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• Special coach service for Imber Bus visitors

  03-08-2022 20:27 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Imber Bus takes place later this month, running a fleet of London buses through the military owned Salisbury Plain, and to help Londoners get there, a special coach service is being laid on.Usually, people who don’t drive can get there by regular train services to Warminster, where Imber Bus starts from, but Saturday 20th August is the day that there will be a national rail strike taking place.If you can get closer to the area the day before and stay overnight, then there are a lot of loca
  
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• Square Mile to be filled with fairs, theatre and subterranean adventures

  03-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The City of London has announced plans for a one-day spectacular of theatre, games, and performance to fill the Square Mile with art and events this autumn.
  Featuring over 100 performers, the highlights include a treasure hunt, 16 doors into a ‘maze’ of adventures, three carnival-inspired fairs, and creative street theatre. Although details are still being finalised, they promise a line-up of landmark Square Mile public spaces, alongside secret hideaways and subterranean adventures.F
  
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• VMO2 vans will collect foodbank and old tech donations during installations

  03-08-2022 18:29
  
  A pilot scheme will see Virgin Media technicians collect donations from customers at the end of their installation appointments and drop them off at local foodbanks.
  The trial is being run in Bournemouth alongside charity giving platform Neighbourly, and the idea is Virgin Media technicians will collect any food, toiletries and devices that customers would like to donate, which are then delivered directly to a local foodbank.
  Customers in Bournemouth who have an installation booked will be sent
  
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• Hiroshima drawings on show in London

  03-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Blackened sketches of contorted bodies fill a grand Georgian mansion house in central London, as the Hiroshima drawings make a short visit to this country.The drawings are part of a large collection of work by two Japanese artists, Iri Maruki and Toshiko Akamatsu who arrived in Hiroshima just days after the Atomic Bomb was detonated over the city, and they spent the next 30-years trying to put the horror onto paper.They created a series of large works, known as the Hiroshima Panels, which were h
  
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• Telstra ordered to halt its alleged dirty 5G tricks

  03-08-2022 14:37
  
  Australian incumbent Telstra will reportedly decommission more than 160 5G sites it was accused of registering only for the purpose of stifling rival Optus’ own 5G rollout.
  It follows an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which was itself prompted by a complaint from Optus in March that Telstra was playing dirty.
  It’s fair to say there is quite a lot of background to this one, but fortunately the ACCC laid it all out on its Website. The saga s
  
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• More IoT consolidation as Semtech snaps up Sierra

  03-08-2022 13:57
  
  IoT chip maker Semtech has struck a $1.2 billion deal to acquire IoT module specialist Sierra Wireless.
  The transaction brings together the worlds of cellular IoT and non-cellular LoRaWAN, and comes just days after Telit scooped up Cinterion, Thales’ cellular IoT business.
  While that deal was primarily about expanding Telit’s presence in various industrial IoT verticals, Semtech’s Sierra purchase is more about complimentary technologies. Semtech in recent years has been a big p
  
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• Bharti Airtel will commence Indian 5G deployment this month

  03-08-2022 13:49
  
  Indian telco Bharti Airtel has recruited Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung to enable its 5G rollout, which will commence round about now.
  Bharti Airtel will start its 5G deployment almost immediately by the sounds of it, and has recruited Nokia and Ericsson as kit vendors, whilst also bringing in Samsung to the mix which it hasn’t worked with before.
  The announcement comes swiftly after the Spectrum auctions which Department of Telecom in India conducted yesterday. Bharti Airtel bid for and acqu
  
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• TfL’s funding package with the government has expired

  03-08-2022 13:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London’s (TfL) funding agreement with the government to keep public transport services in the capital running has expired.
  It was extended repeatedly, and the latest deadline expired at midday today.
  TfL has confirmed that the current funding extension in relation to its extraordinary funding and financing agreement has now ended, but that it remains in a position to meet its operational and contractual obligations in the near term.The medium to long term future of transport
  
