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• VR entertainment center as the bridge to 5G metaverse

  15-11-2022 19:32
  Players in the first-generation VR entertainment center are usually playing in the local place and put on a custom headset connected to a backpack through a wire, weighing around 4kg. They complain about the low flexibility and hope more people play together at any time, even don’t at the same Center.
  Is 5G a tool to improve engagement and user satisfaction?Players can move freely with only a VR headset and interact with remote players in other places using a 5G network. In the old days, t
  
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• OFAN Not Applicable to Access Networks

  15-11-2022 19:17
  In the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) community, the Open Fixed Access Networks (OFAN) project aims to make next-generation optical line terminal (OLT) devices and technologies more open, decoupled, and standardized. Its end goal is to help operators reduce device costs, avoid vendor lock-in, and promote service agility and O&M efficiency.
  However, many challenges in the technology, business, and industry chain make the OFAN project neither necessary nor feasible.
  Whereas conventional solutions
  
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• Arsenal releases new range of London Underground themed clothing

  15-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Arsenal football club has expanded its range of London Underground clothing, with a new series based on Arsenal tube station.
  Source: Arsenal football club
  The range celebrates and is inspired by Arsenal Station as the only underground station to be named after a football club, following its name change from Gillespie Road on October 31, 1932. The tube station name change came after concerted lobbying from the football club manager Herbert Chapman, to make it more obvious how to find the club af
  
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• Telco, media and entertainment, and training and certification

  15-11-2022 17:06
  Service providers are at an inflection point. To stay ahead of the competition, they must move to a cloud-native core architecture on open source platforms that let them innovate quickly and bring new services to market with superior scalability, security, and efficiency.  For most operators, this migration is a significant architectural shift, and they find significant skill gaps in their IT and network operations teams.
  This eBook from the Red Hat training organization discusses the requi
  
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• Building flexible infrastructure for 5G success

  15-11-2022 17:06
  5G represents upgrades in bandwidth and latency that enable services not possible under previous generations of networks. These new services will open new business opportunities for service providers but will require a significant network transformation characterized by a distributed, cloud-native, disaggregated, and open infrastructure that spans their entire network.
  Red Hat can help service providers build and operate their 5G networks so they can deliver 5G services faster, and fully leverag
  
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• Strike action to affect trains in/out of Paddington this weekend

  15-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Train services from London Paddington station will be affected by strike action this weekend and into early next week. The strike action is at Network Rail’s Thames Valley Signalling Centre, which means it will affect trains along the railway west of London, including both GWR and Elizabeth line services.The strikes take place on Saturday 19th November and Monday 21st November, but Network Rail says that it expects that the strike action will result in a four-day period of disruption on it
  
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• How operators can capture the value of IoT

  15-11-2022 14:25
  As operators weight up new revenue opportunities, they should consider the value they can add, and market share they can capture as part of the IoT solution tack.As the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem continues to evolve and grow with 5G and edge computing expansions, forecasts see the IoT market size reach $2,465bn by 2029, representing a compound annual growth rate of 26% from its 2022 estimate of $478bn. Meanwhile, IoT connections are projected to grow from 15.1bn in 2021 to 23.3bn in 2025
  
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• Italy reportedly mulling renationalisation of TIM network

  15-11-2022 14:20
  The Italian Industry Minister has apparently said the privatisation of Telecom Italia was a mistake and wants to at least partially reverse it.
  Reuters reports Adolfo Urso, speaking at a business conference, said “We need the network to be under public control.” He is subsequently quoted as adding “The government strategy is to have a state-controlled network.” But aside from Urso’s reported comments there don’t seem to have been any official policy statements
  
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• Vodafone to cut €1 billion in costs and raise prices due to economic headwinds

  15-11-2022 13:45
  Vodafone on Tuesday revealed hefty cost-cutting measures to help mitigate the impact of the worsening economic climate, as well as reducing its full-year earnings and cash flow guidance.
  The announcement came alongside the publication of the telecoms group’s first half 2023 financials, which were less than stellar, showing a decline in adjusted EBITDA on the back of a weak performance in Germany, a market that has been something of a thorn in Vodafone’s side in recent quarters.
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• Ofcom demands telcos do more to block dodgy calls

  15-11-2022 13:36
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has introduced new rules compelling operators to identify and block calls that could be scams.
  As Ofcom itself states in its announcement, phone scams are a widespread problem. In fact, it reckons three quarters of UK adults received at least one suspicious call and/or text message and/or app message on their landline and/or mobile phone in the three months up to August 2022. Of those, 700,000 acted upon the instructions of the scammers and thus got ripped off.
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• Telcos sound the alarm over 5G SA security threats

  15-11-2022 13:10
  A majority of operators quizzed by Nokia have warned they need to up their game when it comes to defending 5G networks against hackers.
  The Finnish kit maker, in partnership with UK-based consultancy GlobalData, surveyed 50 CSPs from all over the world, and found that around three quarters of them have experienced as many as six security breaches in the past year, resulting in regulatory liability, fraud and theft, and network service outages. T-Mobile US and Optus spring immediately to mind.
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• Evenings with the Royal Observatory telescopes

  15-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  During the winter months, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich hosts a number of evenings where you can get up close and look through their telescopes.
  The evenings, which take place on Friday and Saturdays, start with a live planetarium show, introducing you to the wonders of the night sky. Then, after sunset and weather permitting, Observatory astronomers will guide you across the night sky with both modern-day telescopes and their 130-year-old instrument: the Great Equatorial Telescope.
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• Vodafone cuts outlook after weak performance in Germany

  15-11-2022 10:11 via ft.com
  Group’s shares slide as it lowers guidance and seeks cost savings
  
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• Last chance to ride Chiltern’s parliamentary train

  15-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Once a week a train leaves a London station it shouldn’t, and you have just a few weeks left to catch a ride before it stops, possibly forever.
  This is the Chiltern Railway’s parliamentary train service and it is both a training exercise for Chiltern drivers and a legacy of a curious quirk of railway legislation. It was once a requirement that rail companies provide a basic service on every line they operate to ensure everyone had access to public transport, although the train compan
  
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