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• St. Pancras station’s Christmas Tree is a tower of buildings

  02-12-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Each year,St Pancras station commissions an artist to produce a Christmas tree, and this years is better than most, being a city cluster of London’s landmark buildings.The 33ft tree features terrace houses, church yards, department stores, ferris wheels, bridges, concert venues, skyscrapers, towers and monuments. It’s also hand-drawn, with the drawing taking over 60 hours to complete.
  A lot of classic London icons are included, from Big Ben*, the Gherkin, the London Eye, St Paul&rsqu
  
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• Why telcos should challenge perceptions around who they want to attract

  02-12-2022 16:25
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Charlotte Goodwill, CEO of The ITP, calls on telcos to rethink their approach to recruitment and retention.
  It’s time for our industry to stop and look at itself. Tech roles make up 14% of all job opportunities in the UK, but only 26% of the UK tech workforce are women. For employers, ‘The Great Resignation’ and skills gaps are now at the top o
  
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• Science Museum exhibition looks at the race for a COVID vaccine

  02-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Two years ago, the world celebrated as the first Covid vaccine was approved for use, and now, the Science Museum is taking a look at how we got to that momentous moment.The new exhibition, Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine, has a bit of a challenge, as the pandemic was not just a scientific challenge, but it seared much of society with lockdowns and deaths. It’s still a very raw emotion, and an exhibition has to tread carefully between the triumphant celebration of science wh
  
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• NBN starts using next-gen Nokia fibre tech

  02-12-2022 14:02
  Troubled Australian state broadband wholesaler NBN is giving Nokia’s Lightspan MF-14 broadband platform a go.
  Nokia calls Lightspan “the world’s first 6th generation broadband platform.” In practice this means it has four times higher capacity than the previous generation and can support 25G, 50G and 100G PON services. It’s also heavy on the SDN and NFV, via something called the Altiplano Access Controller, and comes with the now obligatory claims of being good for
  
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• Save on tickets to Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre

  02-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The long running stage musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel and set to music for the West End has a sale over Christmas on tickets.Famously panned by the critics when it was first performed only for the box office to be swamped with demand for tickets the following morning — nearly 40 years later, it’s a mainstay of the West End stage. Les Miserables has one of the most recognized soundtracks in theatre history, including classics like At the End of the Day, I Dreamed a Dream,
  
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• BT steps up its industrial green drive

  02-12-2022 12:53
  Telco group BT has entered ‘phase two’ of its Green Tech Innovation Platform programme, bringing three start ups under its wing.
  BT today has announced it has entered phase two of its Green Tech Innovation Platform, an environmental scheme which was set up to ‘fast-track cutting-edge new digital solutions to help manufacturers cut their carbon emissions and progress towards a circular world.’
  Presumably BT is referring to the ‘circular economy’ concept here &n
  
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• Threat of strike action on the Elizabeth line

  02-12-2022 12:49 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London’s newest railway could be about to get its first train strike, as the TSSA union has started balloting members on the Elizabeth line for strike action over pay.
  The TSSA represents management grades employed by TfL through its Rail for London Infrastructure (RfLI) subsidiary including Traffic Managers, Service Infrastructure Managers and Incident Response Managers.
  A strike by these staff would likely stop services running through the core tunnels in the centre of the line.The union
  
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• Ofcom investigates mid-contract price rises

  02-12-2022 11:01
  Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether UK broadband providers have given customers clear enough information on mid-contract price rises.
  About time, particularly given the financial difficulties many UK consumers are facing at present amidst the ongoing economic crisis.
  But before we get too carried away, the UK regulator is only probing broadband contracts signed immediately prior to the introduction of new rules on simpler contracts in June. Further, this seems to be a fact-finding m
  
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• Verizon drafts in Wipro for NaaS push

  02-12-2022 10:49
  US telco Verizon has eyes on a slice of the burgeoning network-as-a-service (NaaS) market.
  But the operator can’t do it on its own, so it has partnered with India-based IT services giant Wipro to do some of the legwork. Their joint NaaS offering launched on Wednesday, and is designed to help enterprises migrate from the high upfront cost of rolling out new infrastructure to a more flexible – and palatable – subscription-based network consumption model.
  Lowering this barrier to
  
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• 2022 Global Telecom Awards winners revealed

  02-12-2022 00:00
  The Glotel Awards were back as a live, physical, event this year and the winners represented a great cross section of an industry going from strength to strength.
  For reasons that will be obvious, we weren’t able to get loads of telecoms professionals in a big room for the past two years. Now that, in the UK at least, that whole strange period is behind us, it was great to be able to get together just like we did in the good old days. Some things just aren’t the same over Zoom.
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