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• Walk the Elizabeth line for charity

  15-08-2022 20:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A sponsored walk along the length of the Elizabeth line is taking place in October, raising money for the Railway Children charity.Organised as part of this year’s Rail Aid, the 15-mile walk follows the route of the central section of the Elizabeth line from Woolwich to Paddington. At every station along the way, there’ll be a checkpoint to collect a stamp, and marshals along the route to keep everyone on track. Participants will be given a fold-out map with all the walk information
  
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• More towers planned for Blackfriars Bridge site

  15-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  New plans have been shown off for three towers to stand next to Blackfriars Bridge on a site that already has approval for two tower blocks.
  (c) Hines / Foster + Partners
  The site is a plot of land that was cleared in 2016 and plans for two towers, one of which included a hotel, on the site were approved in 2017. That never went ahead, and last year, the property investor, Hines bought the site and commissioned a new design. Hines also acquired the Mad Hatter public house and One Stamford Street
  
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• Telcos asked to check benefit status of customers to drive awareness of ‘social tariffs’

  15-08-2022 18:15
  
  A new scheme allows broadband and mobile providers to check on the benefit eligibility of their customers with the DWP, since apparently only 1.2% of those that are able to take discounted ‘social tariff’ offers do so.
  The government reckons only 1.2% of those eligible are using the ‘social tariff’ scheme, which offers people on Universal Credit and other benefits discounted broadband and mobile deals, possibly as they haven’t heard about them.
  In response the gover
  
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• Tube and National Rail strikes later this week

  15-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be three railway strikes this week, starting this Thursday and running to the end of the week, affecting both the national rail network and the London Underground. Coordinated strike action by the RMT and TSSA unions will create severe disruption for passengers with only about a fifth of services running on around just half of the network across the country.Thursday 18th August – National rail strike
  Friday 19th August – London Underground strike
  Saturday 20th August &ndas
  
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• O2 data shows Londoners are returning to the office

  15-08-2022 14:23
  
  Data from O2’s network seems to suggest commuter numbers in London have roughly doubled in July compared to a year ago when lockdown lifted in England.
  New anonymised crowd movement data from O2’s mobile network in the last two weeks of July suggested that peak commuter volumes into the City of London jumped by as much as 96% compared to the same period last year, around the time all the restrictions in England were dispensed with.
  That is apparently still 27% off where they were pre
  
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• Huawei revenue decline slows in H1 2022

  15-08-2022 13:11
  
  The Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei has announced a slight slowdown in the decline of its revenue results for H1 2022, a first since the 2020 US imposed sanctions.
  The vendor announced that  its revenues reached CNY301.6 billion, down from CNY320.4 billion in H1 2021, representing a decline of nearly 6%. Its net profit margin stood at 5% in the first half of this year, down from 9.8% in the same period in 2021. Additionally, its device and consumer business unit declined by 25% com
  
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• The King’s Observatory in Richmond is opening for tours

  15-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A grand building in Richmond that was built for King George III to observe a rare astronomical event will be open later this month for tours.The large square building with a telescope observatory dome on top was built to watch the 1769 Transit of Venus, an event which had seen Captain James Cook sent to the other side of the world to observe it from a better location, while at the same time nabbing a few continents for the crown.
  It later became a government building, and then oddly, a company o
  
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• Stonepeak scoops up over 2000 towers in the Philippines from Globe Telecom

  15-08-2022 12:51
  
  Stonepeak, an investment firm which specialises in infrastructure and ‘real assets’, is buying 2,180 towers in the Philippines from Globe Telecom for $472 million.
  Stonepeak is making the move through Miescor Infrastructure Development Corporation which is a newly formed joint venture between itself and Meralco Industrial Engineering Services Corporation. Stonepeak has been involved in various big scale tower transactions globally in recent years though this is its first swoop in the
  
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• Your chance to walk inside a hot air balloon

  15-08-2022 11:57 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Early this morning, an art-covered hot air balloon lifted into the skies over Thamesmead and will do so over several evenings this week — and before it takes off people will be able to walk around the inside of the balloon.The morning flight was a proving demonstration for the 25-metre tall hot air balloon, which has been specially made for the event, as it’s covered in art designed by local people. Artists, Neil Musson and Jono Retallick (musson+retallick), who turned up in steampun
  
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• London’s Alleys: Churchway, NW1

  15-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a short alley halfway between Euston and St Pancras station that offers a convenient link between two busy roads.
  When all was fields, this patch of not-yet-London was known as The Bruel. What’s quite remarkable though is that this alley popped up when most of the area was still fields, and the very earliest developments had just started appearing. Chalton Street was the first to be laid out, and Church Way was laid out as a gap in the houses giving access to the fields behind.
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• Malaysian telcos finally agree to take stakes in DNB

  15-08-2022 02:00
  In recent years, Malaysia’s journey towards 5G has been bottlenecked due to the highly unorthodox approach taken by the government, eschewing the conventional wisdom of a spectrum auction and instead launching a nationwide 5G wholesaler, DNB. Even before DNB’s official launch in early 2021, the operators had been lambasting the government for its decision, saying they could roll out 5G themselves far more effectively and efficiently, as well as raising issues of DBN’s hig
  
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• Intelsat and OneWeb partner for multi-orbit airline connectivity

  15-08-2022 02:00
  Leading satellite communications companies OneWeb and Intelsat have signed a global distribution partnership agreement to offer airlines a seamless inflight connectivity (IFC) solution with the best combination of performance, coverage and reliability on the market. The partnership enables Intelsat to distribute OneWeb’s ground-breaking low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to airlines worldwide…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Globe strikes duo of tower sale deals worth $1.28 billion

  15-08-2022 02:00
  Late last week, Globe Telecom announced that it had signed two major tower sales deals, set to raise roughly $1.28 billion, most of which will be put towards its network expansion.The first deal will see MIESCOR Infrastructure Development Corporation (MIDC), a joint venture between Malaysian infrastructure company MIESCOR and US private equity firm Stonepeak…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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