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• LEGO model of a London square with a magical twist

  18-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Part of Claremont Square, a row of houses near King’s Cross is now available as a LEGO kit, although mainly because it was used in the filming of a Harry Potter movie.
  (c) LEGO
  Claremont Square is a three-sided square of houses next to Pentonville Road, and in the middle, the eponymous square is a raised mound that conceals an underground water reservoir built by the New River Company. The houses that run around the square are all around 200 years old, having been built between 1815-1828.
  
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• Plans to restore derelict railway arches next to the Emirates stadium

  18-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A row of blocked-off railway arches near the Arsenal football club could be opened up and rented out as part of a property development nearby if planning permission is granted.
  Current state of the arches (c) Planning application / CZWG
  The main development, by CZWG, would be a student accommodation building for 284 people sitting next to the London Metropolitan University, while the railway arches would be rented out.
  Proposed development (c) Planning application / CZWG
  The railway arches to be
  
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• Why billing will be better with BCE

  18-07-2022 15:00
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Paulo Zanotto, Product Director – Partner Settlement at Subex, extols the virtues of Billing and Charging Evolution.
  The digital communications landscape has changed and evolved in the 30-plus years that GSM mobile technology has been active. Evolving from simple circuit-switched voice to superfast 5G capable of managing billions of connected devices, the
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Ericsson, BT and Nothing

  18-07-2022 14:43
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Ericsson, BT and Nothing
  
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• Vodafone NZ brings in NZ$1.7 billion from selling its towers

  18-07-2022 14:38
  
  Vodafone New Zealand has agreed a NZ$1.7 billion deal that will see InfraRed Capital Partners and Northleaf Capital Partners take control of 80% of its mobile towers assets.
  That’s a pretty big deal for the assets in question, which amount to 1,484 wholly owned mobile towers. To put it in context, the purchase price represents an earnings multiple of 33.8x, based on pro forma FY2023 EBITDA.
  That’s a bigger multiple than we have seen in Europe of late, where the big guns have mostly b
  
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• Vodafone NZ brings in NZ$1.7 billion for towers

  18-07-2022 14:38
  
  Vodafone New Zealand has agreed a NZ$1.7 billion deal that will see InfraRed Capital Partners and Northleaf Capital Partners take control of 80% of its mobile towers assets.
  That’s a pretty big deal for the assets in question, which amount to 1,484 wholly owned mobile towers. To put it in context, the purchase price represents an earnings multiple of 33.8x, based on pro forma FY2023 EBITDA.
  That’s a bigger multiple than we have seen in Europe of late, where the big guns have mostly b
  
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• UK government throws around some ideas for AI rules

  18-07-2022 13:41
  
  The UK Government has put forward proposals on the future regulation of AI, which would see various regulators apply six ‘principles’ to markets which are implementing such technologies.
  The Government has sketched out its approach to regulating AI in a paper published today, which describes ‘proposed rules addressing future risks and opportunities so businesses are clear how they can develop and use AI systems and consumers are confident they are safe and robust.’
  It has
  
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• The US rip-and-replace scheme is a shambles

  18-07-2022 13:39
  
  Years after a passing a law demanding the removal of all Chinese-made kit from US telecoms networks, the resulting scheme is still struggling to get going.
  FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wrote to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to let them know that the cost of reimbursing those smaller US operators that still have Huawei or ZTE kit in their networks will be $5 billion. That is more than double the amount the US tax payer has originally been asked to shell out f
  
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• London’s newest station – Barking Riverside opened this morning

  18-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Early this morning, the London Overground extension to Barking Riverside station opened, linking a future large housing estate to the rest of London.Depending on how you look at it, the station is either late as it was due to open last year, or early, as the revised opening date had been this autumn.
  The £327 million link with its long curving viaduct, new station and provision for a second station will open up the huge Riverside housing development where eventually some 10,000 homes will
  
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• VMO2 reportedly offers £3 billion for TalkTalk

  18-07-2022 12:29
  
  Virgin Media O2 is eyeing up inorganic growth in the UK, having reportedly tabled a £3 billion bid for TalkTalk.
  The recently-merged UK telco tabled an indicative offer “in recent weeks” and talks between the relevant parties are at an early stage and are being held on a non-exclusive basis, Sky News claimed late last week, citing unnamed sources.
  The fact that talks are non-exclusive is key here. Virgin Media O2 is one of a number of telcos believed to be interested in picking
  
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• London’s Alleys: Old Fish Street Hill, EC4

  18-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This short rather plain-looking passageway is actually a remnant of a longer alley that can be traced back at least to medieval London, at a time when there was a large fish market next to where the alley’s northern end is today.Known generally as the West Fish Market, Ekwall notes that “another name-form [for Old Fish Street] is Westpiscaria”; ‘Piscaria’ or ‘Pisconaria’ meaning ‘the Fish-Market’ and the ‘West-’ affix being a &ldq
  
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• UK drone ‘superhighway’ cleared for take-off

  18-07-2022 02:00
  Today, the UK government has announced that it has given the greenlight to ‘Project Skyway’, a plan to create a ‘drone superhighway’ between the Midlands and the Southeast.  The proposed drone corridor will be the longest in the world, spanning around 165 miles and connecting Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby. It will be built and developed over the coming two years, with plans to extend the corridor all the way to Ipswich and South
  
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• Telefonica and Ericsson demo 5G network slicing for diverse use cases

  18-07-2022 02:00
  The proof-of-concept shows end-to-end orchestration for full slicing life cycle support and radio resources partitioning, offering a key differential user experience to customers.The proof-of-concept covered different use cases including a 360-video production in motion in collaboration with technology start-up YBVR, remote control of an automated guided vehicle (AGV), and gesture recognition in collaboration with Spanish SME Fivecomm.The lab test was carried out at 5TONIC, a Madrid-based open
  
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• FCC wants additional $3bn to ‘rip and replace’ Chinese network kit

  18-07-2022 02:00
  Back in 2020, President Donald Trump signed the Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act, essentially mandating US telcos to replace networking provided by vendors that the government deemed untrustworthy with regards to national security, such as China’s Huawei and ZTE. Of course, ripping and replacing networking equipment, especially on a large scale, does not come cheap. Many US telcos were quick to point out that they would struggle to comply with the new rules without signi
  
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