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• Chelsea Pensioners to open a public heritage centre

  14-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For the first time in its 330-year history, the Royal Hospital Chelsea will have a permanent heritage centre that will be open to the public to visit.
  The three-year project will restore Sir John Soane’s Grade II* listed Stables, lauded by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as ‘a miracle of abstract design’. It will also create a new Heritage and Visitor Centre for the whole site that will be open to the public.
  (c) Royal Hospital Chelsea
  The Centre will be open daily and
  
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• The City Christmas Fair – in aid of Wellbeing in Women

  14-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The magnificent Drapers’ Hall in the City of London will be open to the public next month for an annual charity  Christmas fair.
  Drapers Hall
  There will be more than 50 stalls ranging from festive food to jewellery and from clothes to toys, while the café will be serving tea, coffee and light refreshments, or Champagne if you’re so minded.
  It’s an annual fundraiser for the Wellbeing in Women charity, and entry costs £10 per person, or you can buy three tickets
  
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• The future of customer experience with 5G

  14-11-2022 15:22
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Kiran Punjabi, Product Director at Tecnotree, looks at customer experience best practice for operators in the 5G era.
  Constant exposure to digitally enabled services such as OTT TV, eCommerce and gaming has increased customer expectations on what they perceive to be a “good” experience. In this world, customer experience (CX) can be the differentiati
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: BT, Meta and Open RAN

  14-11-2022 15:20
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · BT, Meta and Open RAN
  
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• BT-led consortium gets funding for infrastructure drone project

  14-11-2022 13:55
  A project designed to explore the use of drones to monitor key pieces of infrastructure has won funding from the UK Research and Innovation agency.
  As far as forced acronyms go, this is decent effort. The project is called InDePTH, which is an abbreviation of ‘Intelligent Drones for Port and Highways Technology’. They must have looked at IDPTH and thought they were so tantalisingly close to a catchy name that a bit of creative license was allowed.
  The project is led by BT, according
  
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• Orange snaps up Swiss cybersecurity guards

  14-11-2022 13:24
  French operator group Orange has acquired its way into the Swiss cybersecurity market.
  Orange Cyberdefense revealed on Monday that last week it snapped up IT security specialist SCRT, and its IT solutions subsidiary, Telsys.
  SCRT has been offering various security audit services, apps and training to Swiss companies for 20 years, while Telsys can trace its origins back even further. Interestingly, during the course of its 33-year history, Telsys was taken over by French IT firm Silicomp, which i
  
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• TfL planning a new London Overground station in Barking

  14-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Plans to build an additional station at Castle Green on the newly opened Barking Riverside extension of the London Overground are being worked on by Transport for London (TfL) and Barking and Dagenham Council.
  Potential tube map with Castle Green station added to London Overground
  The new station, provisionally called Castle Green, would sit on Renwick Road, just before the London Overground extension rises up onto the viaduct. During the construction of the extension, the two railway tracks wer
  
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• Telecoms industry renews its vows at COP27 but with conditions

  14-11-2022 12:55
  We’re in the middle of the annual climate action jamboree known as COP, in which the global public and private sectors strive to show they’re doing their bit for the planet.
  COP stands for Conference Of the Parties and is the main gathering associated with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. As the number implies, it has been going for over a quarter of a century and is generally characterised by alarmists calls to action and solemn vows by all concerned to hit
  
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• Cellnex goes organic as Hutch deal closes

  14-11-2022 12:54
  Cellnex Telecom is putting its wallet away following the long-awaited completion of its UK towers deal, focusing instead on organic growth and boosting its credit rating.
  The passive infrastructure specialist, which has been at the centre of towers M&A activity across Europe in recent years, shared its new, non-expansionist strategy alongside the presentation of its latest quarterly numbers. The results showed strong revenue, earnings and free cash flow growth, but a net profit decline and a
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cloth Court, EC1

  14-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is an ancient narrow alley that slips around the backs of buildings in Smithfield, and was for many years, a townhouse for Sir John Betjeman.The area was once home to an Augustinian priory, which was set up during the time of King Henry I, and which generated a sizeable chunk of its annual income from a large fair that was held in the Smithfield next door. After the dissolution of the monasteries, by King Henry VIII, the land was sold off and developed into a cluster of narrow streets and b
  
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