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• Battersea Power Station’s restored control room revealed

  28-06-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first photos of the restored Control Room A at Battersea Power Station have been released, showing the long banks of dials and electromechanical switches that used to be a hive of activity when the power station was still active.
  Restored Control Room A (c) BPS / James Parsons
  Battersea Power Station has two control rooms, and Control Room A was part of the original Turbine Hall built at Battersea Power Station in 1929-31, before the second half of the building, including a much plainer Cont
  
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• Transport for London seeking renewable electricity for its trains

  28-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has issued a tender that seeks to have a tenth of its electricity supply coming from renewable sources by 2026.
  (c) 10:10 Climate Action
  All passenger rail services operated by TfL are electrically powered and, as part of the London Environment Strategy, TfL has been set the goal of achieving a zero-carbon railway by 2030. Due to the size of its rail network, TfL is also one of the largest consumers of electricity in the UK, with a requirement for up to 1.6TWh per year
  
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• How many EU cross border 5G autonomous car projects do we need?

  28-06-2022 14:19
  
  The other project designed to play around with 5G connected autonomous cars crossing European borders has reemerged, in this case championed by Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson.
  5GCroCo is project designed to demonstrate how autonomous vehicles function across national borders, and has €17 million of funding from the EU in its belt and Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson as tech partners. DT saw fit to crow about its many breakthroughs today but the project has been up and running for some time. Per
  
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• UK telcos to help customers cope with cost of living crisis

  28-06-2022 14:06
  
  Customers in the UK who are struggling to pay their broadband and mobile bills are to get help under a new deal agreed between the government and operators.
  The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) this week met with the leaders of BT, Openreach, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, Three, TalkTalk, and Sky, among others, to discuss a range of measures to keep people connected amid the cost of living crisis.
  The most significant commitment is that telcos have agreed to let vulnerable cu
  
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• Ericsson’s $6.2 billion Vonage acquisition delayed by US investigation

  28-06-2022 13:02
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s proposed takeover of US cloud unified communications provider Vonage has been pushed back until the end of July due to an ongoing investigation by the US Committee on Foreign Investment.
  The $6.2 billion takeover bid has been cleared by all the other regulatory bodies, however there is an ongoing investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment which appears to be holding things up. Ericsson is now looking to close the deal by the end of July, having previ
  
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• Over 4,000 London venues now offer free water refills

  28-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re the sort of person who has an empty water bottle and thirst for refreshment, there are a lot of shops in London that offer free water refills.
  It’s part of a scheme run by an organisation called, appropriately enough, Refill, which promotes venues that support less waste in packaging. And part of the scheme is to promote tap water refills for people who have an empty bottle to top up.
  It’s been calculated that there are now over 4,000 cafes, shops, pubs, etc, across L
  
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• India’s private 5G rules make few people happy

  28-06-2022 12:49
  
  The Indian government has issued rules for the allocation of spectrum for private 5G networks, but all parties – with a few notable exceptions – have something to complain about.
  The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) published guidelines for private 5G networks, both for telecoms companies looking to capitalise on that potentially lucrative market, and for the enterprises themselves. The DoT laid out four options for the deployment of private 5G, the first two being that license
  
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• TMUS walks the data privacy tightrope with new advertising solutions

  28-06-2022 12:40
  
  US operator group T-Mobile is using information about apps downloaded onto phones to help target advertising, which poses questions about user privacy.
  The initiative was first reported by Ad Exchanger last week but has only recently caught the eye of the broader telecoms and tech media. A programme called ‘app insights’ seems to be a key component of the rebranded T-Mobile Advertising Solutions division which, as the name implies, seeks to offer something to potential advertisers th
  
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• ST Engineering iDirect Streamlines Site Installation Process for Intelsat FlexEnterprise Customers

  28-06-2022 12:20
  
  Satmotion significantly reduces installation time and resources, providing greater flexibility for enterprise service providers Herndon, Va., June 28, 2022 – ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has enabled a simplified site installation solution for Intelsat’s FlexEnterprise platform, reducing the amount of coordination required to quickly activate new sites. The Satmotion solution, developed by Integrasys, is now integrated into iDirect’s Veloc
  
