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• Tower of London revamping its Crown Jewels display

  16-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The home of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London is missing a couple of crowns at the moment, but when they return, it’ll be to a different space, as the Jewel House is being refurbished as well.
  The Jewel House during the delivery of the Crystal Diamond in May 2012
  The new display will be the first major change to the Jewel House at the Tower of London for over a decade and will explore the origins of some of the objects for the first time, including the destruction of the original jew
  
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• Most Brits think it is up to tech firms to stop scams

  16-03-2023 18:00
  UK telco watchdog Ofcom has published new research highlighting the scale of Internet scams, and whose job it is to tackle them.
  87% of Internet users in the UK – that’s nearly 43 million adults – have encountered suspected online scams, according to Ofcom. Examples include messages from scammers impersonating their bank or a relative; fake dating apps or employment offers; counterfeit goods; and investment scams, among others.
  These techniques appear to have a high success rat
  
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• CK Hutchison in deal talks with Telenor in Denmark and Sweden

  16-03-2023 17:38 via ft.com
  Owner of UK’s Three says it is also close to an agreement with Vodafone
  
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• Maybe it’s because you’re a Londoner that 5G’s not much faster

  16-03-2023 17:37
  The increase in download speed on 5G compared to 4G is less pronounced in London than in any other part of the UK.
  This is according to a new report by network testing specialist Opensignal. Reading comes out on top, with 5G improving average download speed by a factor of 5.5, compared to London’s lowly 3.7.
  Opensignal qualified its assertions by pointing out that London enjoys average 4G speeds of 33.6 Mbps – towards the high end of the range across the UK – which goes some wa
  
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• Rare film from inside the Tower Subway tunnel

  16-03-2023 17:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A true hidden marvel of London runs under the Thames next to Tower Bridge, a very early railway tunnel, that’s hardly ever been photographed or filmed.
  Until now that is.
  Thames Subway Tunnel (c) Vodafone
  The Tower Subway is a tunnel dug under the Thames in 1869/70 just to the west of the Tower of London, and was initially intended to be a railway tunnel linking either side of the river. In fact, the railway was a dud, and the tunnel was quickly repurposed into a pedestrian tunnel, which w
  
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• Mobile World Congress 2023: Huawei Product & Solution Launch

  16-03-2023 16:23
  At Huawei’s Product and Solutions Launch on Day 1 of Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service presented a series of new products and solutions.
  Shi addressed the audience in a keynote speech giving an update on the latest progress from Huawei Cloud, with a focus on reliable sustainable and secure services. Having entered the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Huawei Cloud has been able to maintain its rapid growth over the p
  
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• Growing Together with a Future-Oriented IT Infrastructure Architecture for Sustainable Success

  16-03-2023 14:32
  The telecom industry is at a crossroads. The rich assets of telecom operators, including their data, networks, and applications, offer an unprecedented opportunity to drive value and growth. However, the dynamic and rapidly evolving technological landscape presents daunting challenges for carriers. They must keep pace with the ever-growing data connectivity and services while facing cut-throat competition from new market entrants.Many carriers are accelerating digital transformation to remain re
  
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• Fixed broadband market growing faster than expected

  16-03-2023 13:50
  The global market for fixed broadband connections will grow faster than previously expected over the period to the end of the decade, according to new research published this week.
  There will be 1.6 billion fixed broadband subscribers worldwide by the end of 2030, Point Topic predicts, which represents a growth rate of 18% from mid-2022. That’s slightly more than the 1.55 billion the analyst firm predicted in late 2021, the increase coming as a result of higher take-up and bigger addressab
  
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• Three says ‘structural change’ is needed in UK telecoms sector

  16-03-2023 13:48
  UK operator Three clocked a modest revenue bump of 3% in 2022, but it says the cost of building out network infrastructure in the current system is unsustainable, as merger talks with Vodafone roll on.
  Three’s revenue was up 3% to £2.5 billion for the year ending December 31 2022, and margin grew by 6% 1.53 billion. The operator attributes this to growth in the customer base, which was up 6% to 10.3 million customers during the period. The Three network itself now covers 99% UK outdo
  
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• Fixed broadband growing faster than expected

  16-03-2023 13:47
  The global market for fixed broadband connections will grow faster than previously expected over the period to the end of the decade, according to new research published this week.
  There will be 1.6 billion fixed broadband subscribers worldwide by the end of 2030, Point Topic predicts, which represents a growth rate of 18% from mid-2022. That’s slightly more than the 1.55 billion the analyst firm predicted in late 2021, the increase coming as a result of higher take-up and bigger addressab
  
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• US begins search for 1,500 MHz more of ‘spectrum pipeline’

  16-03-2023 13:38
  The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration is looking for bright ideas about where the next big chunk of radiofrequency spectrum will come from.
  At this early stage, the NTIA is positioning the exercise as a National Spectrum Strategy Request for Comment. In other words, it’s inviting anyone with an interest in the matter to suggest where some or all of this swathe of spectrum is going to come from. It’s worth noting that the focus seems to be more on repurposi
  
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• A spiral of motorway road signs in Somerset House

  16-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a long swirl of road signs filling the courtyard at Somerset House at the moment, as an art installation by Jitish Kallat.Ranging from the signs you expect for the local attractions and distances to service stations, they get increasingly surreal with signs out to the farthest reaches of the universe. Whorled (Here After Here After Here) is conceived as a seismic ripple or a galactic whorl, aligned to the Earth’s cardinal north-south directions and spiralling outwards from th
  
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• TIM asks for more money for networks business

  16-03-2023 10:32
  TIM wants its various suitors to improve on their offers for its networks business and is giving them another month to do so.
  The Italian incumbent’s board of directors met on Wednesday to discuss the most recent offer for the NetCo unit, that was tabled by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Macquarie 10 days ago. We don’t know how much the pair offered, but we now know that TIM wants more.
  And, as we already suspected, it is also looking to rival bidder KKR, which effectively serve
  
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• The Ugly Duchess is shown off at the National Gallery

  16-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A painting you are unlikely to have seen, and yet will somehow recognise instantly has just gone on display at the National Gallery — and this is An Old Woman by the painter, Quinten Massys.
  It’s a lot better known as The Ugly Duchess.The reason it may seem familiar is that she was the inspiration for the illustration of The Ugly Duchess in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’ Adventures in Wonderland when Alice encounters the Duchess and tries to avoid “first, because the Duches
  
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