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• Huawei Hosts European Carrier Executive Roundtable Summit to Discuss Green Target Network Strategy

  01-03-2023 17:55
  Huawei hosted the European Carrier Executive Roundtable on February 28, including 12 carriers and industry organizations, during MWC2023. Zhou Yu, Huawei’s network consulting and system integration domain president, discussed Huawei’s value proposition and innovative practices in the green target network domain. He engaged in in-depth communication and lively discussions with the participating carriers on how to build a green, efficient, robust, and ultimate experience ICT infrastruc
  
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• Operators Lead The Way To ICT Transformation

  01-03-2023 17:31
  Cloud services have quickly become a foundational part of IT infrastructure in terms of data, networks and applications. To achieve effective digital transformation and maximize value, operators need to have the right IT infrastructure in place and adopt pre-integrated cloud solutions that enables them to leverage their core assets. A key goal is to accelerate value monetization as the digital transformation journey of carriers evolves.
  It requires strategic alliances with companies that can pro
  
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• New railway signalling for north London

  01-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  New railway signalling along the railway between New Barnet and the Wood Green area has been commissioned, as part of the billion-pound East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) upgrade.
  (c) Network Rail
  The upgrade was announced in 2020 and will remove outdated lineside signalling and replace it with the European train control system (ETCS) that will be rolled out initially across the southern section of the line – from London’s King’s Cross to the Stoke Tunnels, just south of Grant
  
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• Cisco lands T-Mobile US enterprise 5G FWA gig

  01-03-2023 14:37
  Deutsche Telekom’s US operation is making steady progress in the corporate sector, and it has just done a deal with Cisco that could help it make further gains.
  Cisco announced at Mobile World Congress this week that T-Mobile for Business will range its first ever 5G cellular gateways for fixed wireless access (FWA) services. Called the Cisco Meraki MG51 and MG51E (the ‘E’ means it has external as opposed to internal antennas), they make full use of Meraki’s cloud-based s
  
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• Deutsche Telekom taps into satellite for full coverage IoT

  01-03-2023 14:36
  German operator Deutsche Telekom is about to start using satellite to ensure full global coverage for its Internet of Things offering.
  The company is working with Intelsat and Skylo to add satellite to its existing terrestrial IoT networks – including NB-IoT, LTE-M, 4G and 5G – to create what it calls a global network of networks. It has already tested various use cases and plans to launch a commercial offer in the second quarter of this year.
  “With integrating satellite connec
  
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• The Beauty of Transience – at the Japanese Embassy

  01-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a charming exhibition looking at Japan’s changing seasons and how artists have responded to them at the Japanese Embassy at the moment.
  Extract from Snow Covered Shirakawa-go, Kitaoka Fumio
  I successfully walked around the exhibition backwards, having a natural tendency towards walking clockwise around a room — you want to walk anti-clockwise if you want, mainly as the introductions are on that side of the room.
  The exhibition is broken into the seasons, and although it
  
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• China telcos: the fear of dissident chatbots will retard AI

  01-03-2023 12:53
  Becoming a world leader in tech may be much harder to achieve in a one-party state
  
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• Tickets Alert: Southgate tube station anniversary celebrations

  01-03-2023 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 90th anniversary of the extension of the Piccadilly line, and there’s a party to celebrate taking place at Southgate tube station in a couple of weeks time.
  (c) Southgate District Civic Voice
  Southgate station is the famous “ufo style” station, built as a low-rise circular building to a design by Charles Holden, with the electricity conductor style spire on top. The station is generally considered one of the finest examples of modernist architecture on the L
  
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• IDATE presents four major awards to leading global operators

  01-03-2023 11:44
  During MWC 2023, the famous European consulting company, IDATE, held the Green All-optical Network Forum. During the forum, IDATE presented four major awards to 13 world’s leading operators. The awards include:Great Achievement of FMC Service: this award recognizes converged operators that have leveraged both fixed and mobile assets to deliver best service for the business;
  Great Advancement of Smart Home Service: this award recognizes operators who are the leading player in the smart home
  
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• Smart Home: Ultimate Connectivity and Experience

  01-03-2023 11:13
  With the emergence of high-bandwidth services such as 8K TV, Blu-ray videos, and VR games, users’ requirements for home networks are ever-increasing. Home connectivity has become a hot topic in the industry. The concepts of “smart home” and “whole-home ultra-gigabit” are gradually popular around the world. In order to achieve this goal, ZTE believes that it is necessary to build a connection base for homes first, carry out technical iterations in terms of bandwidth
  
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• Revamped Museum of Childhood reopens as Young V&A in July

  01-03-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The former V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green has confirmed its opening date following a £13 million redevelopment and will reopen as Young V&A.
  (c) V&A
  With spaces designed for babies to teens, family-friendly exhibitions and a programme of events, highlights of the revamped building will include colourful and tactile sensory landscapes for infants and toddlers, performance and story-telling spaces for early readers and writers, an open design studio where children can l
  
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• DT CEO regrets BT buy but might double down anyway

  01-03-2023 10:58
  Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges made headlines this week when he admitted that he wished he hadn’t bought into BT.
  That in itself is noteworthy. But it’s even more interesting when you consider that his comments were published as e& once again increased its stake in Vodafone – another UK telco with a depressed share price.
  Höttges told the Financial Times that taking a 12 percent stake in BT back in 2015 was his biggest ever mistake and indicated that he wants hi
  
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• Orange set to extend experimental 5G network to Spain

  01-03-2023 10:28
  Orange is upbeat about how its experimental cloud-native 5G standalone network has performed to date, and as such plans to extend the concept to Spain in the near future.
  The operator group also revealed that it is extending an ongoing trial with Amazon Web Services (AWS) into this year to demonstrate the feasibility of running network functions over a public cloud, enabling the pair to further investigate the potential of automation through AI, and to evaluate vertical use cases. And it is read
  
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• London Underground strike joined by RMT union

  01-03-2023 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The RMT union has announced that its members working for London Underground will walk out in a couple of weeks time, in a strike that’s timed to coincide with an ASLEF union strike.The tube strike will take place on Wednesday 15th March 2023, when there was already expected to be serious disruption caused by the tube drivers going on strike. Now that the RMT has joined the strike, what few trains that were going to run are likely to be out of action as well, and many of the tube stations w
  
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• London’s Public Parks: Albion Square Gardens, E8

  01-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a formal garden in Haggerston surrounded by Victorian houses, with a drinking fountain in the middle, and seemingly created out of an undeveloped plot of land.The square was laid out in 1849/50 by Islip Odell, with an unfinished plot of land in the middle, and Albion Hall on the western side.
  The grand looking hall was initially a hall for talks and debates, but in the 1860s, it was turned into public baths. It was demolished in 1944 after being damaged during WWII. So the two fine detac
  
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