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• Apollo and Marcelo Claure in talks over buyout of LatAm telecom Millicom

  25-01-2023 20:14
  Private equity group has shown recent appetite for investing in communications sector
  
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• Apollo and Marcelo Claure in talks over buyout of LatAm telco Millicom

  25-01-2023 19:01
  Private equity group has shown recent appetite for investing in communications sector
  
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• Museum of London asks the public to donate their London fashions

  25-01-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Museum of London Docklands is planning an exhibition later this year on London’s Jewish fashion designers and is looking for people to contribute items for display. From East End tailors to the couture salons of the West End, the exhibition aims to tell the story of Jewish designers, makers and retailers responsible for some of the most recognisable looks of the 20th century.
  Sean Connery at men’s outfitters having clothes made to measure, for James Bond Film (c) Harry Myers, Shu
  
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• Truphone finally gets new owners

  25-01-2023 17:54
  UK-based eSIM specialist Truphone has been acquired by investors at the end of a lengthy and fraught process.
  In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Truphone found itself in hot water due to the assertion that it was indirectly owned by a group of Russian oligarchs. Soon after it was reported that the company would be acquired for a nominal sum by a couple of investors not, at that time, citizens of a country on the international blacklist.
  But then, again according to the FT, one of Tr
  
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• New managment takes over Transport for London’s car parks

  25-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has changed the company that looks after its public car parks next to tube and rail stations.
  Stanmore tube station car park
  TfL’s car parking portfolio consists of 78 car parks at London Underground, Overground and Elizabeth line stations, providing more than 10,000 parking bays in total across London. They had been looked after by NCP, but when the contract came up for renewal, it was won by Saba.
  Although the management firm is changing, PayByPhone successfull
  
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• Apollo and Marcelo Claure explore buyout of LatAm telco Millicom

  25-01-2023 14:54
  Private equity group has shown recent appetite for investing in communications sector
  
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• Widespread distrust of corporate ESG reporting revealed

  25-01-2023 13:34
  A new industry survey has found that most business leaders in major industries doubt their peers’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting.
  To be precise, 76% of over 1,000 senior technology and ESG decision-makers across agriculture, mining, transport, and utilities companies are sceptical about the green claims made by their competitors. Furthermore, 80% reckon their competitors are more focused on perception rather than achieving tangible sustainability outcomes.
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• Three typically UK’s fastest 5G provider

  25-01-2023 13:28
  The UK’s four mobile network operators cannot be split when it comes to 5G speeds, according to the latest data published by mobile network testing company RootMetrics, but Three leads in some key metrics.
  But a closer look at the figures shows that some operators are more equal than others.
  “The 5G speed race [was] too close to call,” RootMetrics said, when presenting the findings of its UK mobile performance review for the second half of 2022.
  The firm declined to name any on
  
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• Three is typically UK’s fastest 5G provider

  25-01-2023 13:28
  The UK’s four mobile network operators cannot be split when it comes to 5G speeds, according to the latest data published by mobile network testing company RootMetrics, but Three leads in some key metrics.
  But a closer look at the figures shows that some operators are more equal than others.
  “The 5G speed race [was] too close to call,” RootMetrics said, when presenting the findings of its UK mobile performance review for the second half of 2022.
  The firm declined to name any on
  
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• KDDI’s Open RAN network now includes MU-MIMO

  25-01-2023 13:12
  Japanese operator KDDI is ramping up its Open RAN activities ahead of a full-scale rollout in 2024.
  The company switched on its first Open RAN site in Kawasaki last February. On Tuesday, KDDI announced it has begun lighting up Open vRAN sites on its commercial 5G network in Osaka City. They use Samsung’s virtualised central unit (vCU) and virtualised distributed unit (vDU), and Fujitsu massive MIMO radio units. General-purpose servers are being used for the vRAN software and virtualised co
  
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• Public open days to show off Kingston Upon Thames new cultural centre

  25-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A basement space that houses the remains of a medieval cellar has been converted into a new cultural centre opening next month in Kingston Upon Thames.
  Fusebox (c) Charlotte Levy
  This newly converted space, called Fusebox, on the Thames riverside sits under the modern John Lewis store, and contains both the footings of the original 12th century Kingston Bridge and the remains of a medieval cellar.
  It’s now been converted into a space for performance, exhibitions, creative practice, sociali
  
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• Qualcomm says 5G mmWave is the way forward, but questions remain

  25-01-2023 12:45
  5G mmWave is being hailed as an enabler for things like fixing congestion issues in crowded spaces and revolutionising farming – but wasn’t vanilla 5G supposed to have already done that, and more?
  Qualcomm hosted a media round table ahead of MWC, in which it presented its case, with help from GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) and 5G rural Dorset, that 5G mmWave technology is the way forward when it comes to delivering on the 5G use cases that have been bandied around for year
  
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• Verizon confirms climb-down from C-band capex peak

  25-01-2023 11:33
  Verizon will spend less this year than it did in the past two, having passed the peak of 5G investment, it confirmed at its full-year results announcement this week.
  The US telco presented a set of numbers that showed improvements at its mobile business in terms of the closely-watched phone customer additions metric, but it remains some way behind its big rivals and the figures clearly show that its enterprise unit is propping up consumer. Its fixed wireless business appears to be flying though,
  
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• Visit the curious Amersham Fair Organ Museum

  25-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander into a small industrial estate on the right day, you’ll hear the distinctive sound of the funfair coming out of a building — this is the Amersham Fair Organ museum and it’s open just once a month.
  The museum is housed in a plain unmarked building and without the small A-board sign at the end of the road you might wonder if you’re even in the correct place. But then you hear the organ bellows pumping away in a shed, so peer through a door and yes, that’
  
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