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• RMT calls off remaining railway strikes

  22-03-2023 21:47 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The national rail strikes that were due to hit train companies next week have been called off by the RMT union.The union says that it called off the strike following further talks with the Rail Delivery Group, which represents the train operating companies. The union says that a proposal was offered which could lead to a resolution to resolve the current national rail dispute through a new offer.
  It’s therefore calling off the strikes which were due to take place on Thursday 30th March and
  
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• CMA flags competition concerns over Broadcom’s VMware buy

  22-03-2023 18:05
  Kit maker Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could hamper innovation in the server market, according to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.
  The tie-up was announced last May and the CMA published the findings of its Phase 1 investigation into the $61 billion deal on Wednesday. If it goes through, it will bring together a major supplier of hardware and software solutions to the networking and server markets in Broadcom, and VMware as one of the biggest suppliers of server v
  
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• Watch Doctor Who and Quatermass on the big screen

  22-03-2023 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Riverside Studios in Hammersmith are hosting a series of Doctor Who TV and a special Quatermass film screening with Julian Glover in attendance over the next few weeks.
  The location is apt as the Riverside Studios were used as the main filming location for Doctor Who between 1964 and 1968.On Saturday 8th April there will be a triple bill of Doctor Who:‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ – Episode 6
  ‘The Web Planet’ – Episode 6
  ‘The Chase’ – Epi
  
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• GSMA makes the case for more mobile spectrum

  22-03-2023 17:27
  Telecoms industry body the GSMA has released a couple of reports waxing on future spectrum allocation and its economic implications.
  In the first report titled ‘For the Benefit of Billions’ the GSMA claims to have laid out the mobile industry’s ‘vision of how to maximise the benefits of mobile spectrum for billions of people worldwide’, ahead of the ITU World Radio Communication Conference in November, decisions made at which guide national allocations of spectrum,
  
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• GSMA makes case for more mobile spectrum availability

  22-03-2023 17:27
  Telecoms industry body the GSMA has released a couple of reports waxing on future spectrum allocation and its economic implications.
  In the first report titled ‘For the Benefit of Billions’ the GSMA claims to have laid out the mobile industry’s ‘vision of how to maximise the benefits of mobile spectrum for billions of people worldwide’, ahead of the ITU World Radio Communication Conference in November, decisions made at which guide national allocations of spectrum,
  
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• Sealed off Thames riverside path reopens to the public

  22-03-2023 16:07 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A section of the Thames riverside in the City of London that has been closed for 20 years has reopened today removing a diversion that’s been in place since 2003, and in doing so has completed a long desire to open up the Thames path along the entire width of the City of London.The riverside path is close to the Millenium Bridge and runs underneath a set of former warehouses that are now residential flats that had originally opened in 2003 following the refurbishment of the building above,
  
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• Liberty Global bets $1 billion on Belgium

  22-03-2023 14:02
  Liberty Global wants to take full control of its Belgian subsidiary Telenet and is willing to spend US$1 billion to do so.
  The telecoms group has tabled a €22-per-share cash offer for all the Telenet shares that it does not already own, or that are not held by Telenet itself.
  As of December last year that amounted to over 42 million shares, or a 37.7% stake. Should Liberty Global succeed in picking all of those shares up – and the smart money’s on it managing to do just that &nd
  
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• Softbank and Nvidia make further progress with vRAN acceleration

  22-03-2023 13:53
  Japanese telco Softbank this week served up more evidence of how graphic processing units (GPUs) can do some of the heavy lifting in virtualised radio access networks (vRAN).
  Together with chip maker Nvidia – which as anyone familiar with PC gaming knows is one of, if not the biggest name in the GPU market – the company on Wednesday demonstrated an image processing application running in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) environment on a vRAN augmented with a GPU.
  In the demo, carr
  
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• Ericsson powers up telecoms focussed quantum computing research hub in Canada

  22-03-2023 13:40
  Kit vendor Ericsson has teamed up with the University of Ottawa and the Université de Sherbrooke to establish a new Quantum research hub in Montreal.
  The research hub will intellectually chew on quantum-based algorithms for accelerating processing in telecom networks and distributed quantum computing, we’re told. Ericsson will buddy up its researchers with post-doctoral fellows at the collaborating universities to carry out fellowships at Ericsson as part of the research.
  Quantum co
  
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• Ericsson powers up quantum computing research hub in Canada

  22-03-2023 13:40
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has teamed up with the University of Ottawa and the Université de Sherbrooke to establish a new Quantum research hub in Montreal.
  The research hub will intellectually chew on quantum-based algorithms for accelerating processing in telecom networks and distributed quantum computing, we’re told. Ericsson will buddy up its researchers with post-doctoral fellows at the collaborating universities to carry out fellowships at Ericsson as part of the research.
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Eton College have resumed

  22-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Outside London, the rarified airs of Eton College are opening their doors to ordinary folk this summer for a series of tours.The tours take in the main courtyard, the history of the college, a number of important rooms and dining rooms, lots of old graffiti left by former pupils, and a number of chapels. Photography is allowed in about half the rooms, but not in the impressive chapels.
  I visited in 2018 – review here.
  Tours run from 19th May to 15th September 2023, always on Friday afterno
  
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• Samsung makes its ultra-wideband move

  22-03-2023 11:06
  Korean electronics giant Samsung wants a piece of the precise positioning market.
  The company on Tuesday announced its first ultra-wideband chipset (UWB). It launched it alongside a new sub-brand – ‘Exynos Connect’ – which encompasses not only Samsung’s UWB products but also its Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solutions, bringing them into line with its Exynos semiconductor division.
  Samsung’s first UWB chip, the Exynos Connect U100, “combines sophisticated ranging
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Minchenden Oak Garden, N14

  22-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a very well hidden walled garden that’s very easy to walk past without noticing it’s there, and is home to one of London’s oldest trees.The walled garden is about halfway between Southgate and Arnos Grove tube stations on the Piccadilly line and is a surviving remnant from an old manorial estate when all around here was empty fields.
  The estate was part of Minchenden Hall, which was built in the 1740s by John Nicholl, but he died just after it was finished so never got
  
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• Openreach fibre rollout hits 10 million milestone

  22-03-2023 01:01
  Openreach, BT’s wholesale arm, has declared full fibre broadband is now available to 10 million homes, businesses and public services across the UK.
  The milestone was reached with the plugging-in of a village called Kettonin the East Midlands to the Openreach fibre network. The £15 billion project ultimately is intended to hook up 25 million homes and businesses across the country by the end of 2026.
  Openreach says the rollout is ‘set to improve the quality of UK public service
  
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