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• New satellite IoT gateway deployed to fight poaching in Africa

  20-12-2022 17:49
  Ground Control has developed a new satellite IoT gateway and trialled it in Central Africa as part of an exercise to combat poaching of endangered and monitored wildlife.
  Ground Control, which describes itself as a satellite focused, IoT and M2M critical communications connectivity provider (try saying that after a couple) worked with an organisation called Digital Forest UK to deploy its new IoT gateway in Gabon, Central Africa. The gateway is supposed to enable more efficient transmission of &
  
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• Tickets Alert: London Concours 2023

  20-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  It might be a bit early to be thinking of summers looking at supercars, but tickets to the London Concours 2023 have gone on sale already. The London Concours takes place in the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company from Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th June 2023.
  (c) London Concours
  The cars remain the centrepiece of the event, and in 2023, they will be showing off a number of cars designed to go racing, but built for the road. In the worlds of rallying, endurance racing or touring cars it&rsq
  
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• Ericsson goes green with Optus kit and financing framework

  20-12-2022 14:33
  Ericsson has established a new financing framework to cover future investments in energy efficient technologies and renewable energy, the announcement coming a day after it shared details of the rollout of an energy efficient RAN site with Australia’s Optus.
  We already knew this, but energy efficiency is clearly high on the agenda for the Swedish kit maker.
  Ericsson said it has set up the so-called Green Financing Framework to enable it to issue green bonds and other green financing instru
  
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• PLDT shares crash following $869 million capex overspend

  20-12-2022 14:04
  High-ranking execs at Philippines incumbent PLDT have been suspended after the telco revealed it has completely blown its capex budget.
  The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation into unusual trading activity ahead of PLDT’s damaging disclosure, and, according to local press, chairman Manuel V Pangilinan has appointed an additional external auditor to look for evidence of fraud.
  Shares of PLDT closed down 17 percent on Monday following Friday&rsqu
  
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• The Industry’s Role in Climate Sustainability

  20-12-2022 13:20
  With harmful carbon emissions from the past decade never so high in the human history before, many in the telecoms industry are feeling adverse effects on, including on the effects on the telecom infrastructure and the need to combat climate change, enhance climate resilience, and develop adaptive capabilities have never been as urgent.
  Telecoms.com Intelligence, in collaboration with RedHat, Intel recently conducted a survey to get the views of telecoms professionals on climate sustainability a
  
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• Digital recreation of an extinct rhino at the Natural History Museum

  20-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Four years ago, the last male northern white rhinoceros died in a zoo, but now a digital recreation has come to life in the Natural History Museum and in doing so raises questions about how we can bring extinct species back to life.You can hear the rhino before you see it and around a corner from a display of books about rhinos, there’s a large screen showing a white sanitised room. Depending on when you arrive, the rhino comes alive as a pixellated mass that wanders around its digital cag
  
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• EE, VMO2 and Vodafone sign up to multi-operator small cell pilot

  20-12-2022 12:24
  Three of the big four vendors have signed up to a pilot scheme led by Freshwave, pitched as ‘the first small cell network in the UK capable of hosting all four mobile network operators from day one.’
  EE has now gone live on Freshwave’s connectivity pilot based along Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, while VMO2 is expected to hook up early in 2023 and Vodafone in the first quarter of 2023. There was no mention of whether Three would be joining the party in the announc
  
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• Train drivers at 15 companies to strike on Thursday 5th January

  20-12-2022 12:17 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The rail drivers union, Aslef has announced a one-day strike will take place in the first week of the New Year as part of its long-running dispute over pay.The strike will take place on Thursday 5th January 2023 — right in the middle of previously announced strikes by RMT members, which are due to take place on 3rd,4t, 6th and 7th January.
  In effect, hardly any train services all week.“We don’t want to go on strike but the companies have pushed us into this place,” said M
  
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• Telecoms.com Climate Action Survey 2022 Report

  20-12-2022 12:07
  With harmful carbon emissions from the past decade never so high in the human history before, many in the telecoms industry are feeling adverse effects on, including on the effects on the telecom infrastructure and the need to combat climate change, enhance climate resilience, and develop adaptive capabilities have never been as urgent.
  Telecoms.com Intelligence, in collaboration with RedHat, Intel, Nokia, and ZTE, recently conducted a survey to get the views of telecoms professionals on climate
  
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• Three free exhibitions at the British Library

  20-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Nope, not a joke about buses, there really are three exhibitions at the British Library at the moment that are free to visit, although oddly, only two of them are listed on the library’s own website.
  But if you’re in town and want to take in three fine cost free exhibitions, these are pretty good.
  Chinese and British
  In the basement of the library is an insightful look at the surprisingly long period that there’s been a Chinese community in the UK.
  The first recorded Chinese pe
  
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