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• China exerts control over internet cable projects in South China Sea

  13-03-2023 22:00 via ft.com
  Beijing imposes strict permit requirements for access to underwater data infrastructure over spying fears
  
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• 5G Success Study Confirms 5G Operator Pioneers Are Leading Worldwide

  13-03-2023 19:08
  5G operators have made significant progress building out their networks and expanding their customer base, according to the first-ever study of 5G success. The study, conducted by GlobalData, shows 5G connectivity is being embraced around the world as operators make it available to consumers and businesses.
  The global uptake of 5G networks has grown rapidly since 5G was introduced in 2019, reaching an estimated 1.1 billion connections by the end of 2022. While previous studies have evaluated net
  
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• 5G Success Study Confirm s5G Operator Pioneers Are Leading Worldwide

  13-03-2023 19:08
  5G operators have made significant progress building out their networks and expanding their customer base, according to the first-ever study of 5G success. The study, conducted by GlobalData, shows 5G connectivity is being embraced around the world as operators make it available to consumers and businesses.
  The global uptake of 5G networks has grown rapidly since 5G was introduced in 2019, reaching an estimated 1.1 billion connections by the end of 2022. While previous studies have evaluated net
  
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• Private 5G network evangelists need to start selling use cases

  13-03-2023 14:23
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Sylwia Kechiche, Principal Analyst, Enterprise at Ookla, argues that the industry needs to do a better job of demonstrating practical applications of private network technology.
  As rollouts of 5G networks progress across the world, network operators continue to name private 5G networks as one of the most exciting 5G applications and a key avenue to monetise
  
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• Falling prices in Canada could impact Rogers-Shaw merger

  13-03-2023 14:21
  Prices for mobile and home broadband services in Canada declined last year, according to the latest government statistics.
  That’s obviously good news for consumers, but it could also bode well for Rogers and Shaw, whose attempt to merge is still awaiting the green light from the government, which is still weighing up potential competition concerns.
  However, ministerial comments accompanying the figures suggest competition remains an issue, so the telcos are probably not reaching for the ch
  
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• UK tech sector ‘saved’ by government brokered SVB rescue

  13-03-2023 13:34
  The UK arm of collapsed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been sold to HSBC in a hastily-arranged rescue deal.
  The Treasury said in a statement on Monday that SVB customers will be able to access their deposits and banking services as normal.
  It is a welcome development for the UK tech sector, which will have spent the weekend bracing itself for potentially more bad news in the wake of Friday’s bank run, which led to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shutting down SVB and put
  
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• Ofcom to make 6 GHz of mmWave spectrum available to UK telcos

  13-03-2023 13:04
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has finally decided it might be an idea to make millimetre wave spectrum available for 5G networks to use.
  Ofcom began mulling the prospect last May and, in a process that would make its contemporaries in the EU proud, took ten months to decide a further consultation on the matter is required. Specifically, it needs to work out the best way of getting existing license-holders to hand over their spectrum and what form the inevitable auction should take.
  “We have dec
  
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• Ofcom to make 6 GHz of mmWave available to UK telcos

  13-03-2023 13:04
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has finally decided it might be an idea to make millimetre wave spectrum available for 5G networks to use.
  Ofcom began mulling the prospect last May and, in a process that would make its contemporaries in the EU proud, took ten months to decide a further consultation on the matter is required. Specifically, it needs to work out the best way of getting existing license-holders to hand over their spectrum and what form the inevitable auction should take.
  “We have dec
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the Chevening House gardens

  13-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The date of the annual open day of Chevening House’s gardens has been announced, and it’s a chance to wander around an impressive garden normally reserved for government ministers and their staff.The building, Chevening House was built around 400 years ago, and it would probably still be a private house, but the last Earl Stanhope, childless and with his brother killed in WW1, effectively gifted it to the nation. A trust was set up in 1959 that allows a government minister nominated
  
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• Sky blames economy for 1,200 Italy job cuts

  13-03-2023 12:58
  Sky Italia has announced that it will shed a further 800 positions, on top of 400 already announced, as the economic crisis begins to bite.
  The pay TV company disclosed the job cuts – or a redefined transformation plan, to use its own terminology – in its annual meeting with union representatives on Friday.
  The unions were quick to respond publicly to the plan, and funnily enough have some concerns. They are leaning heavily on Sky to go for reskilling efforts rather than redundancies
  
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• TM and ZTE team up on hybrid cloud 5G core network in Malaysia

  13-03-2023 12:46
  Operator Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) and kit vendor ZTE have entered into a new partnership to build out a hybrid cloud 5G core network in the region.
  It’s a three year strategic partnership and the hybrid cloud aspect is part of a plan to ‘foster innovation and advancement of state-of-the-art technologies’ for TM’s 5G Core project, which includes bare metal containers, SDN-based architecture, hardware acceleration, CUPS, and 3-layer decoupling.
  As well as generally impr
  
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• Avanti West Coast trials a low-cost ticket – with restrictions

  13-03-2023 12:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Avanti West Coast is trialling a new type of train ticket aimed at people who can be more flexible with their journeys.
  (c) Avanti West Coast
  The trial lets people buy tickets at a discount and set the date of travel and also if they want morning, afternoon or evening — but not the specific time of the journey. The day before they travel, Avanti West Coast notifies the customer what time the train will depart.
  The offer is aimed at people who have to travel on a set date, but are less worr
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Ericsson, MWC and 5G monetisation

  13-03-2023 10:24
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Ericsson, MWC and 5G monetisation
  
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• Today’s the 90th anniversary of a Piccadilly line extension

  13-03-2023 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today, 13th March 2023, marks the 90th anniversary of one of several extensions of the Piccadilly line, with two new stations opening at Southgate and Oakwood.
  Southgate station
  The Piccadilly line first opened in 1906 with a line from Hammersmith to Finsbury Park, with plans to expand northwards blocked by the Great Northern Railway. However, the terminus at Finsbury Park was hopelessly overcrowded with trams struggling to carry people northwards, and in 1929, approval was given for an extensio
  
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• London’s Alleys: Alan Cheales Way, NW5

  13-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an alley in Belsize Park that slips in between St Dominic’s Priory Church and the neighbouring school, and dates from when they were built. All was fields around here until 1862, when the Dominican Order purchased the land in this part of London for a church and school to be built.The priory was opened in 1867 and the Priory Church dates from 1883. There was a part of the alley built at the time, the western half which links the nearby Tasker Road with the side entrance to the chur
  
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