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• London Underground resuming the Northern line’s Night tube

  29-06-2022 18:58 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The night tube will return to the Northern line this weekend for the first time since the service was suspended in March 2020.
  The overnight tube service will resume on Saturday 2th July, as part of a timetable change earlier this week that also saw the number of daytime peak hours trains on the new Battersea extension doubled to 12 trains per hour.
  Night Tube services returned on the Central and Victoria lines in November 2021 followed by the Night Overground services between Highbury & Isl
  
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• Telefónica diversifies into IoT security

  29-06-2022 17:35
  
  The inventive boffin arm of Spanish operator Telefónica – Telefónica Tech – has developed a security monitoring service for IoT environments.
  The service, which for some reason doesn’t appear have a name, inspects network traffic to visualize the assets connected to the network, analyses and highlights vulnerabilities, and detects potential threats, we are told. It includes technology based on some stuff from Nozomi Networks, and is managed by teams of IoT special
  
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• FCC’s Carr says TikTok poses a national security risk, calls for ban

  29-06-2022 17:07
  
  Almost three years after the US first expressed fears about Chinese owned social video platform TikTok, there are renewed calls to ban it from the country.
  This time its FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who has written to Google and Apple, asking them to remove the TikTok app from their respective app stores. We know this, not from a press release, but from Carr’s own tweets on the matter.TikTok is not just another video app.That’s the sheep’s clothing.
  It harvests swaths of sens
  
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• There’s a vacancy for a Beefeater at the Tower of London

  29-06-2022 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you can meet the “strict eligibility criteria”, there’s currently a vacancy to be a Beefeater at the Tower of London.
  Officially called a Yeoman Warder, the Beefeaters are part tour guide for the Tower’s daily visitors, but also part of the grand ceremonial pageantry of the Royal Family. That means they can be seen popping up on big occasions away from the Tower, and famously, check the Palace of Westminster for gunpowder the night before the State Opening of Parliamen
  
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• Picasso & Ingres: Face to Face at the National Gallery

  29-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two paintings, one classically 19th-century and another 20th-century modern painting that is its artistic mirror have gone on display together for the first time.
  The story goes that Pablo Picasso was on a visit to Paris in 1921 and saw the 1856 painting, Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and was inspired to produce his own interpretation.
  The result was Picasso’s ‘Woman with a Book’ that was, by coincidence, shown off in Paris in 1932 at one exhibition, at th
  
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• Phase-array beamforming fundamental to innovations in 5G RAN

  29-06-2022 14:18
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Mihai Banu CTO of Blue Danube Systems, examines some of the cutting edge technologies present in 5G radios.
  New applications such as remote offices, immersive virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, and telemedicine increasingly fuel the demand for ubiquitous and reliable wireless connectivity. Today, the telecom industry is rapidly expanding the deployment o
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Core, public cloud and supply chain

  29-06-2022 14:08
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Core, public cloud and supply chain
  
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• TV subscriptions to pass 3 billion in 2027 – Omdia

  29-06-2022 13:31
  
  New research predicts the number of global online video subscriptions will exceed 2 billion, and the number of pay TV subscriptions will ‘still’ be 1 billion in 2027, though Netflix expected to lose 2 million customers in Q2 2022.
  The number of online video subscriptions has been rising ‘at impressive levels’ according to research from Omdia, which claims the global total increased from 1.14 billion at end of 2020 to 1.34 billion at end of 2021, representing a 17.7% hike.
  
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• Telenor and Axiata get Malaysia merger green light but with conditions

  29-06-2022 13:29
  
  Telenor and Axiata Group have received regulatory approval for their proposed merger in Malaysia, which they now expect to complete in the second half of this year.
  It is almost a year to the day since the two telecoms groups signed on the dotted line to merge their operating subsidiaries in Malaysia – Telenor’s Digi and Axiata’s Celcom. The telcos won over the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) with a series of pledges designed to address the regulator&r
  
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• Voda gives Skoda its very own private 5G SA network

  29-06-2022 13:17
  
  Car maker Skoda plans to automate more of its manufacturing processes through the use of a new private 5G standalone (SA) network.
  Vodafone Czech Republic will operate the network, which it has deployed at a factory in Skoda’s home town of Mladá Boleslav – the historic and commercial heart of the country’s automotive industry. The network uses kit supplied by Nokia, and will be managed by Skoda’s own IT department, with input from both Vodafone and Nokia.
  “We
  
