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• Nokia teams up with AST SpaceMobile for orbital 5G

  28-07-2022 17:50
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has signed a five-year deal with AST SpaceMobile as it looks to provide 4G and 5G via LEO satellites to connect ‘under-served communities around the world.’
  AST SpaceMobile says it is building a ‘space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard 4G or 5G mobile devices’, and Nokia has been drafted in to provide the RAN hardware. The BlueWalker 3 test satellite will launch later this year, which will kick off global testing wit
  
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• Inclusion and Innovation: Worldwide spectrum experts to gather at DSA Global Summit 2022

  28-07-2022 16:43
  
  The 2022 DSA Global Summit will shine a light on the latest in Wi-Fi, spectrum sharing for industrial applications and the ongoing activities enabling affordable connectivity for underserved regions. Washington D.C., USA, 28 July 2022: The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) has today announced the first speakers for its 10th annual Global Summit. Focusing on the use-cases and impacts of spectrum sharing success over the last year, the 2022 Global Summit returns to an in-person format,...Source: Rea
  
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• An open-air exhibition of London’s parks and open spaces

  28-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s parks and open spaces played a hugely important role in the lives of Londoners during the recent years of lockdown. They provided an escape; a place to breathe and relax, to exercise and play.
  There’s now an open-air exhibition of photographs and prints showing off the evolution of London’s parks since the sixteenth century, including festivals, gardening and promenading; from playgrounds to allotments, bruising Sunday football to grazing flocks of sheep.Based on image
  
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• Dell’Oro bullish on Open RAN growth

  28-07-2022 14:38
  
  A recently released report by the Dell’Oro Group, a telecoms market research firm, saw its forecasts for Open RAN kit revenues revised upwards.
  Claiming that the market has a had some momentum going for it which is what will drive the growth for radio and baseband (excluding services), the forecast expects Open RAN to account for 15% of the total RAN market by 2026, reaching close to $20 billion over the next five years. The details of what sits behind that momentum are not clear, however,
  
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• Telefónica raises guidance after Q2 revenue inches up

  28-07-2022 13:54
  
  Spanish telecoms group Telefónica tentatively raised its full-year financial guidance following a respectable Q2 2022 performance.
  Without being too specific, the telco now expects revenue growth to come in at the high-end of the low single digit range, a minor upgrade on its previous forecast of low single digit growth. Similarly, for operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA), Telefónica raised its outlook from low single digit growth to mid-to-high-end of the
  
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• Latest BSNL bailout worth US$20 billion

  28-07-2022 13:11
  
  The Indian government has approved a US$20 billion turnaround package for state-owned operator BSNL which includes a merger with Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited.
  The revival plan, announced by the Union Cabinet this week, comes after well over a decade of debate over the future of the telco. BSNL, or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, to give it its full title, has for years struggled to keep pace with its privately-owned rivals, triggering endless discussion over its ability to continue as a standalone p
  
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• It’s time to start booking your Heritage Open Day tours

  28-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a couple of weeks in September, thousands of buildings across the UK, mostly outside London, are open to the public.
  The Heritage Open Days are a UK-wide version of the London Open House events, and while the vast majority are open to wander in and look around, some need booking in advance. They range from old buildings to theatres to sewage pumping stations.
  Some are taking bookings now, but many will only take bookings from next month, so now is the time to plan your day trips to (mostly)
  
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• FTC swoops to stop Facebook ‘illegally’ buying VR firm Within Unlimited

  28-07-2022 12:59
  
  The US Federal Trade Commission doesn’t like the sound of Facebook/Meta purchasing Within Unlimited and its VR fitness app Supernatural. Are regulators finally rolling their sleeves up against big tech monopolisation?
  Within Unlimited is a VR software firm that produced Supernatural, a fitness virtual reality app which provides workouts set to music within virtual environments, such as the Galapagos Islands. “Fitness is the killer use case for VR,” Within’s co-founder and
  
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• BT reports solid numbers but potentially damaging strikes loom

  28-07-2022 12:30
  
  UK operator group BT managed to grow revenues by 1% in Q2 2022 but compensating for industrial action by almost 40,000 workers won’t be cheap.
  BT’s consumer facing operations grew their revenues by 5% year-on-year, thanks to price hikes implemented earlier this year. This compensated for a 7% revenue decline in the enterprise group and allowed BT to meet market expectations. Despite that, BT’s shares initially fell by as much as 6% after the earnings announcement, although they
  
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• BT boss says pay deal is ‘history’ ahead of two-day strike action

  28-07-2022 12:28 via ft.com
  Telecoms group’s chief Philip Jansen insists there will be no change to £1,500 rise offered to frontline staff
  
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• London Underground’s Piccadilly line will resume Night Tube duties this weekend

  28-07-2022 11:18 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Underground’s Piccadilly line will resume Night Tube services this weekend, for the first time since they were suspended due to the pandemic.
  Services on the Piccadilly line return on the evening of Friday 29th July and will run throughout the night on Fridays and Saturdays. The return of this line means the complete restoration of the weekend Night Tube and also the Night Overground services that were available before the pandemic.The resumption of the Piccadilly line had
  
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• Trafalgar Square to screen the EURO 2022 final on Sunday

  28-07-2022 10:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Football fans will be able to watch the EURO 2022 final between England and Germany in Trafalgar Square this coming Sunday.
  There will be space for 7,000 spectators, although there are no reservations, so it’s a case of having to arrive early to get a spot. The site will open at 11am, with the football match due to kick-off at 5pm. The screening will be standing only, so attendees may wish to bring a picnic blanket to sit on (no camping chairs allowed). Accessible viewing space with chairs
  
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• Take a boat trip through a tunnel under Islington town centre

  28-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Unless you know the area, you might not realise that there’s a long deep tunnel running under Islington and that a couple of times each month, the public can take a tour of it. This is the Islington Tunnel, and it links the eastern and western halves of the Regent’s Canal and owes its existence to the problem of how to get the canal past the hill that Islington sits on.A bit of history
  Just over 200 years ago, when the Regent’s Canal was built around the edges of London as it w
  
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• Bring back the landline

  28-07-2022 06:00 via ft.com
  My parents getting rid of their home phone is like cutting the umbilical cord all over again
  
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• TIM looking to cut 2,200 more jobs by 2024

  28-07-2022 02:00
  According to reports from Reuters today, Italian incumbent operator TIM is nearing an agreement with national trade unions to introduce another early retirement scheme, aiming to trim its domestic workforce by further 2,200 staff by 2024.Since the start of the year, new TIM CEO Pietro Labriola has been masterminding a series of cost…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile’s data breach set to cost them $500m

  28-07-2022 02:00
  Back in August 2021, T-Mobile suffered an enormous data breach that saw customers’ personal data stolen by malicious actors. AT the time, the operator said that it believed data from around 53 million former, current, and prospective customers had been compromised; since then, following further investigation, T-Mobile has announced that there were in fact 76.6 million customers were affected by the breach…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Regulators will launch major probe into Orange’s planned stake in VOO

  28-07-2022 02:00
  Orange Belgium first announced their intention to take a 75% stake in fixed line operator VOO back in November 2021, with the Wallonia-based operator valued at roughly €1.8 billion.The move would present Orange the chance to offer both mobile and fixed line services in Belgium for the first time – a key element of Orange’s wider Engage2025 strategy, which aims to create converged fixed and wireless businesses throughout the company&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com &r
  
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