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• London City Airport wants more flights at weekends

  05-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London City Airport in the docklands has opened a public consultation as it seeks to increase the number of planes that can use the airport at weekends.
  The airport expects to return to pre-pandemic passenger numbers of 5 million, potentially as soon as 2024. At the moment, the airport can cope with up to 6.5 million passengers per year, but they expect that demand could reach 9 million by 2031.
  At the moment, there’s a limit on flights at weekends, with no planes allowed to land or take o
  
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• EU approves regulation for ‘too big to care’ tech platforms

  05-07-2022 18:21
  
  The European Parliament has waved through the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, designed to curb the influence of US tech giants which it defines as ‘gatekeepers’.
  The latest bureaucratic/legal phase of the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act – proposed legislation to regulate big tech firms primarily operating out of the US – has been passed, and will now be adopted by the bloc.
  The two acts now seem to be bundled together under something called the
  
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• British Museum celebrates 200 years of reading Egyptian hieroglyphs

  05-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of mankind’s great achievements, the decyphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the British Museum is planning an exhibition that explores this pivotal moment. The exhibition, opening in October, will explore the inscriptions and objects that helped scholars unlock one of the world’s oldest civilisations, exactly 200 years ago.
  Temple lintel of King Amenemhat III, Hawara, Egypt, 12thDynasty, 1855–08 BC. (c) The Trustees of the British
  
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• Ericsson beats Huawei to win T-Mobile Netherlands 5G work

  05-07-2022 15:09
  
  T-Mobile Netherlands has announced that Ericsson will be the apparently sole RAN vendor for its 5G network upgrade.
  The announcement makes no mention of who the incumbent RAN vendor is but, as Light Reading was quick to point out, that was out-of-favour Chinese vendor Huawei. Instead it stressed how intensive and exhaustive the selection process was, with no stone left unturned in the search for the perfect vendor, singular.
  “I am confident that with the support of Ericsson we will continu
  
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• OneWeb gets satellite landing rights in Brazil

  05-07-2022 14:35
  
  Brazil’s telecoms regulator has granted a satellite landing rights license for low earth orbit satellite firm OneWeb, as the government sets its sights on improving connectivity in the country.
  Brazil’s national telecoms regulator, Anatel, has granted a 15-year ‘satellite landing rights’ license to OneWeb to operate in the country, and will host two satellite gateways, one in Petrolina and one in Maricá. These gateways will be used to extend the connectivity footpr
  
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• Telekom Malaysia and Cisco partner on 5G-as-a-service

  05-07-2022 14:27
  
  Malaysia has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to 5G, but incumbent Telekom Malaysia (TM) has struck a deal that could help it recover some lost ground.
  Its B2B arm TM One signed two collaboration agreements with Cisco late last week that aim to accelerate 5G use case development and digital transformation among SMEs.
  First up is the 5G-as-a-service (5GaaS) Innovation Platform, under which TM and Cisco will open a centre of excellence that will foster the development and testing of 5G pro
  
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• Iliad chips away at Italian mobile market as 700 MHz opens up

  05-07-2022 14:17
  
  Iliad now has 9 million customers in Italy and certainly has reason to celebrate, with the latest regulatory figures showing that it is continuing to eat away at its rivals’ markets shares.
  Meanwhile, Italy’s TV broadcasters have freed up the 700 MHz spectrum band on schedule, which means the telcos are set to begin the next stage of 5G rollout.
  Iliad disrupted the Italian mobile market when it launched as the country’s fourth mobile network operator in May 2018, bringing low-c
  
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• Iliad chipping away at Italian mobile market as 700 MHz opens up

  05-07-2022 14:17
  
  Iliad now has 9 million customers in Italy and certainly has reason to celebrate, with the latest regulatory figures showing that it is continuing to eat away at its rivals’ markets shares.
  Meanwhile, Italy’s TV broadcasters have freed up the 700 MHz spectrum band on schedule, which means the telcos are set to begin the next stage of 5G rollout.
  Iliad disrupted the Italian mobile market when it launched as the country’s fourth mobile network operator in May 2018, bringing low-c
  