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• A guide to finding cheap London theatre tickets

  29-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Going to the theatre, especially in London, can be an expensive hobby, but if you have the know-how, you can get to see top plays and musicals for very affordable prices. Ranging from venues giving away tickets to fill seats, last-minute discounts, membership deals, and a lot of offers for younger people, theatres can offer a fairly cheap night out.
  All if you’re willing to be a bit flexible in what you go for or the dates you want.Regular Offers
  Two of London’s main theatre ticket s
  
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• £1.3 billion a year lost thanks to broadband outages – survey

  29-06-2022 12:47
  
  Broadband outages effecting home workers have cost the UK economy £1.3 billion over the past year, according to a report by Uswitch.com.
  Apparently around 11 million people suffered an internet outage that left them offline for three hours or more in the last year, mostly effecting those working remotely according to USwitch report – culminating in a £1.3 billion dent to the economy, though god only knows how they work these things out to such an exactitude.
  According to a comp
  
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• SCF releases high-level design of Hosted RAN – a global framework for neutral host and private networks

  29-06-2022 11:00
  
  Hosted RAN will enable new entrants to deploy coverage and capacity at pace, and will support tenants including MNOs, private networks, MVNOs and enterprises both indoor and outdoor 29 June 2022, UK - Small Cell Forum, the global membership organization committed to supporting agile, low-cost mobile infrastructure through small cells, today released part two in its Neutral Host Requirements series of documents, which details the proposed global Hosted RAN framework for neutral host and private..
  
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• WBA Report Sets Out How Wi-Fi 6/6E Enables Industry 4.0

  29-06-2022 10:37
  
  Autonomous Mobile Robots, Automatic Guided Vehicles, Augmented & Virtual Reality Use Cases Detailed with Industrial Internet of Things Deployment Guidelines London, UK, June 29th 2022: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today published “Wi-Fi 6/6E for Industrial IoT: Enabling Wi-Fi Determinism in an IoT World”. This paper explores how Wi-Fi’s latest features are ideal for meeting the unique, demanding requirements for a wide variety of existing and emerging IIoT applicat
  
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• AT&T workers win 15% pay rise agreement

  29-06-2022 10:25
  
  Following six months of negotiations between management and a union representing workers at US operator AT&T, a ‘tentative’ contract agreement that raises base wages and more has been reached.
  Communications Workers of America is a broad church of a union, claiming to represent workers in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech, and other fields. Today it announced that an agreement had been reached wit
  
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• Setback for railway upgrade between Watford and St Albans

  29-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to increase the number of trains that can use the Abbey Line between Watford Junction and St Albans have been setback after the Department for Transport (DfT) decided not to fund the project.
  The Abbey Line is a single-track railway that opened in 1858 and linked Watford Junction with St Albans Abbey, initially with two intermediate stations, but now it has five sleepy stations along the line. Unlike most other railways this one didn’t seem to generate much in the way of house buildi
  
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• Snoop no more: Court rules against UK security services' free access to telecoms data

  29-06-2022 02:00
  Back in 2016, the UK government introduced the IPA, defining and in many cases expanding the electronic surveillance powers of the British intelligence agencies, including Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), the Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence. Quickly nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter by the media, the IPA allowed the state security agencies to monitor the publics’ private communications and personal inform
  
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• Snoop no more: Court rules against UK security services free access to telecoms data

  29-06-2022 02:00
  Back in 2016, the UK government introduced the IPA, defining and in many cases expanding the electronic surveillance powers of the British intelligence agencies, including Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), the Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence. Quickly nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter by the media, the IPA allowed the state security agencies to monitor the publics’ private communications and personal inform
  
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• Game set and match - connected strawberries

  29-06-2022 02:00
  In a classic Wimbledon upset, Serena Williams has been knocked out by little know French contender Harmony Tan, but imagine an even bigger disaster. Imagine Wimbledon with no strawberries…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT: We need more time to excise Huawei from our network

  29-06-2022 02:00
  Facing increasing pressure from the US over national security fears, back in January 2020 the UK government initially ruled that Huawei’s market share in the UK’s mobile networks would need to be reduced to just 35%. At the time, BT said that the process of removing and replacing the Huawei equipment in its networks would take years and cost them roughly £500 million.Later that same year, however, the UK government took the decision to ban Huawei more broadly…read
  
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