he must have forgot to add.
  The show pitched its tent in Barcelona in 2006, back whe
  
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• WOM of Chile and Huawei Jointly Usher In the ADN Era of Optical Networks

  27-06-2022 16:03
  
   [Barcelona, Spain, June 23] In the recently held 2022 NGON WDM forum, WOM, a carrier from Chile, shared its strategic plan and vision for optical network construction with industry partners and the media. WOM also provided testimonials about Huawei’s all-optical autonomous driving network (ADN) solution and said that they look forward to cooperate with Huawei to usher in a new ADN era of optical networks in Chile.Edison Alfaro Leon, director of the Network Planning Department of WOM
  
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• The historic Hall Place house reopens for tours

  27-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A stately house in southeast London is reopening to the public, for occasional guided tours.
  Hall Place, in Bexley is a stately home in Bexley, built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London. It looks like it’s two houses, as it was extended in 1649, so you have half a mansion in stone and half in brick.
  Hall Place and courtyard (c) Bexley council
  In the 18th century, Hall Place came into the ownership of the Dashwood family, and was then leased ou
  
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• Time for All-Optical ADN

  27-06-2022 15:33
  
  [Barcelona, Spain, June 21 to 23] The 9th Huawei Optical Innovation Forum and 2022 NGON Forum were held on site. Huawei works with global carriers and industry partners to discuss the plan and vision for the optical network ecosystem, share business success and latest industry trends, and showcase the technological innovations of optical products and solutions.
  Christopher Janz, Technical Vice-President of Huawei’s Optical Systems Competency Center, delivered a keynote speech echoing the t
  
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• Chunghwa goes even greener with Ericsson 5G mid-band kit

  27-06-2022 14:23
  
  Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom has made its network more eco-friendly with the installation of Ericsson equipment for mid-band 5G that brings with it a pretty hefty energy saving.
  Naturally, both operator and vendor are keen to talk up the development, which essentially centres on the installation of Ericsson’s new Massive MIMO kit in Chungwha’s 5G network. But it’s also worth pointing out that Ericsson is not the only big vendor working on the reduction of the telco’s
  
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• There’s a drivers strike on the London trams this week

  27-06-2022 14:04 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is warning that tram services across South London are likely to be severely disrupted on Tuesday 28th June and Wednesday 29th June due to strike action.The strikes are by tram drivers who are members of the ASLEF union and are in dispute over a pay settlement for the drivers. The union says that no pay offer had been made to the tram drivers before the strike ballot, and an offer made by the tram operator, FirstGroup since then is for a 3 per cent pay rise.
  The tram dr
  
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• Digital 9 Infrastructure to acquire 48% stake of Arqiva

  27-06-2022 13:54
  
  Investment firm Digital 9 Infrastructure has agreed the terms of an acquisition of a 48% voting stake in UK network and communications infrastructure firm Arqiva Group.
  It will cost Digital 9 £300 million and a £159 million ‘non-recourse vendor loan note’ to buy the shares from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CPP Investments, which itself acquired the stake in Arqiva in 2009.
  UK based Arqiva owns 1,450 broadcast transmission sites, 80 satellite ground stations w
  
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• Opposition grows to UK’s censorious Online Safety Bill

  27-06-2022 13:26
  
  The UK government claims it wants to make the internet safer by giving itself sweeping censorship powers. A major new analysis adds to widespread condemnation of the move.
  Once more we have the in-form Institute of Economic Affairs to thank for bringing the mismanagement of a matter of telecoms public internet to the fore. In this case it’s a briefing paper titled ‘An Unsafe Bill – How the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech, innovation and privacy’, which laments ma
  
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• The surreal experience that is Imberbus returns in August

  27-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy spending an exceptionally surreal day taking trips through a military firing range in some old buses, then get ready to reserve a date in August.ImberBus is a standard London bus route that happens to run on just one day a year and through the middle of the normally sealed-off Salisbury Plain, past burnt-out tanks and military bases to an abandoned medieval church in the middle of a military training village.
  Which is pretty interesting when you think about it.
  The buses also ride a
  
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• Telia moves to majority renewable energy in Denmark and Estonia

  27-06-2022 12:31
  
  Swedish operator group Telia has entered into a couple of ‘Power Purchase Agreements’, which constitutes increasing the amount of wind and solar energy that powers its Nordic and Baltic footprint.
  Telia has entered into an agreement with Better Energy in Denmark which stipulates that 125 GWh of additional renewable electricity will be supplied to the Danish electricity grid per year, and as part of this agreements Better Energy will build a new solar cell park which will be hooked up
  
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• China’s fourth mobile operator goes live

  27-06-2022 12:28
  
  China’s fourth mobile operator has launched services, breaking into a market that has long been the domain of the big three.
  But it’s far too early to get excited about the prospect of additional competition in the Chinese mobile market; China Broadnet, as it is now known, is a minnow without its own network, and realistically will not give its longer-established rivals, all large-scale operators in their own right, much to worry about for some time.
  The Chinese press is awash with t
  
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• London’s Alleys: Albany Court Yard, W1

  27-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a small courtyard leading off from busy Piccadilly, but one with an exceptional building at the end.
  As you walk through the entry passage into the courtyard, you’ll start to suspect that it’s pretty upmarket, with dark brick classically Georgian buildings to either side of a grand mansion in front.If arriving in the evening, do pay attention to the old style gas lanterns on either side of the entrance, and also do expect someone in fine livery to come out of the grand mansio
  
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• NTIA provides $10.5m grant for Michigan's MOON-Light project

  27-06-2022 02:00
  This program, named the Michigan Open Optical Network - Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light), will help address critical infrastructure gaps by enabling technologically advanced, middle-mile fiber optic infrastructure across the state. It will allow interconnecting local Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring affordable, robust, high-speed broadband Internet to homes and businesses in Michigan's underserved/unserved population areas."The MOON-Light initiative will
  
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• Europe’s new Connectivity Infrastructure Act could make big tech pay

  27-06-2022 02:00
  Back in 2020, the European Commission launched a set of guidelines called the 2020 Connectivity Toolbox, aiming to give European Union (EU) countries the framework they needed to rollout fibre and 5G technologies rapidly and effectively. Now, according to sources, the European Commission is preparing to codify some of these guidelines into European law as part of a revision of the 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China welcomes fourth mobile operator to the world of 5G

  27-06-2022 02:00
  Back in 2019, a group of Chinese cable broadcast and television operators, then known as China Broadcasting Network (CBN), won spectrum in the country’s national 5G spectrum auction, signalling their ambition to become the nation’s fourth fully-fledged nationwide mobile operator. The government-backed company won 80 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum and 100 MHz of 4.9 GHz spectrum, both of which can be used to provide 5G services.  Catching up with the likes of China Unicom&hel
  
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• BT partners Home-Start to help customers weather cost of living crisis

  27-06-2022 02:00
  Today, BT extends its support for families worst hit by the cost-of-living crisis by partnering with family support charity Home-Start UK to offer 2,500 financially vulnerable households’ free devices and free connectivity to Home Essentials. The industry leading social tariff will also be available to families in need nationwide through the ‘Connected Families’ scheme available through Buttle UK and Barnardo’s following a pilot scheme in partnership with the Department
  
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