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• Special prices on tickets to Dirty Dancing at the Dominion Theatre

  17-02-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Following the wild critical and audience acclaim and demand, Dirty Dancing is returning to London in 2023 for an additional 14 weeks.Dirty Dancing tells the iconic story of Baby and Johnny, two intensely passionate young souls from different worlds, who come together for what will be the most challenging and wonderful summer of their lives.
  There’s an offer on ticket prices at the moment for Monday – Thursday performances if booked by 28th February from here.
  Prices start from &
  
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• Battery train trials will proceed in west London as GWR buys Vivarail

  17-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Trials using some modified former London Underground trains on a railway in west London are to go ahead after GWR agreed to buy up the assets from the supplier, Vivarail.
  (c) Vivarail
  Vivarail was a company set up to convert former District line trains to work on the mainline railway using a hybrid battery power supply, to provide modernised trains on short branch lines where electrification of the line wasn’t viable.
  Unfortunately, Vivarail closed down after it entered administration last
  
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• Get free tickets to The Mandalorian pop-up in Piccadilly Circus

  17-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a couple of days next week, there will be a pop-up venue promoting the third series of the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian.Opening for two days only beneath the Piccadilly Lights, The Forge will give fans the chance to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a working forge inspired by the armoury, where Mandalorians fashion their armour and weapons.
  The pop-up will also house Mandalorian-inspired photo ops including the chance to wield a Darksaber – a legendary weapon forged by
  
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• TIP discusses its mission to open up the telecoms industry

  17-02-2023 12:19
  At a briefing in central London the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) offered some insights into what it’s up do leading up to Mobile World Congress
  TIP started life as a side project of Meta (Facebook) but seems to have morphed into a kind of industry association dedicated to facilitating and coordinating emerging telecoms technology. The main speaker at the event attended by journalists and analysts was Executive Director Kristian Toivo, who wated little time in getting to the topic of Open RA
  
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• Telefónica, Ericsson and Qualcomm to deploy 5G ‘first commercial’ mmWave network at MWC

  17-02-2023 11:59
  Operator Telefónica, alongside kit vendor Ericsson and chip firm Qualcomm will set up a 5G mmWave network in Hall 3 of MWC later this month, which they are claiming as a first.
  The network will use the 26GHz spectrum bandwidth obtained by Telefónica in the recent Spanish auction, and we’re told it will be ‘the first commercial mobile 5G millimeter (mmWave) network in Spain’. It could be questioned whether what is presumably a temporary installation at a trade show
  
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• Bexley station getting step-free access

  17-02-2023 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Bexley station in southeast London is about to receive a £6 million upgrade that’ll add a new footbridge and lifts to make the station step-free for the first time.
  Bexley station with CGI of new footbridge and lifts (c) Network Rail
  The station currently has two platforms with the railway between them, and the platforms are linked by an underground corridor that runs under the railway. The new footbridge and lifts will be located on both platforms behind the existing subway.
  There w
  
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• Telefónica gets to grips with 5G drone delivery

  17-02-2023 10:33
  Spanish incumbent Telefónica has shared details of a pilot project designed to address some of the practicalities of commercial drone services.
  Using various technologies, the telco claims to have demonstrated how cellular and positioning technology can enable multiple connected delivery drones to communicate with one another and their surrounding environment, allowing them to safely navigate urban areas and make those all-important deliveries.
  “The applications of drones in both th
  
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• BT rolls out national IoT roaming

  17-02-2023 10:27
  UK incumbent BT has the UK delivery sector in its sights with its new IoT national roaming SIM.
  Launched on Thursday, it can connect to cellular networks ranging from 2G right the way up to 5G from any of the country’s mobile operators. It is also compatible with low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN).
  BT would of course prefer it if customers connected primarily to mobile arm EE’s network. It didn’t waste the opportunity to remind everyone that it recently extended 5G coverage t
  
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• Telcos to spend $1 billion each on cloud network transformation

  17-02-2023 10:22
  Big telcos will spend on average US$1 billion each on network cloud transformation in the next few years, according to new data from Capgemini.
  While that might seem like a huge sum – and indeed it is – the consultancy is upbeat on return on investment, essentially predicting that those who spend early will make half their money back pretty quickly.
  Specifically, the firm’s research arm forecasts that 46% of telco network capacity will be entirely cloud native in the next three
  
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• Telcos forecast to spend $1 billion each on cloud network transformation

  17-02-2023 10:22
  Big telcos will spend on average US$1 billion each on network cloud transformation in the next few years, according to new forecasting from Capgemini.
  While that might seem like a huge sum – and indeed it is – the consultancy is upbeat on return on investment, essentially predicting that those who spend early will make half their money back pretty quickly.
  Specifically, the firm’s research arm forecasts that 46% of telco network capacity will be entirely cloud native in the nex
  
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