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• Cheap entry to London museums for National Lottery Open Week

  10-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Each year, loads of venues that are supported by funding from the National Lottery have a special offer week with free or discounted entry.
  This year’s special week runs from Saturday 18th to Sunday 26th March 2023.You need to have a National Lottery ticket to get the deal, either physical or digital, but it doesn’t have to be from that week — so long as you have a draw entry or scratchcard.
  Organisations have the right to refuse entry in the event of venue/offer reaching capac
  
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• National rail users warned of strike action next week

  10-03-2023 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers are being warned to check before they travel on Thursday 16th and Saturday 18th March, due to strike action called by the RMT union. Although the RMT called off a strike with Network Rail, they are still in dispute with the train operating companies, and those strikes are still going ahead.The strikes will affect services on 14 train companies with trains due to start later and finish much earlier than usual. It is expected that nationally between 40 and 50 per cent of train services
  
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• A new Phantom for The Phantom of the Opera

  10-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre has released tickets for performances until March 2024, and announced a new Phantom will take over from April.The Phantom of the Opera currently stars Earl Carpenter as The Phantom alongside Holly-Anne Hull as Christine Daaé.
  From Monday 3rd April, Jon Robyns takes on the role of The Phantom. Jon Robyns is best known for playing the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q the musical and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.
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• China warns Germany against abusing state power over Huawei

  10-03-2023 13:24
  In answer to a question posed by a journalist, a Chinese Embassy spokesperson warned Germany not to abuse its power by banning Chinese kit from its 5G networks.
  The spokesperson was responding to reports that The German federal government is planning to ban operators from using kit from Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, which would affect components that have already been installed by German operators as well as future deployments.
  The report claimed the German Government for months has been
  
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• Go on a tour of the historic Lincoln’s Inn

  10-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sitting on the edge of the City of London is a large walled estate that is packed full of history and impressively grand buildings — and they offer tours.This is Lincoln’s Inn, named after their original home in the City which was leased from the Earl of Lincoln. However, for reasons which are a bit unclear, King Henry III banned schools for lawyers in the City in 1234, and all the law schools moved to the borders.
  Lincoln’s Inn moved into a former bishop’s palace and has
  
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• Vodafone to slash a fifth of Italy workforce, union claims

  10-03-2023 10:55
  Vodafone will on Monday present a plan to save costs at its Italian business that will result in the loss of 1,000 jobs, says Italian trade union Fistel CISL.
  The Union, which published a statement on the matter on Thursday, claims the telco will put forward a scheme to shed almost a fifth of its workforce, or around 1,000 positions. Unsurprisingly, Fistel CISL is not remotely happy about the situation, blaming not only Vodafone, but the entire Italian telecoms market.
  “We are clearly face
  
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• Jio’s Radisys arm bolsters FWA ops with $60m Mimosa deal

  10-03-2023 10:30
  5G fixed-wireless access (FWA) services are proving a hit with end users, a trend not lost on Reliance Jio.
  Radisys, a subsidiary of the Indian telco’s infrastructure arm, Jio Platforms, on Wednesday splashed out $60 million to acquire US-based Mimosa Networks from RAN equipment maker Airspan.
  Mimosa offers a range of point-to-point (PTP) and point-to-multipoint (PTMP) products for use in backhaul and outdoor broadband networks. These products, which incorporate both Wi-Fi 5 and newer Wi-F
  
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• Vodafone adds rural 4G coverage for a lucky few

  10-03-2023 10:00
  Vodafone this week announced that it has rolled out “reliable 4G” to more than 50 rural locations in the UK.
  It’s an interesting choice of headline, given that it immediately begs the question of whether the telco was previously deploying unreliable 4G…but we know what it means so we’re not going to make fun of it.
  The UK mobile operator reliably informs us that it has extended 4G coverage to 57 rural communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It
  
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