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• Glotel Awards 2022 shortlist unveiled

  27-10-2022 18:31
  The quantity and quality of entries to the 2022 Glotel Awards reveal a telecoms industry that hasn’t missed a step over a tricky few years.
  This is the first year the Glotels will be announced at a live, in-person event since 2019, thanks to the global pandemic. The Telecoms.com team was pleasantly overwhelmed by having to sift through well over 200 high quality entries and whittle them down to a shortlist of just over 100, which represents an excellent snapshot of the past year in the tel
  
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• Huawei returns to growth

  27-10-2022 17:26
  Chinese tech giant Huawei has announced its revenues for the first three quarters of the year, which indicate a return to growth.
  Huawei generated CNY445.8 billion in revenue during the first three quarters of 2022, it announced today. Its main business made a profit margin of 6.1%  – though it’s not clear what it classifies as its main business as other than the following quote, that was the entirety of the announcement.
  “Overall performance was in line with forecast,&rdq
  
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• The Elizabeth line will accept European Interrail tickets

  27-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Interrail, a rail pass that gives unlimited mainline rail travel across Europe can also be used on the new Elizabeth line, even though Interrail tickets are not accepted on the rest of the London Underground.
  The Interrail Pass is a single train pass that lets you travel as much as you want on participating European train networks. It’s mainly for national mainline railways, and in the UK, that’s the national rail services, Eurostar, the Caledonian Sleeper, and as it turns out, the E
  
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• Investors lose faith in Meta’s gambling habit

  27-10-2022 14:19
  The company formerly known as Facebook took another big hit to its share price as the cost of its pivot to the metaverse hit home.
  Total revenues were down 4% to $27.7 billion in Q3 2022, which isn’t catastrophic, considering the known slowdown in digital ad spending, a sector Meta dominates along with fellow US internet giant Google. But net income halved year-on-year to $4.4 billion, thanks mainly to the obscene amounts of cash the company is ploughing into its strategic bet on the metav
  
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• Qualcomm and Vodafone buddy up to develop 5G Open RAN infrastructure

  27-10-2022 14:15
  US chip designer Qualcomm and UK operator group Vodafone are collaborating on high-performance, energy efficient 5G vDU and Massive MIMO RU solutions.
  The two firms plan to develop, test and integrate next-generation 5G distributed units (DUs) and Radio Unit (RU) with Massive MIMO capabilities, with the purpose of enabling the commercial deployment of Open RAN in Europe.
  The 5G Open RAN solutions will be powered by the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and the Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN Platform
  
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• Exhibition looks at the life of the surgeon who tended to Admiral Nelson

  27-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The life of the surgeon who tended to Admiral Nelson as he lay dying at the Battle of Trafalgar will be the topic of a new exhibition opening next week at the Greenwich Visitor Centre.
  The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805, by Arthur William Devis
  Sir William Beatty was a renowned 19th-century naval surgeon and physician and the exhibition will look at his life and work in all its fascinating – and often grisly – detail. The exhibition will allow visitors to see up close the tools of
  
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• EE starts to reap the rewards of its Ericsson radio partnership

  27-10-2022 12:51
  UK mobile operator EE is starting to deploy the Ericsson’s latest massive MIMO radios, which promise a bunch of improvements and efficiencies.
  The Ericsson AIR 3268 radio was developed in partnership with EE parent BT and was first unveiled by the Swedish kit vendor a year or so ago. The headline feature was its exceptionally low weight of 12kg, illustrated at the time by a female engineer effortlessly lugging a couple of them about. The street-legal version has put on a couple of pounds,
  
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• TIP and Intel claim to be making mMIMO for the metaverse

  27-10-2022 12:40
  The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has teamed up with Intel and Analog Devices to develop some O-RAN massive MIMO solutions which will apparently enable the metaverse.
  The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has declared it is working with Intel and Analog Devices to develop some O-RAN massive MIMO (mMIMO) offerings which are supposed to enable the metaverse. This collaboration will apparently take the form of a 5G mMIMO Open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) whitebox, to be distributed by Intel and able to support &l
  
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• The church of St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories

  27-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On the eastern boundary of the City of London is a church dedicated to the patron saint of boundaries. This is St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories, which is a mouthful, so it’s more often abbreviated to the much easier Aldgate Church.It’s named after Saint Botolph, who died around 680, and was an English abbot and saint. He is regarded as the patron saint of boundaries, and by extension, of trade and travel. The City of London had four churches along its Roman Wall d
  
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• ‘It’s an exceptional time’: UK telecoms groups urged to offer cheaper tariffs

  27-10-2022 06:00
  Households face squeeze as companies push ahead with above-inflation price rises
  
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