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• HS2 to relocate residents away from Euston building sites

  03-10-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  People living in three blocks of flats overlooking the huge HS2 building site at Euston are to be offered new homes away from the construction disruption.
  Cartmel block (c) Google Street View
  Camden Council says that it has secured a deal in principle with HS2 to relocate residents from three blocks of flats facing onto Hampstead Road, or to offer them compensation for the disturbance caused by the construction works.
  Although HS2 provided funding for replacement housing for council tenants losi
  
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• The UK gets a go on the ITU governing council

  03-10-2022 18:00
  For some reason the UK wasn’t previously one of the 48 countries on the governing council of the UN’s telecommunications agency.
  As you can see from the screenshot of the ITU’s Wikipedia page that had yet to be updated at the time we took it. Despite being an ITU member over 150 years, the UK was previously not one of its 48 governing council members. It probably didn’t matter but still seems a bit weird that one of the countries that has been at the centre of the telecom
  
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• A week of free medical talks

  03-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Later this month there will be a free six-day festival of medical and science taking place across the London Bridge area.The Medi-Culture series of events will jump from live Victorian surgery at the world’s oldest surviving operating theatre to medical stand-up and stories, delivered by comedians and health-care scientists; from talks on menopause, gene therapy, alcohol and convalescence, to anatomical drawing classes; from a Thames-side walk through medical history and modern health, to
  
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• Vodafone and Three in talks to create UK’s biggest mobile operator

  03-10-2022 15:07
  Vodafone has been under pressure from activist investors to change strategy and improve returns
  
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• Altnets offer the best broadband speeds in much of the UK

  03-10-2022 14:26
  According to data from Ookla, altnets are providing the top fixed broadband speeds in London, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester, as well as a number of counties.
  A new report by the network intelligence provider, which takes a general look at the state of the broadband market in the UK, says that fixed broadband internet reached 86% of households at the end of 2021, most customers have access to speeds of at least 30 Mbps, and altnets are providing the top speeds in key areas of the UK.
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• Vodafone UK confirms merger talks with Three

  03-10-2022 14:21
  A long-rumoured piece of major British telecoms market consolidation is on the cards, with the UK arms of Vodafone and Three confirmed to be in merger discussions.
  Vodafone issued one of those ‘notes recent press speculation’ announcements today, apparently in response to a Sky News story. ‘Vodafone confirms that it is in discussions with CK Hutchison in relation to a possible combination of Vodafone UK and Three UK,’ it opened.
  The plan is for Vodafone to own 51% of the
  
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• Optus confirms 2.1m customers had ID docs stolen

  03-10-2022 13:13
  Nearly two weeks after it suffered a massive cyber attack, Optus has finally figured out who had which details leaked.
  The Australian telco said in an update on Monday that of the 9.8 million current and former customers whose data was exposed, 2.1 million had at least one part of an identity document accessed, such as a driving licence or passport number. This is in addition to personal information including name, address, date of birth etc.
  For approximately 1.2 million of those unfortunate pe
  
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• BT has high hopes for its new AI Accelerator

  03-10-2022 13:01
  BT Group’s Digital unit has taken the wraps off a new machine learning platform which is supposed to speed up the production of AI models from 6 months to 6 days.
  The new platform is called AI Accelerator, and its mission is to oversee AI model deployments developed by BT Group’s data community, ‘assessing their efficacy and behaviour to drive value from the business’ 29 petabyte data estate.’
  The idea is this will reduce the administrative and technical processes i
  
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• There’s a Doctor Who Cyberman in the Science Museum

  03-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you look carefully, next to the Science Museum’s space exhibition there’s a Doctor Who Cyberman standing guard. It’s here as part of a small display celebrating the BBC’s centenary that explores how the BBC has used broadcast technologies to deliver its mission to inform, educate and entertain its audiences.It’s a pretty small display with just four items in a glass case, plus a digital screen next to it, but aims to show off the three main aspects of the BBC&rsq
  
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• Vodafone’s Portugal buy could raise regulatory eyebrows

  03-10-2022 12:59
  Vodafone has agreed to acquire Portuguese mobile operator Nowo in a deal clearly designed to help it build some scale in the country.
  But while it is looking ahead to a completion date of the first half of next year, there’s a good chance that Portugal’s regulators will want to have a very close look at this deal.
  It’s a deal we don’t know a lot about at this stage. Vodafone Portugal simply said that it has entered into an agreement with an entity known as Llorca JVCO Lim
  
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• GSMA extends ‘fair contribution’ debate globally

  03-10-2022 12:47
  A week after European operators renewed their call for Big Tech to be forced to contribute to the cost of networks, the GSMA has put out a related statement.
  As the main trade association for global mobile network operators, it’s reasonable to expect the GSMA to take a position on a matter close to many members’ hearts. While the organisation has historically seemed more focused on Europe, its remit is global, so if it was ever going to speak up on this matter that had to be acknowle
  
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• London’s Alleys: Little Green Street, NW5

  03-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a charming little passageway in north London that is famous for the row of Georgian houses that line it with their bow windows and cobbled street. OK, it’s arguable if this is an alley, but it’s short and narrow — and much more important to me, it’s charming.This wasn’t originally a residential street, and with the exception of the two corner houses, this was a street lined with shops. The bow-fronted windows that survive were the original shop fronts. The n
  
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