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• CWU and BT reach ‘final agreement’ over strikes

  28-11-2022 18:08
  The BT and Openreach strikes look set to be over, as the telecoms group today reached a final agreement with the Communications Workers Union to settle the dispute over pay.
  After months of on and off strikes, BT and the CWU have come to an agreement over a pay despite, and the latter is now recommended an end to industrial action. The deal in essence is that BT workers who earn £50,000 or less will get a £1,500 pay rise as of January next year.
  The pay hike is being given to all the
  
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• BT strikes set to end after staff offered extra £1,500 pay rise

  28-11-2022 15:30
  Unions recommend award for 85% of staff to end acrimonious dispute that has rocked the group
  
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• Spot the restored phonebox with its original interior at St Pancras

  28-11-2022 15:03 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you look carefully inside a phonebox outside St Pancras station you might wonder why it has warnings about WWII and instructions about enlisting to fight for King and Country.It’s an old phone box that’s been adopted by the Building Centre and then restored back to its 1930s old origins, with replicas of the original phone inside, the original A/B payment box, phone books and posters.
  It looks a bit twee with the domestic telephone sitting on the shelf, but that’s how they w
  
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• FCC closes another loophole for imported Chinese telco gear

  28-11-2022 14:31
  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has firmed up rules to effectively ban the sale of a raft of tech and telco products from China.
  Announced late last week, the update to the Secure Equipment Act makes equipment and devices produced by Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology ineligible for the FCC’s certification programme.
  This matters because despite putting these companies on its so-called ‘Covered List’ of
  
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• Veon agrees to management buyout of Russian arm

  28-11-2022 14:13
  Netherlands-based Veon appears to have found a quick and tidy route out of Russia.
  Just weeks after announcing that VimpelCom was up for sale, Veon last week agreed to offload it to the unit’s management team, led by CEO Aleksander Torbakhov, for $2.1 billion. The deal values VimpelCom at $6.09 billion, and will be funded primarily by VimpelCom assuming a chunk of Veon debt, which stood at $8.2 billion at the end of September.
  It’s hardly surprising that Veon has taken this option. I
  
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• Nokia to open 5G and 6G research lab in Portugal

  28-11-2022 14:01
  Kit vendor Nokia looks to expand its brain trust with a new research facility looking at 5G and 6G.
  Nokia’s shiny new R&D centre at its Portuguese campus in Amadora has been set up in order to ‘develop technology to power 5G communications and lay the foundations for 6G networks,’ and will apparently create 100 new jobs within the next two years.
  The new influx of boffins will be tasked with overseeing ‘the full cycle of embedded and real-time software development fro
  
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• Semiconductor revenues projected to drop 3.6% next year

  28-11-2022 13:07
  Revenues for the global semiconductor market is forecast to total $596 billion in 2023, down from the previous forecast of $623 billion according to numbers from Gartner.
  According to the latest forecasts from Gartner, though this year the global semiconductor market is apparently set to grow 4% and total $618 billion this year, in 2023 revenue is projected to decline 3.6% – which the analysts attributes to oversupply due to the ‘worsening economic situation’.
  Gartner surmises
  
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• TfL seeking new provider for its contactless and oyster card payments

  28-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London (TfL) is looking for a company to maintain and upgrade its billing systems and is likely to migrate away from older Oyster cards which are increasingly unable to work with other billing platforms.At the moment, the supply of Oyster and contactless payment systems is handled by a supply contract with Cubic, and that contract is currently due to expire in July 2026, having been extended by a year due to upgrade delays to the card readers on buses.
  Although Cubic supplies the O
  
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• London’s Alleys: Sedley Place, W1

  28-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a modern looking alley next to Oxford Street, that thanks to ancient debts, is owned by the City of London, but is also the site of possibly the most expensive clerical error in human history.The alley crops up early in the development of Oxford Street and may have originally been called Silver Court, as John Roque’s map of 1746 shows a similarly shaped alley in roughly the same location as the current alley. Within 50 years though, it’s showing up on R Horwood’s map as
  
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• The world’s largest dinosaur is coming to the Natural History Museum

  28-11-2022 01:02 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Making its European debut, a dinosaur that’s four times heavier than Dippy the Diplodocus is coming to the Natural History Museum next spring.
  Not to scale… A toy titanosaur awaits the arrival of the Titanosaur at the Natural History Museum (c) Trustees of the Natural History Museum
  The aptly named Titanosaur, the most complete gigantic dinosaur ever discovered will be in London for 9 months on its first ever visit to Europe. Barely fitting inside the museum’s enormous 9-metre
  
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