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• Ofcom once more positions itself to meddle with online news gatekeepers

  16-11-2022 19:09
  UK comms regulator Ofcom is worried that US tech giants have too much control over the news consumption of British voters.
  A press release titled ‘Who controls the news we see online?’ set the scene for the now familiar hand wringing over the flow of information online, especially that which may have political influence. The electoral surprises of 2016 upset the established order and led to the desperate conclusion that the unwitting public must have been led astray by dark forces. T
  
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• The heritage railway restoring a GWR Diesel Railcar

  16-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A heritage railway is looking to restore one of just three surviving GWR railcars, a type of train that was first introduced in 1933 and were in service right through to the 1960s. Although 38 of these single-unit railcars were built, just three now survive, and the Kent & East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) owns one of them.
  GWR No.22 AEC Diesel Railcar at Didcot Great Western Railway Centre – photo by Andrew Bone
  The restoration of 1940’s GWR Diesel Railcar W20 is the K&ESR&rsq
  
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• Hypertropic hits out at mid-contract broadband price hikes

  16-11-2022 18:22
  UK ISP Hypertropic says ‘big broadband providers’ are taking advantage of inflation rates to boost their revenues, and that is eroding trust in the industry.
  Hyperoptic has taken a swipe at rival broadband providers, claiming new rules are required to change the way broadband plans with mid-contract price rises can be advertised, as the Committee for Advertising Practice prepares to close its consultation on the matter tomorrow.
  Its CEO Dana Tobak has apparently written to the heads
  
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• Hyperoptic hits out at mid-contract broadband price hikes

  16-11-2022 18:22
  UK ISP Hyperoptic says ‘big broadband providers’ are taking advantage of inflation rates to boost their revenues, and that is eroding trust in the industry.
  Hyperoptic has taken a swipe at rival broadband providers, claiming new rules are required to change the way broadband plans with mid-contract price rises can be advertised, as the Committee for Advertising Practice prepares to close its consultation on the matter tomorrow.
  Its CEO Dana Tobak has apparently written to the heads o
  
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• Part of the Bakerloo line and London Overground to close for a week before Christmas

  16-11-2022 15:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  People who use the Bakerloo line or the London Overground in northwest London will need to find alternative routes in late December as both lines will be closed for a week’s worth of engineering works.
  For a whole week, between Saturday 17th and Friday 23rd December, Network Rail engineers will carry out major improvements to a 20-mile stretch of railway in north London that is used by both the Bakerloo line and the London Overground.
  Section of Tube Map showing lines that will be closed (
  
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• Romania 5G auction finally finishes but falls flat

  16-11-2022 14:54
  Romania has completed the sale of spectrum suitable for rolling out 5G services after lengthy delays, but the process did not raise as much as the government might have hoped.
  The three participants – Orange, Vodafone and Digi – together pledged €432.6 million for 420 MHz of frequencies in the 700 MHz, 1500 MHz, 2600 MHz and 3400 MHz-3800 MHz bands, regulator ANCOM disclosed, which was some way short of the full amount of spectrum the country had put up for sale.
  The telcos pick
  
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• Qualcomm launches its latest top-end smartphone chip

  16-11-2022 14:38
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has unveiled the latest iteration of its flagship SoC, which will be powering many of the most expensive devices next year.
  As we were led to believe almost a year ago, this year’s top-end SoC is called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Platform. Inevitably Qualcomm couldn’t resist an interim upgrade back in May of this year, which required a further tweak of its already convoluted naming scheme, but this is the main annual refresh.
  “We are passionate about e
  
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• Nokia and TPG Telecom claim 5G uplink speed record

  16-11-2022 14:09
  Kit vendor Nokia and telecoms group TPG Telecom have achieved 5G uplink speeds of 2 Gbps in Australia, which they say is a first for the country.
  The live demonstration used Nokia’s commercial AirScale Radio solution together with TPG Telecom’s 5G mmWave spectrum, with which the firms say they hit 5G uplink speeds of 2 Gbps at the Nokia 5G Futures Lab in Sydney, Australia.
  The milestone will enable the firms to offer ‘ultra-high-performing, low-latency services for Industrial a
  
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• Linux hopes to give telco cloud a Sylva lining

  16-11-2022 13:51
  The recently-launched Linux Foundation Europe has set its sights on open source telco cloud.
  On Tuesday, the group unveiled Project Sylva, which is tasked with creating a production-ready, telco grade cloud stack based on open source software. Such a thing is needed, claims LF Europe, in order to reduce complexity and fragmentation in the supply of telco and edge cloud infrastructure.
  Addressing these challenges will ultimately accelerate cloud migration, LF Europe says. Project Sylva’s ac
  
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• Give the gift of Museum Membership this Christmas

  16-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you want to give something this Christmas that your recipient can use all year round, rather than socks and fragrances… give them membership of a museum they love.
  Most museums have some form of membership scheme and usually offer a range of goodies, such as free entry for museums that charge an entrance fee, newsletters and the bigger venues tend to have private members’ events in the evenings or priority booking for public exhibitions.
  As a present, it’s a very nice thing
  
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• London Underground testing new step-free device at Jubilee line stations

  16-11-2022 11:53 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A miniature boarding ramp that can close the gap between tube trains and platforms is to be tested at a number of Jubilee line stations to see if it should be rolled out across the network. The bridging device is the same width as the boarding ramps already in extensive use across the network but is only 200mm in length.
  Bridging device (c) TfL
  However, a report that’s also just been published by Transport for London (TfL) that looks at how step-free access could be improved also found tha
  
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• An eternal flame burning at an east London war memorial

  16-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A cluster of war memorials with an eternal gas flame can be found rather hidden away in an east London industrial site if you know where to look. These are the WWI and WWII memorials to people who worked at the nearby Gas Light and Coke Company and died during the wars.The tall column commemorates the many employees of the Gas Light & Coke Company who were employees of the Beckton gas works and were killed in both world wars. The column was based at Beckton but later moved to Bromley by Bow
  
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• Regulator orders ‘number spoofing’ crackdown to combat fraud

  16-11-2022 06:00
  Ofcom takes steps to stamp out rogue phone calls deceiving consumers
  
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