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• DT signs even more of itself over to Google Cloud

  12-07-2022 17:32
  
  German operator group Deutsche Telekom seems to have decided the future is Google after handing over its network transformation to the US hyperscaler.
  Google was already doing a fair bit for DT, such as the sovereign cloud project embarked upon last year, and the operator clearly likes what it has seen. So the of them decided to officially move in with each other by expanding their partnership to ‘define a joint roadmap for the telecommunications industry’, no less.
  Even ten years ag
  
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• Last chance to ride Greater Anglia’s old Class 317 trains this weekend

  12-07-2022 16:49 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This coming Saturday (16th July) will see the last time that Greater Anglia’s old Class 317 electric commuter trains will run on the network, and they’re arranging for people to have one last ride.The Class 317 trains, which have run on the West Anglia route between Cambridge, Hertford East and London Liverpool Street for over 30 years, covering millions of miles, are being replaced with brand new Class 720 trains. The old Class 317 trains are now primarily used for cover and conting
  
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• A campaign to create a wild swimming water park in East London

  12-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A set of derelict Victorian waterworks that once cleaned water for London through large filtering beds could be turned into a series of open-water swimming baths, if a campaign group can buy the land they sit in.
  (c) East London Waterworks Park
  The site is next to the River Lee and is the former East London Water Works, built between 1899-1903 as a series of reservoirs to secure a greater supply of water for an increasing population and to provide a reserve of water in case of drought. The compa
  
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• Canada takes action after Rogers outage

  12-07-2022 15:37
  
  The Canadian government has put the onus on telecoms operators to come up with a back-up plan in the event of a network outage like the one that affected Rogers customers last week.
  That might seem like a fairly soft approach, but the operators have been given a relatively short time to present their collective solution before… well, we don’t actually known what will happen if they don’t meet Ottawa’s deadline. Meanwhile, the country’s telecom regulator will also i
  
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• Save money on TfL Cycle Hire with an annual pass

  12-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The usual daily charge to hire a bike from TfL’s cycle hire scheme normally costs £2 per day, but it can be as low as 25p if you don’t mind paying upfront.
  This is the annual pass, which costs £90 upfront, but even if a person only uses a hire bike, for example, three days a week, it takes just three months for the annual pass to start saving you money.
  Without the annual pass, that same person cycling three days per week would pay over £300 – so that example
  
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• Gautam Adani takes on Mukesh Ambani’s Jio with 5G bid

  12-07-2022 12:35
  Indian tycoon enters competitive telecoms sector as he expands infrastructure empire
  
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• German 6G project chooses Nokia as lead coordinator

  12-07-2022 12:32
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia will spearhead 6G-ANNA, a German national-funded lighthouse project designed to drive 6G research and standardisation.
  6G ANNA which stands for Access, Network of Networks, Automation & Simplification, is a German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) funded program. It aims to strengthen the 6G research and development agendas for German and European industry as well as advance global pre-standardisation
  
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• American Tower brings Stonepeak in to $10.5 billion data centre business

  12-07-2022 12:30
  
  American Tower has agreed a multi-billion-dollar deal for a sizeable chunk of its nascent data centre business in the US, bringing in investment firm Stonepeak to help finance future growth.
  The company, whose core business is mobile towers, has been building up its data centre portfolio in recent years. It has now brokered a deal to offload a stake of around 29% to Stonepeak for $2.5 billion, a sum that values the business as a whole at $10.5 billion. Stonepeak will serve as a financial partner
  
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• UK government reckons people love a bit of censorship

  12-07-2022 11:38
  
  The DCMS has commissioned a report that found 7 in 10 adults want social media firms to do more to tackle harmful content. What a surprise.
  Pollster Ipsos was asked to conduct one of those surveys that definitely don’t have a clearly-stated desired outcome by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The headline findings are that 68% of respondents ‘want more action from social media firms on racism, homophobia and misogyny on their platforms’, and that ‘over
  
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• Nokia selects Infovista to deliver cloud-based automated drive testing to accelerate roll-out of 5G deployments

  12-07-2022 11:00
  
  Global partnership includes centralized management and automation of critical testing process for new 5G and legacy networks Paris, France – July 12th, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced a global partnership with Nokia to accelerate the rollout and acceptance of 5G network deployments. The partnership will see Infovista deliver its cloud-based, automated testing solutions to support the verification, optimization and benchmarkin
  
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• ST Engineering iDirect and MEASAT reaffirm partnership with significant network expansion to power next generation HTS satellite

  12-07-2022 10:30
  
  MEASAT to deliver a wide range of satellite services across Malaysia on MEASAT-3d with the largest iDirect Evolution® network in Asia-Pacific Herndon, Va., July 12, 2022 – ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, announced today that Malaysian satellite operator MEASAT, is significantly expanding its iDirect Evolution-based satellite network to deliver a plethora of services to enterprises and communities located in rural and ultra-rural areas across Malaysi
  
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• Cable & Wireless Seychelles picks Cerillion Unify for quad-play BSS/OSS transformation

  12-07-2022 09:30
  
  London, 12th July 2022 – Cerillion (AIM: CER), an innovator in digital monetisation and customer management solutions, today announced a major new contract with Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS), the leading telecommunications company in the Seychelles, to implement a complete digital BSS/OSS solution. Cerillion is providing a full turnkey delivery of Cerillion Unify, within a private cloud deployment to maximise the benefits of data security, control, and cost of operation. Based on t
  
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• The ancient Dunmow Flitch Trials took place last weekend

  12-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Last Saturday, a huge piece of bacon was paraded through an Essex town as an ancient ceremony took place once again. This was the Dunmow Flitch Trials.The story goes that in 1104, the Lord of the Manor, Reginald Fitzwalter and his wife dressed as humble folk and begged the blessing of the Prior at the local Priory a year and a day after their marriage. Impressed by their fealty, the Prior awarded them a flitch of bacon – which is a huge amount of bacon.
  Lord Fitzwalter then gave his land t
  
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• Sparkle and Italian Navy partner for protect subsea cables

  12-07-2022 02:00
  This week, the Italian Navy have announced a new partnership with Telecom Italia’s submarine cable subsidiary, Sparkle, pledging to jointly improve the protection of national subsea infrastructure. As part of the partnership, the duo plans to work together on shared operating procedures and potentially joint reconnaissance and monitoring activities in the areas surrounding Sparkle&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange and MásMóvil nearing €6.5bn funding for merger

  12-07-2022 02:00
  Back in March, Orange Spain and MásMóvil announced their intention to merge, forming a 50:50 joint venture with an enterprise value of roughly €20 billion. The deal would create a converged operator with around 7.1 million fixed line customers and 20.2 mobile customers, as well as 1.5 million TV customers. Orange’s tower company, TOTEM, would notably be excluded from the merger…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NTT forms Seren Juno Network to launch new transatlantic cable

  12-07-2022 02:00
  NTT Ltd. Japan Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., PC Landing Corp, and JA Mitsui Leasing, Ltd. today announced the launch of a new company, Seren Juno Network Co., Ltd. (“Seren”) which has been founded to construct and operate “JUNO”, the new and largest trans-Pacific submarine cable system (providing the maximum capacity of 350Tbps) that will run between Japan and the US.According to leading telecommunications industry analyst firm…read more on TotalTele.com &r
  
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