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• Tutankhamun as street art at the British Museum

  21-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The British Museum has chosen an unusual way of marking the centenary of Tutankhamun’s discovery, and some people will love it, and umm, some are likely to loathe it.
  They’ve given over a room in the museum to the graffiti artist Ahmed Nofal – known as Nofal O — who has spray painted the entire interior with a street-art style graffiti that’s a perfect blend of ancient Egypt meets modern art.Sitting in the middle is a statue of Tutankhamun, which had been misunderst
  
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• More rail strikes announced for just after Christmas

  21-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Staff at three train companies are to go on strike in the week between Christmas and New Year, along with overtime bans on several other train companies.The TSSA union says that staff at CrossCountry, Great Western Railway (GWR) and West Midlands Trains will strike, with train companies warning that they will have to cut services, or not run them at all during the rail strike.
  In addition, the strike action on West Midlands Trains will affect services on London Northwestern Railway, which will n
  
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• Telstra-TPG deal rejected by ACCC

  21-12-2022 12:50
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has blocked a network sharing deal between Telstra, Australia’s largest telecom operator, and TPG Telecom, the country’s second MNO.
  First announced in February, the spectrum and tower sharing deal, which was expected to be around AUS$1.7 billion, would have seen Telstra acquire around 3,700 TPG sites, while allowing TPG to continue to sell 4G and 5G services to customers. The two MNOs have said they will be appealing against
  
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• Legal action looming as Telstra-TPG deal rejected by ACCC

  21-12-2022 12:50
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has blocked a network sharing deal between Telstra, Australia’s largest telecom operator, and TPG Telecom, the country’s second MNO.
  First announced in February, the spectrum and tower sharing deal, which was expected to be around AUS$1.7 billion, would have seen Telstra acquire around 3,700 TPG sites, while allowing TPG to continue to sell 4G and 5G services to customers. The two MNOs have said they will be appealing against
  
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• EE plugs in 4G to more of the London Underground

  21-12-2022 12:40
  UK operator EE will pipe in 4G to new London Underground stations on the Central and Northern lines.
  Passengers passing through Central Line stations Holland Park, Notting Hill Gate, and Queensway are now able to slurp up 4G on their commute to and from the office – assuming the train strikes end at some point and such a thing becomes conceivable once again – with connectivity at Archway, Tufnell Park, Kentish Town on the Northern Line to turned on in a week or so.
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• Mobile phone coverage on the London Underground reaches the Central and Northern lines

  21-12-2022 11:36 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Mobile phone coverage in London Underground tunnels, currently on the Jubilee line between Westminster and Canning Town, is being expanded to part of the Central and Northern lines this week.
  The Central line between Holland Park and Queensway has had mobile phone coverage switched on today, as part of a long-running rollout of phone coverage in the deep tunnels.
  All four mobile network operators – Three UK, EE, Vodafone, and Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) – are taking part in the rollout, w
  
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• Most telecom businesses are yet to define specific climate sustainability strategies

  21-12-2022 10:20
  According to Telecoms.com Climate Action Survey Report, it’s still early days for clear telecom strategies and actions as 61% are either still planning or have no initiatives at all for climate sustainability.
  The newly published report takes stock at the industry’s role in addressing climate change, the challenges telecoms face, and what sustainability opportunities there are for telco businesses.
  Zooming in on why telcos should care about climate change, beyond the obvious reasons
  
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• Matthew Flinders and Trim the cat – statue outside Euston Station

  21-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Outside Euston station is a statue of a man bending over a map while his cat looks the other way. This is a newish addition to the area, having arrived in 2014, on the bicentenary of the subject’s death.It’s of Captain Matthew Flinders, the British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, and also the man generally considered to be the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of the continent.
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