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• The V&A opens its landmark Africa Fashion exhibition

  07-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new exhibition at the V&A takes a look at post-colonial fashions across the African continent, showing off not just their diversity, but also how they’ve influenced Western tastes.
  This is not an exhibition about clothing that the average person buys though, but clothing bought by those rich enough to have disposable income to buy designer clothes created locally for local markets.
  The exhibition is split into two floors and two themes, with the ground floor looking at the past, and
  
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• Late summer openings at Greenwich’s Painted Hall

  07-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Painted Hall in Greenwich — often called the UK’s own Sistine Chapel — will be open late on a number of evenings through July and August. During the evening openings, there will be tours to learn more, or you can just soak up the huge painted ceiling and walls of this former pensioner home for old sailors.The hall will be open until 8pm on the following evenings:Friday 8th July
  Saturday 8th July
  Friday 22nd July
  Saturday 30th July
  Friday 5th August
  Friday 12th August
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• Mediation fails to resolve objections to Rogers and Shaw merger

  07-07-2022 15:16
  
  Canada’s Commissioner of Competition has had a look at the proposed merger between Rogers Communications and rival Shaw, and his concerns remain unsettled.
  Talks with the Canadian regulator have, at least in the first pass, failed to alleviate the concerns it had about the proposed deal. A statement put out by Rogers reads:
  The early mediation between Rogers Communications Inc, Shaw Communications Inc, and the Commissioner of Competition on July 4 and July 5, 2022, did not result in a reso
  
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• Apple beefs up device security as spy agencies warn of increasing Chinese threats

  07-07-2022 13:36
  
  US tech giant Apple has announced ‘Lockdown Mode’ – an upcoming security feature for iPhones, iPads and Macs made specifically to defend against state-sponsored mercenary spyware and cyberattacks.
  Lockdown Mode will be an option to flip on in upcoming iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura updates, and is designed to offer ‘extreme, optional protection for the very small number of users who face grave, targeted threats to their digital security.’
  Specifically it is de
  
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• TIM sort of clarifies details of company split

  07-07-2022 13:34
  
  TIM has outlined more detailed plans to split its network operations from its services business, confirming recent reports that around half of its debt will go with the NetCo unit.
  But the financial picture at NetCo could change pretty quickly. TIM also noted that M&A is still an option, specifically the merger of the networks business with that of rival Open Fiber or the sale of the unit to other investors. Only if the financials stack up though, of course.
  There are no big surprises in TIM
  
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• Nearly 90 percent of new 5G devices support standalone

  07-07-2022 13:19
  
  The 5G device market is showing signs of maturity, with much broader support for standalone (SA) and fewer non-5G versions of handsets.
  This is according to the latest Mobile Device Trends report, published this week by the Global Certification Forum (GCF). GCF is a non-profit group that verifies mobile products to ensure they are of sufficiently high quality, secure, reliable and interoperable. 150 OEMs from 25 countries participate in its certification programmes, giving it a good bird’s
  
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• Largest submarine cable between Australia and the US launches

  07-07-2022 13:13
  
  Southern Cross Cables says its NEXT submarine network is the most capacious yet to connect Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands, and the US.
  While the distance covered is an impressive 15,840km, this is the third transpacific cable laid down by Southern Cross Cables (SX to its friends) which, as its name implies, specialises in this sort of thing. Having two such networks in its portfolio, the company chose NEXT as the name for the latest one. It’s hard to fault that as a descriptive la
  
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• Reaping the full potential of 5G

  07-07-2022 13:05
  
  As 5G is becoming mainstream in more markets, the fifth network generation promised users and the industry alike to offer ‘smart’ technologies and advanced use-cases, unleashed by 5G standalone (SA) capabilities such as zero latency and ultra-high reliability. We are also experiencing an explosion of new opportunities complementing 5G in the space of cloud and virtualisation, open-source networking, edge computing and private networks.
  As such, Telecoms.com Intelligence in collaborat
  
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• Wallace Collection putting on a Richard III exhibition

  07-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A decade after the remains of King Richard III were found under a car park in Leicester, there’s an exhibition about the discovery opening in London later this year.
  The exhibition, at the Wallace Collection is a tie-in with a movie, The Lost King, about the discovery that’s coming out at the same time, and the Wallace is going to be looking at how artists represented the King over the centuries since his death.
  Sally Hawkins and Harry Lloyd in The Lost King (c) Pathé Producti
  
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• Accurate mobile network planning can reduce a nationwide operator's CAPEX by $2 billion over 10 years

  07-07-2022 13:00
  
  Mobile Experts research reveals improvement of 1 dB in RSRP modeling precision can increase RAN capacity by 24% enabling operators to defer deployment of thousands of 5G-NR base stations every year AI/ML-based RAN planning and design optimization leads to reduction of the number of base stations without impacting the user experience Paris, France – July 7th, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced the findings of a report commissione
  
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• Beijing decries India’s ‘frequent’ probes after raid of phonemaker Vivo

  07-07-2022 11:29
  New Delhi is putting increasing pressure on Chinese tech groups following border clashes in 2020
  
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• Small Cell Forum report forecasts that open networks, shared spectrum and new operating models can drive significant growth in small cell deployment

  07-07-2022 11:10
  
  London, UK, 7 July 2022 – Small Cell Forum (SCF) has released its latest market forecast report. The report, available here: https://www.smallcellforum.org/scf-market-forecast/, based on a survey of 101 service providers, confirms the continuing growth of the small cell market, while forecasting that 2022-27 will be a period of rapid change and expansion in the small cell market, driven by potent enablers that include increased diversity in use cases, deployment business models and archite
  
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• Around 200,000 journeys each day in the new Elizabeth line tunnels

  07-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  TfL’s Elizabeth line Committee has confirmed that it is now seeing an average of 200,000 journeys each day on the new section of the Elizabeth line between Abbey Wood and Paddington.
  Tottenham Court Road station
  By the end of Monday 20th June 2022, the Elizabeth line had seen around 10.25 million passenger journeys across the whole route since it launched on 24th May 2022, and around five million of those trips are estimated to have involved the central section from Paddington to Abbey Woo
  
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• Rogers–Shaw merger hits antitrust impasse

  07-07-2022 02:00
  Back in March last year, Rogers Communications announced that it had agreed to buy its rival, Shaw Communications, for C$21 billion (roughly $15 billion).  The deal was immediately controversial, with detractors claiming that the deal would be bad for consumers and competition, driving up prices and reducing the number of mobile operators in Canada from four to three. The operators themselves, meanwhile, said that the deal would greatly enhance their ability to rollout 5G services acr
  
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• Lebanese telcos hike prices to stay afloat amid ongoing economic crisis

  07-07-2022 02:00
  Lebanon has been going through a major financial crisis since 2019, the effects of which have only been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The value of the Lebanese pound has collapsed by around 90%, bankrupting the government and crippling the country’s electric grid, which is largely reliant on importing fuel and energy from neighbouring countries.Naturally, this economic catastrophe has had enormous effects for the country’s telecoms industry, which have rapidly transformed
  
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• India cracking down on Chinese smartphone makers with Vivo raids

  07-07-2022 02:00
  This week, the Indian government has conducted searches at more than 40 of Vivo’s locations in India, following allegations that the Chinese smartphone maker was participating in money laundering. As part of the raids, roughly $60 million has been seized and 199 of Vivo’s bank accounts have been frozen.The investigations have been taking place since at least April, when reports noted that India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) was seeking to probe the company&rsquo&hell
  
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