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• Moonshot: can Eutelsat compete in a space race with Bezos and Musk?

  26-07-2022 20:29
  Merger of French satellite operator and money-losing OneWeb shows pressure old order faces from challengers
  
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• Giant paper boats and planes fill a North Greenwich gallery

  26-07-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An art gallery has been filled with the equivalent of giant paper boats, planes and swans sailing in a yellow ocean.This is Maiden Voyage by the Korean artist JeeYoung Lee, and it’s curiously charming in a giant childlike fantasy sort of way. The paper boat sails in the yellow sea, that’s actually made of a wave of Ginkgo tree leaves that turn yellow in the autumn. Alongside are large birds, and above planes fly in the sky.
  They’re not actually paper, but metal, but aesthetical
  
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• Inwit and Open Fiber make joint rural FWA pledge

  26-07-2022 17:57
  
  Italian tower company Inwit and compatriot fibre infrastructure player Open Fiber have agreed to provide fixed wireless access to over 600 under-served locations.
  When bringing connectivity to more remote areas, terms like ‘bridging the digital divide’ get chucked about and those concerned usually can’t resist framing it as an act of tear-jerking philanthropy. This case is certainly no exception, with ESG buzzwords scattered around the press release like confetti. The fact that
  
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• The architecture of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition

  26-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although the Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is famous for the art on the walls, it’s also a space to show off rather larger works – of architecture. Or at least, the models of the architecture, on the assumption that skyscrapers can’t fit inside the gallery rooms.Not just the latest buildings, but a host from the past decades, and as such, it’s a bit of a dream to see all these wildly different scale models on show with tiny figures frozen in time outside
  
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• The cheapest and most expensive countries for mobile data revealed

  26-07-2022 14:36
  
  A report lists Israel as having the cheapest mobile data plans in the world, while Saint Helena clocks in at the most expensive country to get online.
  A survey carried out by Cable.co.uk analysed data from 5,292 mobile data plans in 233 countries, and has produced a ranking on the basis of how much 1GB of mobile data costs. In terms of the top and bottom placements, Israel is listed as the cheapest country with the average cost of 1GB at $0.04, while at the other end of the scale is Saint Helena
  
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• Amazon Prime membership gets more expensive for Europe

  26-07-2022 14:33
  
  Residents of largest economies in Europe will have to pay more for Amazon quick deliveries and video content from 15 September this year.
  US internet giant recently announced price increases for Amazon Prime members in the UK, Germany, France Italy and Spain. As you can see from the list below, not only is there a fair bit of variation in price between countries, but the rate of increase varies too.UK: £7.99 monthly to £8.99 monthly (13%) or £79 annually to £95 annually (
  
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• Rajant achieves certification for Komatsu's frontrunner Autonomous Haulage Solution (AHS)

  26-07-2022 14:00
  
  Validation for Autonomous Hauling Completed with Rajant in Just Six Months Malvern, PA – July 26, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Komatsu, developer and supplier of heavy equipment and services for the construction, mining, forklift, industrial, and forestry markets, have achieved Rajant certification for Komatsu’s FrontRunner® Autonomous Haulage Solution (AHS). Validation for FrontRunner AHS was completed in just six months. &ldq
  
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• UK government offers more cash for Open RAN R&D

  26-07-2022 13:39
  
  The UK government is dangling £25 million of funding in front of telcos and universities for 5G and 6G network equipment R&D, which essentially means Open RAN.
  It’s not a huge amount of money, but the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is keen to extract as much publicity out of it as possible. And it’s a further sign of the government’s ongoing drive to increase vendor diversification and push on the Open RAN ecosystem.
  In the government’
  
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• Eutelsat and OneWeb flesh out merger plans

  26-07-2022 13:34
  
  Confirmation came yesterday that the satellite firms Eutelsat and OneWeb are looking to merge, and further details have now emerged as to what an entity with their combined assets would look like.
  Eutelsat and ‘key OneWeb shareholders’ have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of combining both companies in an all-share transaction. Eutelsat will be bringing its 36-strong fleet of GEO satellites to the table of the new entity, which will compliment OneWeb’s c
  
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• Telstra gets deeper into the public cloud with boosted Microsoft deal

  26-07-2022 13:31
  
  Australian operator group Telstra has increased its exposure to the public cloud by expanding its partnership with Microsoft.
  Touted as one of the biggest deals Microsoft has ever struck with a telco, it aims to combine the best of Microsoft’s cloud services with Telstra’s network reach. What that means in practice is Microsoft Azure will become Telstra’s preferred cloud partner, accelerating its plan to migrate 90 percent of its IT workloads to the public cloud by 2025.
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• Brompton’s folding bikes can now be hired with a simple daily charge

  26-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s not hugely well known, but the folding bike company, Brompton also hires bikes out, and they’ve streamlined the hiring process to make it easier to use.
  It’s been around for some time though, having started 12 years ago at the left luggage desk at Waterloo station, and I first picked one up in 2014 for a cycle ride out to Foulness Island as the folding bike was more convenient than a normal one to carry on the train ride out to Shoeburyness.
  To make the bike hire easier to
  
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• Protected: Multicast Adaptive Bitrate (MABR)— Ready for the IP Unicast Challenge?

