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• ETSI and O-RAN Alliance release first Open RAN specification

  15-09-2022 17:57
  Open RAN has taken a step closer to becoming an official standard, with European standardization body ETSI giving an O-RAN specification its seal of approval.
  Specifically we’re talking about ‘O-RAN Fronthaul Control, User and Synchronization Plane Specification v7.02’, which can now also be referred to by the equally catchy moniker of ETSI TS 103 859. If you want a sense of how incredibly arcane and detailed the tech specification game is, just click on that hyperlink and imme
  
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• Network Rail testing lasers to clear leaves from the railway tracks

  15-09-2022 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Trains fitted with lasers are to be used this autumn to remove the residue of fallen leaves from train lines.
  When damp autumn leaves fall onto the railway, they are crushed into a surprisingly difficult to shift black paste that causes train wheels to slip and lose adhesion to the railway tracks. This means train drivers must slow down earlier for stations and signals to avoid overshooting them. It can also affect trackside signalling causing problems in knowing where trains are and running the
  
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• EU wants to avoid metaverse monopolies

  15-09-2022 14:09
  The European Commission has become the latest willing drinker of Zuckerberg et-al’s metaverse Kool-Aid.
  Thierry Breton, commissioner responsible for the internal market, has been sufficiently convinced of this virtual world’s self-professed credibility that he wants to design and implement a regulatory framework that will curb big tech’s inherently monopolistic ambitions towards it. Even though it doesn’t exist and no one is going to use it.
  “Metaverse – a new
  
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• The Queue: Eight hours to see the Queen

  15-09-2022 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  It has become known simply as The Queue. Britain is filled with people queuing, but at the moment, there’s just The Queue. The only one that matters, the one that runs for miles so that people can walk past The Queen’s coffin inside Westminster Hall.
  Where you join the queue depends on your luck, but it seems to be somewhere between Southwark and Tower Bridges so far, and once you join, it’s hours of slowly shuffling forward to get to the final destination.
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• 5G pushes US wireless spend to record high

  15-09-2022 13:45
  Mobile operators in the US invested US$35 billion in their networks last year, largely as a result of ongoing 5G deployments.
  That capital spend marks a record high and represents the fourth consecutive year of investment growth, according to industry body the CTIA, which has just published the results of its latest Annual Wireless Industry Survey.
  “Wireless is America’s most competitive industry, and that competition continues to spur record levels of investment to build the world&r
  
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• SK Telecom and Deloitte join the 5G Open Innovation Lab

  15-09-2022 13:20
  South Korean operator SK Telecom has thrown its hat into the ring with the 5G Open Innovation Lab and is apparently the first Asian partner to do so, as the group looks to drum up some 5G and edge use cases.
  Alongside SK Telecom and analyst Deloitte, US roofing and waterproofing manufacturer GAF has also joined the ranks of the 5G Innovation Lab, which doesn’t seem like an obvious fit but the firm explains: “In the next 5 years, approximately $1.3 trillion will be spent on connectivi
  
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• Twitter acquisition saga gets ever messier

  15-09-2022 13:18
  The bizarre spectacle of a company trying to force a sale of itself to the buyer who no longer wants it took further turns this week.
  US billionaire Elon Musk suffered buyer’s remorse soon after making a surprise bid to buy social media company Twitter, citing concerns about the accuracy of its user-base claims. This eventually led him to terminate the acquisition agreement, but that still left the matter of the billion-dollar payment such a move the agreement required him to make.
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• Old Brompton bikes turned into furniture

  15-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A group of design students have turned parts of old Brompton bikes that would be scrapped into new products, ranging from a table football game to a coffee table.
  Emilia Radek (c) Brompton
  Brompton partnered with London Metropolitan University to find a second life for out-of-service components from their London factory, and challenged Product & Furniture Design BA students to explore designs for new products, whilst also making effective use of their chosen bike component.The vast majority
  
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• Telecoms at war: How Ukraine is fighting to stay connected

  15-09-2022 10:02
  As the Ukrainian army continues to push back Russian forces in the east of the country, we spoke to Volodymyr Lutchenko, CTO of Ukrainian operator Kyivstar, about the challenges of keeping communications online in a country under invasion.
  As the invasion started, was there a particular effort from the Russian military to target telecoms infrastructure?
  Actually, our real photos from the fields can prove it. There is not any other logical explanation, only targeted explosives of telco infrastruc
  
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• Mourning has broken

  15-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Green Park is sealed off and crowds swirl around the high fences that have been erected around looking for the entrances to get within. Anywhere and anytime else this would be the traditional sign of an English summer when fields are turned into festivals, but this is a festival of mourning.
  Once you’ve penetrated the outer wall, an outer walkway takes you around the central enclave that’s now become a symbol of people’s reaction of the death of a Queen — the huge arrays
  
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