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• 5GC Private Network 2.0 Empowerment and Efficiency Improvement Boosts High-Quality Development of the Industry

  07-11-2022 19:14
  Zhang Fan, ZTE 5G Core Network ArchitectYe Jianyang, Chief Engineer of ZTE Private Network Product Planning
  At present, speeding up the construction of new infrastructure and industrial digitalization has become an important strategic development direction of China. As a typical representative of information infrastructure, 5G has been deployed for large-scale commercial use in the domestic ToC field, providing a new impetus for the digital transformation of economy and society. Thousands of ind
  
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• 1Gbps Every Room will help AIS Deliver Premium Digital Life Experiences to Users

  07-11-2022 19:05
  During the Green All-Optical Network Summit of the 8th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) 2022, Thanit Chaiyaboonthanit, Acting MD-FBB of AIS, delivered a speech titled “Exploring a New Blue Ocean of Home Broadband to Deliver Premium Digital Life Experience”. In the speech, he pointed out the future-oriented evolution directions of home networks: higher bandwidth, more connections, and lower latency. The concept of Fiber to Every Room with 1Gbps Every Room aligns perfectly with this trend,
  
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• Free son et lumière show coming to the Tower of London

  07-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Next week, the Tower of London will be covered with a huge video art installation in the evenings, and it’s free to visit.
  Previous show at Caernarfon Castle (c) Dom Whiting / Unboxed
  The organisers, Unboxed, are a bit coy about what the video will be about, but it seems to be related to the night sky, so expect lots of stars and galaxies, although the short promo video also includes dinosaurs. So maybe expect asteroids as well.
  Regardless of the topic though, huge Son et lumière vi
  
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• Why Gigabit Britain needs WiFi 6

  07-11-2022 14:20
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Albert Farag, VP of Europe & Global ISP at Linksys, argues that modern day Britain needs the latest wifi generation.
  The UK is the setting for a multi-billion-pound race to connect homes with fibre broadband connectivity. The slow movement of incumbent giants BT and Virgin Media to install new networks or upgrade old copper ones gave rise in the 2010s to a b
  
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• VMO2 extends the National Databank to the high street

  07-11-2022 14:07
  UK operator group VMO2 is bringing an initiative designed to ensure ‘digital inclusion’ to some of its shops, in a bid to make it more accessible.
  The National Databank is run by digital inclusion charity Good Things Foundation. It was first unveiled in the summer of last year and with everything that has happened in the world since then seems more timely than ever. It essentially offers free mobile data to those in need, on the assumption that being connected has become a vital util
  
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• Mexico’s shared network exits bankruptcy but faces a tricky future

  07-11-2022 13:20
  Altan Redes, the company charged with rolling out Mexico’s shared LTE mobile network, has exited bankruptcy protection following a state bailout, but question marks over its viability still remain.
  The firm filed for bankruptcy protection under Mexican law in mid-2021 and almost a year later hammered out a financing arrangement with significant government help; Mexico’s state-owned development bank agreed to contribute US$161 million of a $388 million credit line. A bankruptcy court
  
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• InterDigital involved in five EU 6G projects

  07-11-2022 13:15
  As the European 6G bureaucracy creaks into gear, US tech R&D company InterDigital has been awarded funding to support several of its projects.
  It can be tricky to stay on top of the various 6G-related initiatives knocking about Europe at the moment. Many involve public money at the national level but it was inevitable that the EU would want some of that action, manifested under the catchily-named Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking, which announced it had identified 35 projects dee
  
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• More tours of disused parts of the London Underground

  07-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London Transport Museum’s new season of Hidden London tours is now on sale, offering access to parts of the Underground usually off limits to the public.
  And for the first time, there are now evening tours of Charing Cross and Down Street stations. Evening tours to explore Aldwych are also on sale.
  The Hidden London tours have just been named Best Hidden Gem in the World at the Tiqets’ Remarkable Venue Awards 2022.
  Tickets for tours taking place up until the end of this year are curr
  
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• Space Bureau to help FCC cope with skyrocketing satellite sector

  07-11-2022 12:29
  FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel wants to reorganise the US telco watchdog so it can do a better job of regulating the space industry.
  Last week she proposed that the Federal Communications Commission’s International Bureau – which until now has overseen not just the satellite industry but also advocated on behalf of the US when it comes to global matters relating to spectrum and competition – be split into two distinct divisions: the Space Bureau and the Office of International A
  
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• London’s Alleys: Gutter Lane, EC2

  07-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is an alley in central London that’s not named after the sort of gutter you’re thinking about. It first appears in the 1180s as Godrun Lane, the lane of a person called Guthrún (or Goderoune, or Guthrum), a wealthy merchant, and the name of the lane slowly transformed into Gutter Lane by the 15th century.
  So nothing to do with gutters as we know them.Robsons street directory of 1832 shows that Gutter Lane was lined with a lot of trades mainly dominated by clothes and shoe
  
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