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• Westminster Council will keep its gas street lamps

  22-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Westminster Council has decided that it won’t convert all of its remaining gas street lamps to electricity following a public consultation triggered by heritage outcry over the plans.Around 300 of the council’s 14,000 streetlights are gas powered, and a consultation was looking at plans to convert them to electric. The council had argued that the gas lamps are expensive to maintain and don’t provide suitable lighting, but the plans were opposed by heritage lobby groups who camp
  
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• Vodafone teams up with WWF on phone recycling scheme

  22-11-2022 18:40
  Operator Vodafone and environmental charity WWF have launched a ‘one million phones for the planet’ programme.
  The two firms are kicking a new partnership with a scheme called ‘one million phones for the planet’ which has the aim of increasing the the number of traded-in, refurbished and recycled mobile devices.
  By way of environmental justification for the push, we’re told that is that buying a refurbished smartphone saves around 50kg of CO2e (carbon dioxide equiva
  
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• Unlocking B2B revenue growth with Net5.5G

  22-11-2022 17:50
  Ken Wieland, Light Reading contributing editor
  Carriers looking for new revenue streams in the future can’t rely on old technologies from the past.
  Achieving better returns on network investment will require a new, simplified and automated architecture capable of supporting much higher bandwidth. Carriers’ data center interconnect networks (DCNs), to support the migration of enterprise IT workloads to the cloud, will also need upgrades.
  Research firm Omdia estimates that service prov
  
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• Unlocking B2B revenue growth with 5.5GNet

  22-11-2022 17:50
  Ken Wieland, Light Reading contributing editor
  Carriers looking for new revenue streams in the future can’t rely on old technologies from the past.
  Achieving better returns on network investment will require a new, simplified and automated architecture capable of supporting much higher bandwidth. Carriers’ data center interconnect networks (DCNs), to support the migration of enterprise IT workloads to the cloud, will also need upgrades.
  Research firm Omdia estimates that service prov
  
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• Opening Up IoT Opportunities For Carriers

  22-11-2022 17:50
  The complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and high expectations for smart home deployments pose technology challenges that Aqara, a global leader in smart home solutions, has embraced for more than a decade. The company has undertaken key initiatives to increase interoperability across IoT devices and promote global smart home adoptions. Strategic partnerships between carriers and smart-home vendors like Aqara are critical to bringing the connected home experience to more households worldwi
  
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• More rail strikes as RMT announces 4 weeks of industrial action

  22-11-2022 17:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The RMT union has announced a fresh series of 48-hour strikes, and an overtime ban in the run up to Christmas.
  Over 40,000 members of the RMT union across Network Rail and 14 of the train operating companies will have four 48-hour strikes in December and January, and there will also be an overtime ban across the railways from 18th December until 2nd January, meaning RMT be taking industrial action for 4 weeks.
  December strikesTuesday 13th- all day strike
  Wednesday 14th – all day strikeThur
  
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• Illuminature – a winter wander through the WWT London Wetland Centre

  22-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you fancy a wander around a nature reserve at night surrounded by the sounds of the wildlife and winter lights, then the WWT London Wetland Centre in Barnes could be for you.Now in its second year, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) has created a long wandering trail around the ponds that make up the wetlands and coupled with the sound of nature around (and the planes overhead), it’s a very relaxing amble.
  Slightly too easy to wonder if you’re heading in the right direction a
  
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• Thai telco merger in question as offer deadline missed

  22-11-2022 13:27
  Telenor and CP Group are sticking to their plan to merge their Thai telecoms businesses, despite having missed a key deadline in the amalgamation process that throws the entire deal into question.
  Telenor on Tuesday issued a statement confirming that it and its merger partner have failed to carry out a voluntary tender offer (VTO) for the outstanding shares in their Thai units, DTAC and True Corp respectively, because the required conditions were not met.
  When the companies announced their inten
  
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• Ericsson to plough millions into UK 6G research unit

  22-11-2022 13:20
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson has unveiled plans to add the UK to its growing footprint of 6G R&D locations.
  The company on Tuesday announced it will invest tens of millions of pounds over the next 10 years in a new unit that will employ 20 researchers, and offer support to PhD students working alongside other academics as well as telcos and other industry partners. The aim is to conduct research projects that ultimately contribute to the global development of 6G. Focus areas include network re
  
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• T-Mobile releases IoT developer kits into the wild

  22-11-2022 13:06
  US operator T-Mobile is launching IoT developer kits which is describes as ‘its next step to unleash developers to innovate for wireless.’
  The kits are supposed to enable developers to connect to and build things for the T-Mobile network ‘with no strings attached’, and is available through T-Mobile DevEdge, the operator’s ‘self-serve developer platform’ that launched earlier this year. The firm boasts that the kit ‘democratises’ access to the
  
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• The chimney lift has opened at Battersea Power Station

  22-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London has gained a new rooftop viewing gallery, in the form of a glass elevator that rides up the inside one of Battersea Power Station’s chimneys and pops out of the top for a peek around London.
  This is Lift109, so-called for the top of the chimney being 109 metres above sea level.In a way, it’s two separate visitor attractions bolted together, one good and one less so. The good bit is fortunately the main reason that people will come here.
  However, to get to the good bit, there&r
  
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• Take a trip in a magical glowing steam train

  22-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you’re on the edges of east London you might spy a steam train chugging along a bit of old tube train track, and it’s covered in lights glowing in the dark.This is Light Fantastic — a chance to ride behind a steam train that is not just decorated inside and out for the festive season, but lights up the countryside as it passes through the woods and fields.
  A trip inside a steam train is always a delight, but there’s something magical about to arrive, as the crowd waits
  
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