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• Phantom of the Opera’s theatre to be renamed after the King

  17-04-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The theatre on Haymarket that’s been the home to the Phantom of the Opera for the past 36 years is being renamed. Slightly.
  Currently known as Her Majesty’s Theatre, from Saturday 6th May 2023, the theatre will be His Majesty’s Theatre.
  Just a couple of letters need changing on the front of the building — and a lot of letterheads on the stationary.
  (c) LW Theatres
  The decision to change the name of this theatre is in keeping with a historic precedent which began in the 17
  
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• Nokia and ABI Research benchmark Industry 4.0 progress

  17-04-2023 17:22
  Heavy machinery manufacturers are lagging other sectors when it comes to the deployment of Industry 4.0 solutions.
  This is according to a survey published this week by Nokia, as part of its ongoing effort to stimulate Industry 4.0 adoption.
  The Finnish kit maker is on a mission to get the industrial and manufacturing (I&M) sector to accelerate its digital transformation, rolling out a steady stream of new Industry 4.0 hardware and software solutions.
  Just last week, it added four third-party
  
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• Europe gets a bit more concerned about AI

  17-04-2023 17:05
  Some members of the European Parliament have written an open letter calling for someone to do something about artificial intelligence.
  Within the European Union’s Byzantine bureaucracy, only the European Commission has any real power. But it sustains a constellation of satellite bodies that justify their existence, generous pay and heroic lunches by occasionally making suggestions and then tweeting about them.
  The least insignificant of these is the European Parliament, in which MEPs seek
  
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• Transport for London issues travel advice for the Coronation

  17-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Big events in London rarely get much bigger than a Coronation, and huge crowds are expected in the centre of town, so TfL is issuing travel advice for the day long in advance to help people plan their trips.
  Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that there will be no planned closures for engineering works over the Coronation weekend, although some stations will need to have crowd control measures in place in central London during the day itself.
  The Night Tube and Overground will be running o
  
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• Qualcomm launches a bunch of IoT chips

  17-04-2023 13:40
  Building on the launch of its Aware platform, US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has fleshed out its IoT proposition with no less than four new SoCs.
  For some reason, Qualcomm has taken to calling its chips ‘solutions’, at least in this context. On top of the established practice of calling products solutions to make them sound like a bigger deal, this is presumably in reference to the Aware platform, which Qualcomm launched just before Mobile World Congress and which it was keen to promo
  
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• Mavenir lands VMO2 Open RAN deal

  17-04-2023 13:33
  UK operator group Virgin Media O2 has added network software specialist Mavenir to its roster of Open RAN suppliers.
  The agreement, announced on Monday, will see Mavenir’s open virtualised radio access network (vRAN) solution deployed at sites throughout the operator’s footprint. Fully cloud-native, it enables the distributed unit (DU) and centralised unit (CU) to run as containerised network functions on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware.
  The COTS hardware in question needs t
  
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• Mavenir bags VMO2 Open RAN deal

  17-04-2023 13:33
  Virgin Media O2 has added network software specialist Mavenir to its roster of Open RAN suppliers.
  The agreement, announced on Monday, will see Mavenir’s open virtualised radio access network (vRAN) solution deployed at sites throughout the operator’s footprint. Fully cloud-native, it enables the distributed unit (DU) and centralised unit (CU) to run as containerised network functions on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware.
  The COTS hardware in question needs to come with an Int
  
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• 5G ‘almost the norm’ in Germany

  17-04-2023 13:25
  Deutsche Telekom has declared almost blanket coverage of 5G in Germany, while rival Vodafone is talking up carrier aggregation developments and plans to launch voice over the latest generation of mobile technology.
  “5G coverage on the Telekom network is now almost the norm,” the German incumbent said late last week, as it publicised its latest mobile network expansion milestones. Specifically, it announced that 5G is now accessible to 95% of households in the country, compared with L
  
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• VMO2 points finger at other operators over smartphone billing

  17-04-2023 13:04
  UK operator VMO2 says that ‘bamboozled Brits don’t realise they’re being taken for a ride by opaque, confusing and out-dated mobile contracts.’
  The operator commissioned a survey – conducted by Strand Partners and canvassing 5303 people in the UK – which threw up a slew of stats which are being used to prop up the argument that millions of UK customers (of operators other than itself) are ‘overpaying’ for devices through mobile contracts ‘bec
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Spencer House and garden

  17-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Spencer House, a rather grand house overlooking Green Park which offers regular tours of the building will also include tours of the garden from the end of this month.Spencer House has recognised as one of the most ambitious aristocratic townhouses ever built in London and is the city’s only great eighteenth-century private palace to survive intact. Used as offices between the 1920s-80s, the interior was given a full restoration to its 1780s appearance.
  The house tours are for eight of the
  
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• Fiber Access Extension technology set for critical role as the race for MultiGigabit speeds intensifies

  17-04-2023 11:09
  
  With an increasing number of US telecom and fiber operators offering MultiGigabit services (2 Gigabit or more), InCoax Networks has introduced its new family of MultiGigabit Network Termination Equipment (NTE) which is simplifying deployments for operators at risk of falling behind. The MultiGigabit market will continue to grow, with an Omdia report reporting that 25 US operators offered MultiGigabit speeds in 2022 and similarly the Fiber Broadband Association predicted that by 2030 the downstre
  
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• Sateliot adds satellite connectivity to 5G IoT

  17-04-2023 10:50
  Sateliot has launched the first satellite in a new LEO constellation designed to provide a big coverage boost for terrestrial 5G Internet of Things applications.
  The Barcelona-based company announced the launch of its GroundBreaker satellite via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California late last week, after a few false-starts. The satellite is the first in a constellation of 250, the first 64 of which are scheduled to be in orbit in the next 18 months.
  The aim of the project is essentially to me
  
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• London’s Alleys: Jerusalem Passage, EC1

  17-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This short passageway owes its origins to the Clerkenwell Priory that dominated the area and was home to the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (and try saying that in a hurry).Running between a couple of the monastery buildings was a covered passage known as the “long entry” and following the dissolution when the land was sold off, the old passageway was reused as a public route, which it remains to this day.
  Slowly developed, by the 1780s, the passag
  
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• Sticking with the US market pays off for Deutsche Telekom

  17-04-2023 06:00
  German group has escaped malaise that has beset European peers but there could be storm clouds ahead
  
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