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• Anglo-French concordance on Big Tech space threat

  25-07-2022 21:50
  Fibre shortage, Voyager spurns FTX, DJI’s mini drone
  
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• GWR tests live train system monitoring to reduce maintenance downtime

  25-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  GWR’s fleet of 93 intercity trains have been fitted with what’s described as a world-first live monitoring system that will reduce how long each train is out of service for routine maintenance.Wireless sensors are being attached to monitor the wheelsets and bogies on the trains, allowing real-time data to be collected about the condition and performance of the gearboxes, traction motors, bearings and wheels. This is significant as typically, bogie overhaul accounts for about a third
  
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• CityFibre picks Nokia and Calix for UK XGS-PON upgrade

  25-07-2022 18:07
  
  UK fibre infrastructure specialist CityFibre isn’t messing around and has decided nothing less than symmetrical speeds of 10 Gbps will do for its network.
  That means whizzy XGS-PON optical technology to replace the boring old G-PON architecture it currently uses, which can typically only manage up to 1 Gbps download and considerably less upload. This kind of upgrade has to be done eventually but network operators typically like to sweat their assets for as long as possible. By making this
  
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• Eutelsat/OneWeb: rumoured terms bring satellite deal down to earth

  25-07-2022 17:01
  The French satellite communications company lacks growth but has the finances to pay for some with OneWeb
  
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• Feminine power the divine to the demonic at the British Museum

  25-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A museum that is, to be not unkind, rather full of pale white men carved out of marble, is currently exploding with colour, and women. This is their exploration of how women have been depicted by religions across the globe, with a choice selection of objects from their own collection as well as loans from other museums.As an exhibition, what it really excels at is showing the huge variety of forms that female deities take from across the world. As a generic westerner, we’re not that used t
  
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• Is the broadband network ready for the metaverse?

  25-07-2022 15:46
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Pravin S Bhandarkar, Founder and CEO of RtBrick, looks at the telecoms infrastructure implication of the metaverse.
  There is a great deal of industry buzz around the metaverse. However, as consumers and businesses begin to embrace this new digital world, one critical issue remains unanswered: how will it all be connected?
  What is the metaverse?
  It’s hard n
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Neutral host, small cells and state intervention

  25-07-2022 15:35
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Neutral host, small cells and state intervention
  
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• Vodafone Germany results decline for the second quarter in a row

  25-07-2022 14:59
  
  UK operator group Vodafone published its Q2 2022 results with its largest market, Germany, seeing service revenues decline for a second quarter in a row.
  Vodafone says overall it grew at group level in the second quarter of this year. This is in line with its expectations and supported by both Europe and Africa as revenues growing by 1.6% YoY, reaching €11,278 million.
  However, its largest market is still on recovery course as Germany’s organic service revenue growth declined by 0.5%,
  
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• US ratchets up pressure to rip and replace Huawei kit

  25-07-2022 14:53
  
  Recent reports from anonymous sources claim Huawei kit installed near US military facilities ‘could’ intercept and disrupt military communications.
  Late last week Reuters had two of those little birds whispering in its ear to that effect. Then, yesterday, CNN got an exclusive that an ‘FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications’. Once more, the sources were anonymous, but the nature of the information st
  
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• MediaTek turns to Intel for chip manufacturing

  25-07-2022 14:22
  
  Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek will begin manufacturing chips using Intel Foundry Services, which it says will help it ‘build a more balanced, resilient supply chain.’
  MediaTek will use Intel process technologies – which Intel claims is capable of ‘three-dimensional FinFET transistors to next-generation breakthroughs’ – to manufacture multiple chips for a range of smart edge devices as part of a ‘foundry partnership’.
  “As one of the world&rsqu
  
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• Orange-MasMovil tie-up tests regulatory waters

  25-07-2022 13:12
  
  Orange and MasMovil have agreed to merge their operations in Spain via a multi-billion-euro deal that will test the willingness of European regulators to accept in-market consolidation.
  The two telcos announced a binding agreement to merge their businesses to create an entity with an enterprise value of €18.6 billion, slightly lower than the figure they shared when they first announced their exclusive talks to that end in March. The resulting entity will be a 50:50 joint venture between Ora
  
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• Look out for a nighttime flotilla of glowing boats on the Thames

  25-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Thames will be filled with an illuminated flotilla of 150 decorated boats, including the Queen’s own barge, Gloriana, as part of the Thames Festival later this year.
  Concept image (c) Thames Festival / Illuminated River
  The flotilla will be part of a one-night only event which will synchronise the movements of the boats with Illuminated River, the scheme that lights up the river bridges across the Thames each night.
  Comprised of 150 boats adorned with glistening white lights, the proce
  