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• Totalmobile Launches Field Service Intelligence Solution Allowing Customers to Review Operational Performance as Services Take Place

  28-06-2022 11:30
  
  Insight from Totalmobile provides users with access to real time operational data and predictive intelligence to optimise workforce planning and service delivery BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Tuesday 28th June 2022 – Totalmobile, a leading Field Service Management Software (FSM) company, today announced the launch of Insight, a new field service intelligence solution that enables organisations to gather and review data from services as they are taking place. The product is able to high
  
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• The Promise of IP + Optical Networks

  28-06-2022 11:20
  
  According to Ian Redpath, Research Director at Omdia, the 400G Era IPoWDM has been designed a very specific cloud SP application with many design trade-offs. IP+Optical provides a more complete solution with a rich set of client side and line side options with OTN support. IP+Optical continues to deliver enduring value for CSPs. For detailed comparative analyses about IPoWDM and IP+Optical, please see the blog: https://omdia.tech.informa.com/commissioned-research/articles/ip-optical-networks-blo
  
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• Iskratel unlocks next-generation broadband technologies for Telekom Slovenije

  28-06-2022 10:00
  
  The universal Iskratel Lumia C16 delivers much needed versatility and flexibility for urban and rural deployments Kranj, Slovenia, June 28, 2022 – The route to critically upgrading fibre-optic networks towards next-generation PON broadband has been made easier today with the successful trial of the Iskratel Lumia C16 for Telekom Slovenije, the national telecommunications operator in Slovenia. Iskratel also announced that its compact Combo PON (XGS-PON and GPON) Optical Line Terminal (OLT)
  
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• First of the new footbridges installed at West Ham station

  28-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large housing development next to West Ham station has installed the first of several footbridges that will span the railway linking the development with the surrounding area.The two footbridges are in addition to a planned new entrance for the station which will link the housing development directly to the Jubilee line platforms, and indirectly to the C2C mainline railway and District/H&C lines on the London Underground. The housing development, called TwelveTrees Park, sits on the former
  
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• UK telcos agree to increase support for vulnerable customers during cost of living crisis

  28-06-2022 02:00
  Yesterday, the Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries and Cost of Living Business Tsar David Buttress chaired a consultation with the UK telecoms industry, encouraging them to do more to support customers struggling with bills due to the worsening cost of living crisis.  The meeting, which was reportedly attended my representatives from BT Group, Openreach, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, Three, TalkTalk, Sky, and others, saw the telecoms industry agree to the adoption of various measures to mak
  
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• Gearing up to Monetise IoT Roaming

  28-06-2022 02:00
  In addition, the ongoing expansion of the 5G ecosystem is further propelling IoT growth across all markets. With the total number of IoT connections worldwide expected to increase from 1.8 billion at the end of 2020 to 6.2 billion in 2030, according to an Analysys Mason report, the outlook for IoT is promising. Ensuring seamless roaming across networks is a crucial requirement for the IoT ecosystem to work efficiently. Kaleido Intelligence's recent IoT Roaming: Market Strategies & Fore
  
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• Ericsson’s $6.2bn Vonage acquisition delayed by security investigation

  28-06-2022 02:00
  Back in November 2021, Ericsson announced that it had agreed to purchase cloud specialist Vonage for $6.2 billion. At the time, Ericsson said that the purchase of US-based Vonage would help them broaden their 5G portfolio for enterprise customers and would build on an earlier purchase of networking equipment firm Cradlepoint in 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G in the UK: Public nonplussed but businesses optimistic

  28-06-2022 02:00
  Late last week, a new study from YouGov was announced that showed the British public to be largely sceptical about the benefits of 5G, with just one in five UK respondents saying that 5G would benefit their life. In fact, with 44% of respondents saying the technology would not benefit them (the remaining 36% were unsure), the UK ranked 26th out of the 28 nations surveyed when it came to 5G optimism.The study also showed that UK fell far below the global average in terms of acknowledging 5G&
  
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