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• ‘No taboos’ over mergers in EU telecoms shake-up, says Breton

  27-02-2023 19:32
  EU commissioner warns business model needs ‘radical shift’ as he sets out 12-week review
  
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• GSMA explains its strategy for network API standards

  27-02-2023 19:10
  We caught up with the GSMA after it launched the Open Gateway Initiative at MWC 2023, which is supposed to offer a unified platform for network API developers.
  The Open Gateway Initiative aims to give developers access to a range of universal network application programming interfaces (APIs). The idea is providing a single, standardised point of entry into a network should lower the barrier to creating more compelling mobile experiences.
  CMO at the GSMA Lara Dewar (pictured) explained: &ldq
  
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• New tunnel under the Thames completed

  27-02-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of two new road tunnels under the Thames has been completed as part of the Silvertown Tunnel.
  (c) Riverlinx
  The 1.1km long tunnel has been dig from the north to the south, by a giant tunnel boring maching (TMB), named in honour of Jill Viner, the first female bus driver in London.
  Aside from a small section around the tunnel entrances, which will be built using a ‘cut and cover’ technique, the two bores that make up the Silvertown Tunnel are being built using one 82 metre-l
  
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• Telcos want to get paid twice under EU network plan – Dutch minister

  27-02-2023 18:18
  The Dutch government has hit out against the European Union’s proposal to make big technology companies pay for the bandwidth they use on telecoms networks, warning that consumers will end up losing out.
  The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands has published a statement to that effect, accusing telecoms operators of wanting “to get paid twice,” by charging the Internet companies for carriage.
  The EU’s recently-launched consultation into the i
  
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• 5G Enables Intelligent and Digital Transformation of Mine Production

  27-02-2023 17:09
  The much-awaited MWC 2023 has kicked off, and Huawei’s 5G ToB booth attracted an influx of visitors. The 5G Remote Control Solution, in particular, garnered attendees’ interest. Although terms such as “mining trucks, shovels, drilling rigs, slopes” displayed at the booth may be unfamiliar to some carriers, the exhibition of remote unmanned automation of large devices demonstrated the vast possibilities and potential changes that 5G technology could bring to the mining ind
  
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• Red Hat and Samsung seek to help operators cope with vRAN ramp-up

  27-02-2023 16:56
  As commercial vRAN deployments take off, open source software specialist Red Hat is working with Samsung on a new solution to help telcos scale their virtualised infrastructure.
  The new offering is still in the works and doesn’t appear to have an official name yet. However, with vRAN announcements garnerning so much attention already at Mobile World Congress (MWC), Red Hat and Samsung seem to have decided it is best to break cover on their collaboration on day one of this year’s show
  
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• 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane at the SouthBank Centre

  27-02-2023 15:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition is opening at the South Bank that’ll look back at perhaps the most iconic portrait of the transgressive pop star, the Aladdin Sane record cover, exploring the relationship between Bowie and photographer Brian Duffy.
  The exhibition will be part of a range of events culminating in a weekend celebrating the artist.
  Aladdin Sane 1973 (c) Duffy Archive
  The exhibition will follow the journey of the portrait, mapping how Bowie’s continuous reshaping of his image paved the way
  
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• HPE: ‘4G was all about consumer…5G is all about enterprise’

  27-02-2023 13:54
  HPE is at MWC talking up its recent purchase of Athonet, and we caught up with Richard Band, Solution Lead Mobile Core & 5G (pictured), who told us when it comes to 5G, all the action is in the enterprise space.
  On Friday HPE announced it had bought Italian private cellular network technology specialist Athonet – a move it says will put it ‘at the forefront’ of the private 5G market. Elaborating on the deal, Richard Band, Solution Lead Mobile Core & 5G told us at MWC: &
  
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• Intel launches new vRAN kit and claims market dominance

  27-02-2023 13:53
  Intel has launched a new chip with integrated acceleration for vRAN networks, a move that it clearly hopes will help it maintain a massive presence in the growing market for virtualised radio networks.
  Indeed, the chip maker presented its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost – snappy title its own – at Mobile World Congress on Monday, an event awash with mobile operators with Open RAN and virtualised RAN on their roadmaps…some to a greater extent than o
  
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• MWC 2023 day 1 – telecoms is nearly as complicated as ordering a coffee

  27-02-2023 13:33
  Choice and complexity are the hallmarks of the telecoms industry these days, making the job of explaining it harder than ever for all concerned.
  Some of us are old enough to remember when buying a coffee was a brief, mundane affair, with the only variable being the presence or absence of milk. Now you have to choose between a seemingly infinite variety of beans, milks, froths, syrups, and sprinkles. From what we’ve seen of Mobile World Congress 2023 his well-documented agony of choice in t
  
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• GSMA hopes to accelerate 5G innovation with network APIs

  27-02-2023 13:03
  Major telcos kicked off Mobile World Congress (MWC) with a renewed effort to make 5G services more exciting than slightly faster mobile broadband.
  Launched by the GSMA, it is called the Open Gateway initiative, and it aims to give developers access to a range of universal network application programming interfaces (APIs). If it works as intended, a developer will be able to offer apps and services that make use of advanced network capabilities like carrier billing, device location, and edge site
  
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• Alice Neel at the Barbican Arts Gallery

  27-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Barbican has given over its entire art gallery to one person, a woman who painted provocate nudes and was investigated by the FBI for her communist sympathies.Alice Neel was born in 1900 in Pennsylvania, at a time when women were expected to do the womanly thing and not have ambitions of their own. But Alice wanted to be an artist, and took night school classes while working as a civil servant, graduating in 1925.
  She moved, with her new husband to Cuba and although not there for long, the v
  
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• Interview with Mr Peng Aiguang, Senior Vice President of ZTE

  27-02-2023 12:07
  Mr Peng Aiguang, Senior Vice President of ZTE, was interviewed by the media to discuss the development trend of ICT technology in Europe and America. He also introduced the highlight of technological solutions that ZTE will showcase at the MWC 2023 event in Barcelona.
  Question 1:
  Hello, Mr. Peng, nice to meet you at Mobile World Congress. Would you please tell us what is your theme this time and what is new for ZTE to present?
  Answer:
  Nice to meet you. This year our theme is “Shaping Digit
  
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• MWC 2023 Warm up – 5G Business Success: APAC 5G Is Leading The World

  27-02-2023 12:02
  Recently, on the third anniversary of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, government leaders met in Bangkok, Thailand to generate new business opportunities. In terms of commercial and financial achievements, four APAC members comprise the Top5 countries and regions that have successfully deployed 5G services.
  For example, in 2021 the mobile market directly contributed more than $200 billion to the APAC economy with expectations for the overall contribution to reach $802 billion
  
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• Bank tube station’s new Cannon Street entrance has opened

  27-02-2023 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Underground’s Bank tube station has gained a large new entrance with lifts and escalators direct to the Northern line and DLR platforms.Completed a couple of months later than originally expected, the new entrance, the largest out of Bank’s many entrances, faces onto Cannon Street, and is the final stage of a substantial upgrade at Bank station to reduce the maze of narrow corridors that had made the station notorious amongst regular users.
  The changes were needed in part
  
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• London’s Alleys: Craig’s Court, SW1

  27-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a narrow passageway off bustling Whitehall leading to a large quiet courtyard and is reputed to be the location for a secret tunnel, and a parliamentary mishap.The alley, just to the south of modern-day Trafalgar Square was originally the site of the Hermitage of St Katherine. The hermitage seems to have existed by 1253, but the actual date it was formed is unknown, as is its eventual closure, but the last record seems to be around 1610.
  The land was variously being developed, and Craig&
  
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