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• Dennis Severs’ House will have its annual Christmas makeover

  29-09-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Spitalfield’s wonderfully atmospheric Dennis Severs’ House gets even more atmospheric during Yuletide as it gets a Christmas makeover.
  The building is set out as a Georgian house where the family have just stepped outside for a moment. You are invited into their home to have a walk around while they’re out. It’s not a museum with lots of precious objects but an experience. You are exhorted to step back a bit and look at the rooms in their totality, not to look at the indi
  
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• T-Mobile US introduces off the shelf 5G solutions for industry niches

  29-09-2022 18:19
  US operator T-Mobile has launched a suite of ‘ready-to-deploy’ solutions for smart cities and businesses operating in the retail, manufacturing, and logistics sectors.
  Advanced Industry Solutions is a suite of connectivity bundles which include compute, devices, and app elements aimed at things like autonomous factories. The idea is there is a selection of industry specific packages designed to suit the needs of retail, manufacturing, logistics, and smart cities. T-Mobile acts as a s
  
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• The final, final deadline looms for a chance at telecoms immortality

  29-09-2022 18:13
  Despite having months to prepare, many companies have left it to the last minute to submit their entries to the 2022 Glotel Awards.
  Thankfully the powers that be at Glotel Towers have once more taken pity on the over-stretched telecoms industry and extended the entry deadline all the way to 6 October. But that’s it, we’re told there’s absolutely no room for manoeuvre after that. Beg and plead all you want, it’s out of their hands.
  That gives you at most a week to get your
  
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• Amazon launches a swarm of smart home devices

  29-09-2022 14:27
  Amazon –  who at this point has its fingers in so many different pies its hard to know what to call it other than ‘tech giant’ – has unveiled a raft of new smart devices as it continues its drive for smart home supremacy.
  Echo Auto, Echo Studio, Echo Dot, and Echo Dot with ClockAmazon has dropped four new/refreshed smart speakers to its line up, an area it’s probably fair to say it’s the market leader in – the Echo Auto, Echo Studio, Echo Dot, and E
  
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• NEC goes international with its open virtualized RAN software suite

  29-09-2022 14:23
  Japanese tech giant NEC has continued its Open RAN crusade with the introduction of its open virtualized RAN software suite to the international market.
  Along with compatriot Rakuten, NEC is one of the companies being most proactive in offering Open RAN products, tools and platforms to the broader market. Its overall offering is called NEC Open Networks, of which this software suite would appear to be a core component. It focuses on virtualized central and distributed units (vCU/vDU) and claims
  
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• Verizon brings fun and games to its 5G network

  29-09-2022 13:50
  US telco Verizon aims to capitalise on strong demand for mobile gaming and sports streaming with a host of new products and partners.
  Company execs took to the stage at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas on Wednesday to show off what it claims is the world’s first 5G gaming handheld device, a new fixed-wireless access (FWA) router, and a streaming deal with the National Football League (NFL).
  First up is the new handheld, which was developed by PC peripherals maker Razer in partnership with Q
  
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• Ofcom urges telcos (very gently) to resist large broadband price hikes

  29-09-2022 13:04
  Ofcom is having its say on the cost of living crisis in the UK, urging telcos to push low-income plans and appealing to their better nature on upcoming broadband price rises.
  Smaller operators in the UK have been urging the regulator to step in on mid-contract broadband prices that will likely hit many consumers next spring. The most vocal of late was full fibre provider Hyperoptic, which earlier this month repeated calls to Ofcom to tackle mid-contract price increases alongside a free broadband
  
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• Battersea Power Station to open with a lightning show

  29-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The refurbished Battersea Power Station is opening next month, with a couple of weekends of events, including a display by Arcadia  – the Lords of Lightning.
  The power station itself will open at 10am on Friday 14th October, with the shops and bars inside opening to the public. Throughout the day there will be theatrical acts, plus a stage for more events throughout the weekend in the park.
  The main event though will be in the evening, with an electrical show put on next to the former
  
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• Europe could be hit by mobile network outages this winter

  29-09-2022 12:25
  Power cuts or energy rationing have the possibility of downing mobile networks across Europe this winter, some telecoms industry execs have warned.
  There have been plenty of headlines warning of rising prices for heating homes this winter following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent energy crisis – however it could also mean mobile networks start going down across Europe, according to some unnamed telecoms execs speaking to Reuters.
  Their claim is there are not enough back-up s
  
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• Rakuten Symphony gets intimate with AWS

  29-09-2022 12:24
  Japanese Open RAN platform provider Rakuten Symphony is making itself available on Amazon Web Services.
  Rakuten Symphony likes to name all its products with ‘Sym’ as the first syllable. Accordingly its full platform is called Symworld and that’s what it’s striving to be fully supported by the biggest public cloud provider. The only surprise in this announcement is that it took so long since, according to Rakuten Symphony, Symworld ‘offers a total blueprint of cloud-
  
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• The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display

  29-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A document that was written just a year after William the Conquer did his conquering has gone on display in the City of London. It’s dated from 1067, and is the oldest document owned by the City of London, as it confirms the rights of the City after the new King was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
  When William invaded England, he was faced with the daunting task of attacking a very well defended London. Knowing both that the city would be very difficult to attack, but also that having an int
  
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