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• Tickets Alert: Science Fiction film festival comes to the Science Museum

  02-02-2023 19:18 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, theScience Museum will host its first ever science-fiction film festival, making full use of its huge IMAX cinema for some exclusive screenings.
  Playing on one of the largest IMAX screens in the country will be Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Tenet in IMAX 70mm and Blade Runner: The Final Cut will be presented for the first time in its IMAX edition in Europe. Alongside these will be WALL-E, Sunshine, The X-Files, Attack the Block and more with a programme of talks to accompa
  
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• Ericsson, Intel and Microsoft slice up a network and feed it to a laptop

  02-02-2023 17:15
  Kit vendor Ericsson has teamed up with Intel and Microsoft to demonstrating end-to-end 5G standalone network slicing on a laptop, which they reckon shows the flexibility of the tech.
  The interoperability development testing (IoDT) was carried out at the Ericsson Lab in Sweden, and purports to show the use of multiple network slices on ‘cellular-connected laptop devices’ for things such as mobile gaming and collaboration applications.
  The trial used User Equipment Route Selection Poli
  
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• UK incubator Tech Nation to close as grant is handed to Barclays

  02-02-2023 16:57
  Government-backed start-up incubator Tech Nation has been forced to shut down after its funding was withdrawn.
  Last April, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) decided to run a competitive tender process for its £12 million Digital Growth Grant. The grant aims to improve access to skills training and advice, and will generally support the UK’s digital and tech sectors over the next two years.
  That process concluded last month, when DCMS announced Barclays Eagle
  
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• TfL’s debt gets rating upgrade

  02-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  TfL’s long-term financial outlook looks better after the debt ratings agency, Fitch upgraded TfL’s debt, although it is retaining a negative outlook due to the wider UK’s economic situation. Debt ratings matter as they affect how much it costs for TfL to service its existing debt, and borrow more money in the future.TfL had just under £13 billion of debt at the end of March 2022, which is mostly raised through selling bonds, a type of debt that can be roughly described as
  
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• In conversation with Qualcomm: The prospects of 5G mmWave

  02-02-2023 15:26
  As 5G rollouts and coverage continue to expand globally, conversations around mmWave (frequency bands between 24GHz and 42GHz) capacity and offload capabilities are also beginning to gather pace.
  To date, dozens of countries have awarded frequency bands of 24GHz or above with more expected to follow suit in 2023. Meanwhile, Analyst forecasts suggest that by 2027 just under half of all smartphone shipments will be supporting 5G mmWave.
  On the back of their recent participation at the DigiWorld Su
  
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• See a video installation inside St Martin’s church this week

  02-02-2023 14:52 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Until this Saturday, the interior and outside of St Martin-in-the-Fields are being filled with sound and light as a Son-et-Lumiere covers the walls with colour.There’s a free video display on the side of the church, but the real magic is inside — entry via the crypt, which has been decorated in a wonderful style that deserves to remain a surprise.
  Then upstairs into the church, and take a pew for an impressive video display that fills half the church with sound and light.
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• Ofcom flexes its enlarged muscles on 3G switch off and online safety

  02-02-2023 14:00
  UK comms regulator Ofcom is leaning into its expanded remit by opining on the switch off of 3G services and social media transparency.
  “While Ofcom does not have a formal role in the switch-off process, we want to make sure consumers are treated fairly and can continue to access the services they need,” declares a recent Ofcom press release. So what role do you have, Ofcom, an informal one? And if so are we free to ignore you in that capacity?
  This seems like clear mission-creep, sug
  
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• Now app stores are in Biden’s sights

  02-02-2023 13:57
  The US government is calling for changes to the way Apple and Google host and promote apps.
  A report published on Wednesday by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) claims that the current mobile app store model is harmful to consumers and developers.
  It said Apple and Google, which are pretty much the only two games in town when it comes to app stores, act as gatekeepers, giving them the power to potentially harm consumers by raisin
  
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• BT posts Q4 revenue drop amid ‘challenging economic backdrop’

  02-02-2023 13:31
  Consumer revenues were down 6% and revenues for BT Group as a whole were down 3% in the last quarter of 2022 but the incumbent says it is building out fibre ‘like fury.’
  BT’s consumer revenues dropped 6% in the last three months of 2022 to £2.4 billion, though earnings, or EBITA, were up 7% to £669 million, in what CEO Phillip Jansen described as a ‘challenging economic backdrop.’
  For the group as a whole there was a revenue drop of 3% to £5.2 bill
  
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• BT posts Q3 revenue drop amid ‘challenging economic backdrop’

  02-02-2023 13:31
  Consumer revenues were down 6% and revenues for the group as a whole were down 3% – but the incumbent says it is building out fibre ‘like fury.’
  BT’s consumer revenues dropped 6% in the last three months of 2022 to £2.4 billion, though earnings, or EBITA, were up 7% to £669 million, in what CEO Phillip Jansen described as a ‘challenging economic backdrop.’
  For the group as a whole there was a revenue drop of 3% to £5.2 billion for the quarter
  
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• Surrey Quays station on the London Overground getting step-free access

  02-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A major upgrade of Surrey Quays station on the London Overground has taken a step forward after Transport for London (TfL) appointed the construction contract.
  Concept image of the new station entrance (c) TfL
  The new entrance will sit next to a new housing development that’s currently under construction, and TfL predicts that more than half of the station’s passengers will use the new entrance when it opens in 2026.
  TfL has now confirmed that Morgan Sindall Infrastructure will be th
  
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• BT chief warns Openreach fibre push will ‘end in tears’ for rivals

  02-02-2023 12:12
  Telecoms group’s competitors race to lay fibre networks across UK before incumbent
  
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• A third series of “Secrets of the London Underground” coming soon

  02-02-2023 11:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s to be a third series of UKTV’s Secrets of the London Underground coming to the Yesterday TV channel later this year. The new third series will air later in 2023 and once again, will be presented by Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway.
  (c) UKTV
  The third series was almost inevitable, as the first series in July 2021 was Yesterday’s biggest ever launch of a new programme, and the second series, which aired last year, was Yesterday’s second strongest launch in 2022.
  The new
  
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• Data breach takes the sheen off T-Mobile’s strong financials

  02-02-2023 10:39
  T-Mobile US posted a solid set of results this week, but it hasn’t all been plain sailing.
  Service revenue for the three months to 30 December totalled $15.52 billion, up 3.7% year-on-year. Adjusted EBITDA grew 3.3% to $6.83 billion, while earnings per share (EPS) came in at $1.18, up from $0.34 a year ago.
  EPS comfortably topped expectations. Analyst consensus according to FactSet – which was cited by various outlets including The Wall Street Journal – had it at $1.07 per shar
  
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• KKR offers to buy stake in Telecom Italia’s fixed-line business

  02-02-2023 09:20
  Possible deal could unlock stalemate over debt-laden company’s future
  
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• A visit to St Nicholas Church, Chiswick

  02-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re on a walk along the north bank of the Thames in Chiswick, you’ll be rewarded by a short detour to the ancient St Nicholas church that also played a starring role in Quatermass and Pit.Martians aside, there’s been a church here since at least the 1180s, and although most of it was rebuilt in the 1880s by a brewer, the church tower survives from when it was built in the early 1400s — making it a good 600 years old. The dedication to St Nicholas, who long before ha
  
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