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• Exhibition about the Liverpool Street railway station redevelopment plans

  06-04-2023 18:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The developers behind plans to rebuild part of Liverpool Street station with a large oversite office/hotel complex will be showing off the latest ideas in a couple of weeks time.
  The plans are, to put it mildly, rather controversial.
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  They will sweep away much of the 1980s rebuild of the station concourse, replacing it with a new two-floor design, which is needed to provide the structural support for a sizable building that will then sit above the station.
  The
  
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• David Bowie exhibition opens at the Southbank Centre

  06-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of music’s great album covers, and the Southbank Centre is taking a look at the creative process that went into making it.As a display it puts the album cover into its context, explaining why it was so memorable when it came out, and the social landscape of the time.
  As the exhibition explains, although the arrival of the 12″ LP allowed for larger designs on record covers, the music firms stuck to simple designs, often to cut costs but also
  
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• The Museum of Neoliberalism

  06-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a museum in south London that looks at economic policies and will either leave you nodding in fierce agreement or shaking your head at the naivety of the creator.
  It’s also, despite the name, not really a museum, but a smashing together of a political message and a collection of artworks. That’s not to say it’s a bad place to visit, just not quite a museum as you might conventionally think of a museum.Do spend some time before going in looking at the window, which
  
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• More Indonesian consolidation as Telkomsel merges with IndiHome

  06-04-2023 12:57
  Indonesia’s dominant MNO is merging with its dominant ISP but both were already owned by Telkom Indonesia anyway.
  Telkom is a communications conglomerate that owns 100% of IndiHome and 65% of Telkomsel, the rest being owned by Singtel. If this move goes through, the combined operations will be 70.4% owned by Telkom but Singltel has committed to buying an extra 0.5% of the combined company, which is valued at $3.9 billion.
  “The integration process of broadband services for TelkomGroup
  
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• Vodafone could flog Spanish unit for $4 billion

  06-04-2023 12:01
  Vodafone’s Spanish unit is once again the source of M&A rumours, this time having reportedly attracted the attention buyers that could be willing to pay as much as US$4 billion.
  The latest rumour comes from Bloomberg, whose unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter claim Vodafone has been approached by private equity and strategic suitors. The telco group has not formally put its Spanish operations on the block, but would consider offers at the right price, the sources said. That ri
  
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• NTT and SES team up on satellite-based edge solution

  06-04-2023 11:18
  Enterprises based in remote areas shouldn’t have to miss out on the latest connectivity services.
  That’s the rationale behind a new multi-year partnership between NTT and SES, which combines the former’s networking and enterprise services with the latter’s satellite capabilities into a new edge-as-a-service offering.
  The solution will support IoT, edge compute and private 5G connectivity, and is being pitched at companies beyond the reach of terrestrial networks – t
  
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• Brightspeed and T-Mobile US add to fibre footprints

  06-04-2023 11:12
  Nascent American ISP Brightspeed has announced the availability of full fibre broadband in six states, a move that comes as fibre rollout gathers pace in the US.
  The telco is in the process of rolling out a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network with the aim of covering 1 million homes and small business by the end of the year. At the end of the first quarter it was keen to share the progress it has made towards achieving that goal, noting that services are now available in parts of Alabama, India
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Radnor Street Gardens, EC1

  06-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park near Old Street that started off as gardens, became a car park, and is once again gardens.It showed up as allotments in the 1700s, as the area around it developed, but was itself developed into terraced housing by the mid-1800s, with Ironmonger Street running through the middle.
  Although minimally affected by WWII, the area was cleared in the 1950s to sweep away the terraced houses for the Pleydell Estate, and the site was used as a car park between the 1960s-70s. It was in
  
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• UK to launch mobile phone-based national emergency alert network

  06-04-2023 01:01 via ft.com
  First countrywide test of system designed to be used in the event of life-threatening emergencies will take place at 3pm on April 23
  
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