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• County Broadband intends to expand network to 500,000 premises by 2027

  04-07-2022 18:24
  
  Rural fibre firm County Broadband says it will grow its workforce to 270 by the end of the year in order to facilitate its ambitions of a 500,000 premise network in the East of England over the next five years.
  County Broadband received a sizable investment of £100 million earlier this year and had a £46 million cash injection back in 2018 – both from Aviva. The firm says this will fuel 100 new jobs and its fibre infrastructure expansion plans in the East of England.
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• See Greenwich’s painted hall sketches in the V&A

  04-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s an easy to miss exhibition at the V&A at the moment of the drawings by the painter, Sir James Thornhill, who amongst many things, was responsible for the Painted Hall in Greenwich.
  The exhibition focuses on the role that drawing played in Thornhill’s practice, ranging from quick sketches to the more considered and worked-up designs. Some of the sketches in the V&A archives are the only records of his eventual paintings, as they were lost in fires and demolitions.Some
  
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• VMO2 and Nokia help create UK’s ‘first 5G connected hospital’

  04-07-2022 14:52
  
  Virgin Media O2 and the NHS have collaborated to build the UK’s ‘first 5G connected hospital’ which they claim will transform healthcare.
  The Maudsley Smart Hospital and Maudsley Smart Pharmacy trials are funded by NHS digital with tech provided by VMO2 and Nokia, and are designed to explore the efficiency, safety and security benefits of using 5G-connected technologies in hospitals, across the usual catch-all 5G adjacent sectors of IoT, AR and AI.
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• 5G and edge computing: the winning formula to deliver private networks

  04-07-2022 14:25
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Michael Entner, Digital Transformation Officer at Wind River, takes a look at technological best practice for private networks.
  5G and edge computing are two technologies that are joined at the hip so to speak. The edge computing model drives resources closer to end users and 5G is a best-of-breed cellular technology standard can be used to attach to those resou
  
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• TIM reportedly plans an even split between NetCo and ServCo

  04-07-2022 14:07
  
  It looks like Italian operator group TIM expects its restructure to be close to a 50-50 split of staff and debt into the resulting new companies.
  The latest bit of incremental news out of TIM comes, as it so often does, from anonymous sources whispering into the ears of Reuter reporters. They reckon around half of its current workforce of 42,500 Italian staff will be allocated to NetCo, which is the working name of the half of the company that will concern itself with domestic fixed line stuff a
  
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• Eir sells half its fibre network

  04-07-2022 13:36
  
  Irish telco Eir has completed a deal to sell a shade under half of its fibre broadband network to investor InfraVia, a move that will help it to fund its rollout plans.
  And there’s a rumour it could provide a hefty payout for shareholders too.
  The Irish incumbent has wrapped up the deal it announced in January to create a new subsidiary, known as Fibre Networks Ireland Limited, and hand a 49.99% stake in it to European private equity firm InfraVia Capital Partners.
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• KDDI advises customers to use landlines amid massive mobile network outage

  04-07-2022 13:15
  
  Japanese MNO KDDI’s network went down at the weekend, reportedly leaving around 40 million people unable to connect.
  KDDI’s mobile network went down very early on Saturday morning and carried on over the weekend, according to a series of updates on its site. The outage seems pretty widespread and according to various reports up to 40 million people may have been left without service.
  In the early hours of Saturday morning the operator tweeted: “From 01:35 today, it is difficult
  
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• NEC acquires Aspire to fuel Open RAN plan

  04-07-2022 13:12
  
  Japan’s NEC has strengthened its Open RAN systems integration (SI) credentials by acquiring Aspire Technologies.
  Dublin-based Aspire specialises in the above. Since its founding in 2009, it has provided technology, software, consulting and SI services to tier-1 telcos all over the world. In recent years it has turned its attention to Open RAN, launching an Open Networks Lab tasked with helping partners accelerate the development, integration and testing of disaggregated network solutions.
  
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• Bluebell heritage railway planning a western extension

  04-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Bluebell Railway, a heritage railway that runs through Sussex has filed a pre-planning application as it seeks to extend the railway westwards along a partially disused railway alignment.The Bluebell Railway opened in 1960 between Sheffield Park and Bluebell Halt, extending the final 100 yards to reach Horsted Keynes in 1962. Over the next few decades, they were able to inch northwards to Kingscote in 1994, and finally to East Grinstead in 2013. Now the railway is looking at taking a westwar
  
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• Amazon switching to e-bikes for London deliveries

  04-07-2022 10:42 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Amazon is planning to swap lorries for bicycles with the opening of a micro mobility hub in Hackney that will support around a million deliveries a year to the local area.
  The aim is to replace traditional van delivery with a fleet of cargo bikes and on-foot deliveries by staff. Working with the London Borough of Hackney, Amazon says that it expects to make more than one million customer deliveries from the new warehouse every year.
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• London’s Alleys: Oldbury Place, W1

  04-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a quiet set of low-rise mews houses and offices that can be found just off bustling Marylebone. Originally part of the Manor of Marylebone, the land was bought by John Holles, the Duke of Newcastle in 1708, and it was his daughter and her husband, Edward Harley who started early property development in the area a decade later, initially just along what is today Marylebone High Street.The area around the mews was largely developed by the  1750s. It shows up on Horwood’s map of
  
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• TIM to shift almost half its Italian staff into NetCo

  04-07-2022 02:00
  At the start of this year, in an effort to revitalise TIM’s lacklustre financial performance, new CEO Pietro Labriola masterminded a plan that would see the Italian incumbent operator’s network arm separated from its service arm. The new NetCo would comprise the company’s fixed access network as well as its international submarine cable unit…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New Zealand tower sales on the horizon

  04-07-2022 02:00
  Today, Vodafone NZ has announced that it now expects binding binds for its tower unit to be submitted by July 15. An 80% stake in the unit is being made available, with three bidders left vying for ownership: KKR-backed John Laing; a joint bid from Northleaf Capital and InfraRed Capital Partners…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KDDI network outage hits almost 40m people

  04-07-2022 02:00
  This weekend saw Japanese operator KDDI suffer its largest network disruption ever, leaving almost 40 million customers without mobile services. The disruption seemingly began in the early hours of Saturday morning, with disruption continuing to varying degrees until Monday morning.  KDDI blamed “equipment failure” for the outage, saying staff were replacing a router for its core network as part of regular maintenance when an error prevented the connection of voice ca
  
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• How telecom providers can conquer customer expectations

  04-07-2022 02:00
  Making payments is no exception, and the demand for methods to align with today’s more digitally enabled world is evident. However, while the world of payments has changed dramatically, many billing processes remain outdated, inefficient and unclear. The way people pay their bills for instance has not kept pace with other types of payments. This particular problem is being further exposed by the tough financial position many people are in as the cost of living squeeze tightens. More
  
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