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• Hear a WW2 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine powered up this weekend

  01-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the most famous allied sounds of WW2, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine was used in the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes and the Lancaster bomber, and this weekend you can hear one up close. The RAF Museum in North London are bringing a working engine to their front field and will switch it on for people to hear that famous roar.
  (c) RAF Museum
  The demonstration will last about 10-15 minutes, and will take place at 10.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm and 4.30pm this weekend (6th & 7th August).A
  
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• Reliance Jio outbids rivals in India’s $19bn 5G auction

  01-08-2022 18:00
  Mukesh Ambani’s company is top spender in competition to run India’s ultrafast telecoms network
  
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• TIM bats away rumours its network head is leaving over ‘disagreements’

  01-08-2022 17:55
  
  Italian telco TIM released a statement following rumours that its Chief Infrastructure Officer Stefano Siragusa is about to exit the firm due to disagreements.
  Rumours have been flying around over the weekend that TIM’s Chief Infrastructure Officer Stefano Siragusa was about to exit the firm after some sort of disagreement within management. The operator, who is often in the news with regards to its future direction, seems to have had enough and put out a brief release yesterday titled &ls
  
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• London exhibitions to visit in August 2022

  01-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in August while you’re avoiding the heatwaves and hosepipe bans.
  Brice Gilden – Wall Portraits
  Leica Gallery, 66 Duke Street
  Free
  The name Bruce Gilden is synonymous with striking images – his unique and confrontational style has made him a stand-out Icon in the pantheon of legendary American street photographers.Details herePrintmaking in Prague – art from the court of Rudolf II
  British Museum, Bloomsbury
  Free
  In this exh
  
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• Telefónica Colombia enhances digital service experience with Red Hat technology

  01-08-2022 15:15
  
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• Open vRAN in prime time pathfinder report

  01-08-2022 15:15
  
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• Modernizing application infrastructure for 5G

  01-08-2022 15:15
  
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• 5G telecom market landscape

  01-08-2022 15:15
  
  Read how interest in 5G and other emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing is being seen to adapt economies and societies to the new normal.
  The report also outlines how communication service provider (CSP) demand for 5G will remain strong as they accelerate their 5G deployments due to ongoing pressures for them to stay competitive. It notes that by the end of 2022, most tier 1, tier 2 and some tier 3 CSPs will have begun their 5G deployments in order to incr
  
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• 5G network and service strategies operator survey

  01-08-2022 15:15
  
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• IOH reports solid Q2 results

  01-08-2022 14:15
  
  Indonesia-based telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) reports healthy financials in Q2 2022, including revenues up 7.2% QoQ, EBITDA up 9.5% QoQ, and EBIDTA margin reaching 41.2% in the second quarter.
  On the operational side, it reports increases in subscribers, ARPU and data traffic. The recently merged operator is now Indonasia’s second largest operator by mobile market share with 96.2 million subscribers.
  “We are excited to report that all of IOH’s financial and commercial i
  
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• Telit bulks up in Europe with Thales IoT acquisition

  01-08-2022 13:37
  
  US-based IoT specialist Telit looks set to take a bigger slice of the European market.
  Late last week it agreed to acquire French defence giant Thales’ cellular IoT business. The division offers a range of modules, gateways and modem cards. Sold under the Cinterion brand, they support 5G, LTE, NB-IoT and LTE-M, as well as GPS and GLONASS positioning technologies. It boasts 550 employees spread across 23 countries, and last year it turned over €300 million.
  The deal with Telit –
  
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• US 2.5 GHz auction off to a slow start

  01-08-2022 13:18
  
  The sale of 2.5 GHz spectrum licences in the US got off to a slow start last week and indications are that it will continue in a fairly lukewarm fashion.
  T-Mobile US is widely considered to be the only bidder likely to spend serious money in this auction – although never say never in this industry, particularly when it comes to spectrum – and we’re not expecting the US government to bring in the kinds of sums it generated from previous sales.
  Nonetheless, it’s going to be
  
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• Citizens Advise calls on Ofcom to tackle ‘loyalty penalty’ in telecoms

  01-08-2022 13:02
  
  ‘No-one should be punished for being loyal in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis’ says consumer watchdog/charity Citizens Advice, claiming one in seven UK customers are paying a ‘loyalty penalty’.
  The statement from Citizens Advice doesn’t do a great job of defining exactly what a loyalty penalty is, but the concept alludes to a situation in which customers sign up to a certain deal for services and keep with it over the years, and in the intervening period better
  
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• Citizens Advice calls on Ofcom to tackle ‘loyalty penalty’ in telecoms

