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• National Rail strikes are cancelled

  04-11-2022 17:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A series of national rail strikes that was due to seriously disrupt train services has been called off by the RMT union, although without enough notice to avoid serious disruption on Saturday. The RMT says that it has suspended planned strikes on Nov 5th, 7th and 9th and will now enter into a period of intensive negotiations with Network Rail and the train operating companies.The RMT says that it has secured “unconditional talks on Network Rail and the promise of an offer from the train op
  
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• Flash sale on Elf the Musical tickets this weekend

  04-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Based on the hit Will Ferrell holiday classic, the hit Broadway and West End show is coming to London’s Dominion Theatre for a limited 8-week season,  just in time for Christmas.
  And there’s a flash sale this weekend on tickets.
  The sale is valid for Mon to Thur performances between 14th and 23rd November 2022. Prices start from £24, with £60 seats offered for £39.50 and £72 seats offered for just £49.50.
  Book by 5 pm on Tuesday 8th November 2022 fr
  
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• A festival of modernism comes to London

  04-11-2022 14:39 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Celebrate modernism in all its forms at a new all-day conference that’s being hosted at one of London’s greatest modernist buildings, the recently refurbished Waltham Forest Town Hall.
  The all-day conference takes place on Saturday 10th December with tickets on sale now for £35 from here.
  The all-day programme:John Grindrod, historian and author of Concretopia and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain, is your host
  Neal Shasore, head of the L
  
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• The traditional ways of building RAN will no longer benefit MNOs

  04-11-2022 14:38
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece. Omdia Analyst Roberto Kompany seeks to demystify some of the terminology associated with Open RAN.
  Before assessing the importance of RIC in Open vRAN, we need to understand the term ‘Open Radio Access Networks (RAN)’. What does it mean? Open RAN is a new approach to building mobile networks that are needed to connect our mobile and other devices to
  
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• Ericsson-owned Vonage forced to refund 100 million bucks

  04-11-2022 13:36
  The US Federal Trade Commission has taken action against Vonage for making it too difficult for customers to cancel its VoIP services.
  According to the FTC announcement, Vonage ‘used dark patterns to make it difficult for consumers to cancel and often continued to illegally charge them even after they spoke to an agent directly and requested cancellation.’ It doesn’t define these sinister-sounding dark patterns, but the court complaint says they are ‘a panoply of hurdles&
  
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• Tickets Alert: Free visits to UCL’s telescope observatory

  04-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  In north London is a fully functioning set of science discovering telescopes, and they offer tours to the public who fancy a chance to peer through them.It might seem odd to have a set of telescopes carrying out science in London, with all the urban light glare we have, and maybe even odder when you consider that it sits next to a major road with street lamps all over the place.
  But in fact, the location is both not as bad as you might think for star gazing, and in fact very good for the observa
  
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• Qualcomm cuts outlook amid smartphone market misery

  04-11-2022 12:13
  Compounding the doom and gloom in the global smartphone market, Qualcomm this week issued a particularly pessimistic outlook for the rest of the year.
  The US-based mobile chip maker on Wednesday lowered its outlook for its fiscal Q1 2023, which ends, somewhat confusingly, in late December. The smartphone sector typically ends the year on a high, what with Christmas and everything, but that doesn’t appear to be the case this time around.
  “The rapid deterioration in demand and easing o
  
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• Telefónica third-quarter profit bolstered by growth in Brazil

  04-11-2022 09:22
  Spanish telecoms group reports better than expected results
  
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• Just one month left until the Museum of London closes

  04-11-2022 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  You have just one month left to visit the Museum of London before it closes for a few years as part of its planned move to a new building.The museum will be closing to the public at its current site on 4th December 2022 and will spend the next few years moving to its new Smithfield site, with the intention to reopen in 2026 as the renamed London Museum.
  So you have 31 days left to visit the museum at its London Wall home before the doors close and the dust sheets come out. One month left to see
  
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