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• Great British Bake Off (GBBO) the musical: Sale on ticket prices

  17-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The UK’s most beloved baking show Great British Bake Off (GBBO) has been adapted for the stage and reinvented into a delicious musical-comedy, opened at the Noel Coward Theatre for a limited run.And there’s a discount saving on tickets at the moment.
  Tickets start from £18, and the discount offer is valid for all Mon to Fri performances along with Saturday evenings until 8th April 2023, when booked by 4th April from here.The nation’s iconic and beloved baking show has bee
  
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• One Year Later, Post A Successful Merger Indosat Poised to Power Indonesia’s Digital Future

  17-03-2023 15:47
  Vikram Sinha, President Director and CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, is a big believer in the importance of being in the right place at the right time. And he thinks his firm, Indosat, is absolutely in the right place – Indonesia – at the right time, the early but accelerating stages of the country’s transformation into a prosperous and fast-growing digital economy.
  Vikram Sinha, President Director & CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison
  That was the opening theme of his recen
  
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• Huawei Launches Its Full Series of 400G WDM Solutions and Commercial Achievements

  17-03-2023 13:58
  During MWC 2023, Huawei showcased its full series of 400G WDM solutions to customers. These solutions support various application scenarios such as ultra-high performance, ultra-high integration, and ultra-large capacity, helping operators build transmission networks with the optimal per-bit cost. At MWC 2023, Huawei demonstrated its latest ultra-high performance 400G solution to global operators and industry analysts. Lab tests verified its 7000 km transmission without regeneration, once again
  
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• Ofcom hints at Openreach pricing push-back

  17-03-2023 13:45
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has decided to extend its assessment of wholesaler Openreach’s latest proposed pricing thanks, in part, to unguarded comments from BT’s CEO.
  In early February of this year, Ofcom decided it needed to take a closer look at the new set of fixed-line prices – Equinox 2 – proposed by BT’s supposedly autonomous wholesale arm Openreach. While the probe seemed to be prompted by complaints from competitors of Openreach that it was using its dominant
  
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• The Elizabeth line is the UK’s busiest railway

  17-03-2023 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On average over 20 million journeys a month are being made on the Elizabeth line, making it the busiest railway in Great Britain according to the latest figures from the transport regulator, the Office of Rail and Road.
  Tottenham Court Road station
  For the period Oct to Dec 2022, the report shows that the Elizabeth line recorded 62.2 million passenger journeys. Although that puts it slightly behind Govia Thameslink Railway’s 62.8 million journeys — GTR is made up of four separate rai
  
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• VMO2 plugs in 4G and 5G to bits of the London Underground

  17-03-2023 13:11
  UK telco group VMO2 joins the party of operators piping in 4G and 5G connectivity to the London Underground Network.
  As with previous Underground connectivity rollouts by the UK’s operators, its only particular areas of the network that benefit – in this case certain sections of the Central and Northern Lines.
  On the Central Line, VMO2 customers can access 4G and 5G services in the tunnels between Queensway and Holland Park. Notting Hill station itself has been upgraded to become a &
  
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• Virgin Media O2 switches on mobile phone coverage on the London Underground

  17-03-2023 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Part of the Northern and Central lines on the London Underground now have mobile phone coverage for Virgin Media O2 customers.
  (c) TfL
  The Central line between Holland Park and Queensway, and the Northern line between Archway and Kentish Town are now live for phone coverage in the stations and tunnels for Virgin Media O2 customers.
  The service supports both mobile data and voice, although realistically as anyone who travels on the tube knows, it’s far too noisy for voice calls and most peo
  
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• UK follows US by banning TikTok from government devices

  17-03-2023 10:30
  Being the obedient little sidekick that it is, the UK government this week took measures to curb the alleged threat posed by TikTok.
  Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden on Thursday introduced what he called a “precautionary” ban on the use of the social video app on government devices. He highlighted that TikTok requires permission to access data stored on the user’s device, including contacts, user content, and geolocation data. With TikTok being owned by China-
  
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• Museums and galleries visitors still down by a quarter on pre-pandemic levels

  17-03-2023 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Museums and galleries are recovering from the pandemic, with visitor numbers jumping last year, but still down by nearly a quarter on pre-pandemic numbers.
  According to numbers from members of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), the UK’s most visited attraction is outside London – as Windsor Great Park retained its outdoor appeal, but the rest of the top venues are all London based indoor museums and galleries.
  The cost-of-living crisis was also reflected in the an
  
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• Virgin Orbit comes to a standstill

  17-03-2023 10:00
  Virgin Orbit is putting its operations and staff on hiatus as it seeks to find some money from somewhere.
  The space launch company has had a rough time of it of late, having scaled back its proposed missions for last year, and essentially failed in its first UK orbital launch in January. Now it appears to be facing an investment crisis and is trying to buy some time to solve it.
  On Wednesday company employees were told they would be furloughed without pay with Virgin Orbit ceasing operations for
  
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