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• Saudi Arabia bankrolls KKR-led bid for €15bn Vodafone towers business

  08-11-2022 22:13
  Consortium on course to seal deal this week after beating competition from Spain’s Cellnex
  
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• Tube Strike – avoid the London Underground on Thursday

  08-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London (TfL) is warning that there will be a very limited or no service on the entire London Underground this coming Thursday (10th Nov) due to strike action.
  Due to the strike by the RMT and Unite unions, London Overground and DLR services could also be subject to last-minute changes, including non-stopping at some stations shared with London Underground. In addition, London Trams will be running a reduced timetable.
  The Elizabeth line is not affected by the strike and will run a
  
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• Smart factory of Hotel Star sets an example of digital transformation for SMEs

  08-11-2022 17:41
  Recently, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost of labor and raw materials has been rising, and the traditional manufacturing industry is facing increasing challenges. If enterprises want to have a foothold in the market and achieve sustainable development, they must take effective measures to improve product competitiveness. Therefore, digital transformation has become a good choice for enterprise development. It uses 5G and other advanced information technologies and lean manufa
  
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• Donatello’s statue of David to go on show in London for the first time

  08-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Donatello’s most famous marble sculpture, David is coming to the UK, as part of an exhibition of the Renaissance sculptor’s work at the V&A next year.
  Donatello, David, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, courtesy of the Ministry of Culture. Photo: Bruno Bruchi.
  Often described as the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello contributed to major commissions of church and state; was an intimate of the Medici family and their circle in Florence, and was highly sought after in o
  
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• Flash sale on Eurostar tickets this week

  08-11-2022 15:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For just a couple of days, there’s a flash sale on discounted Eurostar train tickets.They’re offering 40,000 seats at £29 one way, which is 25,000 discounted seats to Paris, 12,000 to Brussels and 3,000 to Amsterdam or Rotterdam.
  Tickets are available for standard class trips between 28th November and 2nd February on selected dates.
  Also, only a few dates have trips for £29 outbound and the same price the following day for the return trip, or if you hunt around you can fi
  
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• OneWeb expands in Africa and Middle East

  08-11-2022 15:10
  UK satellite player OneWeb has announced collaborations with Airtel Africa and Azyan Telecom.
  On day one of the AfricaCom trade show in Cape Town, UK based LEO satellite company OneWeb announced it has appointed Airtel Africa as a provider of its satellite internet connectivity services to government and enterprise customers across the African continent. Those services may indirectly end up benefitting consumers via wholesale services and backhaul.
  “This is a strategic fit, given our share
  
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• T-Mobile US could create $4 billion fibre business

  08-11-2022 14:13
  T-Mobile US is reportedly working on plans to roll out its own fibre network, creating a new business unit that could be worth as much as US$4 billion.
  The news comes from Bloomberg, whose sources say the mobile operator is looking for a partner that would enable it to build out the new infrastructure, and has hired Citigroup to help it find likely candidates. It is working towards either a joint venture or a commercial partnership, they claim, while adding the usual caveats that talks are at an
  
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• Samsung and Ericsson both claim separate 5G speed records

  08-11-2022 13:15
  In unrelated trials, Samsung in Australia and Ericsson in the US claim to have broken specific 5G data transmission records.
  Samsung teamed up with state broadband wholesaler NBN to see if they can raise the bar for fixed wireless access performance. In a recent field trial they hit a couple of milestones. Firstly they managed to stretch a mmWave (28GHz) transmission over 10km, which is certainly a record for Samsung.
  And then they claim average downlink speeds of 1.75Gbps and uplink speeds of 6
  
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• Singtel-led group wants to bolster Southeast Asia’s subsea capacity

  08-11-2022 13:10
  A consortium comprising six telcos will plough $300 million into yet another new cable system connecting Southeast Asia and China.
  Due to go live in the third quarter of 2025, the Asia Link Cable (ALC) system will span 6,000km, landing in Brunei, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, and Hainan in China. The consortium funding it is co-led by Singapore incumbent Singtel and China Telecom Global (CTG). Globe Telecom and DITO Telecommunity of the Philippines, China Telecom Corp (CTC), and Brunei&
  
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• Two Turner paintings in London for the first time in over a century

  08-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Two large paintings by Turner have gone on show in London for the first time in over a century, and also for the first time ever, are side by side in the same room.The pair of paintings, of the harbours at Dieppe and Cologne left Britain in 1914, when they were acquired by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and where they have remained in the Frick Collection since.
  As the Frick is closed for refurbishment, it was an opportunity for the two paintings to go on tour and will be in London
  
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• A new tube map and cover art to mark the Elizabeth line changes

  08-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The big shake-up of the Elizabeth line linking up the core tunnels to the mainline services means a new tube map is required, and with a new map comes a new cover art design.
  Apart from the obvious expected changes at Paddington and Liverpool Street stations for the Elizabeth line, there’s been a handful of other minor changes, and one big change in Southeast London with the layout of stations shuffling around.
  The tube map differences in detail
  Paddington station
  The station has been clea
  
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• BT’s enduring pension problem

  08-11-2022 05:30
  The telco’s £40bn pension liability remains an albatross around its neck
  
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