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• TikTok becomes a member of the GSMA

  17-11-2022 18:16
  Social media app TikTok has joined telecoms industry trade body the GSMA, and we are told the firms will ‘work together on initiatives that benefit the entire mobile ecosystem.”
  TikTok has joined the GSMA – international telecoms trade body and organiser of the MWC conference –  as an industry member, and says as it intends to ‘work with our industry partners to advocate the development of new mobile communication technologies and form lasting business relation
  
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• Broadband networks ‘may be wrongly valued by up to 20%’

  17-11-2022 16:56
  UK broadband provider’s valuation of their networks may be off by up to 20% because they don’t have the right oversight of their networks, claims Digpro.
  The assertion made by software firm Digpro is that the telco industry’s approach to designing, building and operating a fibre network can result in ‘poorer quality’ of data being gathered, ‘because of the multiple systems that are used across the network lifecycle.’ It also claims what it describes as a
  
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• Harringay station footbridge upgrades to get started

  17-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Works to repair the rather shabby footbridge that runs across Harringay station in North London are about to get started.
  Work to reinforce the footbridge inside the station will begin this month, and aprt from reinforcing the 1885 structure, Network Rail will be removing the old ticket office, which has to be removed in line with building regulations.
  Harringay station footbridge (c) Network Rail
  The 300-foot long bridge, which currently has the ticket office on it, was built in 1885, and some
  
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• Using Cloud-Native Architecture for Communications SP Networks

  17-11-2022 14:46
  As they digitally transform their networks to deploy 5G, many communications service providers (CSPs) have deployed virtual network functions (VNF) to reduce costs and increase agility. Now, software-defined networking (SDN) adoption and VNF deployment is shifting quickly toward containerized network functions (CNF)—making CNFs the 5G de facto standard.
  This IDC report explores CSP cloud-native architecture and compute resources trends, including:Cloud-native architecture benefits
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• Building Telco Edge: Why Multicloud will Dominate

  17-11-2022 14:41
  Developing edge-enabled services is Developing edge-enabled services is complicated; there are key decisions to be made at each level of the value chain, starting with infrastructure.
  CSPs are important stakeholders that can determine the growth of the edge market, namely because they are the only ones that can build a significant proportion of it – the network edge.
  However, even building the infrastructure is a challenging task, as there are three factors that CSPs need to consider: how
  
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• Amazon axes staff at devices and services unit

  17-11-2022 13:46
  US tech giant Amazon is feeling the pinch from the slowing economy.
  Staff working on its consumer products will pay the price, after the company this week confirmed it will cut an unspecified number of jobs at its Devices and Services arm. The announcement followed rumours on Monday that Amazon plans to lay off around 10,000 employees in various corporate and technology roles. Unnamed sources cited by Reuters reiterated on Thursday that 10,000 is still the target.
  “As you know, we continue
  
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• Ethiopia is in a rush to sell access to telecoms space again

  17-11-2022 13:29
  Ethiopia has relaunched its plans to award a new telecoms operating licence and to sell off a stake in Ethio Telecom, and is doubtless hopeful of attracting significant foreign investment to the market.
  But while the country’s telecoms market still offers a relatively untapped opportunity for investors, the events surrounding previous attempts to award licences and offload shares might well give would-be market entrants pause for thought.
  And the more time that passes, the less attractive
  
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• Cheap Charterhouse tours for Islington residents

  17-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On the borders of Islington and the City of London is a medieval monastery, and if you live in Islington, they’ve started offering tours for the princely sum of £1 per person. A timely offer for these troubling cost of living times.The Charterhouse has long been hidden from the outside world by a high wall, but a few years ago, the people who still live there started offering tours, and then a museum was opened, and now the tours are a regular event.
  Apart from the cluster of stone h
  
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• Britons will receive 4 billion spam calls this year

  17-11-2022 12:37
  The volume of nuisance calls is increasing in the UK, and now the average person receives six ‘nuisance’ calls every month, according to a report.
  The research was carried out by Green Smartphones, which describes itself as a sustainability-focused smartphone comparison site, and was designed to ascertain the number of nuisance phone calls (which is a polite way of phrasing it) that people receive in the UK. It estimates that this year there will have been 4.03 billion such calls mad
  
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• 4 Benefits of Using Red Hat Solutions on Microsoft Azure

  17-11-2022 12:20
  Building and scaling applications across hybrid cloud environments can help organizations go to market faster and focus on innovation. Red Hat and Microsoft offer flexible, open hybrid cloud solutions that help organizations change the way they build, deploy, and manage applications so they can innovate faster, accelerate time-to-value, respond to changing customer needs, and operate more efficiently. This executive checklist explores four key benefits of using Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azu
  
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• 4 Benefits of Using Red Hat Solutions on AWS

  17-11-2022 12:09
  Organizations need to develop and deploy applications quickly, flexibly, and reliably to keep pace with rapidly changing business needs. Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help organizations change the way they build, deploy, and manage applications with optimized hybrid cloud environments so they can innovate faster and operate more efficiently. This executive checklist explores four key benefits of using Red Hat solutions on AWS.Getting a seamless experience across a hybrid cloud enviro
  
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• 60 million trips on the Elizabeth line since it opened

  17-11-2022 12:02 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Since the Elizabeth line opened in May 2022, more than 60 million journeys have been made altogether, including 30 million journeys in the central section.That comes from the latest Elizabeth line Committee report papers, and in the two months covered by the report (22nd August to 15th October), on average, more than 400,000 journeys were made across the whole of the line every single day.
  The core section of the line had its busiest day so far on Thursday 29th September, when it recorded 290,00
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Aske Gardens, N1

  17-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a large pocket park in Hoxton surrounded by old trees, with two-thirds of the site given over to sports, and owes its origins to philanthropy.It’s named after Robert Aske, the son of an affluent draper and later a merchant trader who however also had a small involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade as an investor in the Royal African Company. He became wealthy, and when he died in 1689, he left the bulk of his wealth to the Haberdashers’ Company for charitable purposes.
  
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