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• Black Friday deals on London theatre tickets

  23-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  That time of year when loads of companies jump on that bandwagon and offer discounts, and London’s theatreland is no exception. Many of the top plays and musicals are offering deals this week and next, because Black Friday isn’t just a one-day event anymore.
  Some of the deals, with better than half-price discounts on some of the shows, are pretty good.
  Check the booking dates as some offers expire earlier than others.
  The list below is ordered by the offers that expire soonest&hellip
  
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• London bus cuts are themselves cut back

  23-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Planned cuts to bus services across London are being scaled back after the Mayor of London agreed to tap into some unspent funding to cover their running costs.Out of the 620 bus routes in London, Transport for London (TfL) consulted on plans to make changes to 70 routes, but says that it will now only modify 18 routes, most of them in central London.
  The changes follow a consultation that gathered over 21,500 replies, a reminder that the buses carry on average around twice as many passengers as
  
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• DT declares 6 GHz ‘ideal’ for 5G

  23-11-2022 13:20
  Deutsche Telekom is pushing for the use of 6 GHz spectrum for mobile communications and has just completed a trial that shows the band could perform well in urban environments.
  The German incumbent hopes that its tests will help to inform the decision-making at the next ITU World Radiocommunications Conference, which will take place in 12 months time.
  The telco tested 6 GHz spectrum under real conditions in Bonn, Germany, in a number of different scenarios. It summed up the results in a single s
  
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• Tickets Alert: The Fan Museum lit by candles

  23-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Fan Museum, a museum that you’ve probably not visited is having a series of festive evenings where the whole museum will be lit by candlelight.
  The Fan Museum, based in Greenwich, holds a collection of fans and fan leaves which include the Hélène Alexander Collection and further acquisitions received since the museum opened to the public over twenty-five years ago. Although it’s a museum of hand-held fans, really what you’re looking at is art — the decor
  
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• SK Telecom’s metaverse platform goes global

  23-11-2022 12:53
  Korean operator SK Telecom has launched its ‘ifland’ metaverse platform in a further 49 countries.
  It has got at least some part of every region covered: Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (see below for the full list of countries). Its footprint easily eclipses that of Facebook parent Meta’s Horizon Worlds; the poster-child for the whole metaverse concept is accessible in a mere seven markets by comparison.
  There is a language barrier though. Ifland is cur
  
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• EE hooks up 150 new locations to its 5G network

  23-11-2022 12:41
  UK operator EE has added 150 new UK locations to its 5G network and ‘boosted’ a series of Christmas shopping hotspots.
  EE has added 150 new locations to its 5G network, which it says expands its coverage beyond speeds dense urban areas where 5G is mostly located.
  In England, these lucky new towns include Kettering, Retford, Saltford, Scunthorpe, Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Crewe; in Scotland, Buckhaven, Cowdenbeath, Gorebridge, Saltcoats, Portlethen, Banchory, Ratho; and in Wales, M
  
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• HS2 opens a giant conveyor belt in West London

  23-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  What does a company do when it has three large construction sites in an urban area that need to move material around without clogging up the roads? They build a long conveyor belt network that goes over the heads of the roads and around the houses in the area.This is HS2’s conveyor belt network, that’ll move muck dug out of the ground for the new Old Oak Common station and later the HS2 railway tunnels, across to a handling site where it can be loaded onto freight trains to remove.
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• Telecoms operators face anxious wait for 5G to pay off

  23-11-2022 06:00
  Consumers may be wowed by the next generation of mobile telephony — but they are taking their time
  
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• Openreach cutbacks hit expansion of UK ultrafast fibre network

  23-11-2022 06:00
  BT division suspends work on future projects as it seeks savings amid high inflation
  
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