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• Visit a viewing platform in North Greenwich

  03-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just around the corner from the London Cable Car is a three-floor high viewing platform, that gives views, of a sort across the North Greenwich area.It’s also a work of public art, and is said to be based on a mix of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian architectural styles. The structure is timber studwork, with the design featuring a galvanized steel, powder coated staircase in bright yellow. Created by Studio Weave, in collaboration with HATO and illustrator Jay Cover, the viewing platform, of
  
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• GSMA says up to 40% of mid-band 5G benefits could be lost

  03-08-2022 12:38
  
  Trade body and organiser of MWC, the GSMA, has warned that almost half the expected benefits provided by mid-band 5G could be lost if no additional spectrum is assigned to mobile services soon.
  Discussed within its 2022 6GHz IMT Ecosystsm report published today, the organisation outlines the central role it thinks 6GHz it will play in future 5G rollouts, but warned that allocating the full 6 GHz band to unlicensed use ‘risks countries losing out on the full benefits of scarce spectrum reso
  
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• Get your London County Council branded socks

  03-08-2022 10:52 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The logos of London’s councils are the inspiration for a range of socks from the team that puts on the annual Open House weekend letting us inside normally private buildings. The socks feature Haringey’s star-shaped 1972 logo, the still-in-use logo for Camden with four pairs of linked hands and the undulating blue and white waves used by London County Council until its dissolution in 1965.The London County Council socks are based on the historic crest the Council used until its aboli
  
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• RCS mobile marketing campaigns in Brazil and Africa by Upstream drive 37% rise in conversion rates over SMS and 137% higher click-through rates

  03-08-2022 10:45
  
  Upstream presents the power of RCS to boost multi-channel marketing campaigns at MEF RCS World and latest whitepaper ‘Unlocking multi-channel marketing with RCS’ Dublin, London, Rio de Janeiro, Athens – August 3rd, 2022: Upstream, a global specialist in mobile marketing technology, showcased the power of Rich Communications Services (RCS) to push multi-channel marketing campaigns to new heights at MEF RCS World. Taking place at the state-of-the-art innovation centre in Google&r
  
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• The Lexi, a community cinema rises from the ashes of fire

  03-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An architectural tardis has landed in Kensal Rise as a small community cinema that was almost destroyed by fire during the pandemic has squeezed a second screen into an almost impossibly small space.
  The Lexi cinema (c) ianVisits
  The Lexi Cinema owes its origins to another catastrophe, the tornado that hit the area in December 2006, and the community groups that were created in its wake led to plans for a community cinema. An Edwardian community hall that was at the time a derelict pool club was
  
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• New US bill could see the return of net neutrality

  03-08-2022 02:00
  Net neutrality – the concept that internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all data indiscriminately, without throttling or limiting access to sites – has been a contentious topic in the US for over two decades now. In the early 2000s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted the position that ISPs were Title I information services, a designation that put them under less regulatory control from the FCC than Title II common carrier services. By 2010, the conc
  
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• KDDI to repays customers for network outage as govt applies pressure

  03-08-2022 02:00
  Around a month ago, Japanese mobile operator KDDI experienced its largest ever network outage, leaving millions of customers without voice and internet services for almost an entire weekend. Perhaps more worryingly, it also left many customers unable to contact emergency services, with the operator telling customers to make use of landlines and public phone boxes if necessary…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• ACCC tells Telstra to stop blocking Optus 5G rollout

  03-08-2022 02:00
  At the end of 2021, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) completed its most recent spectrum auction, offering 16 lots in the 850 MHz and 900 MHz bands and raising over AU$2 billion.Telstra and Optus were the only bidders in the auction and did so following relatively divergent 5G strategies: Telstra targeted the 850 MHz band, picking up the four available lots for roughly AU$615 million, while Optus won all the 900 MHz spectrum available for roughly AU$1…read more on
  
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