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• TfL awards Bakerloo line extension consultancy contract

  13-12-2022 17:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Although the Bakerloo line extension project is on hold at the moment, TfL is still carrying out some work on protecting the alignment and has awarded a contract to carry out feasibility studies for five packages of tunnelling works.
  The contract was awarded to the engineering consultancies, Dr. Sauer & Partners and Arup to prepare feasibility studies for five packages of tunnelling works on the proposed Bakerloo Line extension at four specific locations on the extension.
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• Barbican celebrates women from pre-revolutionary Iran

  13-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Exhibitions take ages to arrange, and yet at times, they accidentally coincide with wider world events, and such a moment has happened at the Barbican with Soheila Sokhanvari’s Rebel Rebel.The huge curve gallery has been transformed into a green space filled with Islamic geometric patterns, and dotted along the curving wall are small portraits of ladies from a time before Iran’s Islamic revolution sent women back indoors, behind the veil and under the birch.These are paintings by Sok
  
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• 2022 has been a great year for telecoms, industry professionals say

  13-12-2022 14:07
  According to Telecoms.com Annual Industry Report, the industry is predominantly happy with telecom’s business performance in 2022 as 63% vote for an ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ year.
  The newly published report takes stock of the industry’s performance over this year, as well as the views of the professionals participating in the survey on the outlook of 2023 and beyond. A general sense of optimism and achievement comes through as 63% of respondents believe that the
  
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• Disgraced crypto billionaire charged with defrauding investors

  13-12-2022 14:06
  Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been charged by the US SEC with orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX.
  The FTX scandal started to unravel around a month ago, with the revelation that major cryptocurrency exchange FTX was collapsing, along with billions of dollars of investment and deposits. This caught the eye of the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC), which immediately commenced an investigation. It now clearly reckons it has enough evidence to prosecute.
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• UK ploughs £110 million into 5G/6G research and development

  13-12-2022 13:17
  The UK government is funneling cash into three universities as well as the UK Telecoms Lab in an effort to accelerate progress in 6G and 5G R&D, with a special focus on Open RAN.
  The University of York, the University of Bristol and the University of Surrey will be given a share of a £28 million pot to develop 6G technology in concert with the telco industry, and £80 million will go to the UK Telecoms Lab in Solihul. The universities will work with ‘world-leading UK academi
  
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• UK ploughs £110 million into 5G/6G research

  13-12-2022 13:17
  The UK government is ploughing cash into three universities as well as the UK Telecoms Lab in an effort to accelerate progress in 6G and 5G R&D, with a special focus on Open RAN.
  Three UK universities – the University of York, the University of Bristol and the University of Surrey – will be given a share of a £28 million pot to develop 6G technology in concert with the telco industry, and £80 million will go to the UK Telecoms Lab in Solihul.
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• A giant floating moon fills Greenwich’s Painted Hall

  13-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A scale model of the moon will be filling the Painted Hall in Greenwich for the next couple of months.
  This is UK artist Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon, a large scale model of the moon based on NASA photographs of the surface, and is a travelling attraction hovering above people’s heads in venues across the UK.
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  Visitors can stand beneath the seven metre, to-scale Moon as it hangs in the Baroque Painted Hall. The imagery features minute detail of the
  
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• Microsoft becomes a fibre player with Lumenisity acquisition

  13-12-2022 12:46
  Lumenisity, a UK hollow core fibre (HCF) startup, has been acquired by US tech giant Microsoft to augment its global cloud infrastructure.
  At least that’s what Microsoft says in its press release. The immediate rationale behind the acquisition is to ‘and serve Microsoft’s Cloud Platform and Services customers with strict latency and security requirements.’ So we’re looking at organizations like banks and public sector, it seems, but Microsoft also lists healthcare,
  
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• Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey 2022 Report

  13-12-2022 11:15
  As we enter the final stretch of 2022, we are delighted to share the results of our flagship Annual Industry Survey in this special report.
  In the face of an ever-growing economic crisis globally, telecommunication infrastructures and the services they enable, continue to highlight their undeniable significance. Some of the industry’s recent strides can be attributed to the adoption of 5G, others to the efforts made to deliver seamless connectivity, as life shifted to our homes during the
  
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• Ericsson gains cloud RAN traction with Telstra and Verizon

  13-12-2022 10:33
  Telstra has become the latest telco to sing the praises of virtualised RAN infrastructure.
  The Australian incumbent on Monday announced it has carried out its first 5G data call using a range of Ericsson’s cloud-based networking technologies.
  The trial, which Telstra and Ericsson claim is the first of its kind to be conducted in the southern hemisphere, was carried out on Telstra’s commercial network on the Gold Coast, Queensland. First and foremost, it involved the deployment of Eri
  
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• KKR and Iliad reportedly interested in TIM network

  13-12-2022 10:25
  KKR and Iliad are reportedly among those interested in making a bid for TIM’s network assets, it emerged in recent days, with the former purportedly keen to broker a deal by partnering with the Italian government.
  Private equity firm KKR is in talks with Italian officials about an offer for TIM’s fixed infrastructure, but only as part of a joint venture with a state-owned company or a newly-established state-backed financial vehicle, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familia
  
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• Smithfield’s Christmas Eve auction – cancelled for 2022

  13-12-2022 10:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Smithfield meat market has confirmed that the annual Christmas Eve auction won’t be happening this year.
  It’s been a bit of a tradition for this writer for over a decade now to turn up, take photos and head home on the tube train with something gigantic under the arm that he later tries to figure out how to cook. Not this year, but…The man behind the Christmas Eve auction, Greg Lawrence, is a Smithfield trader and Chairman of their Tenants Association — and he offers a h
  
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• A decade of contactless payments on London’s public transport

  13-12-2022 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On this day in 2012, a revolution began when London’s buses started accepting contactless payment for fares. A decade later, contactless payments make up over two-thirds of pay as you go fares on London’s buses, and over 2.5 billion journeys have been paid for this way.
  On its first day, just 2,061 customers used this new fangled contactless payment option, but a year later, TfL was seeing around 33,000 bus journeys a day being made using a contactless payment card and five years lat
  
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