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• Vodafone boosted by growth in UK business

  25-07-2022 12:42
  Europe’s largest broadband provider says it is on track to deliver full-year guidance
  
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• OneWeb and Eutelsat confirm merger talks

  25-07-2022 12:41
  
  Following circulating rumours that French satellite firm Eutelsat was about to acquire UK satellite firm OneWeb, the former has this morning announced that discussions are happening.
  Eutelsat says it is in discissions with OneWeb shareholders regarding a potential all-share combination to create what it says would be  the first multi-orbit satellite operator offering integrated GEO and LEO solutions.
  “The transaction would be structured as a contribution by OneWeb’s shareholders
  
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• Telefónica sells €1 billion stake in Spanish fibre ops

  25-07-2022 12:40
  
  Spain has a new wholesale FTTH provider after incumbent Telefónica agreed to sell a €1 billion chunk of its rural fibre business to a consortium led by Crédit Agricole’s insurance arm.
  In return for their €1 billion, Crédit Agricole Assurances (CAA) and its partner, Paris-based asset manager Vauban Infrastructure Partners, will take a 45 percent stake in the new entity, which covers 3.5 million premises, representing about 13 percent of Telefónica&rsqu
  
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• London’s Alleys: Leigh Place, EC1

  25-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a modest alley that can be found in the back streets of Holborn, and is notable apart from the varied history for having one of the few remaining painted road signs in the City.When all around here was still fields, it was part of the Manor of Portpoole, owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral, who rented it to Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Wilton. The manor house of Portpoole subsequently became known as Gray’s Inn.
  By the 1650s, the area was heavily devel
  
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• Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth

  25-07-2022 06:00
  Rising prices of critical components casts shadow over 5G rollout and development of data centres
  
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• Telefonica sells €1bn stake in rural fibre network

  25-07-2022 02:00
  Telefónica Group, one of the greatest telecommunications services operators at a global scale, and the consortium Crédit Agricole Assurances (“CAA”), the first bank insurance Group in Europe, and Vauban Infrastructure Partners (“Vauban”), a leading long-term infrastructure investor, have reached an agreement to set up Bluevia Fibra, S.L. (“Bluevia”), a unique platform for the commercialization and deployment of a fibre network (FTTH) in Spain, m
  
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• Orange, Másmovíl make €19bn merger official

  25-07-2022 02:00
  This weekend, Orange and Másmovíl have announced that they are officially moving forward with their planned merger to create a 50:50 joint venture in Spain.The deal values Orange Spain was valued at €7.8 billion and Másmovíl at €10.9 billion, giving the combined entity a market value of €18.6 billion. The combined, converged operator would have roughly 7.1 million fixed line customers and 20.2 million mobile subscribers…read more on TotalTe
  
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• OneWeb and Eutelsat eyeing merger to take on Starlink

  25-07-2022 02:00
  This week, French satellite firm Eutelsat has announced that it is in merger discussions with the UK’s OneWeb, seeking to combine the pair’s respective geostationary (GEO) and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.The discussions suggest that the newly created business would be owned 50:50 by the companies’ respective shareholders, creating a combined entity with the scale to take on the likes of Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation. OneWeb currently has 428 LEO satellites
  
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• OneWeb and Eutelsat eyeing merger

  25-07-2022 02:00
  This week, French satellite firm Eutelsat has announced that it is in merger discussions with the UK’s OneWeb, seeking to combine the pair’s respective geostationary (GEO) and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.The discussions suggest that the newly created business would be owned 50:50 by the companies’ respective shareholders, creating a combined entity with the scale to take on the likes of Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation. OneWeb currently has 428 LEO satellites
  
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• Nokia and CityFibre sign 10-year deal to build 10Gbps broadband network

  25-07-2022 02:00
  CityFibre is building an open access network which will connect up to 8 million premises in 285 cities, towns and villages, reaching a third of the country. The Lightspan access nodes being supplied by Nokia as part of this solution will be used by CityFibre to offer its wholesale customers multigig residential broadband (up to 10Gb/s in both directions) and higher bandwidth services such as connecting Enterprises and providing backhaul for mobile networks…read more on TotalTele.com &raq
  
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• Nokia and CityFibre sign 10 year agreement to build 10Gb/second UK broadband network

  25-07-2022 02:00
  CityFibre is building an open access network which will connect up to 8 million premises in 285 cities, towns and villages, reaching a third of the country. The Lightspan access nodes being supplied by Nokia as part of this solution will be used by CityFibre to offer its wholesale customers multigig residential broadband (up to 10Gb/s in both directions) and higher bandwidth services such as connecting Enterprises and providing backhaul for mobile networks…read more on TotalTele.com &raq
  
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