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• A Blue Plaque to remember the Match Girls’ Strike

  08-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the most important strikes in modern British history has been commemorated by English Heritage with a blue plaque at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London where in July 1888 around 1,400 of the predominantly female workforce walked out in protest at the dismissal of a number of their co-workers.
  (c) English Heritage
  The sacked workers were suspected of talking to newspapers about the appalling conditions they worked under at the factory, not just the poor wage
  
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• Inside the revamped Royal College of Surgeons

  08-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A grand classical-looking building facing onto Lincolns Inn Fields conceals a totally revamped interior with a huge new floor to ceiling atrium. This is the Royal College of Surgeons headquarters which hasn’t been revamped but entirely rebuilt behind its stone facade.To assuage the howls of protest I can feel welling up already about this desecration, while the front of the building is indeed the original, most of what was behind it is now in its third regeneration and wasn’t histori
  
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• Tickets Alert: Chess the Musical extra date added

  08-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A revival of the 1980s musical, Chess, was due to run for just one day, but a second day has been added, and tickets are now on sale.The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any real individuals, the character of the American grandmaster was loosely based on Bobby Fischer,
  
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• Vodafone and VMO2 will deploy 4G and 5G on London Underground

  08-07-2022 12:59
  
  A new deal with Infrastructure firm BAI Communications, who handles the network in the Underground, will mean Vodafone and VMO2 customers will be able to make calls on the tube.
  Vodafone and VMO2 joining BAI Communications’ London Underground network means commuters will be able to connect on all four of the major operator’s 4G and 5G networks, with EE and Three having already signed up, once it has been completed.
  BAI was granted a 20 year contract to deliver connectivity on the Und
  
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• HGC wants to be the ‘engine’ of the metaverse

  08-07-2022 12:56
  
  Hong Kong-based HGC is completely sold on the whole metaverse idea, and has launched a new suite of services in an effort to capitalise on the hype.
  Casting itself as the ‘engine’ of the metaverse, its new portfolio is called EdgeX, and leverages HGC’s various infrastructure assets and managed services, and stitches them together into a cohesive offering that promises OTT companies all the ingredients they need to launch successful metaverse services.
  These ingredients include
  
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• UK government moves to protect some journalism from social media censorship

  08-07-2022 12:51
  
  The UK’s deeply flawed Online Safety Bill gets a rare positive amendment as measures are introduced to stop big US social media platforms from censoring some stories.
  The latest tweak seeks to prevent Category 1 companies, which include the largest and most popular social media platforms, from taking down or making less visible stories published by ‘recognised news outlets’, even if they are suspected of breaching the platform’s terms and conditions. The definition of &ls
  
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• Telefonica gives up Mexico network, but it’s not an MVNO

  08-07-2022 12:44
  
  Telefonica has completed the migration of its mobile traffic to AT&T’s network in Mexico and has handed back the last of its spectrum to the regulator, but it remains pretty insistent that that does not make it an MVNO.
  The migration was tied up in the past few days, according to various local press reports. The project dates back to late 2019 when Telefonica announced that Movistar, its Mexican operating unit, had brokered a carriage deal with AT&T for current 3G and 4G traffic, a
  
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• JT IoT expands global IoT expert team by acquiring Top Connect

  08-07-2022 11:35
  Jersey / Tallinn / London JT IoT, the Jersey based global IoT Connectivity player backed by Perwyn, announces that it has acquired Top Connect, an international MVNO and global roaming provider. The acquisition of this IoT and roaming connectivity provider and its expert team will accelerate JT IoT’s plan to build a stronger global IoT ecosystem and to expand into new markets and use cases. Top Connect is an Estonia-based connectivity player with a 25-year...Source: RealWire
  
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• London Underground’s mobile phone coverage to expand by end of this year

  08-07-2022 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The expansion of mobile phone coverage in the London Underground is expanding, with five stations confirmed to go live within the next six months.
  Leaky feeder cable for phone signals being installed (c) TfL
  At the moment, coverage for all mobile networks is available in the Jubilee line tunnels between Westminster and Canning Town, and TfL has confirmed that Bank, Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Euston, and Camden Town will be the first stations to gain coverage as part of the network expa
  
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• Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone set to bring 4G to customers on London Underground

  08-07-2022 02:00
  Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone have joined BAI Communications’ neutral host mobile network on the London Underground. They join EE and Three, who have already signed up.The announcement means that customers of all four of the UK’s major MNO’s will be able to access 4G and 5G…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Connectivity between Iceland and Japan through new Pan-Arctic Fibre cable

  08-07-2022 02:00
  Farice and Far North Digital (FND) have signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint marketing and sales agreement for fibre optic connectivity between Japan and Iceland.  Farice’s new IRIS submarine cable will provide connectivity between Iceland and Ireland, and FND’s new Arctic cable spans between Japan and Ireland…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre appoints new CDIO to its executive team

  08-07-2022 02:00
  Earlier this week, UK full fibre builder CityFibre announced the appointment of Vicky Higgin as Chief Digital and Information Officer and Executive Director. Vicky joins CityFibre from National Highways where she has been working as CDIO until now. &nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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