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• Cambridge Broadband Networks Group and FirstComm deliver upgraded urban connectivity to Ohio businesses

  05-07-2022 14:00
  
  Ohio, USA, 5 July 2022 – Cambridge Broadband Networks Group (CBNG)’s world-renowned VectaStar Flex A2/A3 variant solution has been deployed by FirstComm (First Communications Inc.), as part of its strategy to rollout improved connectivity using licensed spectrum to six metropolitan areas in the state of Ohio, USA. The A2/A3 licensed spectrum has seen a huge surge of interest due to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) making regulatory changes to the 28GHz spectrum bands. This
  
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• Bollardology – an unexpected history of London’s street bollards

  05-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Wander around London, and you can always tell when you’re in the City of London, thanks to the ubiquity of the City’s striking red, black and white street bollards. And now a book uncovers the surprising history of these often overlooked elements of street furniture.
  Written during the lockdown by local resident and Honorary Research Fellow at the Museum of London, Dr Cathy Ross this isn’t a dry history of metal shapes, but an unexpected love story for an icon of the City of Lo
  
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• Nokia to upgrade Ice’s 5G network in Norway

  05-07-2022 12:55
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has signed a five year deal with Norwegian operator Ice to upgrade and expand its 5G radio network infrastructure.
  Nokia has apparently already got stuck into the upgrades, and work is expected to be completed by 2026. The kit vendor will serve up equipment from its AirScale portfolio including Single RAN, AirScale base stations, and high-capacity 5G Massive MIMO antennas to support different spectrum bands.
  Around 3200 base stations will be modernized and an additional
  
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• Derelict Silvertown development gets the go ahead, again

  05-07-2022 11:37 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The redevelopment of derelict land in docklands that surrounds the dominant Millennium Mills for new housing is getting started after a number of lengthy delays.
  Millenium Mills in 2015 (c) ianVisits
  The land has been derelict since the docks closed in 1981, and was partially cleared in 1990s. There have been a number of attempts to regenerate the land since then. A plan for a huge aquarium to be built on the site in 2005 foundered after the banking crisis killed off funding. A £1.5 billio
  
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• A second entrance opens at Hackney Central railway station

  05-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new southern side entrance has opened on the London Overground’s westbound platform at Hackney Central station removing the need to use the footbridge to leave the station.The new entrance is technically a temporary structure, as there are longer-term plans to redevelop the north side of Hackney Central station, and a much larger ticket office and entrance would be created. At that point, this second entrance may be retained, upgraded, or could be redeveloped for housing by the council.
  
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• Planes, trains, and automobiles: Starlink gets FCC greenlight for moving vehicle internet

  05-07-2022 02:00
  This week, the FCC has approved Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to begin providing internet for moving vehicles throughout the US. Starlink currently comprises around 2,700 LEO satellites, providing high-speed internet services to around 400,000 subscribers in 32 countries, with global coverage expected to be achieved later this year.All of these subscribers access internet services via Starlink terminals, which are delivered to consumers and deployed at fixed locations nearby&hellip
  
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• Phoenix Tower International buys WOM’s towers

  05-07-2022 02:00
  Today, communications infrastructure specialist PTI has announced that it will acquire up to 3,800 mobile towers from Chilean mobile operator WOM.  The deal, worth $930 million, will see WOM transfer ownership of roughly 2,334 sites at the time of closing, with an additional 1,466 sites to be transferred by 2024. The deal represents PTI’s first foray in the Chilean market and will immediately make them the market leader in terms of tower ownership. &ldquo…re
  
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• 5G RuralDorset partners Qualcomm for mmWave 5G farming

  05-07-2022 02:00
  Today, 5G RuralDorset has announced that it has expanded its partnership with semiconductor specialist Qualcomm, aiming to explore the highly anticipated mmWave spectrum for the creation of new farming use cases.The trials will utilise Qualcomm’s latest microchips in tandem with 26GHz spectrum, capitalising on the spectrum’s improved capacity compared to existing 5G frequencies in order to test the rapid transmission of enormous amount of data…read more on TotalTele.com &raqu
  
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