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• London bus drivers to strike on same day as tube strike

  05-08-2022 18:51 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over 1,600 bus drivers based mainly in West London are to go on strike later this month, on the same day as a tube and London Overground strike are taking place.The Unite union says that the strike action is a result of the bus company, London United, a subsidiary of the French-owned company RATP, only offering a pay increase of 3.6 per cent in 2022 and 4.2 per cent next year. Unless a resolution is offered, the initial strike action will take place on Friday 19th August and Saturday 20th August
  
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• Cheap tickets to see Bad Jews at the Arts Theatre

  05-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This dark comedy centred on family relationships has returned to the stage for a short run, and there’s an offer on tickets at the moment.
  After premiering in New York in 2012, Bad Jews transferred to the UK ahead of two West End runs in 2015. Now the original West End production has returned to the Arts Theatre, next to Leicester Square.
  At the moment, tickets bought before 17th August can save up to £34 on all Tuesday – Friday and Sunday performances when booked from here. Th
  
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• Mavenir and Quickline deploy 5G SA Open RAN network

  05-08-2022 13:55
  
  Rural broadband specialist Quickline Communications has teamed up with Open Ran focussed software outfit Mavenir to launch a commercialised 5G SA, cloud-based, Open RAN network in North Yorkshire.
  Quickline says it is the first ISP in the UK to commercially deliver a 5G standalone, cloud-based, Open RAN solution, Fixed Wireless Access service in the Shared Access Spectrum licence – which is a very specific trophy to take home.
  Quickline is heading up a £6 million project to boost rur
  
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• Free tours of Thames Water’s grand pumping stations

  05-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, four of London’s magnificent sewage and water pumping stations will be opened to the public for free tours, and tickets to go to three of them will be released this coming Monday (8th August). There’s also a chance to go inside the former boardroom of the New River company, built in the 17th century and still in its original splendour.
  Very nicely, the tours are spread out over a couple of weeks, so it’s quite possible to visit all of them in turn for a rare glimpse
  
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• Three: ‘We’ve got the market leading spectrum portfolio for 5G’

  05-08-2022 11:55
  
  UK operator three now claims 56% 5G coverage in the UK, and says it is ‘well placed to appeal to a new set of consumers from other operators’ as the cost of living crisis rolls on.
  Three posted its results for the first half of the year yesterday, which showed modest overall growth and some wins in discreet market areas. Revenue of overall was flat for the period at £1.18 billion, while net service customer revenues increased 3% to £754 million, and other revenues, which
  
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• Irish regulator takes legal route to speed up 5G auction

  05-08-2022 10:51
  
  Ireland’s telecoms regulator has lodged a legal challenge to a recent court ruling that could mean delays in the allocation of 5G spectrum.
  ComReg this week revealed that it has submitted a filing to Ireland’s Court of Appeal late last month in a bid to have a court-ordered stay removed from the country’s ongoing spectrum allocation process.
  It’s the latest salvo fired in a battle started by Three Ireland, which has taken issue with the format of a multi-band spectrum auc
  
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• Dell’Oro tempers public telco cloud hype

  05-08-2022 10:43
  
  Amid all the excitement about the role that hyperscalers can play in telco cloud, a new prediction from Dell’Oro this week should keep everyone’s feet firmly rooted to terra firma.
  The research outfit on Wednesday said it expects that from this year through to 2026, cumulative revenues from hosting 5G workloads in the public cloud will reach $4.6 billion. While that represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 88 percent, it’s still a modest sum. By way of comparison, Del
  
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• An inflation wheeze is dialling up sales for telecoms providers

  05-08-2022 05:00
  Innocuous-sounding increases of 3.9% plus inflation are a key element of improving results at BT, Vodafone UK and Virgin
  
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• Veon offloads stake in Omnium Telecom Algeria

  05-08-2022 02:00
  Today, international mobile operator Veon has announced that it has sold its 45.57% stake in Omnium Telecom Algeria, the company that owns Djezzy, Algeria’s second-largest mobile provider.  The deal will reportedly net the company around $682 million…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• US Department of Defense launches trio of 5G projects

  05-08-2022 02:00
  The DoD has launched three new 5G projects this week, hoping to capitalise on public and private sector collaboration to help develop relevant 5G technologies. The first of these three projects is Open6G, looking to pair universities with the private sector to co-develop 6G Open RAN systems…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• INWIT board resigns as TIM stake sale closes

  05-08-2022 02:00
  Back in April, TIM agreed to sell a 12.4% indirect stake in INWIT to a consortium led by French private equity firm Ardian. The sale would leave Ardian with a 90% stake in the holding company Daphne 3, which in turn holds a 30.2% stake in INWIT. TIM will retain a 10% stake in Daphne 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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