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• What will 2023 hold for the telecoms industry?

  22-12-2022 16:09
  It’s that time of year again when we ask some leading lights from the industry to gaze into their crystal balls and take a punt on what we’ll be talking about next year in the world of telecoms.
  CAPEX will be flat in 2023
  In the wireless market, 2023 is going to require strong financial control by operators as revenue growth is robust but inflationary pressure on operating costs continues to squeeze margins. Carving out operational efficiencies will be the top priority for many. CAPE
  
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• IlluminoCity – two winter lights displays in the City

  22-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Two displays not far from Liverpool Street station are clusters of glowing geometric shapes by the artist’s studio, HYBYCOZO.
  During the daytime, the sculptural forms appear solid and, at night, cast otherworldly patterns of light and shadow on the surrounding ground. While they have exhibited worldwide, this show marks the artists’ UK premiere.
  HYBYCOZO, short for The Hyperspace Bypass Construction Zone, is a collaborative studio of Canadian Serge Beaulieu and Ukrainian Yelena Filip
  
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• Regulated rail fares to rise by nearly 6% in March 2023

  22-12-2022 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The government has announced that regulated national rail fares will rise by 5.9% from March 2023, below the rate of inflation that is usually used to calculate the fares rise each year.Annual fare rises are usually based on the inflation rate the July before they go up, and in July 2022, the retail price index (RPI) stood at 12.3%. A fares rise of 5.9% in 2023 is 6.4 percentage points below July 2022’s RPI, and is being aligned with average earnings growth rather than the cost of living r
  
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• Three UK gives 2500 shop workers a pay bump

  22-12-2022 14:02
  Staff manning UK operator Three UK’s retail stores have been given pay rises across the board.
  Customer advisors working in stores outside London will get a 10.1% pay increase,  which means their wages rise to £11.15, while those based in London stores will see their hourly rate go up by 8.1% to £12.32.
  The pay bumps are effective from January 1st 2023 and taking into account an increase from a year ago Three boasts that hourly pay outside London has grown 23.7% and 16.8%
  
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• Winter sales on London theatre tickets

  22-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There’s a winter sale on tickets to London theatre shows, with offers ranging from exclusive prices to substantial discounts.
  From pantos over Christmas to long running regulars, the discounts are valid for bookings before 8th January.Nutcracker
  The Christmas-card perfect Nutcracker offers the ultimate festive experience.
  Half price tickets from £25 during the first week in January, with savings of up to £57 on seats.£54 tickets available for £25
  £66 tickets a
  
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• Nokia and e& demonstrate first MEA 100 Gbps fibre broadband

  22-12-2022 12:58
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has demonstrated speeds of up to 100-Gbps on a single wavelength, in partnership with Etisalat by e&, four times the speeds of current commercially available optical technologies.
  The proof-of-concept demonstration achieved the speeds on a single Passive Optical Network (PON) wavelength using digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. The vendor states its 100-Gbps PON prototype, developed by its Bell Labs arm, is the world’s first application of flexible rate
  
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• VMO2 mobile traffic was up 36% in 2022

  22-12-2022 12:54
  Telco group VMO2 had its biggest year for data use on both its broadband and mobile networks, and has served up a bunch of stats on consumer habits for the year.
  VMO2 clocked 9% more broadband data downloaded per day compared to 2021, while mobile traffic was up 36%. Using anonymised and aggregated data from between 1st January – 19th December the firm has skimmed that pool of data and thrown out some stats on what it was people were doing with it all over the year.
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• Cellnex snaps up 6 projects for cross-border 5G in Europe

  22-12-2022 11:27
  The European Commission has given tower company Cellnex six 5G deployment projects designed to bolster connectivity, including four cross border transport corridors between Portugal, Spain and France.
  The project, made up of four deployments and two studies, includes setting up 5G coverage in two road corridors linking Spain with France (Barcelona – Montpellier/Toulouse and Bilbao – Bordeaux) and two corridors linking Spain with Portugal (Salamanca – Porto – Vigo and M&ea
  
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• Inside the church of St George’s, Hanover Square

  22-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a circa 300-year old church built as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London but was built before the parish it would serve had been created.The site for the church was donated by General William Steuart, who owned the land after he inherited it from his father, who had accepted the land from King Charles II in repayment of debts. The foundation stone was laid in June 1721, and the church was built to a design by the architect John James. However, due to complaints ab
  
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