Telecom news

• UK’s largest tunnel cutting head lowered into its London shaft

  02-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The largest tunnel boring machine cutting head has been lowered into the space prepared for it to start digging the Silvertown road tunnel in East London. The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) is 11.91 metres wide, the equivalent of almost three double-decker buses, and is the largest diameter TBM in the UK.
  (c) Riverlinx / TfL
  The 1,800 tonne TBM began being lowered into the launch chamber in pieces last month, where it will be assembled within the chamber before commissioning and starting to bore th
  
  Read more

• Remote working shift sees ‘major rise in cybercrime’

  02-08-2022 18:17
  
  US operator Verizon has put out a report claiming the prevailing cultural trend towards remote remotely has adversely affected organisations’ cybersecurity.
  As the world locked down at the outbreak of the coronavirus, anyone that worked on a computer found themselves earning their crust from wherever they could at home, some having to learn to do so for the first time. The lockdowns have gone, but the trend towards working from home has lingered. Its hard to know specifically, but it feels
  
  Read more

• Pain Relief in the Wellington Arch

  02-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The monumental arch at Hyde Park Corner isn’t just something to walk past, you can go inside, and there’s an art exhibition filling the upper floors at the moment.At the moment, it’s Pain Relief, by artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Born in Sudan in 1930, Ibrahim El-Salahi is known as the ‘Godfather of African Modernism’ and is one of the most important living African artists.Work on display was created by the artist between 2016-2018, when he made around 200 tiny drawings
  
  Read more

• Speedcast Awarded Multi-Year Contract Extension with Lindblad Expeditions Enabling Significant Bandwidth Increase Across Expanded Fleet

  02-08-2022 15:00
  
  Expedition cruise company adds five vessels to agreement as Speedcast upgrades onboard services benefitting guests and crew across global fleet Houston, Texas — August 2, 2022 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, announced today that the company has been awarded a multi-year contract with Lindblad Expeditions to expand their agreement to deliver significantly increased connectivity service and serve five additional ships. As part of the agreement, the ships
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Avatel reportedly to pay €1 billion for Lyntia Access

  02-08-2022 14:55
  
  Spanish fibre operator Avatel is close to agreeing a €1 billion deal for rival player Lyntia Access, according to sources.
  Avantel is in the final stages of negotiating the terms of the deal, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. The newswire did not speculate on the timing of an announcement, but said the deal is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of this year.
  The deal, should it come to fruition, will represent the latest in a series of fibre-related M&A transactions i
  
  Read more

• Vodafone reckons it can guarantee the best prices for trading in phones

  02-08-2022 14:16
  
  UK operator Vodafone’s app now includes an instant valuation and ‘unbeatable price promise’ when customers trade in smartphones.
  Vodafone’s Trade-in Tool in the My Vodafone App now offers an instant evaluation of how much a smartphone is worth before you go to the trouble of taking it in store for the manager to have a disapproving gander at it, and the system is apparently price checked daily which it claims makes it ‘unbeatable’ on price.
  Leaving the egregio
  
  Read more

• Rajant’s Fourth-Generation Breadcrumb FE1 Peregrine Successfully Deployed by A Large Anglo American Platinum Opencast Mine in South Africa

  02-08-2022 14:00
  
  In One Year the FE1 Product Line Has Ramped to #1 Volume for Mines Worldwide Malvern, PA – August 2, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, reports the successful deployment of its fourth-generation BreadCrumb® Peregrine, which provides a 4-6x increase in overall throughput capacity enabling a host of new applications. The Peregrine deployments, the first in South Africa with Anglo American, support applications for mine production systems, includ
  
  Read more

• IDC forecasts a whopping $1.4 trillion in European ICT spending

  02-08-2022 13:35
  
  European ICT spending will reach $1.1 trillion in 2022 and close to $1.4 trillion by 2026, driven by software investments, according to forecast by IDC, a telecoms market research firm.
  Growing at 5% (CAGR) between 2021–2026, the technology investment will be predominantly driven by spending in software, underpinned by the growth seen in “artificial intelligence platforms, collaborative applications, and software quality and life-cycle tools.” according to the IDC report.
  Howev
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• India 5G auction raises US$19 billion, led by Jio

