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• EE dusts off Dennis the Menace to help protect kids online

  08-08-2022 18:35
  
  Research from EE finds 60% of parents fear their kids don’t how to protect themselves when using their phone – so it has drafted in the Beano for an educational campaign, just in case any of them know what that is.
  The research by EE also found that 52% of parents think that they would not be able to survive the online world if they were a child today, and while 74% of them have tried to educate their children, 55% said that if their child saw something unsuitable online they wouldn&
  
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• Plans to improve the pedestrian space outside Waterloo station

  08-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to improve the area around Waterloo station and the pedestrian links to the South Bank could get underway after the planning work was awarded to Grimshaw Architects.
  At the moment, the front of the railway station is dominated by the taxi rank and road, with pedestrians having to cross several roads to get to the South Bank. While the main York Road can’t be pedestrianised, there is an ambition to improve the cluster of traffic islands in front of Waterloo station to offer a more plaz
  
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• PwC fined £1.75 million over BT audit following ‘fraud in its Italian operations’

  08-08-2022 14:39
  
  Financial services firm PwC has been slapped with a fine by the Financial Reporting Council over its work in auditing BT, following the identification of fraud in its Italian operations.
  Apparently PwC and Audit Engagement Partner Richard Hughes, who presumably was closely involved, each admitted ‘breaches of Relevant Requirements in relation to the audit of adjustments between the current and prior years disclosed by BT in its financial statements for the financial year ended 31 March 201
  
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• Raffle to win a range of special railway prizes

  08-08-2022 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway industry is offering a range of raffle prizes as part of a Ukraine fundraising appeal. There are 30 prizes up for grabs – and although the full list is not being published, some have been revealed on the organiser’s Twitter account.Cab ride on a Penolino with Avanti West Coast
  LNER Azum simulator experience, including 1-2-1 coaching
  Cab ride with Freightliner driver, Heather Waugh including depot and terminal insights
  2 VIP concert tickets to Glasgow SSE Hydro, courtesty
  
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• TalkTalk to buy rival SSE Phone & Broadband

  08-08-2022 13:27
  
  TalkTalk has brokered a deal to acquire SSE Phone & Broadband from Ovo Energy, a move that could add around 100,000 customers to its portfolio.
  The companies have not shared a valuation for the deal, but it’s not likely to be huge; Ovo acquired SSE Energy Services Group, of which the broadband business forms a small part, two and a half years ago for £500 million. But the deal is interesting because the acquirer is itself the subject of endless M&A speculation in the UK.
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• TalkTalk to buy rival SSE

  08-08-2022 13:27
  
  TalkTalk has brokered a deal to acquire SSE Phone & Broadband from Ovo Energy, a move that could add around 100,000 customers to its portfolio.
  The companies have not shared a valuation for the deal, but it’s not likely to be huge; Ovo acquired SSE Energy Services Group, of which the broadband business forms a small part, two and a half years ago for £500 million. But the deal is interesting because the acquirer is itself the subject of endless M&A speculation in the UK.
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• Thai telco watchdog defers decision on DTAC-True merger

  08-08-2022 13:21
  
  There are signs that common sense might actually prevail in Thailand, as the review into DTAC’s proposed merger with rival True Corp took a late twist.
  The five-member board of the country’s telco watchdog, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), has called for a more detailed analysis of the deal’s impact on competition, consumers and industry.
  Eyebrows were raised last November when Telenor’s DTAC unit announced its merger of equals with CP G
  
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• The Alexander Fleming Museum has reopened

  08-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A museum about the man who accidentally discovered penicillin and then did nothing about it can be found in Paddington, and it’s just reopened after a long pandemic closure.The Alexander Fleming Museum is, to be honest, not that amazing, being a couple of exhibition rooms, and then the Hallowed Space, where he famously left his window open in a dirty lab and discovered penicillin. The Hallowed Space is however just a recreation. It has largely original objects, but for many years, the room
  
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• Meeting unquenchable hyperscaler thirst for network capacity

