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• Tickets Alert: Boat trip through a tunnel under Islington town centre

  24-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Regular trips through a long dark canal tunnel under Islington will resume next month and tickets are on sale now.Run by the Canal Museum near King’s Cross, the tour is simple, but wonderfully atmospheric — a trip from the museum in a barge through the tunnel to the other end, and back again.
  You embark at the museum, and then there’s a brief talk in the longboat before heading out into the canal to go through the tunnel.
  The tours are for small groups, and there’s just a
  
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• Meta hits back at telcos’ ‘fair contribution’ demands  

  24-03-2023 17:29
  Social media giant Meta has weighed in on the ‘fair contribution’ debate insisting the campaign to force Big Tech to pay for network infrastructure costs is ‘not the solution’.
  In a post titled ‘Network fee proposals are based on a false premise’, Meta makes the point that network fee proposals (as it puts it – there seems to be a few terms associated with the argument) don’t recognise that its ‘investments in content drive the business model
  
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• Cost cutting and higher fares pushing TfL into surplus next year

  24-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) expects to break into an operating surplus in 2023/4 as revenues recover from the pandemic but is warning that infrastructure investments are still at risk due to long-term uncertainty.Across the coming financial year, TfL’s predicted £9.1bn in revenue will cover its expected £7.9bn operating costs, and allow for £745m in capital renewals and £417m in interest charges on its debt.
  That leaves an expected surplus of £79 million &ndash
  
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• Discount sale on Les Miserables tickets

  24-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Cameron Mackintosh’s legendary production of Boublil and Schonberg’s Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre is still going strong – and there’s a sale on tickets for shows during late April and May.The current cast of Les Miserable includes Hazel Baldwin as Swing, Brad Barnley as Factory Foreman / Brujon, Ava Brennan as Fantine, Cameron Burt as Feuilly and Gerard Carey as Thénardier.
  The discount offer is valid for Tuesday to Thursday performances between 25th Apri
  
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• Infrastructure funds in talks to acquire UK ‘altnet’ Trooli

  24-03-2023 12:58 via ft.com
  Predictions of consolidation among fibre broadband challengers as interest rates and costs rise
  
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• Infrastructure firms in talks to acquire UK ‘altnet’ Trooli

  24-03-2023 12:58 via ft.com
  Predictions of consolidation among fibre broadband challengers as interest rates and costs rise
  
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• Is wifi-as-a-service set to become the new norm?

  24-03-2023 12:43
  Adoption is growing for cloud-based curated wifi platforms such as offered by Plume, but the concept isn’t easy to get your head around.
  Also known as ‘mesh wifi’, what we will call WaaS, as much for simplicity as anything else, has been around for a few years. On a hardware level it can seem much like wireline networking or other types of domestic wifi range extenders, but the special sauce lies in the software and especially in the connection to the cloud.
  For full disclosure
  
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• London Overground to be split into separate lines

  24-03-2023 11:54 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The broad tangle of orange lines on the tube map will be decluttered as long-standing plans to break the London Overground up into separately named lines are going ahead. The plan was originally announced in April 2021 as a manifesto commitment by Sadiq Khan if he was reelected as Mayor of London, which indeed he was.During the launch of his election manifesto, he said that “TfL’s London Overground network has grown considerably over recent years, and to reflect this I’ll launc
  
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• 5G FWA is emerging as a competitive alternative to fixed broadband

  24-03-2023 11:30
  The bullish sentiment swirling around 5G fixed-wireless access (FWA) services continues to build.
  ABI Research on Thursday said that 5G FWA is emerging as a competitive alternative to fixed broadband in both developed and emerging markets. It reckons the number of subscriptions will grow to 72 million by 2027, which represents 35% of the total fixed-wireless market.
  “FWA is one of the few use cases that utilises 5G Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) networks to their full exten
  
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• 5G FWA emerging as a competitive alternative to fixed broadband

  24-03-2023 11:30
  The bullish sentiment swirling around 5G fixed-wireless access (FWA) services continues to build.
  ABI Research on Thursday said that 5G FWA is emerging as a competitive alternative to fixed broadband in both developed and emerging markets. It reckons the number of subscriptions will grow to 72 million by 2027, which represents 35% of the total fixed-wireless market.
  “FWA is one of the few use cases that utilises 5G Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) networks to their full exten
  
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• Digi gets investment for €300 million Spain FTTH network

  24-03-2023 10:45
  Digi Communications will spend €300 million on the rollout of fibre infrastructure in southern Spain and has secured an investment partner to share the financial burden.
  The telco group said that its Digi Spain unit has brokered a deal with UK investment group Abrdn that will see the pair share the cost of a sizeable fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) project in Andalusia, covering the provinces of Almeria, Cadiz, Cordoba, Granada, Huelva, Malaga and Sevilla.
  Digi has already begun deploying FTTH as
  
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• Deutsche Telekom is on a mission to lower the barriers to quantum computing

  24-03-2023 10:00
  The German incumbent’s IT arm T-Systems on Thursday announced it will offer customers cloud-based access to IBM’s Eagle processor. Unveiled in 2021, it weighs in at 127 qubits, making it the world’s most powerful quantum processor to date.
  This processing power can be used to rapidly reduce the time it takes to crunch through vast data sets, forming the basis for new AI-based applications, or new and improved business and manufacturing processes, for example.
  But quantum comput
  
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• Rare chance to stand on Westminster Abbey’s 13th-century Cosmati Pavement

  24-03-2023 09:41 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, Westminster Abbey will let people stand on top of a protected 13th-century pavement that people are not usually allowed to walk on.
  Cosmati Pavement (c) Westminster Abbey
  The great pavement in front of the High Altar was laid down in 1268 by order of Henry III, and he brought craftsmen from Rome to carry out the intricate work.
  The pavement belongs to a type of inlaid stone decoration known as Cosmati work, after one of the families of craftsmen who specialized in it and the techniq
  
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