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• Sale on Only Fools and Horses theatre tickets from just £20

  26-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Britain’s most loved sitcom Only Fools and Horses has made its West End debut at Theatre Royal Haymarket. Written by Jim Sullivan son of the show’s creator and writer John Sullivan along with comedian Paul Whitehouse.
  Tickets are available from £20 (usually £36), and also £65 seats are on sale for £40 and £113 seats are half-price at £60. The offer is valid for Mon-Fri shows between 12th S
  
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• Aviation recovery boosts earnings of UK satellite operator Inmarsat

  26-08-2022 17:54 via ft.com
  Surging orders for in-flight connectivity drive revenues while takeover by ViaSat on track, says chief executive
  
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• Foreign embassy congestion charge debt to TfL tops £142 million

  26-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The latest list of outstanding congestion charge payments owed by overseas embassies based in London has topped £142 million, as of June 2022, having risen from £136 million at the end of September 2021.
  Congestion charge sign at Fairchild Place, Shoreditch
  Although the congestion charge is applied to road vehicles entering the congestion zone, many embassies argue that it’s not a charge but a tax, and embassies are exempt from paying domestic taxes under the terms of the 1961
  
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• Summer UK roaming traffic in Europe triples

  26-08-2022 14:33
  
  UK operator O2 has published the data it captured from its customers over the summer to paint a picture of where, if anywhere, they went on their holidays.
  The principal datapoint is that average weekly roaming numbers to ten top destinations was up 203% compared to last year. Of course there was still all kinds of Covid hassle going one then, including lockdowns, quarantines and mask mandates, making it a massive hassle to leave the house, let alone the country. So while it’s not surprisi
  
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• T-Mobile and SpaceX’s plan to kill mobile dead zones comes with a lot of caveats

  26-08-2022 14:32
  
  SpaceX founder Elon Musk has promised there will be ‘no dead zones anywhere in the world for your cell phone’ – but there’s not much substance on offer yet.
  Yesterday Musk and T-Mobile CEO and President Mike Sievert (pictured) took to the stage at SpaceX’s launch facility to deliver a much hyped announcement of how the two firms plan to work together on eliminating mobile dead-zones across the US, and elsewhere.
  The plan has a name: Coverage Above and Beyond. Put si
  
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• Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer is visiting London

  26-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer, will be making a visit to London next month, and will be offering regular trips along the Thames during her visit.
  Waverley was built in 1945, originally for the route up Loch Goil and Loch Long from Craigendoran & Arrochar in West Scotland. She now visits several areas of the UK offering regular trips during the summer months. Just before the pandemic, the ship was taken out of service for a major overhaul of the boilers, which w
  
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• Spark calls upon AWS and Mavenir for 5G SA trial

  26-08-2022 12:46
  
  There are signs that Amazon could be in line for another 5G standalone (SA) networking deal.
  Spark New Zealand this week shared details of two 5G SA proof-of-concepts (PoCs) it carried out, and the hyperscaler was heavily involved in both of them.
  With Mavenir providing the networking software, Spark deployed a 5G SA cloud-native core solution on AWS Snowball Edge, Amazon’s rugged, briefcase-sized edge cloud. It enabled the incumbent to create a portable storage and compute solution that c
  
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• Singtel sells US$1.6 billion Bharti stake to fund 5G

  26-08-2022 12:40
  
  Singtel has inked a S$2.25 billion (US$1.6 billion) deal to offload a 3.3 percent direct stake in Bharti Airtel as part of its broader asset monetisation push.
  The Singaporean telco, which has been reshaping its business for the past couple of years, will actually bring in around S$0.6 billion (US$430 million) from the deal, because it is selling the shares to Bharti Telecom, a joint venture between itself and Bharti Enterprises. Nonetheless, the cash will be a valuable contributor to Singtel&rs
  
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• TfL faces difficult decision over government funding offer

  26-08-2022 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has revealed some details of the government’s funding offer to keep London’s public transport running, and the current deal would last just 20-months, far less than the 3-year minimum that TfL had been seeking.
  If TfL agrees to the offer, then it will be funded to April 2024, which marks the end of the 2023 financial year, so it’s a very short-term deal.TfL’s Commissioner, Andy Byford has been arguing for a three-year deal to secure medium-term
  
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