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• HS2 railway faces more delays as government reviews the project

  09-03-2023 20:25 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government has cast more doubt on the full plans for the HS2 railway, announcing delays to the existing planned railway and rethinking further extensions.In a written statement to Parliament, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said that the priority now for the railway is to deliver the line between London’s Old Oak Common and Birmingham’s Curzon Street stations.
  However, there will be some more rethinking of the station design at Euston to keep costs down, to deliver it alongside t
  
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• DLR starts upgrade of its Beckton Depot

  09-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to enlarge the DLR’s Beckton Depot to provide a new maintenance building and expanded stabling capability have been given the green light to proceed. Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that Morgan Sindall Infrastructure will be the main delivery partner for these major works.
  Computer render of new maintenance shed
  The expansion of the depot and the additional sidings forms part of the larger DLR train programme that will see 54 new DLR trains start to enter service from 2024.
  
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• ITV and Channel 4’s terrestrial Freeview channels float into the cloud

  09-03-2023 18:15
  Certain ITV and Channel 4 channels have moved to cloud-based processing, following a multi-million-pound contract with BT.
  The move by Digital 3&4 (a JV established by ITV and Channel 4) will see BT switch on ‘start-to-finish’ cloud processing for regionalised TV content across all the former’s Freeview channels to 28 regions across the UK. It’s described as a ‘landmark move away from legacy hardware to a smart broadcast network.’
  It’s being done on
  
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• Huawei Launches Innovative Solutions to Light Up the F5.5G Era During MWC 2023

  09-03-2023 17:08
  Barcelona, a city steeped in over 2000 years of history has and still today acts an important economic and innovative center of the Western Mediterranean. From art to high tech, the city continues to attract a diverse global audience to its sunny shores.
  Another interesting fact is how this city influences the global communications sector. The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona is the wind vane and barometer of the global communications industry. It is typically one of the majo
  
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• Huawei Releases the World’s First 50G PON Commercial Solution for 10G All-Optical Access

  09-03-2023 16:40
  During MWC 2023, Huawei released the industry’s first commercial 50G PON solution for ultra-broadband access. This solution can help operators build green all-optical access networks that support full services, smooth evolution to F5.5G, and 10 Gbps everywhere.
  According to ETSI’s “Fiber to Everywhere” vision, next-generation optical access networks not only improve bandwidth, but also provide full-service bearing, low latency, and intelligence, and in doing so serve dive
  
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• Huawei’s 5 Key Elements and Innovative Solutions for Optimal Development of Carrier Networks

  09-03-2023 16:14
  At Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023 Huawei won the GTI’s ‘Innovative Breakthrough in Mobile Technology Award’ and ‘Outstanding Award’ for its ‘Green Target Network’ programme at MWC 2023.These awards recognize Huawei’s contributions in advancing the mobile industry’s global climate actions as well as its energy-saving technology innovations and industry collaboration.At MWC we spoke to Jiang Xudong, President of Huawei SingleRAN Product L
  
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• The Metropolitan Police coat hook is MISSING

  09-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On a building near Leicester Square is a coat hook that is pointed out by every tour guide, as a special coat hook for the police to hang their heavy cloaks on — but not any more.
  The current owners of the building on Great Newport Street that the coat hook is attached to appear to have despoiled it. The hook is still there, but the sign is missing. And it’s the sign that made the hook famous, with its memorable notice that it’s not just any random coat hook, but one specifical
  
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• How China Broadnet Aligned Business Strategy With Green Development

  09-03-2023 16:00
  Sustainability has become a significant priority for the mobile sector, including an industry-wide plan led by GSMA to achieve a net-zero emissions footprint by 2050.
  While this is a concern for every global citizen, it’s especially relevant in the communications business – the ICT sector accounts for approximately 1.4% of global carbon emissions and 4% of electricity consumption worldwide, according to GSMA. As an industry, it can have massive positive impacts for energy sustainabil
  
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• Intelsat taps Eutelsat and OneWeb to augment its connectivity services

  09-03-2023 15:58
  Yet another satellite industry collaboration sees Intelsat sign a major capacity agreement with contemporaries Eutelsat and OneWeb.
  It has been a busy week for the communications satellite industry as its many players jostle for position in a still fairly speculative market. Perhaps that’s why they’re increasingly inclined to hedge their bets by partnering with each other. This deal is positioned as a ‘multi-orbit agreement’ in which it seems Intelsat will be able to augm
  
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• VR headset shipments fell further than expected last year

  09-03-2023 14:08
  Analyst firm IDC has served up a harsh dose of reality for those dreaming of an AR/VR future.
  Stats published on Wednesday showed that shipments of augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets totalled 8.8 million units last year, a decline of 20.9% on 2021. This is noticeably lower than IDC’s prediction of around 9.7 million units, which came out as recently as December.
  Adding to the gloom, that December prediction was itself an update of IDC’s forecast last March. That was much more
  
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• BT relaunches Digital Voice, but it’s treading very carefully

  09-03-2023 13:39
  UK telco group BT is relaunching its digital voice rollout, after a false start last year.
  The UK incumbent clearly learned from its first attempt to switch landline customers to VoIP telephony from analogue and is moving very gently with extended pilot schemes that will begin next month.
  When it pulled the plug on Digital Voice almost 12 months ago, following a backlash from customers who were concerned about making the switch, BT said it would continue with the deployment in a couple of key ar
  
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• VMO2 shows off ‘The Connected Playground’

  09-03-2023 13:07
  UK telco group VMO2 installed a concept playground decked out with lights, sound and interactive equipment plugged into its broadband and 5G networks, in order to bring ‘digital audio sensory stimulation’ to outdoor play areas.
  VMO2 temporarily took over a playground at Kings Square Gardens in Islington, London, to create ‘an enhanced outdoor play experience that promotes creativity and smart play through technology.’
  What this means in practice is that the swings, slides
  
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• Kids for a Quid on the Epping Ongar Railway

  09-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Epping Ongar heritage railway is offering a cheap deal for children over Easter, with tickets for just one pound per child, when accompanied by an adult.A visit to the Epping Ongar Railway can start with a heritage bus ride from Epping tube station to the heritage line, and then you can spend the whole day riding up and down the railway between North Weald and Ongar.
  A tip is to take the train to Ongar, then explore the local area, and then spend time riding along the railway a few times to
  
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• OneWeb signs up another multinational telco customer

  09-03-2023 10:00
  France-based Orange will use OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to improve rural coverage across its footprint.
  The distribution agreement, announced on Wednesday, covers Europe, Africa, Latin America, and “other global regions”. Orange plans to leverage OneWeb’s network to offer connectivity services to enterprises as well as other telcos. It will also use it for backhaul in remote locations.
  “We believe that satellite is a promising and complementary techno
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Harrington Square Gardens, NW1

  09-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park that sits close to Mornington Cresent tube station and despite its name is actually a triangle, not a square.It was laid out as part of the development of the area some 180 years ago when the neighbouring Southampton Estate was turned from fields into houses. The actual nearby Mornington Crescent was laid out first, and this pocket park sat next to the large semi-circular park that filled the Cresent, separated by the main road.
  The crescent is no longer a park though, as i
  
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