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• Cellnex reportedly offers part of its business to DT in exchange for towers

  30-06-2022 18:14
  
  According to Reuters, infrastructure firm Cellnex has offered German operator Deutsche Telekom a stake in its business as a further incentive to sell it its tower division.
  Sources told Reuters Cellnex has offered DT a stake in its business as part of a as recently submitted €18 billion binding offer to to take control of the German operator’s towers unit – DFMG –  which is backed by Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management, and would also allow it to retain a piece
  
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• Samsung beats TSMC to the 3nm process finishing line

  30-06-2022 17:52
  
  The semiconductor arm of Korean tech giant Samsung is the first to start manufacturing chips using the 3nm process node.
  The measurement originally referred to some dimension of each individual transistor but it seems to mainly be a marketing, rather than technological, term these days. What it does signify is that the basic component of a chip has been made an order of magnitude smaller, which has implications for power efficiency, performance and overall chip size.
  ‘Optimized 3nm process
  
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• Train strike on Greater Anglia trains this Saturday

  30-06-2022 17:24 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Greater Anglia, which runs services out of London Liverpool Street station is warning that it expects severe disruption this weekend due to strike action.
  They’re asking people to avoid travelling on their trains this Saturday, as the service will be severely reduced and disrupted, and also early morning services on Sunday will start later than usual.
  As a result of the strike, Greater Anglia says that a skeleton service with far fewer trains and seats than normal will operate on some rout
  
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• Visiting Rayleigh – A castle, a cottage, a church, and a windmill

  30-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Rayleigh is a small town in Essex barely half an hour from London, and although it doesn’t look it at first glance, boasts a long history and plenty of things to see.
  It has the remains of a castle, the only one in Essex to be included in the Domesday Book, an impressive church, a museum, a restored windmill, and long heritage trail around town, and… a very curious Dutch cottage.
  When visiting, the best day to visit is a Wednesday, as that’s the one afternoon of the week that
  
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• Open House London’s 2022 guide is now available for preorder

  30-06-2022 15:28 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Open House London, the chance to see inside hundreds of buildings across the whole of London is back again, and you can pre-order the annual guide at an early-bird price. The guide is not only an insight into the festival programme, it’s a snapshot of the people behind the places.Designed to match the soon-to-be relaunched festival website, the rebooted guide still works on the same principles as the guides of years gone by: a physical thing that arrives through the post, that you can sift
  
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• Operators think the circular economy is important but flawed

  30-06-2022 14:24
  
  According to a survey of 61 network operators across the world, the circular economy is ‘important’ but many listed some pretty fundamental concerns.
  According to a survey form TXO, which sells telecom network hardware and asset management services, 90% of the operators believe the circular economy is important to their organisation and 89% say it’s already part of their current business strategy, however only 44% plan to buy pre-owned equipment over the next five years –
  
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• Vodafone makes the economic case for disempowering landowners

  30-06-2022 13:13
  
  Small towns and cities will miss out on £7 billion of economic output by 2030 unless mobile operators are allowed to plonk masts wherever they like.
  This, in a nutshell, is the main conclusion of a study published by Vodafone this week, and it comes over as little more than a lobbying effort in favour of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill.
  Currently at the report stage in the House of Lords, the legislation will give mobile operators even greater power t
  
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• VMO2 has sprinkled 1,300 5G small cells across London

  30-06-2022 13:05
  
  UK operator Virgin Media O2 has been busy setting up 5G small cells all around the capital, and it now claims to have more deployed than any other operator in the UK.
  In a fairly boastful announcement as these things go, VMO2 insists that it is this 1,300 strong 5G small cell deployment that has helped it be named as the most reliable network in London, according to Global Wireless Solutions. Small cells are designed to be deployed with less disruption than a proper mast and are designed for con
  
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• Proximus and partners to spend €4 billion on fibre

