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• ICO slaps TikTok with £12 million fine

  04-04-2023 18:41
  ‘TikTok should have done better’ says the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as it issues a £12,700,000 fine to the social media site over the use of children’s personal data.
  The ICO is asserting that TikTok ‘did not do enough’ to check if underage children were using the social media app and take sufficient action to remove them, and by doing so breached the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) between May 2018 and July 2020.
  
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• Cellnex continues to purge its top table

  04-04-2023 18:39
  Former Cellnex Chairman Bertrand Kan has been shown the door in a further sign that activist investor TCI is now calling the shots at the Spanish towers giant.
  Kan is joined in his departure by fellow board member Peter Shore, both of whom have suddenly resigned, we’re told. They were two of the three board members identified as liabilities by TCI Fund Management founder Christopher Hohn in a public letter last week. The third, Alexandra Reich, has survived the latest purge. TCI is Cellnex
  
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• Look out for these special DLR trains that are now under trial

  04-04-2023 17:23 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re using the DLR over the next few months, you might see an unusual looking train passing through stations — as testing starts for the new fleet of DLR trains arriving early next year.
  DLR B23 test train at Stratford High Street station (c) TfL
  Two of the new trains are in London for testing and trials, initially to make sure they fit as designed to fit with the track and stations, and now testing has moved onto integrating with the signalling systems. All these tests are need
  
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• Exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the Green Party

  04-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first meeting of a group that was, with a few name changes, to emerge as the Green Party of England and Wales.
  It owes its origins to the People Party, which was founded in November 1972, but only held its first meetings in February 1973. Just a couple of years later it was renamed the Ecology Party, and in 1985 as the Green Party, and slightly tweaked in 1990 as separate Green Parties were set up in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  The archives of the G
  
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• Vodafone flaunts its energy saving efforts

  04-04-2023 13:04
  UK operator Vodafone detailed the technical developments it is making to render its network more energy efficient, such as installing its first on-site solar panels at an exchange in Gloucester.
  The idea to install its first on-site solar panels at a mobile telephone exchange (MTX) network site in Gloucester is that the site will use electricity generated directly and reduce reliance on the national grid. The 720 solar panels will produce around 240,000kWh of renewable electricity a year, we&rsq
  
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• Filthy fogs fills the Charles Dickens Museum

  04-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Almost any classic image of Victorian London requires fog, the concealer of cheap film sets that wafts atmospherically around people as they carry out their nefarious deeds.
  And now, the Charles Dickens Museum is taking a look at how the man himself turned fog into a critical character within his own novels, but also how he lived with the London fog that eventually drove him out of London.What we, and the exhibition calls fog though wasn’t fog. It wasn’t the pleasing billows of white
  
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• US telcos solve C-band airline interference issue

  04-04-2023 12:47
  Four major US mobile operators have agreed to a series of undertakings designed to address concerns over airline safety and to allow them to use their C-band spectrum to its full extent.
  “These voluntary commitments will support full-power deployments across C-Band, and are crafted to minimize the operational impact on our C-Band operations,” reads the letter, signed by senior executives at AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US and UScellular.
  US mobile operators have been at loggerheads wi
  
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• One New Zealand marks rebrand with SpaceX deal

  04-04-2023 12:41
  The telco formerly known as Vodafone NZ wants coverage to be One less thing its customers have to worry about and thinks satellites are the answer.
  On Monday the operator officially completed its rebranding to One New Zealand. To celebrate the occasion, it announced a deal with SpaceX’s Starlink that will enable it to offer direct-to-device (D2D) satellite coverage to 100 percent of the country.
  Network uptime and emergency coverage is a hot topic in New Zealand these days, after the devas
  
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• Virgin Media glitch left thousands of UK customers without broadband

  04-04-2023 12:33
  Company says broadband has been restored after more than 28,000 reported connectivity problems this morning
  
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• Virgin Media glitch leaves thousands of UK customers without broadband

  04-04-2023 12:33
  More than 28,000 reported connectivity problems this morning
  
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• What is 5G?

  04-04-2023 12:07
  5G is the latest generation of mobile communications technology. But what, exactly, does it offer and why should you care? Read on to find out.
  At Telecoms.com we’re constantly speaking to a wide range of industry experts about the latest topics, trends and technologies concerning the telecoms industry. In so doing, it can be easy to get preoccupied with details and specifics and lose sight of the bigger picture. Since even we sometimes struggle to define 5G, despite it dominating telecoms
  
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• EU opens in-depth Orange-MasMovil probe

  04-04-2023 10:47
  The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into the proposed merger between Orange and MasMovil, concerned that the deal could harm competition in Spain.
  The broader telecoms industry is watching this case with interest as M&A talk once again gathers pace in Europe. And the wording of the statement issued by the Commission on the matter is not particularly encouraging for those keen to bulk up.
  “The transaction would reduce the number of network operators in Spain,
  
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• The 500th anniversary of St Margaret’s Westminster

  04-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This coming Sunday marks the 500th anniversary of a church that despite having thousands of people pass by, hardly any go inside.This is St Margaret’s, and it sits right next to Westminster Abbey. In fact, it owes its existence, and later survival to a desire by the local parishioners to have a simpler church to worship in compared to the grand Westminster Abbey. The monks worshipping in the Abbey, at the time a proper monastery were being disturbed by the locals popping in for a service,
  
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