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• Ericsson offers hope in the search for 5G ROI

  09-02-2023 17:09
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has anticipated one of the key themes of this year’s MWC and is trying to get ahead of the game.
  Earlier this week the company published a special update to its mobility report, focusing on the monetisation of 5G. That was presumably timed to coincide with its traditional pre-MWC event, at the BAFTA HQ in central London, from which this report was written. Accordingly, the Ericsson execs presenting at the event were keen to stress that 5G investments are startin
  
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• Beavers could protect a tube station from flooding

  09-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Beavers are to be reintroduced to a woodland in west London, and their water management of the landscape could reduce flooding at a nearby tube station.
  A licence has been granted by Natural England for Eurasian beavers, a native British species and Europe’s largest rodent, to be introduced in Paradise Fields, a 10-hectare area of woodland and wetlands near Greenford tube station that’s owned by Ealing Council.Beavers are what are described as a ‘keystone species’, meanin
  
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• UK regulator launches probe into telecoms price rises

  09-02-2023 15:54
  Ofcom to investigate broadband and mobile companies’ treatment of consumers ahead of expected 14% rate increase in April
  
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• Ericsson insists 5G is triggering telco revenue growth

  09-02-2023 14:24
  The rollout and growing usage of 5G services is triggering a welcome uptick in telco revenues, according to Ericsson, which makes the observation in the latest issue of its Mobility Report.
  The Swedish vendor’s new report, the first to be dubbed a Business Review, highlights a correlation between 5G uptake and revenue growth, something that surely makes encouraging reading for operators for whom flat and even declining top lines have become a cause for concern.
  Specifically, Ericsson says
  
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• Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Bing as Google makes rare misstep

  09-02-2023 13:58
  For the first time possibly ever, Microsoft appears to have got one over on Google in the search market.
  As expected, Microsoft on Tuesday launched a version of its Bing search engine and Edge browser that integrates ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that has garnered perhaps more than its fair share of positive feedback since its launch back in November. The aim is to deliver more relevant search results, provide comprehensive answers to ambiguous queries, and even help users with cre
  
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• Disney centenary show coming to London

  09-02-2023 13:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For just 10 days in May, there will be an exhibition celebrating 100 years of the mouse machine that is Disney.
  (c) Disney
  The walk-through experience will start with “Alice in Wonderland Garden of Mystery, followed by a visit to the shores of Lilo & Stitch’s O’hana Bay to find your balance. Next, you’ll learn the ‘Hakuna Matata’ way of life at The Lion King Oasis, before lighting up the world in the Mickey Mouse and Friends Wonderverse.”
  Quite what
  
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• Ofcom tackles inflation-linked price hikes

  09-02-2023 13:15
  Ofcom is reviewing whether inflation-linked, mid-contract price rises are fair for consumers.
  The UK regulator is happy enough with allowing telecoms operators to increase prices during the contract period, but it is concerned that the practice of linking those increases to rates of inflation makes it difficult for consumers to know what’s coming.
  Essentially, many UK fixed broadband and mobile customers don’t fully understand how any price rises during their contract would be calcul
  
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• Early bird tickets to Open Garden Squares Weekend

  09-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The annual weekend of opening up loads of private gardens and large garden squares will return this summer, and discounted tickets are now on sale.
  Hereford Square
  So far, 114 gardens have agreed to open their gates to the public, and most of them are the usually private squares in central London that are usually only open to local residents. There’s also a scattering of interesting gardens, such as hotel spaces, some rooftops and some award-winning gardens.
  Seven new gardens join them thi
  
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• BT pledges cover the entirety of the UK in 5G by 2028

  09-02-2023 12:49
  UK telco group BT and its mobile arm EE have declared there must not be one patch of British soil left untouched by 5G coverage, and invited the press to a ‘Deep Dive’ to detail it’s progress.
  The session was ostensibly about the progress it’s making in expanding EE’s 5G footprint to remote rural areas, including national parks and tourist areas such as the Breckon Beacons which are otherwise not very well covered, and the firm affirmed its commitment to deliver &ls
  
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• TIM counter-offer could mean Italy single network is back on

  09-02-2023 12:12
  Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) is working on a counter-offer for TIM’s network alongside existing investment partner Macquarie, according to Italian press reports.
  The offer will value the Italian incumbent’s fixed network assets at around €20 billion, Reuters claimed on Wednesday, citing a piece in Italian newspaper Il Messagero. The report has yet to appear on the paper’s website.
  TIM recently confirmed that it had received a non-binding bid from KKR, already a sharehol
  
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• Analysis of the long-term potential of 5G FWA

  09-02-2023 11:59
  Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is considered by some in the industry to be an efficient broadband alternative, especially since the dawn of 5G and mmWave spectrum allocations.
  With FWA technology, connectivity to the premise is typically serviced via an outdoor antenna called a customer premise antenna (CPA), providing wireless connectivity in a fixed-like manner to the end-user. This enables the operator to link its radio systems with the customer’s premise, which will then feed connectivity
  
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• See inside Hackney’s St Peter de Beauvoir church

  09-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a local church with a tall clock tower that can be seen poking above the skyline for some distance in this Victorian estate of middle-class homes known as the Benyon Estate.The Benyon family inherited the farmland in the area thanks to Richard de Beauvoir, who bought a farm in Hackney back in 1640. In 1821, William Rhodes secured a lease on the farmland from Peter de Beauvoir with the intent to develop it for housing.
  However, before he got a spade in the ground, Peter de Beauvoir died,
  
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