  02-08-2022 13:18
  
  Reliance Jio Infocomm accounted for well over half of the US$19 billion pledged by India’s telecoms operators in the country’s just concluded 5G spectrum sale.
  There had been concerns over the level of telco participation in the multi-band frequency auction that took place – after what feels like years of debate – over the past week. The operators themselves had warned of lukewarm interest in the sale, disgruntled about private 5G network rules, amongst other things. But
  
  Read more

• More tour dates to see inside the 230 year old Trinity House

  02-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next to the Tower of London is 230(ish) year old building that is the headquarters of the people who look after the lighthouses.Originally founded by King Henry VIII in 1514 to manage shipping safety along the Thames, what is today Trinity House was officially called (deep breath!)… “The Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford-Strond in the County of Kent.”
  
  Read more

• France, Italy and Spain reportedly repeat calls for big tech to pay for EU networks

  02-08-2022 12:47
  
  Three EU countries have made fresh calls that big tech firms such as Google, Meta and Netflix should help pay for European network infrastructure, according to Reuters.
  France, Italy and Spain have apparently got together an produced a joint paper meant to put pressure on the European Commission to enforce some sort of legislation that would mean big tech firms, such as Google, Meta and Netflix, would have to stump up some of the cash required to finance the EU’s network infrastructure.
  Th
  
  Read more

• See the new tunnel being dug under Euston station

  02-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large new tunnel is being dug underneath Euston station, by HS2, but not for HS2 – it’s for London Underground.
  HS2 Euston tunnel – Photo by Monica Wells (c) HS2
  This is part of what’s known in the trade as “enabling works”, the sort of work that’s needed to prepare a brownfield site for what it is intended to become. That can be as simple as clearing rubble from a site, to major interventions such as moving sewers and utilities or decontaminating land
  
  Read more

• Vodafone and Ericsson launch support service for Hungarian 5G factory

  02-08-2022 02:00
  The two partners co-created the Service Continuity for private networks solution, a unique support service for 5G networks that can be tailored to the needs of Vodafone enterprise customers such as Foxconn, one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and technology solutions provider.Foxconn relies on non-fixed 5G-based test cars, on which newly manufactured PCs are tested before packaging at their plant in Hungary…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Singtel pumps $100m into start-up investment arm Innov8

  02-08-2022 02:00
  Today, Singtel Group has announced that it will invest a further $100 million into Innov8, its investment arm focussed on telecoms-adjacent technologies.The company targets start-up companies working on both established and emerging technologies that have major potential for the telecoms industry…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Reliance Jio the big winner in India’s $19bn 5G auction

  02-08-2022 02:00
  India has concluded its long-delayed 5G auction, raising almost $19 million in what proved to be a much more competitive process than anticipated. The seminal 5G auction made spectrum in a huge array of spectrum bands – 600MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz, 2.3GHz, 3.3GHz, and 26GHz – available to the operators for the first time. The Indian operators have been trialling the new technology for the past year, with Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi
  
  Read more

• European countries clash over potential Big Tech tax to pay for networks

  02-08-2022 02:00
  To tax or not to tax? That is the question that has been under discussion behind closed doors by the European Commission since May, when the regulators said they were considering forcing Big Tech companies to contribute financially to telecoms network rollout costs.At the time, a recent report from the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) had found that the six largest content providers accounted for 55% of network traffic in Europe and suggested that an annua
  
  Read more

• European countries clash over Big Tech tax to pay for networks

  02-08-2022 02:00
  To tax or not to tax? That is the question that has been under discussion behind closed doors by the European Commission since May, when the regulators said they were considering forcing Big Tech companies to contribute financially to telecoms network rollout costs.At the time, a recent report from the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) had found that the six largest content providers accounted for 55% of network traffic in Europe and suggested that an annua
  
  Read more

Follow @Telecom_UK_ on Twitter!