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• New exhibition reveals Charles Dickens’s hunt for a haunted house

  11-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new exhibition opening in time for Halloween looks at Charles Dickens’s interest in the supernatural and his desire to spend a night in a haunted house so scary he wouldn’t be able to sleep.
  Although a writer who often wrote about ghosts, Dickens was quite the skeptic, and became even more so as he got older. That didn’t stop him once asking his spiritually-minded acquaintance, William Howitt if he knew of “any haunted house whatsoever within the limits of the United Ki
  
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• 65% reconsidering mobile contracts over cost of living crisis

  11-08-2022 17:53
  
  A survey by MVNO Lyca Mobile reckons 65% of customers at the big four mobile network operators in the UK – Vodafone, O2, EE, and Three – are reconsidering their mobile contracts because of the economic climate.
  According to Lyca Mobile’s survey, which spoke to a thousand or so customers of the big four UK operators, 73% of those that are thinking about switching providers this year said that getting better value elsewhere is their motive, while 41% thought they are overpaying f
  
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• Rajant partnership with Accelecom brings wireless WAN and public access Wi-Fi to Kentucky for flood victims and ongoing "last mile" communications

  11-08-2022 17:00
  
  Mission-Critical Broadband Connectivity for the Digitally Unconnected During Emergency Response and Support for Underserved Communities Using “Main Street Mesh” Solution Malvern, PA – August 11, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, has partnered with Accelecom, the Kentucky-statewide ISP fiber optic company connecting all 120 counties in the Commonwealth, bringing wireless WAN (Wide Area Network) and public access Wi-Fi to aid both flood
  
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• One month to go until Open House London

  11-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, the annual chance to see inside buildings that are not usually open to the public returns, with around 700 buildings opening up, many for the first time since the pandemic closed so much of the city to everyone.
  It’s also the 30th anniversary of the first event that opened up buildings to the public for one day to look inside. That early event was sufficiently popular to spark enough interest to grow. It had an earlier name for a couple of years, and then the first London Open
  
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• Infovista to showcase new Ativa™ Automated Assurance & Operations solutions at Digital Transformation World 2022

  11-08-2022 15:09
  
  Enables 360° Assurance and multi-phase automation use cases from a single platform for the first time Paris, France – August 11th, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced details of its participation at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (Copenhagen: 20-22 September 2022) as a Silver Partner and exhibitor. Infovista’s theme at the event is ‘Automated Assurance & Operations is here, powered by NLA&rs
  
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• Ericsson and SkyMax to deploy 5G across Sub-Saharan Africa

  11-08-2022 13:43
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with multinational wireless communications engineering company SkyMax Network to build 5G infrastructure across Sub-Saharan Africa.
  As part of the deal Ericsson will supply the network infrastructure, optimisation and managed services. The vendor will also explore opportunities to partner across the end-to-end business and technology stack. These will include both the RAN and Core, as well as support systems such as BSS a
  
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• Google Cloud expands Asia Pacific footprint

  11-08-2022 13:42
  
  Fresh from announcing its latest US fibre push, Google has now also revealed some new cloud regions, albeit somewhat further afield.
  The hyperscaler is expanding in Asia Pacific, with new facilities coming to Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. As has become the norm, Google made proclamations about how its new regions are part of its ongoing commitment to Asia Pacific’s digital transformation. It also follows the announcement of new regions in Berlin, Dammam in Saudi Arabia, Doha, Mexico,
  
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• FCC denies SpaceX and LTD $2.2 billion in broadband funding

  11-08-2022 13:26
  
  SpaceX and LTD Broadband were in line to receive $2.2 billion in rural broadband funding, but the US government has decided it will not hand over the cash after all.
  The pair were among the big winners in a $9.2 billion funding allocation process at the back end of 2020, the first phase in the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) programme, a $20 billion-plus project set out two years ago with the goal of addressing the digital divide in the US.
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• South Western Railway tests audio guides for people with vision difficulties

  11-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  South Western Railway (SWR) has fitted out two London railway stations with a technology that could make it easier for people with sight loss to find their way around the station to the platform.
  Dave Williams, Customer Experience Manager, Consumer and Business Services, RNIB, trials the myEyes app at Vauxhall station (c) SWR
  Two stations, Putney and Vauxhall have been fitted with small Bluetooth beacons around the stations, and when coupled with a smartphone app, they can provide audio instruct
  
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• BT to soup up Sellafield nuclear site’s network in £32 million deal

  11-08-2022 13:00
  
  Telco group BT has signed a five year, £32 million deal with Sellafield Ltd, which runs the UK’s largest nuclear site to upgrade and run the company’s entire network services.
  The £32 million network services contract covers upgrades and updates to current equipment and maintenance of wide and local area network services, core and gateway services, audio and conferencing, telephony and cyber security. The upgrades are intended to allow Sellafield to Sellafield to be in a
  
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• BT to soup up Sellafield nuclear power site’s network in £32 million deal

  11-08-2022 13:00
  
  Telco group BT has signed a five year, £32 million deal with Sellafield Ltd, which runs the UK’s largest nuclear power site to upgrade and run the company’s entire network services.
  The £32 million network services contract covers upgrades and updates to current equipment and maintenance of wide and local area network services, core and gateway services, audio and conferencing, telephony and cyber security. The upgrades are intended to allow Sellafield to Sellafield to be
  
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• Reframed: The Woman in the Window at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

  11-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After a couple of years where we spent much of our time indoors staring through windows at the world outside, there’s an exhibition all based on an iconic motif of the art world – the woman looking out of a window.
  The exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery goes beyond simply collecting a load of paintings, but explains why paintings of a woman looking out of a window are so popular, what they mean — and destroys a myth that it’s all because of the Dutch.The “woman in th
  
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• MTN agrees sale of Afghan unit, ending Middle Eastern exodus

  11-08-2022 02:00
  MTN announced back in 2020 that it was rethinking its global strategy, aiming to focus more heavily on its core African markets and suggesting it would withdraw from its Middle Eastern businesses in the medium term. Progress was swift, with the company quickly announcing plans to sell its stakes in MTN Syria and Irancell…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Global data centre provider launches charging facilities – enabling partners to deploy and operate EVs at scale.

  11-08-2022 02:00
  EdgeConneX® announces the launch of Voltera. Rising from the EdgeConnex history of space and power innovations, Voltera builds, owns, and operates charging facilities that enable electric vehicle (EV) deployment and operation at scale. Voltera hasequity backing from EQT Infrastructure, which plans to invest several billion to address the challenges around fleet EV charging that include delivering scalable power in strategic locations…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FCC blocks Starlink subsidies over technology doubts

  11-08-2022 02:00
  At the end of 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concluded the first phase of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) broadband subsidy auction, allocating $9.2 billion to wide range of connectivity providers seeking to deploy high-speed internet infrastructure throughout rural America. The RDOF had received huge interest from across the US telecoms industry, drawing bids from over 300 operators of various shapes and sizes. Among the largest winners were tower operato
  
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• AT&T Contributes $1M to new Dallas Innovation Alliance program

  11-08-2022 02:00
  As part of AT&T’s $2 billion nationwide commitment to help bridge the digital divide, AT&T is supporting a digital equity initiative led by the Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA). DIA is a coalition of stakeholders from the City of Dallas, corporations, civic and other organizations, academia and private individuals who are invested in Dallas’ continued evolution as a forward-thinking, innovative, ‘smart’ global city. This contribution will enable DIA to target 10&
  
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