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• Samsung’s Open RAN-compatible kit goes live on Dish 5G network

  23-02-2023 19:13
  Electronics giant Samsung has reached another milestone on its journey to becoming a force to be reckoned with in telco vendor market.
  On Wednesday, it revealed that US telco Dish, which is in the middle of rolling out a nationwide, cloud-native 5G network, has begun switching on Samsung-supplied equipment. Specifically, it is using Open RAN-compliant radios, virtualised distributed units (vDU) and central units (vCU), and 5G virtualised RAN (vRAN) software at sites across its growing network fo
  
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• London’s public art: Circadian – Marble Arch Place

  23-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just around the corner from Marble Arch can be found a giant perforated steel flower. It’s called Circadian and is by the Hertfordshire-based artist, Lee Simmons.The 11-metre tall artwork is made entirely of soft-matte finished steel, and we’re told is “inspired by the circadian rhythm, the natural cycle which acts as a biological timekeeper for living organisms”.
  It was commissioned by Almacantar, the property developer of the two buildings on either side of the artwork,
  
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• EU’s new Gigabit rules will have mixed reaction

  23-02-2023 14:47
  The European Commission on Thursday launched a series of new initiatives designed to boost the development of Gigabit connectivity, but while the bloc’s telecoms industry will applaud certain moves, others could well be less popular.
  Brussels’ latest actions include the launch of its much-discussed consultation into infrastructure investment; essentially, its latest attempt to look at making big tech companies contribute to building the networks that carry their traffic. But it has a
  
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• Deutsche Telekom bullish on 2023 after topping guidance

  23-02-2023 13:26
  Strong performances in Germany and the US have put Deutsche Telekom on a solid financial footing going into this year.
  The German incumbent on Thursday said it expects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation after leases (EBITDA AL) to grow to €40.8 billion this year, compared to pro forma EBITDA AL of €39.3 billion in 2022. It expects free cash flow after leases to grow by at least 40% to more than €16 billion.
  DT’s upbeat outlook comes after it exceede
  
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• VMO2 gets new HQ as integration efforts bear fruit

  23-02-2023 13:19
  Virgin Media O2 plans to open a new headquarters in central London to replace two of its existing sites as part of its ongoing drive to further integration between its constituent businesses.
  The news came alongside the presentation of the operator’s latest set of financial results, which essentially show that the tie-up between cable and Internet company Virgin Media and mobile player O2 is panning out pretty well.
  Integration efforts will continue this year, the most high-profile element
  
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• AMD drops new radio chips and opens telecoms testing lab

  23-02-2023 13:04
  Chip maker AMD has launched some new 4G/5G RFSoC digital front-end devices and created a ‘Telco Solutions’ testing lab with VIAVI, as its purchase of Xilinx last year brings it into closer orbit of the telco industry.
  The new RFSoCs (Radio Frequency System-on-chip) are called the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC ZU63DR and Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC ZU64DR, and are designed for deployment of 4G/5G radios into ‘markets around the globe where lower cost, power and spectrum-efficient radios are
  
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• Flying Scotsman coin released by the Royal Mint

  23-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the late Queen’s last acts as Monarch was to authorise the issuance of a £2 coin to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Flying Scotsman, and the coin is being released today.
  (c) The Royal Mint
  The Queen was involved as the collectable coin being released by the Royal Mint today is legal tender — in the very narrow sense that legal tender only applies to settling debts (and no, Scottish bank notes are not legal tender). So you could technically use the Flying Scotsman
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica buoyed by American markets

  23-02-2023 12:51 via ft.com
  Growth in US and Brazil helps European groups
  
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• David Bowie’s archive donated to the V&A Museum

  23-02-2023 09:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  David Bowie’s archive of more than 80,000 items has been donated to the V&A Museum so that it can be conserved and go on display to the public.
  Striped bodysuit for Aladdin Sane tour, 1973. Design by Kansai Yamamoto. Photograph by Masayoshi Sukita. (c) Sukita and The David Bowie Archive
  The archive traces Bowie’s creative processes as a musical innovator, cultural icon, and advocate for self-expression and reinvention from his early career in the 1960s to his death in 2016.
  Apart
  
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• A review of London’s recent railway upgrades

  23-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The latest Programmes and Investment Committee report from TfL has outlined some of the works that have been carried out on London’s rail network in recent months.
  Long standing programmes need completing, and most of the work is maintenance to keep the service running safely. There are works on upgrades that have already been approved, but also plenty of warnings that future upgrades are unfunded.
  This report covers Quarter 3, which ran from 18th September to 10th December 2022.
  The railw
  
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