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• More Mail Rail tunnel walks with an extra bit for Christmas

  13-09-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Postal Museum has announced fresh dates for the chance to walk through the tunnels under Mount Pleasent where the Mail Rail used to carry the post.
  (c) Postal Museum
  Visitors get access to the original tunnels, tracks and station platforms of London’s 100-year-old postal railway, letting you explore parts of the railway that aren’t accessible on the Mail Rail ride.
  The route involves walking on uneven ground in low-light conditions for around 1.2km (0.75 miles) including stepping
  
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• Europe’s smaller telcos join the big tech ‘fair contribution’ debate

  13-09-2022 18:03
  The European Competitive Telecommunications Association seems keen to make sure its members aren’t overlooked in any move to get big tech to pay its ‘fair contribution’.
  European Commissioner Thierry Breton recently revealed the EC is going to have a closer look at the matter of getting those few US tech giants that produce the majority of internet traffic to pay for their burden on the networks. ECTA characterises that as the ‘fair contribution’ debate and wasted l
  
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• Free railway arches offered to charities

  13-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Charities and community groups are being offered free rental of unused railway arches in a new offer from The Arch Co, the company that manages Network Rail’s railway arches.
  Although there may be some retail arches available, most of the arches would be more useful for storage, light industrial or in some cases office overflow spaces. An example of use could be for a food bank to have deliveries sent to a railway arch as a local warehouse with the last-mile delivery to the final destinati
  
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• Verizon heralds vRAN rollout as part of broader 5G push

  13-09-2022 14:53
  US operator Verizon has rolled out more than 8,000 virtualised RAN sites and plans to more than double that deployment in the next three years.
  The company said its latest vRAN milestone puts it on the road to rolling out 20,000 virtualised cell sites by the end of 2025.
  VRAN is about flexibility, essentially. As Verizon itself notes, virtualisation enables it to respond faster to the varying latency and computing requirements of its customers, and allows it to roll out new products and services
  
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• Linux Foundation unveils open source digital wallet consortium

  13-09-2022 14:43
  The OpenWallet Foundation has been established to work on an open source software engine for anyone to use to make interoperable digital wallets.
  As the name implies, digital wallets attempt to take the place of physical ones by storing the details of payment cards, vouchers, receipts and other things you might previously have stuffed into your physical wallet. Right now it is assumed people use the digital wallets provided by Google or Apple on their smartphones and this initiative seems design
  
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• TalkTalk bolsters wholesale ops with two new divisions

  13-09-2022 13:52
  Following its recent shopping spree, UK ISP TalkTalk is having a reshuffle in an effort to tap growing demand for high-bandwidth fibre and Ethernet services.
  It has created two new wholesale divisions, one focused on B2B, the other on the consumer market. It also plans to competitively tender its B2B Ethernet supply product in 14 areas of the UK.
  “The pace of innovation in both the B2B and consumer wholesale telecoms has accelerated, and businesses and consumers across the UK are requiring
  
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• DT brings in Mavenir to replace Huawei in its 5G SA core

  13-09-2022 13:27
  US software firm Mavenir is now a preferred Converged Packet Core vendor for Deutsche Telekom Group.
  DT is one of many European mobile network operators compelled to rid its 5G network of Chinese kit following pressure from the US. To date, its plans for the core remained a mystery but Mavenir has finally been given the green light to go public. The release qualifies Mavenir’s role as a ‘preferred Converged Packet Core vendor’ but this represents a significant deal win nonethel
  
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• Pay a visit to Bloomsbury’s “Museum of Sex Objects”

  13-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An open door in a Bloomsbury backstreet leads you down a dark narrow stone-paved passage into a basement to visit The Museum of Sex Objects.The Museum of Sex Objects’ story is one of mystery, as throughout the centuries, small groups of artisans kept alive stories of sexual subversion alive, and often illiterate, marked their works with a red X. The Museum is actually more of an art exhibition, and one that straddles the boundary between art, fiction, and history, tracing our sexual past v
  
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• Visiting the derelict New River Head buildings

  13-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A 300-year-old former waterworks in Clerkenwell is currently open to the public to visit before conversion works start on turning them into a new museum. The site – New River Head – has a fascinating history as the hub of one of London’s first major pieces of urban infrastructure, but its 18th and 19th century buildings have been locked up for 70 years.They’re now to be converted into the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the successor to the House of Illustration th
  
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• Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo to exit Myanmar, following Norway’s Telenor

  13-09-2022 00:00
  Business will be sold to Singapore-based Nine Communications
  
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