  26-07-2022 12:38
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• Multicast Adaptive Bitrate (MABR)— Ready for the IP Unicast Challenge?

  26-07-2022 12:38
  
  As subscribers’ demand for non-stop video content grows, Pay TV providers have turned to Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming to deliver programming over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Though unicast ABR supports delivery to devices such as tablets, phones and laptops, unicast ABR consume significantly more bandwidth for each incremental video stream viewed. This can choke video delivery networks and cause the video quality to degrade.
  Multicast ABR offers service providers a way to optimize
  
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• Huawei: ICT Energy Efficiency Top Priority

  26-07-2022 11:52
  
  Increasing ICT energy efficiency is vital. Without it, digital transformation strategies will flounder. Not only will power consumption soar as carriers’ networks handle exponential growth in data volumes — driving energy bills ever higher — but international targets to reduce carbon emissions will be missed.
  According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), ICT industry must reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45% between 2020 and 2030 if it is to comply
  
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• TfL’s office development at Bank tube station gets taller

  26-07-2022 11:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An office block that will be built above Bank tube station’s new Cannon Street entrance will be taller than originally planned after the City of London approved a request to add an extra floor to the top of the building.
  In order to carry out the upgrade at Bank tube station, they had to clear a plot of land that was occupied by an older office block, and naturally, a replacement will be needed.
  Transport for London (TfL) already had permission for a 7-storey building on the site but was s
  
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• QCT 5G OmniPOD solutions for outdoor and multi-sites private 5G scenarios

  26-07-2022 11:14
  
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• Protected: QCT 5G OmniPOD solutions for outdoor and multi-sites private 5G scenarios

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• Eutelsat to suspend dividend as it strikes deal with OneWeb

  26-07-2022 08:35
  French and UK satellite operators combine in an effort to take on space billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Marchmont Community Garden, WC1

  26-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park in Bloomsbury next to the Brunswick Centre that was once a private garden and fenced off, but just over a decade ago was opened up as a public space.The slice of land that’s the park is the result of an accident when the Brunswick Centre development was being built. Originally expected to be much longer than it is, it was halted when the Territorial Army refused to release land to the north of the shopping centre for redevelopment. That left this thin gap between the
  
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• UK govt launches £25m Future Open Networks Research Challenge

  26-07-2022 02:00
  Today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has announced the launch of its new Future Open Networks (FON) Research Challenge, aimed at providing funding to enable universities to work with major RAN vendors on Open RAN R&D.The Challenge will allocate £25 million in funding across numerous university-led projects, aiming to explore the validity and further develop open and interoperable telecoms equipment for 4G and 5G…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India kicks off long-delayed 5G spectrum auction

  26-07-2022 02:00
  The operators will be able to bid for spectrum in the 600MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz, 2.3GHz, 3.3GHz, and 26GHz bands.Licences awarded will be valid for 20 years, with equal payments expected annually throughout this period. Winning bidders may also choose to surrender the spectrum after 10 years with no further payment obligations. These measures, combined with the scrapping of spectrum usage charge as part of the telecoms relief package announced last year…read mor
  
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• India kicks off long-delayed 5G auction

  26-07-2022 02:00
  The operators will be able to bid for spectrum in the 600MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz, 2.3GHz, 3.3GHz, and 26GHz bands.Licences awarded will be valid for 20 years, with equal payments expected annually throughout this period. Winning bidders may also choose to surrender the spectrum after 10 years with no further payment obligations. These measures, combined with the scrapping of spectrum usage charge as part of the telecoms relief package announced last year…read mor
  
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• Fibre rollouts in jeopardy as cable prices soar

  26-07-2022 02:00
  With the coronavirus pandemic highlighting just how crucial connectivity is to a modern society, the rapid rollout of fibre networks has become a cornerstone of government economic rejuvenation strategies around the world. But with the pace of fibre rollouts increasing in most markets around the world, cracks are beginning to appear in the fibre supply chain that could threaten the achievability of these ambitious goals.According to market research firm Cru Group, fibre prices are soaring&
  
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• Earthquake detection using submarine cables

  26-07-2022 02:00
  A 2015 United Nations report estimated that every year, an average of 60,000 people and $4 billion USD in assets are exposed to the global tsunami hazard, which can be triggered by certain types of undersea earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.  Over a number of decades, various countries have deployed dedicated tsunami warning systems, like floating buoys, to augment land-based seismic detectors.  Seismic waves travel 20 to 30 times faster through the earth&rsquo…read mo
  
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