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• A new footbridge is to be built at Canary Wharf

  06-12-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new pedestrian bridge is to be built across one of the Canary Wharf docks to relieve congestion on the existing South Dock Footbridge (also, if very infrequently, known as the Wilkinson Eyre Bridge).
  Bridge in open state (c) Tower Hamlets council / Knight Architects
  The second bridge is needed to relieve congestion on the existing narrow bridge which has got worse in recent years thanks to an awful lot of new housing going up on the Isle of Dogs to the south of Canary Wharf’s main office
  
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• Behind the scenes tours of the Barbican theatre

  06-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you’ve ever fancied wandering around the back corridors and up to the high fly tower, then the Barbican is now offering backstage tours of its main theatre.
  Barbican theatre (c) Barbican
  The tour groups are small, of necessity as some of the spaces are a bit cramped, although not usually as small as on my tour of just three of us, and start with an introduction to the Barbican art centre itself, and how the ravages of WWII created the space for an entire housing development and art cent
  
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• UK government urged to act against censorship by financial services providers

  06-12-2022 14:10
  The Financial Services and Markets Bill currently passing through parliament doesn’t do enough to protect users from arbitrary punishment, according to the Free Speech Union.
  Hot on the heels of the controversial Online Safety Bill comes another piece of UK law that has profound freedom of speech implications. The Financial Services and Markets Bill is one of many pieces of legislation needed to replace stuff we previously allowed the EU to dictate. This process of reclaiming control over
  
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• VMO2: UK mobile and broadband prices have dropped 20% since 2017

  06-12-2022 13:56
  A study by VMO2 says Brits have some of the cheapest mobile and broadband deals in the world, with household spend on telecoms having dropped by about 20% since 2017.
  The report, commissioned by VMO2 and carried out by Assembly Research, claims average monthly household spend on telecoms in the UK has fallen by nearly 20% – or £18 per month – since 2017, whilst consumptions has ‘surged’.
  The report claims competition in the UK telecoms market ‘has delivered ex
  
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• Verizon hits 5G milestone as Vestberg takes control of consumer division

  06-12-2022 13:22
  US operator Verizon has given itself an early Christmas present by hitting its latest 5G rollout target a month ahead of schedule, but still faces some senior staffing challenges.
  The company revealed that its 5G Ultra Wideband services – that’s its full 5G offer, based on C-band and mmWave spectrum – now covers 175 million people, a target it was shooting for by the end of this year. It was able to accelerate its rollout plan by paying extra for early access to the C-band freq
  
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• 400 years of Christmas Past on display at the Museum of the Home

  06-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Museum of the Home in East London has decorated its collection of display living rooms with the Christmas of centuries past.
  Walk along the display and see how Christmas has changed from Tudor times to modern days. It’s a reminder to use that so many of our cherished traditions are often very new and that the past did things very differently, and that’s if they did them at all. It’s a long-running tradition at the museum to decorate the rooms for Christmas, but it’s d
  
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• OpenRAN’s latest chapter: moving into the big city

  06-12-2022 12:37
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Andrea Donà Network and Development Director at Vodafone UK, shares the thinking behind the company’s latest Open RAN initiative.
  There are certainly plenty of myths in the industry about OpenRAN, and today I hope to eradicate one of them: OpenRAN will be deployed anywhere and everywhere, including the busy city centres.
  Today, we have announce
  
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• Vodafone hopes urban Open RAN deployment won’t lead to faulty towers

  06-12-2022 12:31
  UK operator Vodafone has deployed Open RAN tech on some live masts in urban environments, claiming a European first in so doing.
  While there’s nothing about Open RAN technology that necessarily makes it better for rural deployments, that environment has been the focus for its initial live deployments. One major reason for this, presumably, is that lower population density means less capacity requirement, which in turn means less burden on the technology. So this can be viewed as another in
  
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• Deutsche Telekom raises fibre targets, hires more installers

  06-12-2022 12:30
  German operator Deutsche Telekom plans to work even harder next year to make up lost ground in the FTTH market.
  The telco late last week said it aims to add 2.5-3 million premises to its FTTH footprint in 2023. By comparison, it is on course to add 2 million this year, while last year it connected 1.2 million. By the end of December, DT’s FTTH network will cover 5.2 million premises in total. And by 2024, it is expected to reach more than 10 million, which represents a slight improvement o
  
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• Hopton Street’s 320 year old house

  06-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Squashed in between Southwark’s tall modern buildings is a peculiar survivor, a 320-year old house.The house owes its origins to property developers, James Price and John Morgan, who secured a lease (copyhold) on the farmland in this part of town just over 300 years ago and started building houses along a road that already existed at the time.
  In around 1700, they had built houses and were covering up the open sewers, and on a side passage, built five houses by 1702/03. Of these, one survi
  
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