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• OneWeb prepares to launch 36 satellites from India

  20-09-2022 18:28
  OneWeb will launch 36 LEO satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, which apparently marks the first dedicated commercial launch for NewSpace India using the GSLV-MkIII rocket.
  Once the 36 new Low Earth Orbit Satellites are deployed, OneWeb’s constellation will be over 70% complete, with four launches remaining in order to achieve its global coverage ambitions – one more this year, and three more early next year.
  OneWeb is working with NewSpace India, the
  
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• London’s Public Art: Selene

  20-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On a side street off Soho Square, you can find a sculpture of Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon and of magic sitting on the front of a hotel. It would be easy to assume the sculpture is called The Resident, but that’s the name of the hotel.It was created by Huw Locke, who was commissioned by the Resident hotel to create a sculpture representing sleep, which is apt for a hotel. He says on his website that he wanted to “make a classical statue with a contemporary twist, and was kee
  
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• Telco 5G fixed wireless revenues set to rocket

  20-09-2022 14:41
  Revenue for 5G fixed wireless access services billed by operators will grow almost fivefold next year to reach US$2.5 billion globally, according to new predictions released by Juniper Research this week.
  The analyst firm’s forecasted 480% growth rate naturally comes from a fairly low base; this year FWA revenues are set to come in at $515 million, which is a drop in the ocean compared with the trillions of dollars of operating revenue the world’s telcos generate between them annuall
  
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• Vodafone ramps up V2X rollout

  20-09-2022 14:35
  It looks as if Vodafone’s V2X platform is finally ready for commercial deployment.
  The telco’s German arm on Tuesday announced that its Safer Transport for Europe Platform (STEP) is now available to vehicle manufacturers and transport authorities. Based on the open standards-based Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication protocol, it uses a publish/subscribe mechanism to enable the transmission of telemetry data between different devices.
  
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• CityFibre passes the 2 million homes mark

  20-09-2022 14:25
  Fibreco CityFibre says its network now passes 2 million homes, which is 25% of its ultimate target of 8 million.
  Of the 2 million homes passed to date, around 1.8 million are ‘ready for service’, which means residents can place an order. Once the full rollout to 8 million homes is completed, CityFibre says it will ‘address’ approximately one third of the available UK market.
  CityFibre began work on its network in 2018, and reached its one million home milestone three year
  
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• More train strikes announced for October

  20-09-2022 13:49 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There will be more train strikes at the start of October after the Aslef union confirmed that train drivers at 12 companies will walk out. The train drivers previously took strike action on 30th July and 13th August, but the union says more strikes are happening after the train companies didn’t improve their offer.The next strikes will take place on Saturday 1st and Wednesday 5th October — and as with previous strikes, expect some disruption in the evening before, and more disruption
  
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• Deploying private networks: 3 challenges for enterprises

  20-09-2022 13:20
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ann Heyse, Telco Solutions Manager, BICS, looks at how businesses can best go about exploiting the growing private networks opportunity.
  Private networks will be a key cog in the machine of industry 4.0. Interest in both private LTE and 5G networks has been growing steadily, and although the market is in relative infancy, adoption of the technology looks set to
  
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• FCC grants Lynk license for satellite-direct-to-phone service

  20-09-2022 13:03
  US comms regulator the Federal Communications Commission has given the green light to Lynk’s satellite-direct-to-phone service, following SpaceX and T-Mobile’s joint announcement that they intend to enter the market.
  Lynk says it’s the world’s first commercial license granted for a satellite-direct-to-phone service, and it will begin commercial services later this year. Lynk’s proposition removes the need for a relay between the satellite, base station and device an
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Ukraine, 5G SA and Twitter

  20-09-2022 13:02
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Ukraine, 5G SA and Twitter
  
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• A church organ has appeared in London Bridge station

  20-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Many large railway stations have pianos to play, but London Bridge has upped the game, with a church pipe organ to play instead.
  It’s been placed here by Pipe Up, a charity that rescues church organs that might be lost as churches close or musical tastes change. The charity aims to stem this tide of losses by getting them cared for, played and heard. Their first pipe organ to be placed inside a railway station arrived a few weeks ago, originally came from the United Reformed Church church
  
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• Hyperscalers dominate at Digital Transformation World 2022

  20-09-2022 11:39
  The TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World event returned after its Covid hiatus with a renewed focus on collaborating with hyperscalers.
  Essentially this means the public cloud giants. AWS is a principle sponsor of DTW 2022, Microsoft has been a TM Forum member for years and Google Cloud joined a couple of weeks ago. The ‘digital transformation’ buzzword has increasingly come to mean CSPs becoming more ‘cloud native’, all the better to interact seamlessly with the
  
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• A free roof garden has opened in central London

  20-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London has gained another public roof terrace, but this one is right in the centre of London, offering some pretty impressive views from the 9th floor space.This roof garden, on New Oxford Street, sits on top of a 1960s-era post office sorting centre that closed in the 1990s, and apart from occasional arty uses, had been empty until it was recently refurbished to turn it into a modern office block. As part of the planning agreement, a portion of the roof terrace that was created for office users
  
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