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• Why the telecoms industry should care about CES 2023

  03-01-2023 18:52
  As the telecoms and wider tech industries become increasingly intertwined, CES and MWC are starting to look like two sides of the same coin – with the former providing the consumer use cases for advanced connectivity.
  The Consumer Electronics Show – the mothership of tech events – will once again spread itself all over Las Vegas this week like a massive gadget-spewing octopus after two years of Covid related disruption. It’s a significant event mainly because of its sheer
  
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• 1&1 claims launch of the first European Open RAN network

  03-01-2023 18:20
  German greenfield MNO 1&1 has launched its new mobile network, which is based on Open RAN technology and makes a virtue of being Huawei-free.
  Following in the footsteps of Rakuten in Japan and Dish in the US, 1&1 took advantage of the opportunity presented by building a mobile network from scratch to go all in with Open RAN. Rakuten itself was announced as a major partner for the project in the middle of 2021 and, unsurprisingly, Altiostar software is part of the resulting mix. The Japan
  
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• KPN snaps up Itzos to bolster healthcare division

  03-01-2023 14:09
  Netherlands-based operator KPN has bought integration and data management firm Itzos, which will now operate within KPN Health.
  Itzos, which is described as a provider of integration and data management solutions for healthcare, will be run as an independent company within KPN Health following the purchase, and the current management team ‘will also be part of this.’
  KPN did not disclose how much it paid for the firm, but the integrating it into KPN health is apparently all part of i
  
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• Rogers Shaw acquisition approved but it’s still not a done deal

  03-01-2023 13:23
  The Canadian Competition Tribunal has decided Rogers and Shaw have conceded enough to be allowed to merge but the Competition Bureau is fighting on.
  It has been almost two years since two of Canada’s biggest telcos announced their mega M&A plans, which were always going to draw close scrutiny from competition authorities. The biggest sticking point was consolidation of the Canadian mobile sector through Rogers getting hold of Shaw-owned Freedom Mobile, so the two companies pledged to f
  
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• Tours of the Lord Mayor of London’s Mansion House

  03-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The grand mansion in the City of London that’s home to the Lord Mayor of London isn’t usually open to the general public, but they do hold a once-weekly guided tour. The tours take place on Tuesdays, so not ideal for some, but in a way that makes them rarer to visit as you need to make a bit of an effort to take the day off work.
  Mansion House (c) City of London Guides
  Entry is through what is today the main entrance, but was originally the stables, until they quickly realised that s
  
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• Huawei has pulled itself out of crisis mode, says chairman

  03-01-2023 12:54
  ‘2023 will be the first year that we return to business as usual,’ says Chinese vendor Huawei’s Rotating Chairman.
  Eric Xu, Rotating Chairman of Huawei, has published a bullish ‘new year message’ in which he says things are looking bright for the embattled vendor despite ongoing US led sanctions.
  2022 apparently saw steady growth for its ICT infrastructure business, and the decline in its device business ‘has abated’. Xu also points to rapid growth in &l
  
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• Telefónica and Intersec roll out public warning system in Germany

  03-01-2023 12:17
  European public warning system specialist Intersec was chosen by O2 Telefónica to run a new system for alerting German people in times of emergency.
  The Public Warning Cell Broadcast system was officially deployed on ‘Nationwide Alert Day’, otherwise known as ‘Warntag’, on 8 December last year, but Intersec only felt confident enough to issue a press release about it today. They broadcast a couple of alert messages from the Federal Office for Civil Protection and D
  
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• The unexpected heritage of London Bridge station’s iron girders

  03-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Little noticed by the thousands of people who use London Bridge station, but above their heads are some of the oldest iron girders in the UK.These girders can be found in the former Joiner Street that’s now the entrance corridor between the mainline station and the tube station, and if you look up above your head at the entrance, you’ll see the girders. They date from likely around the 1860s, as that’s when the railway station was enlarged.
  Before that, Joiner Street was like a
  
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