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• Fundraising to repair South London’s narrow-gauge railway

  14-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A narrow-gauge railway in southeast London is fundraising to secure the future of its main locomotive after it suffered a major mechanical breakdown.The Royal Arsenal Narrow Gauge (RANG) railway operates on the Crossness Engines site at Abbey Wood and runs between the sewage plant’s main entrance to the 1865 Victorian sewage pumping station which houses the largest rotative beam engines in the world.
  At the moment, even if you arrive by car, it’s a decent walk to get to the Victorian
  
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• UK set to postpone controversial Online Safety Bill

  14-07-2022 17:44
  
  It looks like UK citizens are going to be denied additional state protection when they use the internet for a bit longer.
  It is being widely reported, perhaps first by PoliticsHome, that the divisive Online Safety Bill is being put on the back burner thanks to the resignation of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the consequent governmental chaos. There’s just too much other stuff to deal with before summer hols, it seems, so the passage of the bill is being delayed until the autumn.
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• Plans to convert the historic Custom House into a hotel blocked

  14-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The plans to convert the Georgian-era Custom House building next to the Tower of London into an upmarket hotel have been blocked by the planning inspector.The plans were submitted to the City of London by Squire & Partners, but the City rejected them, so an appeal was filed to the Planning Inspectorate to make a decision. And that has also decided to refuse permission to convert the Grade-I listed building into a hotel.
  As the name suggests, Custom House was a customs and taxes house for the
  
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• Deutsche Telekom/towers: deal structure forces out buyers

  14-07-2022 15:44
  Future sellers may have to rely on private equity to hold prices up
  
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• Aslef train drivers to strike on Saturday 30th July

  14-07-2022 14:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just days after a national rail strike by the RMT is due to take place, train drivers with the Aslef union will also walk out in a one-day strike.
  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. The ballot was around 9-1 in favour of strike action, with turnouts across the train companies in excess of 80% voting in the ballot.
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• DT gets best of both worlds with €17.5 billion towers deal

  14-07-2022 13:56
  
  German operator group Deutsche Telekom has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its towers business to DigitalBridge and Brookfield in a deal that values the asset at €17.5 billion.
  We knew the deal was coming and at roughly what price, but the identity of the winning bidders ended up being something of a surprise.
  DigitalBridge and Brookfield were reported to have been backing a takeover bid from Spain-based passive infrastructure specialist Cellnex. But when Cellnex formally announced that it wa
  
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• Ericsson treated harshly by investors after another margin decline

  14-07-2022 13:48
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson revealed a lower-than-expected gross margin in its Q2 2022 report but a share price hit of -8%, at time of writing, as a result seems excessive.
  Overall sales grew by 5% when adjusted for adjustments which, inflation notwithstanding, seems healthy enough. But gross margin was 42.2%, excluding restructuring charges, which is down a fair bit from the 43.4% Ericsson managed in the year-ago quarter. Sequentially, however, there was barely any decline at all, so it’s
  
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• AWS launches its bid for cloud WAN supremacy

  14-07-2022 12:49
  
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a cloud-based wide-area networking (WAN) service that leverages its vast scale to help maintain enterprise networks.
  Aptly-called AWS Cloud WAN, it brings together Amazon’s own cloud connectivity services as well as a whole host of third-party solutions into a single dashboard. The idea is to make it easier for enterprises to build, manage and monitor their WAN as if it were a single, unified network and not a jumble of networks all grafted to one ano
  
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• Infovista announces availability of Ativa™ Automated Assurance and Operations suite with catalog of use case-based solutions

  14-07-2022 11:10
  
  Cloud-native by design, Ativa™ suite enables CSPs and enterprises to automate 5G slicing operations, IoT, voice, broadband, enterprise services across digital experiences, apps, services, networks and infrastructure Paris, France – 14th July 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced the general availability of Infovista Ativa™, its new suite of cloud-native applications for Automated Assurance and Operations of cloudified,
  
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• Tickets Alert: State apartment tours of Parliament’s Speaker’s House

  14-07-2022 11:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Earlier this year, the first-ever public tours of the opulent Speakers House inside Parliament took place, and they’re running more from the end of September.
  The State Dining Room in Speaker’s House (c) UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor
  Speakers House is an odd place, a palace within a palace, as it’s exceptionally richly decorated and is both the private home of the Speaker of the House of Commons and also a suite of state rooms used for events away from the main Parliamentary bui
  
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• Deutsche Telekom to sell majority stake in towers business

  14-07-2022 09:11
  Consortium of Canada’s Brookfield and US private equity firm DigitalBridge to take 51% holding
  
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• Inside the 200-year old St Pancras New Church

  14-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Built to serve the growing population of London, when it opened 200 years ago, St Pancras New Church was the most expensive church built in London since the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral.Just a decade before it was built, all around this part of modern London was still mostly fields, but London was expanding fast, and just 20 years later, the whole area was to have been built on with the street layouts we mostly recognise today. It was that surging population growth that saw a need for
  
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• Telstra completes govt-backed acquisition of Digicel Pacific

  14-07-2022 02:00
  Back in October last year, Telstra announced that it had agreed to purchase Digicel’s Pacific operations for $1.6 billion. The deal was heavily subsidised by the Australian government, who agreed to provide around $1.3 billion to facilitate the move, with analysts suggesting this was largely to stop the Pacific region’s critical communications infrastructure falling under Chinese control. The acquisition covered all of Digicel Pacific&rsquo…read more on TotalTel
  
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• Nokia to test Open RAN and radar compatibility

  14-07-2022 02:00
  Nokia has announced that it has extended its partnership with Hill Air Force Base and the National Spectrum Consortium to ensure that incumbent radar and 5G networks operating can co-exist seamlessly in shared spectrum by controlling the behavior in real time of the 5G system when the incumbent radar is present. Hill Air Force Base is using Nokia’s O-RAN solutions for the testbed and Phase 1 of the project has been successfully completed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia makes partnersips to test Open RAN and radar compatibility

  14-07-2022 02:00
  Nokia has announced that it has extended its partnership with Hill Air Force Base and the National Spectrum Consortium to ensure that incumbent radar and 5G networks operating can co-exist seamlessly in shared spectrum by controlling the behavior in real time of the 5G system when the incumbent radar is present. Hill Air Force Base is using Nokia’s O-RAN solutions for the testbed and Phase 1 of the project has been successfully completed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Last minute Brookfield bid wins DT’s towers

  14-07-2022 02:00
  Today, Deutsche Telekom has announced that it has agreed to sell a majority stake in its tower unit to Brookfield and DigitalBridge, after the pair submitted a late bid of €17.5 billion. The duo will subsequently own 51% of the tower unit, with Deutsche Telekom retaining the remaining 49%. "We crystalise the value of our tower assets…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Kaliningrad could pose a problem for Lithuanian 5G

  14-07-2022 02:00
  This week, the Lithuanian Communications Regulatory Authority (Rysiu Reguliavimo Tarnyba, RRT) has announced the launch of the country’s second 5G spectrum auction, this time in the 3.5 GHz band. The sale will make three 100MHz blocks of spectrum in the 3.4–3.7 GHz band available to the operators, with a reserve price set at €3 million per lot.Winners will be subject to various conditions imposed by the regulator, including rolling out 5G to at least one city in 2023, to a
  
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