  30-06-2022 13:02
  
  Belgian operator Proximus is working with investment partners that it hopes will help it spend €4 billion on the roll out of new fibre to premises not covered by its existing plans.
  The company revealed it has signed a memo of understanding with a group of financial partners led by local investment fund I4B (or I4B – The Belgian Infrastructure Fund, to give it its full title).
  There are still Is to dot and Ts to cross, but if all goes to plan the parties aim to set up two new joint ve
  
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• St Paul’s Cathedral to stay open on four evenings this summer

  30-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On four Thursday evenings this summer, St Paul’s Cathedral will stay open late into the evening so people can watch the setting sun from the Cathedral’s roof.
  In addition to opening the main Cathedral and undercroft, you will be able to take the stairs up to the stone gallery that runs around the lower half of the Cathedral’s dome, and if feeling up to it, climb right up the inside to the Golden Gallery, the highest point open to the public.The late openings are on the followin
  
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• A £1 billion railway upgrade between King’s Cross to Grantham

  30-06-2022 11:03 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that it’s funding a substantial upgrade along the East Coast Main Line (ECML) to improve the signalling infrastructure.
  The upgrade, known as the East Coast Digital Programme was announced in 2020 and will remove outdated lineside signalling and replace it with the European train control system (ETCS) that will be rolled out initially across the southern section of the line – from London’s King’s Cross to the Stoke Tunnels,
  
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• BT staff weigh first strike in 35 years

  30-06-2022 10:35
  Telecoms group embroiled in dispute with CWU over low flat-rate pay rise
  
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• BT staff vote to strike for first time in 35 years

  30-06-2022 10:35
  Telecoms group embroiled in dispute with union over flat-rate £1,500 pay rise
  
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• BT staff to decide on major strike action

  30-06-2022 10:35
  Telecoms group embroiled in dispute with CWU over low flat-rate pay rise
  
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• Cart Marking ceremony returns to London next month

  30-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, over 40 historic and interesting road vehicles will roll into Guildhall Yard to take part in an ancient ceremony. They are there to take part in Cart Marking, a 500+ year old tradition where the Sheriffs and ritually robed Carmen brand each ‘cart’ with a red-hot iron – the origin of vehicle licensing.In past times, each year the carts licensed to use the road in the City of London would have an annual mark branded into them to show they are roadworthy and have paid
  
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• Samsung wins the race to 3nm, but can it take on TSMC?

  30-06-2022 02:00
  Today, Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass production of 3nm semiconductors, becoming the first foundry company to do so worldwide.The breakthrough to 3nm comes as a result of Samsung switching to GAAFET (gate-all-around field-effect transistor) technology for the new chips – more specifically, to the company’s own nanosheet innovation known as Multi-Bridge-Channel FET (MBCFET™). The new technology makes use of nanosheets with wider channels, rather t
  
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• Proximus prepares €4 billion fibre investment plan

  30-06-2022 02:00
  At the start of this week, Belgian operator Proximus announced that it had passed one million buildings with fibre, the final building being Brussel’s iconic Atomium.Now, the operator has revealed even greater ambitions when it comes to providing fibre connectivity throughout the country, suggesting that its massive fibre drive is only just beginning. This week, Proximus has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with a consortium of Belgian financial partners called I4B (The Belgi
  
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• INWIT, Vodafone & TIM win €346 govt contract for rural 5G

  30-06-2022 02:00
  Back in March, Infratel, an agency within Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development, announced that it would launch two major tenders, one aimed at deploying 5G sites in 2,000 underserved areas of the country, the other at connecting around 10,000 existing mobile sites with fibre.The contracts were worth a combined €2 billion, derived from the government's post…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Connecting America: the Total Telecom roundup of broadband development

  30-06-2022 02:00
  The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the USA promises to see billions invested in broadband and bridging the digital divide. Total Telecom are keeping track of events by pulling together a timeline from multiple news sources, here, in one location. If you are interested in a more in…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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