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• The rise of scam calls and the ‘Holy Grail’ of telecoms

  07-12-2022 17:24
  Britons are getting hit with more dodgy calls and texts than ever before, prompting Ofcom to nudge the telco industry into doing something about it. We spoke to Eli Katz, CEO, XConnect about what can be done to bat away the spam.
  A lot of organisations and companies have by now declared that the amount of spam calls looking to defraud people out of their money is increasing, citing various factors such as the war in Ukraine and technologies and techniques that make it easier to do so.
  In fact, l
  
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• Shopping surge sends tube stations back to pre-pandemic levels

  07-12-2022 17:02 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Passenger numbers at tube stations in key shopping areas returned back to pre-pandemic levels last weekend, according to the latest numbers from Transport for London (TfL).
  TfL says that over a million entries and exits were recorded at stations designated near ‘shopping’ locations, which includes stations such as Oxford Circus, Knightsbridge and High Street Kensington.
  Where the Elizabeth line has opened, Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street stations saw entry and exit levels exceed
  
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• Lego compatible London Underground train released

  07-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Just in time to appear under a Christmas tree near you, is a LEGO compatible London Underground train kit based on the S-Stock trains.The kit features a 3 car S-Stock train full with internal seating and removable roofs to put figures inside, an instruction book, two staff figures, a full oval track and an Underground roundel.
  In total, the kit comes with 1,433 pieces included.
  And the minifigs are wearing tube roundel uniforms.
  The CityBrix London Underground Train Brick Set is available from t
  
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• CityFibre ups the ante with new Openreach competition complaint

  07-12-2022 14:00
  CityFibre is once again on the warpath against Openreach, lodging a new complaint with UK authorities over the incumbent network operator’s wholesale pricing strategy.
  Specifically, CityFibre has filed a Competition Act complaint with the Communications and Markets Authority (CMA) and Ofcom against Openreach for its – in its opinion – attempts to squeeze competition out of the wholesale fibre market. The complaint comes a year after the altnet’s first bid to tackle Openre
  
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• Ofcom prioritises quality over quantity of MNOs

  07-12-2022 13:53
  UK telco watchdog Ofcom intends to keep an even more watchful eye on operators’ network performance and availability.
  The regulator on Tuesday shared the conclusions of a consultation launched in February designed to inform its future approach to regulating the mobile market. One of the resulting changes it wants to implement is giving consumers more information to help them pick the provider that’s best for them.
  “Network quality is likely to be of growing importance to custom
  
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• Qualcomm launches new 5G RAN platform focused on mmWave deployments

  07-12-2022 13:08
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has continued its interest in the radio access side of things with a platform that claims to combine the best of macro and small cell technology.
  It’s simply called the Qualcomm Compact Macro 5G RAN Platform, the name indicating this ‘best of both worlds’ spin. The company reckons it already knows a thing or two about small cells, as manifested in its FSM 5G RAN Platform. Into that mix Qualcomm has thrown the kind of antenna technology it reckons y
  
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• Qualcomm launches 5G RAN platform focused on mmWave deployments

  07-12-2022 13:08
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has continued its interest in the radio access side of things with a platform that claims to combine the best of macro and small cell technology.
  It’s simply called the Qualcomm Compact Macro 5G RAN Platform, the name indicating this ‘best of both worlds’ spin. The company reckons it already knows a thing or two about small cells, as manifested in its FSM 5G RAN Platform. Into that mix Qualcomm has thrown the kind of antenna technology it reckons y
  
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• A world of the weird and wonderful fills the Design Museum

  07-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  In the 1920s, a new way of looking at the world started to emerge in the world of artists, the surrealist was born, and a century later, the Design Museum is full of the strange contorted shapes that emerged from that moment of genesis.
  It was a rebellion against the strictly ordered Edwardian world, but also one that rejoiced in the latest materials, the increasing ability of magazines to print high-quality photos and liberalisation in society in general.
  Sex and sexiness were the order of the
  
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• TSMC is building a second chip fab in Arizona as part of a $40 billion commitment

  07-12-2022 12:54
  The world’s leading contract chip maker Taiwan based TSMC has started building a second fab in Arizona, investing $40 billion collectively for the two facilities and beefing up the US domestic semiconductor sector.
  The first Arizona fab, or semiconductor factory, is scheduled to begin production of N4 process technology in 2024, while this freshly announced second facility is intended to spin up cutting edge 3nm process technology – which is key for smartphones – in 2026.
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• TSMC is building a second chip fab in Arizona as part of $40 billion commitment

  07-12-2022 12:54
  The world’s leading contract chip maker Taiwan based TSMC has started building a second fab in Arizona, investing $40 billion collectively for the two facilities and beefing up the US domestic semiconductor sector.
  The first Arizona fab, or semiconductor factory, is scheduled to begin production of N4 process technology in 2024, while this freshly announced second facility is intended to spin up cutting edge 3nm process technology – which is key for smartphones – in 2026.
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• New public art behind the Elizabeth line’s Bond Street station

  07-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you look around the back of the Hanover Square entrance to the Elizabeth line’s Bond Street station, you’ll spy a large work of public art hanging on the wall.It’s a nine-metre long strip of crafted terrazzo and is the first large-scale public commission by London-based artist, Rhys Coren. The passage it sits on is new, having been created as part of the oversite development for the area after the buildings had been cleared to build the Elizabeth line station.
  Behind the art
  
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