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• Why ‘Build America, Buy America’ might hinder the rollout of rural broadband

  05-04-2023 17:26
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Paul Atkinson, CEO of the Optical Network Business at STL, analyses some recent pieces of US public policy concerning its broadband market.
  The disparity in broadband uptake between urban and rural households in the US is a growing concern. With remote working on the rise, and access to many government services now dependent on the internet, the digital divide b
  
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• DT hopes to cash in on local 5G spectrum users

  05-04-2023 16:33
  German operator Deutsche Telekom is touting a new private 5G networking solution to enterprises that own their own spectrum.
  It’s essentially an upgrade to its Campus Network M product, a core networking solution that enables enterprises to carry data from mission-critical applications on a dedicated private network slice while relying on the public 5G network for non-critical comms use by employees, suppliers and customers.
  This new version, Campus-Netz M with Industrial Frequencies, adds
  
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• Find a work of art inside King’s Cross tube station

  05-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two very large, but also so very easy to miss, works of art are passed by thousands of people every day inside King’s Cross tube station.They can be found in the concourse between the Northern line and the Piccadilly line platforms, and are called Full Circle, by Knut Henrik Henriksen. They appear to be almost part of the structure of the tunnels, and unless you walk up to them and spy a small art notice next to them, you’d probably never even know that there’s a very large wor
  
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• Germany’s 1&1 continues to struggle with 5G rollout

  05-04-2023 13:28
  1&1 is a long way from where it needs to be on 5G rollout, as evidenced by new forecasts it shared for the coming year.
  Germany’s newest mobile operator indicated in its latest full-year results announcement that it expects to have deployed 1,207 5G antenna sites by the end of 2023. Those sites will mainly be delivered in the third and fourth quarters, due to ongoing delays, and commissioning is unlikely to be possible this calendar year, the telco said in its 2022 results presentation
  
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• AI open letter has already achieved its likely real aim

  05-04-2023 13:25
  A week after the publication of a letter calling for a pause on the development of artificial intelligence, there has been an explosion of public discussion.
  The letter was very unlikely to achieve its stated aim but, from the start, it seemed more likely that its real purpose was to spark a global public discussion about the pros and cons of AI development, and there is mounting evidence that it has been successful in that respect. Earlier this week lobbying groups on both sides of the Atlantic
  
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• AI open letter has already achieved its likely outcome

  05-04-2023 13:25
  A week after the publication of a letter calling for a pause on the development of artificial intelligence, there has been an explosion of public discussion.
  The letter was very unlikely to achieve its stated aim but, from the start, it seemed more likely that its real purpose was to spark a global public discussion about the pros and cons of AI development. There is mounting evidence that it has been successful in that respect. Earlier this week lobbying groups on both sides of the Atlantic cal
  
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• Ofcom refers UK cloud market to competition watchdog

  05-04-2023 13:22
  Some of Microsoft and Amazon’s business practices might be hurting competition in the cloud market.
  UK telco watchdog Ofcom is halfway through an investigation it launched in September into the dominance of hyperscalers, and it seems sufficiently perturbed by what it has found so far that on Wednesday it proposed referring the matter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
  Ofcom found certain features and practices that make it harder or discourage businesses from switching provide
  
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• Reimagined vintage tube posters celebrate London’s live art and culture

  05-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A series of historic tube posters promoting travel in London have been reimagined and will be appearing in tube stations next week. The four institutions featured in the new posters are the English National Opera, London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, Royal Opera House and Southbank Centre.The posters continue a tradition started by Frank Pick who swept away a lot of the previous text-heavy advertising on the London Underground and introduced the idea of using posters to encourage people to
  
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• Stand inside a 250-year old subterranean ice well

  05-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden beneath a small metal grate in a south London park is a 250 year old marvel — subterranean ice well from the days before modern refrigeration.
  And it’s occasionally open to the public.The ice well was built in the private grounds of a manor house built in 1772 for the wealthy merchant, Thomas Lucas, and the ice well was added a year later in 1773 — which makes it 250 years old this year.
  The ice well is something that was usually found in wealthy homes as a way of storin
  
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