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• Elizabeth line upgrade for the Pudding Mill power supplies

  06-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An upgrade to the Pudding Mill transformer that provides power for the Elizabeth line will take place later this month, closing the railway between Liverpool Street and Shenfield.
  The Pudding Mill transformer was the site of a power explosion back in November 2017 that was a significant element in the delays in opening the Elizabeth line, although at the time the impact was downplayed by Crossrail with an expected delay of no more than three months.
  Pudding Mill transformer (c) Network Rail
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• UK regulator to investigate Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard

  06-07-2022 17:40
  
  The Competition and Markets authority in the UK is having a look at the proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, which at $68.7 billion would be the biggest deal in the history of gaming.
  If it goes through the acquisition would bring huge gaming franchises from the Activision, Blizzard and King studios including Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Call of Duty and Candy Crush, under Microsoft’s umbrella. The purchase is for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68
  
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• Using digital to power up in the fight against climate change

  06-07-2022 17:17
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Jan van Tetering, SVP Europe at Nokia argues that digital technologies can play a key role in the fight against climate change and explores what that means in practice.
  The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published just in time for Mobile World Congress (MWC). It showed the “widespread and pervasive” imp
  
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• Freddie Mercury’s stamp album going on display

  06-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When he was young, as many of us do, Freddie Mercury collected postage stamps, and now his 54-page stamp album is going on public display at the Postal Museum.Freddie Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara, spent his early life in Zanzibar where his father worked for the British Colonial Office. His father’s passion for stamp collecting was passed on to his son who is believed to have collected from the ages of nine to twelve. After the family moved to the UK in the 1960s Freddie studied graphic de
  
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• Vodafone and Google’s new mega AI is the best of big tech and telco collaboration

  06-07-2022 14:44
  
  The partnership between Google and Vodafone has borne substantial fruit in AI Booster – an artificial intelligence platform plugged into Vodafone’s network which can handle thousands of AI models a day across its 18 country footprint.
  It has been in development for 18 months and, in a nutshell, the shiny new AI brain is designed to enable predictive capabilities, optimise customer experiences, improve network performance, and accelerate advances in research, in ways that wouldn&rsquo
  
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• Network-as-a-service could be worth $75bn to telcos but the clock is ticking

  06-07-2022 14:04
  
  Telcos must adapt to avoid being squeezed out of the burgeoning network-as-a-service (NaaS) market, claims a new report.
  According to ABI Research, the NaaS market is primed for growth. It expects that by 2030, nearly 90 percent of global enterprises will have migrated at least 25 percent of their network infrastructure to be consumed within a NaaS model. The growth is being fuelled by increasing enterprise demand for cloud-native agility, multi-cloud accessibility, and services that can dynamic
  
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• Groundhog Day as yet another European connected car club emerges

  06-07-2022 13:14
  
  This one is called Punxsutawney Phil, and if it sees its shadow the telco industry must endure another six weeks of new connected car groups.
  Seriously though; there’s another one. Two weeks after the last one. And a week after a different one reminded us what it has been up to. This new one is based in Spain, and got off to a good start by adhering to the nomenclature of including a number somewhere in its name: R3CAV. It will fit right in alongside the likes of 5GCroCro, 5G-Carmen and 5G
  
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• New entrance opens at Imperial Wharf railway station

  06-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new entrance has opened on the northbound platform at Imperial Wharf station in Chelsea Harbour to help reduce overcrowding on the narrow staircase that leads to the existing entrance.
  The station, which opened in 2009, is built up on a railway viaduct, with two entrances on either side leading to stairs and a lift to the platforms.
  There was also an emergency path leading down a slope, and this has been repurposed into a new public entrance, with new stairs down from the platform leading to a
  
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• UK signs landmark data sharing agreement with South Korea

  06-07-2022 12:48
  
  A new ‘data adequacy agreement’ between the UK and South Korea should provide a significant boost to trade between the two countries.
  This somewhat vaguely named pact is all about removing a bunch of bureaucracy when it comes to sharing data between the two countries. In practice, it means companies based in one of the countries are free to receive, process and store data belonging to citizens of the other. That, in turn, should lower a lot of the administrative and legal obstacles t
  
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• AccelerComm Launches LEOphy to Enhance Performance of Low-Earth Orbit 5G Communications Satellites

  06-07-2022 11:32
  
  Power-efficient layer 1 modem solution delivers the lowest error rates, and maximises spectral efficiency for 5G satellite networks Southampton, UK – July 6th 2022: AccelerComm, the Layer 1 5G IP specialists, today unveiled LEOphy, a layer 1 modem that delivers enhanced performance for low-earth orbit satellite communications. The power-efficient high phy solution has been tailored to deliver maximum flexibility and reliability to enable more efficient 5G satellite communications, boasting
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Distaff Lane Garden, EC4

  06-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Shortly before the pandemic locked us all in our homes, the City of London gained a lovely new pocket park very close to St Paul’s Cathedral, and if you’ve not seen it yet, that could be because it’s on a side street that hardly anyone walks down.The park replaced another park, for cars, that sat next to the 1950s-era office block, Scandinavian House, and used to have a plot of unappealing grass on the top as an excuse for a public park.
  Between 2015-18, the old office was demo
  
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• Russian operators unite for 5G research JV

  06-07-2022 02:00
  Today, MTS has become the latest mobile operator to join New Digital Solutions, taking a 25% stake in the business alongside its mobile rivals Rostelecom, MegaFon, and Vimpelcom.The move means that all four of Russia’s largest mobile operators are now equal partners in the JV, which aims to explore the viability and availability of various spectrum bands for 5G services.The history of New Digital Solutions begins back in 2017, when MegaFon and Rostelecom first set up a working group to ex
  
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• OneWeb to battle Starlink for LEO satellite dominance in Brazil

  06-07-2022 02:00
  This week, Brazil’s national communications regulator Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) has awarded OneWeb a licence to provide connectivity services in Brazil, saying that the move will greatly help to reduce the digital divide and bring connectivity to rural communities.As part of the agreement, OneWeb has also agreed to build two satellite gateways in Brazil, in Petrolina and Maricá, from which the company will be able to expand its services acros
  
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• Nokia and LG U+ team up for 5G Advanced, 6G & Open RAN

  06-07-2022 02:00
  Today, LG U+ has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nokia that will see the pair combine their R&D efforts towards 5G Advanced and 6G.As part of the agreement, the duo will work on a wide variety of technologies, aiming to improve mobile network coverage and bandwidth…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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