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• Gigabit broadband now a legal requirement for new UK homes

  06-01-2023 16:00
  House builders in England will have to ensure that new properties are equipped with the means to access ultrafast Internet services.
  The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on Friday announced amendments to Building Regulations 2010 – the law that governs the construction and modification of buildings – that introduce a requirement for new properties to be fitted with the infrastructure and connections necessary to provide owners with Gigabit-capable broadband upo
  
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• Smart home gizmo highlights from CES 2023

  06-01-2023 14:16
  From fridges that turn your kitchen into a rave to devices that analyse your urine, CES 2023 had a smorgasbord of smart home tech on display.
  As was the case last year, smart home gadgetry and ecosystems emerged as a major theme of the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week. That’s not a huge surprise since the trend of IoT enabled stuff for your home has been buzzing around tech circles for well over a decade now – though the whole concept has become a lot more feasible and
  
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• The dull, high-risk business of yield farming among the European telcos

  06-01-2023 13:59
  This time it’s different, maybe, apparently
  
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• London’s cycle hire scheme has its busiest year ever

  06-01-2023 13:36 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London’s (TfL) cycle hire scheme saw more bikes hired during 2022 than any other year in the scheme’s history, with 11.5 million rentals across the year.According to TfL data, 2022 saw 11,506,889 hires, which is 565,625 hires more than were made in 2021, which was also a record-breaking year for the scheme. The scheme also saw record-breaking months between September 2021 and August 2022, with each month achieving the highest number of hires for that month since the sch
  
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• Qualcomm launches Iridium-supported satellite chip

  06-01-2023 13:22
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has used this year’s CES show to show off its diversification efforts, the latest being a move into the satellite connectivity space.
  Unsurprisingly, it’s called Snapdragon Satellite and is a platform based on the recently-launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. What it promises seems similar to other satellite-direct-to-phone services, such as the recent Apple launch, except that this platform has Iridium as a satellite partner. Iridium is an established name
  
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• Discounts on Great British Bake Off musical tickets

  06-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The UK’s most beloved baking show Great British Bake Off (GBBO) has been adapted for the stage and reinvented into a delicious musical-comedy, opening at the Noel Coward Theatre next month.
  And there’s a discount saving on tickets for the opening weeks.
  The nation’s iconic and beloved baking show has been remastered for the stage. Watch as eight amateur bakers, incredibly witty presenters and two legacy judges whip up a showstopping storm, glazed with a delightful original scor
  
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• T-Mobile US hypes up customer adds in 2022

  06-01-2023 11:11
  T-Mobile US has hit the top-end of its recently-increased postpaid phone customer addition guidance for 2022 and, unsurprisingly, it’s very excited about it.
  The telco is particularly upbeat about its performance compared with arch-rivals AT&T and Verizon, claiming industry-beating net adds in both the full year and the fourth quarter. It’s worth noting that the aforementioned telcos haven’t actually released any figures of their own yet – T-Mobile is relying on indus
  
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• CityFibre’s XGS PON upgrade gathers pace with Vodafone trial

  06-01-2023 11:00
  Altnet CityFibre has successfully tried out fibre technology that paves the way for 10 Gbps broadband services.
  The company on Wednesday revealed that it recently carried out a commercial trial of XGS PON on its network in York, in partnership with Vodafone. Unlike PON technologies that have gone before, which offer faster downlink than uplink speeds, XGS PON can deliver a maximum throughput of up to 10 Gbps on the uplink as well as the downlink.
  The rise of streaming services like Twitch and so
  
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• Cox Mobile launch proves something of a formality

  06-01-2023 10:44
  Cox Communications announced the launch of its Cox Mobile MVNO service at CES, as expected, on Thursday.
  The industry has been waiting for the formal introduction of the service for some months, and back in December the cable operator shared a save-the-date for the launch event at CES, so the arrival of the US mobile market’s newest service provider was by no means a surprise. And the event, when it finally came, yielded little in the way of new information.
  Essentially, the firm confirmed
  
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• Campaign to save the Hampstead Antique Emporium

  06-01-2023 10:13 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Hampstead town centre will see a protest this weekend, as market traders campaign to save a 55-year old market.
  The Hampstead Antique Emporium has been home to around 25 small businesses and provides a livelihood for antique dealers, artists, vintage clothing sellers, jewellery specialists, repair and craftspeople, some of whom have called the market ‘home’ for 30 years.
  (c) @SaveNW3Antiques
  The market’s boss told the New Journal last November that rising costs including utilit
  
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