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• Plans to open a disused railway as the “Camden Highline” are approved

  20-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to convert a disused railway in North London into an elevated walkway for pedestrians have been given the go-ahead after Camden Council granted planning permission for the first section of the highline walkway.
  Current disused railway (c) Camden Highline
  The project will see the transformation of a section of the disused railway into a new elevated urban park that’ll be open to the public to stroll along, akin to New York’s High Line.
  Design concept (c) JCFO
  Section one, from C
  
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• Vodafone powers up 5G Standalone network trial

  20-01-2023 13:10
  Vodafone claims to be the first UK mobile operator to switch on a 5G SA network, available to a select few customers as part of a trial.
  Selected Vodafone customers in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Bath, Glasgow, and Birmingham who also have an Oppo Find X3/X5 Pro or Samsung Galaxy S21/S22 handset on Unlimited Max plans will be contacted by SMS to take part in the 5G SA trial. They will not be charged for taking part in the trial, Vodafone points out, which you wouldn’t expe
  
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• Ericsson Q4 numbers flat again, shares down again

  20-01-2023 13:05
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson delivered flat Q4 and full-year numbers but insists the foundations have been laid for future growth.
  The top-line for Ericsson was that its quarterly sales were up 1% and full-year ones were up 3%. Net income was down 39% for the quarter, however, with EBIT margin almost halving. In an interview with Telecoms.com, Ericsson EVP and Head of Networks Fredrik Jejdling explained that a combination of the provision for another US fine, the write-off of some bad deals at it
  
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• Theydon Bois – the town with no street lights

  20-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Theydon Bois, on the edge of northeast London, is remarkable for something very special — the near total absence of any street lighting. This is a photo of a row of shops, and while they glow brightly at night, notice the lack of street lights.The rest of Theydon Bois is the same, without the shops of course, and hence it’s a remarkable place to visit after dark, as it’s one of the best places to go star gazing.
  On a clear night of course.
  Quite why Theydon Bois is so dark and
  
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• Open RAN takes to the battlefield

  20-01-2023 11:07
  AT&T, Fujitsu, and US defence contractor Northrop Grumman believe open architecture could hold one of the keys to military victory.
  The three companies this week demonstrated 5G-enabled intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in Northrop’s new 5G lab. In the demonstration, an AT&T private 5G network, running on Fujitsu Open RAN equipment, transmitted ISR data and video feeds from Northrop tactical data links. These links are used for battlefield communicati
  
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• Ericsson warns profit margins at core equipment business set to worsen

  20-01-2023 10:59
  Swedish telecoms group expects margins in its networks business to continue to fall in first half
  
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• Norway sells spectrum for private 5G

  20-01-2023 10:49
  Norway is looking to give a boost to the private 5G sector, offering up a swathe of spectrum between 3.8 GHz and 4.2 GHz to industrial users.
  The Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) said that following pilots in the band last year, it is now opening up the licensing process. Interested parties can apply for licences with bandwidths of up to 80 MHz for a duration of up to 10 years to enable them to roll out private 5G networks.
  There is no upfront licence fee mentioned in the regulator&rsqu
  
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• World Economic Forum holds first metaverse meeting

  20-01-2023 10:37
  The World Economic Forum (WEF) is actually having two meetings this week, one taking place in-person in Davos, the other in the metaverse.
  The corporate lobby group on Tuesday launched a prototype of its Global Collaboration Village, giving 80 of its partner organisations a virtual space in which to, in WEF’s words, “take action on the world’s most pressing challenges.”
  It runs on Microsoft’s Mesh mixed reality platform, and consists of three separate areas. First a
  
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• RAN market flat despite 5G opportunities

  20-01-2023 10:25
  The global market for radio access networks (RAN) is no longer growing, and may even decline over the next five years, despite the fact that operators are still spending on 5G, analysts claimed this week.
  Dell’Oro Group’s latest RAN market predictions make for fairly sobering reading for suppliers in the telecoms industry, despite the analyst firm’s best efforts to show that operator 5G spending is unlikely to drop off as steeply after the initial rollout phase as it did with p
  
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• Tube strike: Bakerloo line staff to walk out

  20-01-2023 08:52 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tube staff working on the Bakerloo line are set to strike next month in a row over what the Aslef union says is a safety issue.The issue is about how northbound trains are emptied when they terminate at Queen’s Park station before heading into the depot to be turned around to return to central London. Previously, there would be a couple of staff on the platform who check that the train is empty before the driver takes it into the depot.
  Transport for London (TfL) now wants to stop that pro
  
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