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• New displays to make bus times easier to find

  03-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over 300 new countdown displays are to be added to bus stops across outer London, and trials are to start with a new colour screen that offers more information than current bus time displays.
  More than 300 additional signs will be in place in outer London boroughs by the end of the year, boosting the overall number of boards by 12 percent.Transport for London (TfL) is also trialling a number of new screens on Route 63 between King’s Cross and Honor Oak. This trial reflects the growing dema
  
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• Open RAN: an untapped industry opportunity

  03-03-2023 15:21
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Kelvin Chaffer, CEO of Lifecycle Software, describes the industry opportunity presented by Open RAN.
  According to multiple industry experts, Open Radio Access Network – Open RAN, or ORAN – is a game-changing ecosystem that will provide a more diverse choice of RAN vendors for mobile network providers. With the Open RAN market expected to surpass $32
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: MWC 2023 special

  03-03-2023 15:10
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · MWC 2023 special
  
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• Ericsson pleads guilty to US charges and will pay £206 million fine

  03-03-2023 14:18
  Kit vendor Ericsson has agreed to pay $206 million to US authorities, following allegations that it breached the terms of a previous $1 billion settlement reached in 2019 related to international corruption.
  Ericsson will enter a guilty plea with regards to previously deferred charges relating to corruption and pay a fine of $206,728,848, which the US Department of Justice says will bring the 2019 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) to an end.
  The allegations were that Ericsson breached the ter
  
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• Ericsson pleads guilty to US charges and will pay £206 million

  03-03-2023 14:18
  Kit vendor Ericsson has agreed to pay $206 million to US authorities, following allegations that it breached the terms of a previous $1 billion settlement reached in 2019 related to international corruption.
  Ericsson will enter a guilty plea with regards to previously deferred charges relating to corruption and pay a fine of $206,728,848, which the US Department of Justice says will bring the 2019 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) to an end.
  The allegations were that Ericsson breached the ter
  
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• MWC 2023 recap – what’s the point of telecoms?

  03-03-2023 14:11
  This year’s big telecoms get together revealed an industry going through an identity crisis.
  The headline question might seem like a strange one for a website with this URL to ask but we’re no longer sure we have a good answer. Since its invention in 1876 the point of the telephone (etymology: far away voice) was obvious – to be able to speak to someone who was too far away to hear your voice otherwise.
  Over the ensuing decades the enormous commercial, political and social pote
  
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• Save on tickets to the Rocky Horror Show stage musical

  03-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show, originally a stage musical, then a famous movie, is back on stage, and coming to London.Directed by Christopher Luscombe and featuring timeless classics, including Sweet Transvestite, Damn it Janet, and of course, the pelvic-thrusting Time Warp.
  There is a flash sale on tickets for performances between 3rd to 21st May.
  Prices start from £22, and there are various discounts which vary depending
  
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• Tickets Alert: Rare tours of Birmingham’s brutalist railway signal control box

  03-03-2023 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s not London, but, yikes, this will appeal to you lot, as the famously brutalist signal control box at Birmingham New Street station will be open to the public for one day later this month.
  (c) Network Rail
  The railway signal box opened in July 1966 and is now a grade II listed building for its architectural value and a prominent city-centre landmark. Apart from the famously brutal concrete design, the shape of the building is also unique due to the congested nature of the site, hemmed
  
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• There’s a James Bond props exhibition in Harrods

  03-03-2023 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the next couple of weeks, there’s a display of James Bond props including Little Nellie, the gyrocopter made famous in You Only Live Twice.It’s candidly a promotion by Macallan whisky to show off their range of James Bond 60th Anniversary whiskies, but for everyone, it’s a chance to see some props that haven’t been seen in a public display before.
  The main display is by the front windows on the ground floor, and apart from the famous gyrocopter, they’ve set up a
  
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• OneWeb bags Veon emerging markets deal

  03-03-2023 10:31
  Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite provider OneWeb has secured yet another connectivity deal.
  This one appears to be particularly significant because it is with Veon, which operates in no fewer than seven markets with a combined population of around 510 million, and serves around 200 million customers.
  Under the deal, which was announced at Mobile World Congress this week, OneWeb’s constellation  will provide extended mobile Internet connectivity and digital services in Veon’s emer
  
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• There is no silver bullet for 5G monetisation

  03-03-2023 10:30
  We caught up with Accenture at MWC 2023 to find out more on 5G monetisation and the growing sense that it’s difficult to do.
  This year’s show as anticipated wasn’t short of 5G monetisation demos but when speaking to exhibitors, such as Accenture, there was also a sense of realisation that monetisation is a work in progress. With that in mind, here are our key takeaways from that conversation.
  FWA to connect the unconnected
  On the consumer side we were told that 5G Fixed-Wireles
  
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• Telenor’s DTAC, True complete controversial Thailand tie-up

  03-03-2023 10:15
  Thailand’s mobile market is now effectively a duopoly, after corporate interests prevailed over those of end users.
  Norwegian incumbent Telenor announced on Wednesday that its Thai arm, DTAC, has completed its merger with True Corp, a unit of local conglomerate CP Group.
  The completion comes months after a slim majority of board members at Thailand’s telco watchdog, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), voted not to oppose the controversial deal, which w
  
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• Unlocking the full powers of future networks

  03-03-2023 07:00
  The telecoms industry has advocated openness for 10 years. In a connected world, openness is vital for rapid, market-responsive, individualized innovation and sustainable organizational success. Opened networks make it easier for application and solution developers to innovate on CSPs/MNOs’ networks by simplifying APIs and exposure. Making software components the enrichment elements that are causing CSPs/MNOs and even organizations to design solution values that are no longer centered on p
  
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