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• Summa Networks Joins Rural Wireless Association (RWA)

  30-08-2022 18:30
  
  Madrid, Spain, August 30th, 2022 – Summa Networks today announced it has joined the Rural Wireless Association (RWA). Summa Networks is the market specialist in Subscribers, Policy and Identity Management. Its solution is a complete software suite to guide carriers in their transition to 5G, including UDM/UDR/AUSF/UDSF and PCF for 5G SA as well as HLR/HSS/AAA/EIR/PCRF for 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G NSA networks, while ensuring their interworking in a single product. RWA is a leading...Source: RealWire
  
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• UK government imposes its own security obligations on telecoms sector

  30-08-2022 18:11
  The UK’s network operators are now compelled to implement tough new security rules imposed by the government on pain of massive fines.
  As if the UK government didn’t already have enough power it passed the Telecommunications Security Act last November and has wasted little time in making use of it. New regulations developed with the National Cyber Security Centre and Ofcom set out specific actions for UK public telecoms providers to fulfil their legal duties in the Act. Ofcom has bee
  
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• NTT, Intel and VMware buddy up to flog ‘Edge as a Service’

  30-08-2022 17:56
  NTT, Intel and VMware have all put their hats in the ring to offer a managed edge compute platform they are calling Edge as a Service.
  NTT is the one actually delivering the product, which it says is the first globally available, fully managed edge and private 5G offering. There seems to be a lot of focus on speed of deployment and it apparently ‘accelerates business process automation’, for what that’s worth.
  We’re told Edge-as-a-Service runs on VMware’s Edge Compu
  
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• Transport for London accepts 19-month funding deal from the government

  30-08-2022 17:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it is accepting the funding deal that’s been offered by the government after their urgent board meeting earlier today. The agreement between TfL and the Department for Transport (DfT) will support transport services in London for the next 19 months — that’s until 31st March 2024.
  However, there’s an unfunded gap in the budget that the negotiations did not resolve.
  The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan warned that “this deal is
  
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• Candlelit tours of the Charterhouse Monastery this winter

  30-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A chance to step into a medieval monastery near the Barbican on a Friday evening for a guided tour by flickering candlelight. The Charterhouse has long been hidden from the outside world by a high wall, but a few years ago, the people who still live there started offering tours, and then a museum was opened, and now the tours are a regular event.
  Now they also offer evening tours that will take you around the main buildings, a glass of wine in hand, with the tour guide showing you the sights by
  
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• TfL takes final decision over government funding deal

  30-08-2022 15:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  At lunchtime today, Transport for London’s (TfL) board held an urgent meeting to discuss if they will accept the funding offer from the government to keep London’s transport running.
  The public part of the meeting outlined some of the risks of not accepting the offer on the table, not just deep cuts to public transport services, but even the potential for the government to take direct control of TfL.
  The most recent funding package, which covered running costs to keep services runnin
  
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• Ericsson and Nokia both confirm their Russian exit

  30-08-2022 14:23
  Nordic kit vendors Ericsson and Nokia are gradually moving towards a complete exit from the Russian market.
  Last April Ericsson announced the partial indefinite suspension of its activities in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. A day later Nokia seemed to go a step further by declaring a full exit from Russia, pausing only to allow for an orderly transfer of responsibilities. With the war still very much underway four months later, it seems the time has come to formal
  
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• HomeGrid Forum releases the VectorBoost™ open-source software to accelerate G.hn Access deployments with GiGAWire™ profile

  30-08-2022 14:00
  Beaverton, US, 30 August 2022: HomeGrid Forum has announced the release of VectorBoost™ as open-source software for GiGAWire™ profile that manages crosstalk mitigation in broadband access networks. The initiative will accelerate the development of network solutions based on ITU-T G.hn standards extended to the Multi Dwelling Units (MDUs) environment, including large apartment complexes and office buildings, as well as Single Family Units (SFUs) and Fiber Extenders scenarios by using
  
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• Sony buys Savage Game Studios to beef up new mobile gaming division

  30-08-2022 13:16
  SIE, the video gaming wing of tech giant Sony, has agreed a purchase of Finland and Germany based mobile studio Savage Game Studios, which will be absorbed into its new mobile game division.
  Sony Interactive Entertainment has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Savage Game Studios, as it looks to give its brand new PlayStation Studios Mobile Division some firepower.
  The studio is led by ‘veteran co-founders’ Michail Katkoff, Nadjim Adjir, and Michael McManus, who collectiv
  
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• Reliance Jio unveils aggressive Indian 5G rollout plans

  30-08-2022 13:07
  Dominant Indian telco Reliance Jio plans to spend $25 billion on a nationwide 5G rollout that will conclude by the end of 2023.
  This was just one of a bunch of announcements made during its parent company’s AGM broadcast, at which telecoms was the main focus. As soon as it acquired the majority of the Indian 5G spectrum on offer a month ago, Jio unveiled plans to build ‘the world’s most advanced 5G network’. The accuracy of that claim remains to be seen but the combinatio
  
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• Lunches in the City of London’s livery halls

  30-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Several of the City of London’s grand and normally private livery halls hold public livery lunches typically once a month, and dates for the rest of the year have been released. The Livery Halls are not that easy to get inside to see unless you manage to get on an occasional tour or attend an event there, so their monthly lunches tend to be quite popular.
  Be aware that a dress code of business attire applies to them.
  (c) Worshipful Company of Pewterers
  Pewterers’ Hall
  The Worshipful
  
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• VMO2, NEC and Rakuten activate Open RAN sites in UK

  30-08-2022 12:07
  An Open RAN deployment collaboratively set up by VMO2, NEC and Rakuten is entering the ‘field phase’, with the activation of the first live sites in VMO2’s commercial network.
  Based in Northamptonshire, the deployment on macro-sites is in a brownfield network and baselined on the existing Telco Cloud supply chain, and represent the first live Open RAN macro-sites in VMO2’s network. It is now operational and able to handle commercial traffic following successful trials las
  
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• Kentish Town tube station’s “secret” garden

  30-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Kentish Town tube station regulars know the ticket hall is filled with plants but may be surprised to discover a whole garden can be found hidden away in the station yard.Over the past decade, a hidden courtyard next to the ticket hall has been transformed into a verdant space filled with flowers, vegetables, decorations, and quite a bit of wildlife that’s found its way here.There’s been a small yard next to the tube station since it was built, originally with a shop facing the main
  
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• Rakuten founder embroiled in scandal as investors pile on pressure

  30-08-2022 02:02 via ft.com
  Hiroshi Mikitani’s group is bleeding cash as he tries to enlist shareholders to back online bank IPO
  
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• Postal delays nearly drove Charles Dickens from his home

  30-08-2022 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Charles Dickens was once so annoyed by planned delays to his post, that he threatened to move house to a better area, newly published letters have revealed.
  The letters, part of an acquisition of over 300 items from the most substantial private collection of Dickens material in the world, are going on display for the first time at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
  At the time he was complaining about the postal service, he was living in Gads Hill Place, the home near Rochester that he had bo
  
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