  08-08-2022 13:00
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Sarah Mills, CRO of Neos Networks, looks at how the telecoms industry can best adapt to the hyperscaler era.
  The so-called Hyperscalers – companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft – are continuing to revolutionise global digital service provision. The evolution of these companies has been electric. All have established themselves as global infra
  
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• BT claims Europe’s first 5G SA carrier aggregation in trial

  08-08-2022 12:56
  
  The British incumbent telecom operator BT claims to have achieved a Europe-first by aggregating four carrier components (4CC) in a 5G standalone (SA) live network trial.
  Together with Finnish vendor Nokia, the operator has combined four low and mid bands (2.1, 2.6, 3.4, 3.6 GHz) into one connection allowing to increase data rates per user. Claiming it has achieved this for the first time in Europe using commercial spectrum as well as for the first time outside of a lab in Europe, the two-stage t
  
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• Martin Lewis calls for more telco regulation over roaming charges

  08-08-2022 12:53
  
  “I’ve no faith in mobile firms to self-regulate” says MoneySavingExpert’s consumer champion Martin Lewis as he calls for more rules from Ofcom over roaming charges.
  Martin Lewis, who has been busy laying into energy firms recently over soaring prices, has levelled his sights on the telecoms industry in a report which claims that new rules are needed to force operators to be clearer on roaming charges in the EU in the post-Brexit order.
  A report published today with the ti
  
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• New HUBER+SUHNER antenna harnesses 5G and Wi-Fi 6E for industrial applications

  08-08-2022 11:48
  
  As Industry 4.0 evolves and data flows continue to grow rapidly, industrial applications can harness the power of 5G and Wi-Fi 6E like never before with the new HUBER+SUHNER SENCITY® OMNI-M antenna. Addressing the move towards interconnectivity, automation, machine learning and real-time data to create smart factories, this new omni-directional antenna enables fast and reliable data transmission via 5G and Wi-Fi 6E networks to support automated production and operations. “Industrial ap
  
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• London’s Alleys: Virgil Place, W1

  08-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a short alley in Marylebone that used to be a lot longer and lead to lots of terraced housing that no longer exists.The alley and much of the surrounding area owes its existence to the property development of farmland owned by the Portman family who had owned the land since the 16th century. The area was fields in 1799, but within 30 years, it was densely packed housing.
  What is today Seymour Place was at the time called Bowling Green Place, after the nearby former bowling green that had
  
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• “Perform or perish” minister tells BSNL staff

  08-08-2022 02:00
  At the end of last month, the Indian government cleared a $20.5 billion relief package for beleaguered Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), hoping to revitalise the company as it rapidly loses market share to Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel.  The government said it expects the funds to be used to destress the company’s balance sheet as well as to expand its fibre network and improve existing services to keep pace with its private sector rivals. The level of competition that
  
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• DITO accuses Globe and Smart of “abusing their dominant position”

  08-08-2022 02:00
  This week, DITO has announced it has filed two complaints against Globe Telecom and PLDT (Smart) with the Philippine Competition Commission, claiming that the two larger telcos are exploiting their dominant market position to prevent DITO from competing fairly.The operator alleges that Globe and Smart have failed to follow the standards of the National Telecommunications Commission…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT & Nokia claim 5G carrier aggregation breakthrough

  08-08-2022 02:00
  The breakthrough heralds the next phase of 5G on its EE mobile network, which will deliver superior experiences for customers and enable new capabilities for enterprises. “As we migrate to a 5G standalone core network, this technology milestone is vital to giving our customers the best experience” commented Greg McCall, Managing Director of Service Platforms at BT…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Accounting firm PwC fined £1.75m over mishandling of BT audit

  08-08-2022 02:00
  Back in 2017, BT was embroiled in an accounting scandal relating to its Italian unit, with the company forced to write down £530 million following a sophisticated case of accounting fraud. The acknowledgement of the scandal saw BT’s stock market value nosedive by around £8 billion and triggered an enormous restructure that cut 4…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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