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• More BT and Openreach strikes will take place this month

  12-08-2022 18:03
  
  The Communications Workers Union has announced more strikes will be carried out by workers at BT and Openreach on Tuesday August 30th and Wednesday August 31st.
  The Communications Workers Union has announced more strikes will take place on Tuesday August 30th and Wednesday August 31st, as the dispute over pay for BT and Openreach workers in the face of inflation rolls on following strikes by 30,000+ BT engineers and 9,000 BT call centre workers earlier this month. In an online broadcast seemingl
  
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• Discounted tickets to see Grease at the Dominion Theatre

  12-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the world’s most popular musicals is back,  even grittier and more glamorous than before.
  After a moonlit summer romance between leather-clad greaser Danny and goodie-two-shoes Sandy, the holidays come to an end and so does their love affair. Until the pair are expectedly reunited when Sandy transfers to Rydell High for senior year.
  This UK revival has all of your favourite hits including ‘Summer Nights’, ‘Greased Lightnin’, ‘Hopelessly Devoted to
  
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• Rogers and Shaw sign deal to sell Freedom Mobile in bid to unblock merger

  12-08-2022 13:48
  
  Rival Canadian telcos Roberts and Shaw have signed an agreement to sell Freedom Mobile to Quebecor, a move designed to alleviate the competition regulator’s objections to the two firms merging.
  The firms announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Freedom Mobile to Videotron, a subsidiary of Quebecor, subject to the closing of the proposed  merger. Offloading Freedom Mobile, which is owned by Shaw, is being pitched as the ‘best opportunity
  
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• Huawei’s sales freefall slows as cloud business expands

  12-08-2022 13:39
  Chinese tech group has been reeling since US imposed export controls on it in 2020
  
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• The short-lived London Supperette Car Company

  12-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s an amazing image that pops up occasionally online, of what looks to be a richly decorated wagon in Brixton that’s said to be a mobile cafe from around 1910. It’s not quite what it seems, but the London Supperette Car Company did exist, and that is a photo of one of their units in Brixton, but it is likely to be some point between September 1904 and early 1905.
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  The London Supperette Car Company was formed in September 1904, for the “purpose
  
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• TfL’s cycle hire costs to go up next month

  12-08-2022 12:26 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The cost of hiring one of TfL’s bicycles will rise next month as they scrap the daily charge and replace it with a per-use rate instead.
  At the moment, there’s a £2 access charge, with as many 30-minute rides as you want for the day for free. From 12th September that is being replaced with a £1.65 flat rate for each 30-minute ride. For someone making just one trip, that’s a saving, but if you’re pottering around town grabbing a bike several times, the cost wil
  
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• Intelsat and OneWeb plan to hook up more flights with orbital connectivity

  12-08-2022 12:24
  
  An agreement between satellite operators Intelsat and OneWeb will see the firms expand low Earth orbit connectivity for aviation.
  OneWeb and Intelsat have signed a global distribution partnership agreement to offer airlines a ‘seamless inflight connectivity’ solution, which would see OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services combined with Intelsat’s existing geo-stationary (GEO) satellite service offered to airlines worldwide.
  This is described as a ‘multi-o
  
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• AT&T extends Oracle cloud deal for another five years

  12-08-2022 10:00
  
  US telco AT&T appears to be happy with how its cloud-based IT partnership with Oracle is proceeding.
  The companies this week revealed they have extended their relationship for another five years, which means AT&T will make more expansive use of Oracle’s various cloud services. These include enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer experience (CX) management, and Oracle’s cloud infrastructure (OCI) offering.
  More specifically, Oracle said AT&T will use its ERP service
  
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• T-Mobile US spends $3.5 billion on 600 MHz licences

  12-08-2022 09:30
  
  T-Mobile US has acquired two 600 MHz spectrum licences at a total cost of US$3.5 billion, underscoring its commitment to add low-band frequencies to its 5G network.
  The US mobile operator announced this week that it will pay $1.9 billion to 51 License and $1.6 billion to LB License for a range of spectrum licences covering 108 million pops, or around a third of the US population. It’s picking up between 10 MHz and 30 MHz per market.
  T-Mobile did not specify what it will use the spectrum fo
  
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• US Broadband News: GRID Broadband Act advances affordable broadband to underserved urban, rural, and tribal communities

  12-08-2022 02:00
  Total Telecom are keeping track of the latest news from the USA as billions of dollars pour into developing internet access for all. If you are interested in a more in-depth look at how progress is being made, check out our new Connected America event.12 August 2022Cantwell, Capito Propose Broadband Buildout Along America’s Electricity Grid - Press Release 11 August 2022Village of Sherburne Cuts Fiber Deployment Time from Four Years to End of this Year - OPTICS The Future Of Bro
  
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• Storm Ruby rips through Sunford City in digital twin drama

  12-08-2022 02:00
  The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make telecoms, water and energy infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change.
  Part of the National Digital Twin’s (NDTp) Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) project, the demonstrator was needed as a key communication tool to help show that more resilience is needed within existing utility system
  
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• Nigeria nears 85 million broadband subscriptions

  12-08-2022 02:00
  Latest figures from the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) report that broadband subscriptions have reached 84,950,984 in July, giving a penetration rate of 44.5%. This represents a considerable rate of growth as broadband penetration was only 40.91% in February 2022 but is still a long from from the goal of achieving 70% penetration by 2025…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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