  01-08-2022 13:02
  
  ‘No-one should be punished for being loyal in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis’ says consumer watchdog/charity Citizens Advice, claiming one in seven UK customers are paying a ‘loyalty penalty’.
  The statement from Citizens Advice doesn’t do a great job of defining exactly what a loyalty penalty is, but the concept alludes to a situation in which customers sign up to a certain deal for services and keep with it over the years, and in the intervening period better
  
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• Sustainable innovations are the future of telecommunications

  01-08-2022 13:00
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ane-Marte Weng, Senior Director, Sustainable Telco Lead at Capgemini Invent, looks at the role of the telecoms industry in the broader sustainability agenda.
  The telecommunications industry will be a critical component of the push towards a net zero future. It’s well positioned on a boundary that can promote a sustainable future, both through helping other
  
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• Museum of London raises £7 million towards its new Smithfield home

  01-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Museum of London, which is preparing to move to a site in Smithfield says that it has raised  £7 million towards the cost, bringing its close to its initial £40 million fundraising target.
  The largest donation was £5 million from The Garfield Weston Foundation, a family-founded charitable grant-making trust which gives away around £90 million a year to charities across the UK. They also received £1 million each from both The Schroder Foundation and Family,
  
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• GWR train gets Euro 2022 Lionesses tribute

  01-08-2022 11:38 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A quick paint job this morning has seen a Great Western Railway (GWR) train decorated to mark the England women’s team victory at the Euro football finals yesterday evening.
  (c) GWR
  GWR applied the decal to Intercity Express Train 800316 early this morning, while it was standing at Paddington station. It left Paddington at 7:37am after the decoration had been added, to go to the depot, and will return to passenger service later this morning.GWR Human Resources director Ruth Busby watched t
  
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• Tickets Alert: Take a trip in a vintage tube train

  01-08-2022 10:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After a lengthy wait, the London Transport Museum’s 1938 art-deco style tube train will be back on the tracks for a couple of days in September.The trips are a curious mix of nostalgia, sitting in the old train, looking at old adverts and generally enjoying yourself — but massively livened up each time you pass through a station and see the looks of wonder and surprise on the faces of people expecting a more conventional Met line train.
  There will be four trips per day over the weeke
  
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• Delays in reopening the railway line between Brixton and Beckenham Junction

  01-08-2022 09:28 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Network Rail has warned that it will not be able to reopen the railway line between Brixton and Beckenham Junction this morning as planned following its nine-day closure to replace tracks in the Penge Tunnel.
  Affected line – overlay on London Rail Map
  The works required the replacement of the rail ballast and tracks, and they had problems due to the narrowness of the tunnel as it was built in 1863 when train carriages were smaller. They also had to use specially adapted shorter sleepers to
  
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• London’s Alleys: Broad Street Avenue, EC2

  01-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a tiny dead-end alley just around the corner from Liverpool Street station with a broad name, but narrow countenance.As an alley, it’s named after nearby Broad Street, which was created in the 1730s to improve access through an area of narrow lanes. The alley first appears as a defined space on John Rocque’s map of 1746, and is named Broad Street Mews. The arrival of the London Underground at Liverpool Street in the 1870s nearly doomed the alley, but the railway cutting ran j
  
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• Rumoured departure of TIM’s network chief could hamper restructure

  01-08-2022 02:00
  Today, anonymous sources have told the media that TIM’s head of network operations could soon leave the company, potentially jeopardising new CEO Pietro Labriola’s plans to restructure the business. At the start of this year, however, Pietro Labriola, previous head of TIM Brasil, was announced as the new Group CEO…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Humboldt: The first subsea cable connecting LatAm with APAC and Oceania

  01-08-2022 02:00
  Today, Chilean state-run infrastructure fund Desarrollo País and H2 Cable, a subsidiary of Singapore’s BW Digital, have announced they now seeking a partner to begin work on the Humboldt Cable, a submarine cable system set to link Latin America to the Asia Pacific and Oceania regions for the first time.  The planned Humboldt Cable will span roughly 15,000km as it connects Valparaiso, Chile, to Sydney, Australia. From there, Humboldt will interconnect to other cable system
  
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• FCC kicks off latest 5G spectrum auction

  01-08-2022 02:00
  At the end of last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the launch of its latest 5G spectrum auction, which it hopes will help fill in the gaps of rural wireless coverage. The auction, Auction 108, will offer 8,017 county-based licences in the 2.5 GHz band for areas where this spectrum is currently unassigned, primarily rural areas. &nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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