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• Old Operating Theatre museum reopening with free open day

  30-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Above an old church next to London Bridge station is an old operating theatre, which is now a museum, and will reopen next month following restoration work.The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret had to close last year for the replacement of its pyramid skylight, which looked down upon the original wooden operating table, the scene of lifesaving surgical procedures between 1822 and 1862.
  The skylight was vital to the medical operations that took place in the theatre, as this was all b
  
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• Vodafone Germany to shed 1,300 jobs

  30-03-2023 17:48
  It is beginning to look like telecoms is falling into line with the tech sector when it comes to the axe-wielding.
  Vodafone Germany this week became the latest operator to announce redundancies, 1,300 to be precise. In a statement on Wednesday, the company said it is “realigning” in an effort to “become a more trusted partner for customers” and to return to growth with more appealing offers.
  “At the same time, Vodafone is preparing to face the increased cost pressur
  
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• MTN to migrate OSS/BSS to Microsoft Azure

  30-03-2023 17:38
  South Africa-based MTN has joined the growing list of telcos that are making the move to public cloud.
  The company on Monday announced it has embarked on a programme of work to migrate various systems to Microsoft Azure. It is called Project Nephos, and its principle aim is to deliver maximum value as early as possible by identifying the workloads most suited to being redeployed on Azure. To that end, it is kicking off by transferring the BSS and OSS applications used by MTN’s opcos in Sou
  
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• Tours of a Roman London bathhouse resume in April

  30-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A Roman bathhouse hidden underneath a London office block will reopen for tours on Saturdays from April onwards.
  (c) City of London
  Discovered in 1848, Billingsgate Roman House and Baths, which is managed by the City of London, is home to one of London’s best-preserved Roman remains. It’s also not that well known as it can only be visited on guided tours and those tours only started a few years ago.
  Located on Lower Thames Street, close to the Tower of London, the bathhouse was occup
  
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• This Monday marks the final day for Greater Anglia’s old Class 321 trains

  30-03-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This coming Monday will be the last day that Greater Anglia’s old Class 321 trains will be in regular commuter service, as the 30-year old trains are being replaced with newer models.
  After this Monday (3rd April), just a handful of those older trains will remain available for use, for a few more weeks, but only as short notice spare trains or to provide flexibility in the event of disruption or other unplanned developments.
  Class 321 passes Sniveller’s Lane (c) Greater Anglia
  On Mon
  
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• CityFibre asks ‘does your broadband suck?’ in new ad campaign

  30-03-2023 13:02
  Wholesale fibre firm CityFibre has launched a new ad campaign designed to get consumers to switch to its network via its partner ISPs, such as TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone and Zen.
  It’s the first TV advertising spot CityFibre has deployed, and will run on Sky AdSmart and YouTube, targeted towards areas where it has coverage. There will be a series of social, digital audio and OOH (Out Of Home) ads promoting the network to consumers as well.
  They’ve called the TV spot ‘Does your br
  
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• Two copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio on display in London

  30-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first publication of William Shakespeare’s plays, and two surviving copies of the first folio are going on display in London.
  Of the estimated 750 copies of the first folio that were printed, around 230 are thought to survive, and just 50 of them are in the UK, mostly owned by libraries and other public institutions, with just 27 copies worldwide known to be in private ownership.
  The City of London’s copy of the First Folio
  The first folio
  
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• T-Mobile US asks FCC for its spectrum, albeit temporarily

  30-03-2023 10:57
  T-Mobile US has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for temporary access to spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band, clearly concerned that political wrangling in Washington will disrupt its 5G rollout.
  The US mobile operator won $304 million worth of spectrum licences in the 2.5 GHz band in auction 108 last September, to add to the raft of frequencies in the same band it picked up via the acquisition of Sprint. It has made much of its end-2023 target of reaching 300 million peo
  
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• Vodafone squeezing out Kabel Deutschland minorities

  30-03-2023 10:46
  Vodafone’s decade-old bid to take sole control of Kabel Deutschland appears to be nearing resolution, with the telco group initiating a squeeze-out of minority shareholders.
  Vodafone Germany and Kabel Deutschland are effectively already one company; ‘Kabel Deutschland und Vodafone sind jetzt eins,’ the mobile operator’s Website proudly states, alongside its range of fixed Internet packages. But Vodafone does not own 100% of the cable operator’s shares, and now it is
  
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• SES and Intelsat in merger talks

  30-03-2023 10:39
  SES has confirmed that it is holding talks with Intelsat over a possible merger, a move that would continue a wave of consolidation in the satellite space.
  The Luxembourg-based satellite operator issued a short statement substantiating rumours of tie-up talks that originated with Bloomberg. The newswire’s sources claimed that a deal could value the merged entity at north of US$10 billion including debt, adding that negotiations are at an advanced stage and an agreement could come in a matt
  
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• Enreach for Service Providers partners with Netaxis Solutions to provide a converged environment for all UC systems and apps

  30-03-2023 10:00
  
  Sophia Antipolis, France & Brussels, Belgium, 30 March 2023 – Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach — the fast-growing European contact leader — has today announced a strategic partnership with Belgian-based Netaxis, a technology innovator delivering Fusion. This API integration layer converges multiple apps and systems into one simplified environment across various sources, including cloud unified communications (UC) platforms, BSS/OSS, and applications. Service p
  
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• Inside Mayfair’s Grosvenor Chapel

  30-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just under 300 years ago, a new church opened on land granted to four undertakers on a peppercorn rent, and it’s still there, standing proud in modern Mayfair.It was Sir Richard Grosvenor who agreed to lease a plot of land in his developing estate to a syndicate of four “undertakers” led by Benjamin Timbrell, a prosperous local builder.
  The lease, for 99 years, was on a peppercorn rent.
  Sir Richard laid the foundation stone on 7th April 1730, and the chapel opened almost exactl
  
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