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• Last few weeks to see Dippy the Dinosaur

  21-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Dippy, the first Diplodocus to go on display anywhere in the world, is currently on show in the Natural History Museum, but will be leaving in a few weeks time.Dippy first arrived at the Museum back in 1905, and after moving around the museum a few times, took up residence in the museum’s main hall in 1979. It moved out in 2017, to make way for a flying whale, and after a tour around the UK, returned to the Natural History Museum earlier this year.
  However, the visit is fleeting, as Dippy
  
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• The UK is hoarding 15 million old phones

  21-11-2022 18:31
  Britons are sitting on 15 million unused mobile phones, seven million old DVD players and six million TVs, according to VMO2.
  39% of the 2000 people surveyed said they currently have unused electrical items in their home, including 3,501,792 discarded iPods, 4,669,056 unused headphones and 4,585,680 retro VCR players. The most common unused items were apparently mobile phones (23%), DVD players (16%) and TVs (13%).
  Respondents listed the reasons they are holding onto their antique gizmos as insu
  
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• National rail strike this coming Saturday (26th Nov)

  21-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A large number of train companies will have no trains at all due to a national rail strike this Saturday (26th Nov) as Aslef members go on strike.
  A special railway timetable for 26th November has been published, but passengers are advised to follow the latest travel advice, check before they travel and allow extra time for their journey. Other train companies not involved in the strike will be running trains, but these are expected to be busy.
  A walkout by train drivers will a
  
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• UK fibre’s getting faster

  21-11-2022 13:53
  Fibre broadband services in the UK are getting faster, but overbuild is starting to become more common in certain areas.
  As we have highlighted several times before, the number of fibre broadband operators in the country is on the increase, with overbuild starting to become more common in certain areas. But it’s also worth noting that the network speeds available to consumers and businesses is also growing.
  Virgin Media O2, the UK’s third-largest fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network
  
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• SK Telecom and NTT DoCoMo sign metaverse pact

  21-11-2022 13:48
  South Korean operator SK Telecom and Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo will work together to product metaverse stuff.
  The two operators have announced they are friends and plan to work together on various projects, firstly on metaverse content and technology. We’re told SKT has been operating its metaverse service ‘ifland’ since July last year, while NTT DOCOMO launched its metaverse service in March 2022.
  Apparently the list of metaversy things the firms are working on includes co-
  
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• Omdia Releases the FTTR’s Role in Optimizing the Future Connected Home White Paper

  21-11-2022 13:02
  Recently, the 8th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) was held in Thailand. At this forum, Omdia released the FTTR’s Role in Optimizing the Future Connected Home white paper, which describes the next generation in fiber to the room (FTTR) solutions. FTTR provides the ultimate high-quality broadband experience, meeting the increasing demands on the home network from new innovative applications, and offers multiple business opportunities for operators.
  In this white paper, Omdia analyzes the home n
  
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• Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust’s heritage homes

  21-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A fundraiser for a heritage houses charity is offering up to £5,000 of free weekend breaks in its homes across the UK.
  The charity, the Landmark Trust takes over run-down buildings and turns them into holiday homes, so that anyone can spend a weekend in them. Fancy long weekends away in follies and gatehouses, family adventures in castles and forts or sharing time with friends at a country escape?
  Prospect Tower(c) Landmark Trust
  The raffle costs £1 per entry, and there are seven pri
  
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• Digitalization is the First Choice for Indoor 5G Networks

  21-11-2022 12:47
  5G’s rich capabilities mean it must be built out in a way that suits both the demands of the environment and the needs of the users.
  A one size fits all approach does not apply. This is where Huawei’s innovative LampSite range of indoor wireless equipment comes in.
  As the name suggests, it specializes in indoor cellsite scenarios, from train stations and airports for mass market consumers to advanced industrial use cases.
  Eric Bao, President of Huawei’s Wireless Digital Indoor
  
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• Ooredoo talks up 5G-powered World Cup

  21-11-2022 12:21
  The football World Cup kicked off in Qatar at the weekend, triggering the inevitable announcement from a major telco keen to big up its network prowess thanks to pre-tournament upgrades.
  This time it was the turn of Qatari incumbent Ooredoo, which wasted no time in declaring this the first 5G-powered World Cup in history.
  In practice, that means that the telco has rolled out 5G networks covering all eight stadiums that will be used during the tournament, as part of a broader network modernisatio
  
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• Rakuten plans UK Open RAN customer experience centre

  21-11-2022 12:10
  Operator to open facility in the UK next year dedicated to promoting and demonstrating Open RAN.
  The project is designed to promote adoption of Open RAN technologies in the EMEA region, and has been funded by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The ‘Open RAN Customer Experience Centre’ will be built at the Rakuten Symphony offices in the UK by March 2023, and will apparently offer telecom operators and industry suppliers ‘direct experience and testing
  
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• TIM picks Ericsson for 5G core

  21-11-2022 09:58
  Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core will allow TIM to modernize its current Evolved Packet Core and introduce 5G Standalone in a cloud-native platform, we’re told.
  TIM has chosen Ericsson to provide its 5G core, which will enable its transition to 5G Standalone (SA) – what some refer to as ‘real 5G’, and which is supposed to offewr higher data transfer rates and lower latency, or in other words all the things 5G in general is supposed to bring to the table.
  The agreement a
  
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• London’s Alleys: Langthorn Court, EC2

  21-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a short alley hidden around the back of city offices that has a very confusing history over the roughly 400 years it has existed.Once empty fields, the area was largely developed by the 1650s, but was mostly a cluster of unnamed alleys and small houses, most with gardens. A bit more detail appears in John Roque’s map of 1746, where the north-south axis of the alley is visible, as Little Swan Alley, but the east-west axis doesn’t yet exist.
  Within 50 years though, Langthorn Co
  
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