Telecom news

• A look at the pros and cons of the ‘fair contribution’ debate

  11-01-2023 16:31
  European ISPs have been requesting regulators impose what has been coined as a ‘fair contribution’ payment on Big Tech firms such as Google, Netflix, and Amazon for operating their bandwidth-hungry services over their networks.
  The argument for a fair usage type of fee was first debated a decade ago as telco voice revenues began to dwindle following the uptake of OTT voice services such as WhatsApp and Skype, when telcos accused OTT players of piggybacking on their networks. Regulato
  
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• January sale on Great Western Railway (GWR) train tickets

  11-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Great Western Railway (GWR) is running a January sale on train tickets, with prices starting from just £5 each way.
  Promotional ticket prices are available to buy from today until Tuesday 17th January, for travel on weekday services from Tuesday 17th January until Friday 31st March.
  Example prices from London Paddington to:Oxford from £5
  Cheltenham Spa, or Gloucester from £17
  Bath, or Bristol from £18
  Cardiff from £27
  Exeter from £27
  Plymouth from £31
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• Cellnex CEO quits in the wake of strategy overhaul

  11-01-2023 13:47
  Cellnex chief executive Tobias Martinez is not keen on leading the company through its conservative organic growth phase and as such has tendered his resignation.
  Martinez spearheaded the Spain-based infrastructure specialist through its spin-off from Abertis Group eight years ago and a subsequent aggressive M&A strategy that has seen it acquire passive infrastructure sites all over Europe and significantly increase its valuation. But when it closed its most recent purchase at the back end o
  
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• Cellnex CEO quits as expansion phase ends

  11-01-2023 13:47
  Cellnex chief executive Tobias Martinez is not keen on leading the company through its conservative organic growth phase and as such has tendered his resignation.
  Martinez spearheaded the Spain-based infrastructure specialist through its spin-off from Abertis Group eight years ago and a subsequent aggressive M&A strategy that has seen it acquire passive infrastructure sites all over Europe and significantly increase its valuation. But when it closed its most recent purchase at the back end o
  
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• French government issues €750 million call for 6G projects

  11-01-2023 13:22
  France is stepping up its efforts to fund the development of homegrown 6G technology.
  The French government on Tuesday launched a new support scheme for R&D projects centred on advanced 5G, 6G, and future generations of networks. More specifically, it is interested in solutions linked to virtualisation, open interfaces on access networks, edge computing, security, and the integration of AI and machine learning. A call for projects has been issued, and the application period will remain open
  
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• EU reportedly mulling including cloud infrastructure in ‘fair contribution’ review

  11-01-2023 13:06
  The European Union is getting close to having another look at whether Big Tech should subsidise the telecoms sector, which may include cloud investments.
  This is according to ‘a person familiar with the matter’ (in other words probably a controlled leak from the EU designed as a trial balloon) who spoke to Reuters. Apparently the European Commission is going to ask both Big Tech and EU telcos about their cloud infrastructure plans as part of its review of the ‘fair contribution
  
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• Virgin Mobile customers to be moved over to O2 this year

  11-01-2023 13:03
  VMO2 rearranges itself into neater mobile/broadband units a year and a half after the merger of Virgin Media and O2.
  Migrations will take place over the air throughout 2023 without the need to swap out sims, and  some customers will also receive unlimited texts, voice calls, and either double the data or get unlimited data for the same amount they were already paying – which is nice.
  The first batch of customers to be nudged over will be told in February, and they’ll also be giv
  
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• London’s Hunterian Museum is to reopen in March

  11-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Good news, as London’s Hunterian Museum, named after the 18th-century surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter, has confirmed that it will reopen in March 2023 following a five-year redevelopment of the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s headquarters at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in central London.The free medical museum includes England’s largest public display of human anatomy and used to be on an upper floor of the RCS’s building, but following the redevelopment will now
  
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• Cellnex chief resigns as tower deals bonanza draws to a close

  11-01-2023 12:05
  Mast companies under pressure as rapidly rising interest rates drive up cost of capital
  
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• The day Londoners humbled an Austrian tyrant

  11-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On a Southwark side street, you can find a small plaque that reminds people that in 1850, “an international incident occurred here”, when an Austrian general was attacked by a mob.
  But why would an Austrian general be in London, and why was he attacked?The person was Julius Jacob von Haynau, an Austrian general who violently suppressed insurrectionary movements in Italy and Hungary. His early career saw many successes, but he was also said to have a violent temper.
  In 1848 he gained
  
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• Barts Hospital’s “Hogarth” stairs to be restored

  11-01-2023 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A grand set of stairs, decorated by William Hogarth, in the historic part of Barts Hospital are to be restored, thanks to a £4.9 million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
  Photo (c) Matthew Andrews
  The Grade I listed North Wing was built in 1730-32 to house the financial and management functions of the hospital, with patient care provided in the other wings of the hospital, as it still is today.
  Funded entirely by donations, the hospital created a series of grand rooms to enter
  
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