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• Chinese telecoms groups Huawei and ZTE barred from US sales

  25-11-2022 23:25
  Washington cites national security in order that includes phones, cameras and WiFi routers
  
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• Ericsson unsurprisingly thinks emerging markets could do with more 5G

  25-11-2022 17:48
  Kit vendor Ericsson has put out a study claiming the GDPs of 15 emerging markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America could improve if they invested more in 5G infrastructure.
  The study was carried out by Analysys Mason with the title Future Value of Mobile in Emerging Markets, and it suggested some potential economic, consumer and environmental benefits of 5G connectivity in 15 emerging markets, which could apparently enjoy a GDP growth between 0.3% and 0.46% through 2035.
  The report in a nutshell
  
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• Charles Dickens Museum gets dressed for Christmas

  25-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The home of the writer often described as the man who invented the modern Christmas has been given a Christmas makeover for the festive season.This is the Charles Dickens Museum, in central London, and shows off the upmarket house that the Dickens family called home for a couple of years in the late 1830s. It was an ideal location for the author, who would spend many evenings wandering the streets of London observing the way people lived.
  His observances lead to many of his most pointed novels d
  
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• UK set to implement new rules for fibre and 5G builds

  25-11-2022 13:36
  The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill is supposed to help smooth 5G and fibre rollouts as well as address security issues on smart gadgets.
  The legislation has been knocking about for a while and now appears to be nearing the end of the usual lengthy process of consultation, debate and sign off. There are two parts to it – the first looking at speeding up 5G and fibre rollouts in the UK and the other looking at security on smart gadgets.
  With regards to the infras
  
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• The ULEZ charge to drive polluting cars in London to be expanded

  25-11-2022 13:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), where polluting cars have to pay to drive through inner London is to be expanded to the whole of Greater London.Motorists driving within the ULEZ currently pay £12.50 per day to drive within the zone, which covers most of inner London, with the North and South circular roads as its boundary. If motorists drive into central London, they also pay the £15 congestion charge on top of that.
  In order to encourage motorists to switch to lower polluting ve
  
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• Perfection, excellence, and the cost of bridging them in the telecoms industry

  25-11-2022 12:14
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece telecoms consultant William Webb examines the collective challenge of ensuring we are always connected.
  Across the western world, failures in communications networks are infrequent, but they do come at the expense of personal safety, data security and business continuity.  The recent Rogers outage in Canada lasted nearly a day, whilst the UK experienced a s
  
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• Telcos face ARPU pressure in 2023

  25-11-2022 11:00
  Telecoms operators, and the industry as a whole, face tricky times next year as a result of economic difficulties and existing market pressures, Analysys Mason warned this week.
  That headline conclusion is hardly rocket science. The vast majority of people and businesses are having to face up to economic uncertainty, and the telecoms industry was never going to be exempt form that. But the analyst firm looks at some of the the specific pressures that will hit telecoms next year, and that makes f
  
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• TfL offering discounted cycle hire for Black Friday weekend

  25-11-2022 10:59 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you make use of the Santander cycle hire bikes from TfL, there’s a Black Friday style sale on their monthly and annual subscription services.Apart from saving money on the cost of hiring a bike, you get to hire them for an hour instead of 30 minutes, and you get a discount on the cost of using their new e-bikes.
  If you subscribe by Monday 28th November, you can claim a 25% discount on the standard price.
  The annual offer is pretty good as you’d only need to use the bike an average
  
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• Colt ramps up IBM relationship with industry 4.0 lab

  25-11-2022 10:43
  Cloud and network services provider Colt has teamed up with IBM to drive the adoption of industry 4.0.
  On Wednesday they opened a new lab in the UK that will offer enterprises in the manufacturing sector hands-on experience with various applications enabled by their cloud and edge networking solutions. Three use cases are available at launch: edge-based visual inspection to identify faulty parts or supply chain issues; security that monitors and protects data across the IT, OT and cloud environm
  
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• London Zoo takes delivery of a new male gorilla

  25-11-2022 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A western lowland gorilla has arrived in London, to take up residence at London Zoo, as part of an international breeding programme for the Critically Endangered species. The 5ft 4ft tall gorilla, called Kiburi, has come from Zoo Loro Parque in Tenerife, and will be joining London Zoo’s other gorillas, two females Mjukuu and Effie, and youngsters Alika and Gernot.
  Kiburi in Gorilla Kingdom at ZSL London Zoo (c) ZSL DHL
  Because of poaching and disease, the gorilla’s numbers in the wil
  
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