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• London Overground train drivers vote to strike

  11-07-2022 20:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Members of the train drivers’ union, Aslef at eight of the train operating companies — including the London Overground — have voted to go on strike. This latest strike is on top of last month’s strike action by the RMT which affected much of the National Rail network in the largest train strike in 30 years.
  Aslef says that its members have not had a pay rise since 2019, but are asking for a pay rise that will at least match the current level of inflation for this year. Th
  
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• Ericsson, Qualcomm and Thales to trial 5G from space

  11-07-2022 16:33
  Tech exploration could enable smartphones to access superfast speeds wherever they are in the world
  
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• Behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum of London in September

  11-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ahead of its closure at the end of this year, the Museum of London is having a six-month countdown of events that will include tours behind the scenes of the current building. At the end of this year, the museum will close and will spend the next few years moving to its new Smithfield site, with the intention to reopen in 2026.A lot of family-oriented events for younger people will take place this summer and autumn ahead of the museum’s closure, but there will also be a chance to go behind
  
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• What steps can network operators take to make autonomous networks a reality?

  11-07-2022 14:50
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Yuval Stein, AVP Technologies at TEOCO, examines best practice for autonomous networks.
  As 5G proliferates across a number of industry verticals, the vision of a fully connected world arrives with new technical challenges as well as myriad opportunities. As network operators strive to meet rising customer expectations, deliver increasingly digitized and diversif
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: cloud, TIM and censorship

  11-07-2022 14:27
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Cloud, TIM and censorship
  
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• India’s Adani ‘one of many’ to bid in 5G auction

  11-07-2022 13:46
  
  Adani Group has revealed that it will take part in India’s upcoming 5G spectrum auction with a view to rolling out private 5G networks.
  That in itself is pretty big news, since the government’s recently-announced rules on private 5G don’t make it particularly easy for corporations to set up their own networks, in the short term, at least. But a statement issued by the company on Saturday also indicates that there will be numerous others looking to do the same.
  As a quick remind
  
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• Ericsson and friends muscle in on direct-to-satellite 5G

  11-07-2022 13:38
  
  Swedish vendor Ericsson has partnered with chip maker Qualcomm and defence giant Thales to help it conquer a new frontier of space-based comms.
  That frontier is direct-to-satellite 5G connectivity, or 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) to put it in 3GPP terminology. It’s exciting because it promises to enable off-the-shelf cellular devices to get a connection in the most remote locations without help from any ancillary equipment on Terra firma. No ground stations, no satellite phones, no t
  
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• Twitter and Musk set for legal clash over acquisition

  11-07-2022 13:29
  
  After threatening to do so for months, Elon Musk has decided to pull out of his proposed acquisition of social media platform Twitter because he it hasn’t been transparent enough for his liking.
  Musk sent a letter to Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer late last week, notifying her of his decision to terminate the merger agreement. The letter describes at some length Musk’s claimed attempts to get hold of sufficient information from Twitter to independently assess what proportion of
  
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• A gin for the Regent’s Park Theatre’s 90th anniversary

  11-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1932, a London theatre was left without a play after the early cancellation of one of its performances. To fill the gap, in came a musical version of Twelfth Night, performed by actors dressed only in black and white. Awkwardly, this play proved so popular that when the theatre needed them to move on, they had to set up a makeshift theatre on a plot of land in the middle of Regent’s Park.
  And that grew over time to become the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
  As one of the largest t
  
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• Telecoms professionals see low latency and standalone as the future of 5G

  11-07-2022 12:34
  
  According to Telecoms.com’s latest survey report, 5G’s most significant capability three years from now will be URLLC, underpinned by standalone.
  Among a number of key findings, the survey explored the industry’s expectations three years from now. Respondents indicated they believe the future of 5G lies with its advanced capabilities, such as ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) which will gain commercial significance in the mid-term with 47% of responses putting U
  
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• Nokia launches 5G and robotics research hub in India

  11-07-2022 10:45
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia will launch a Centre of Excellence for Networked Robotics in India to promote research in robotics, 5G and AI for ‘socially relevant use cases‘.
  Developed alongside the Indian Institute of Science, the Nokia Centre of Excellence is described as a ‘state-of-the-art network robotics laboratory’ which will promote collaboration between academia, start-ups and general industry in order to develop new tech applications of robotics, 5G and AI for sector
  
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• London’s Alleys: Matrimony Place, SW4

  11-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Part of the busy Wandsworth Road sits at the bottom of a steep slope, and to get to the top, in one place is a steeply sloping alley, with the charming name of Matrimony Place that leads up to an old church.The alley is rarely named on maps, but the name seems to have been around for a long time, probably as long as the church has. John Rocque’s map of 1746 shows the church and the barrier between two fields pretty much where the alley is today.
  The earliest record of the alley’s nam
  
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• London Overground’s Barking Riverside extension will open next Monday

  11-07-2022 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Barking Riverside extension of the London Overground will open to passengers next Monday – 18th July, TfL has confirmed. Just last month, TfL said that it was bringing the opening forward from this autumn to sometime this summer, and has now confirmed the opening date as next Monday.
  (c) TfL
  The Gospel Oak route, extending out beyond Barking along the new 4.5km of track to Barking Riverside, will reduce journey times between Barking town and Barking Riverside to just seven minutes, rat
  
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• UK govt to delve deeper into Drahi’s BT stake increase

  11-07-2022 02:00
  Today, reports from Bloomberg suggest that the government is seeking yet more information about billionaire Patrick Drahi’s increasing stake in BT. The official deadline for the national security investigation’s conclusion was roughly a week ago, with the government now suggesting it needs more time to reach a conclusion.French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi first took a stake in BT back in the summer of 2021, specially forming Altice UK in order to buy a 12…read more
  
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• French MVNO left crippled by ransomware attack

  11-07-2022 02:00
  On July 4th, MVNO LPA was hit with a major ransomware attack, severely limiting the company’s administrative and management capabilities. Today, one week later, the company’s website is still down, instead replaced with an explanation of the cyber-attack.“As soon as we became aware of this incident, we took the necessary protective measures by immediately suspending the computer systems concerned…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T Mexico partners Nokia for 5G Innovation Lab

  11-07-2022 02:00
  Nokia and AT&T Mexico today announced that they are collaborating to bring the benefits of 5G to the country. Nokia was also selected as a strategic partner for AT&T Mexico’s 5G Innovation Lab with the aim of exploring the development of 5G use cases suited for Mexico and the local 5G ecosystem…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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