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• Sigfox and LoRa come together in unlicensed matrimony

  20-04-2023 17:00
  Two rival non-cellular IoT technologies are set to become cross-compatible thanks to a new partnership between their respective backers.
  LoRaWAN provider Actility and Sigfox 0G’s new parent UnaBiz this week announced they will integrate their platforms and ecosystems, unifying their low-power, wide-area networking (LPWAN) solutions.
  “It is a reality that the market uses a mix of LPWAN technologies,” said Actility CEO Olivier Hersent, in a statement on Tuesday. “UnaBiz and
  
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• HS2’s Euston station not expected to open until Manchester link is completed

  20-04-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  HS2 might not get to open its Euston station until 2040, the Transport Secretary Mark Harper has confirmed to MPs in Parliament, as it wont open before HS2 opens its extension to Manchester.
  Proposed Euston station (c) HS2
  He also confirmed that the delays to Euston are unlikely to save any money, although that was the reason given for delaying its opening in the first place.
  Telling the transport select committee, he said that the changes “reflect the fact that you have a budget in each y
  
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• EE flings 4G coverage at the Highlands

  20-04-2023 16:45
  Mobile operator EE has rolled out 4G coverage to 1,500 remote sites across the UK under the country’s shared rural network scheme, putting it well on its way to meeting its target.
  The mobile operator is pretty excited about its latest SRN milestone, trumpeting the fact that it is the first to get to the 1,500 mark. In fact, it told telecoms.com that the figure is “up to 30x more than other MNOs,” which suggests someone is really not pulling their weight on rural coverage. Natu
  
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• Camden’s Dead Dog Bridge reopens to the public

  20-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A bridge nicknamed the Dead Dog Bridge next to the Regents Canal in Camden has reopened after it was restored by the Canal and River Trust.
  Dead Dog Bridge (c) Canal & River Trust
  Built in 1846 close to Camden High Street, the historic bridge is an important local landmark carrying the Regent’s Canal towpath across the canal basin beneath the Camden Interchange Warehouse (Dead Dog Tunnel), and is the busiest canal footbridge in the country with over one million walking and cycling visi
  
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• EdgeQ gets $75m funding to disrupt Open RAN

  20-04-2023 14:08
  As they close a big round of funding, Telecoms.com caught up with startup EdgeQ about its Intel-rivalling ‘base station-on-a-chip’ product, which it’s hoping will shake up the telecoms sector.
  Founded in 2018, EdgeQ’s proposition in a nutshell is that it unifies 4G and 5G onto a single chip for telecoms infrastructure, which can be customised in performance and features via software upgrades – or to put it another way what it is selling is a ‘base station-on-a
  
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• AI is helping hyperscalers hoover up even more cash

  20-04-2023 13:03
  ChatGPT hype is channelling even more money into public cloud than Gartner initially expected.
  The analyst firm on Wednesday raised its 2023 forecast for global end user spending on public cloud to $597.3 billion from $591.8 billion.
  Before anyone says that’s not a massive hike, it is still an extra $5.5 billion, which is not exactly pocket change. What’s more, this predicted increase in spending will take place against a backdrop of ongoing economic turbulence, which is forcing many
  
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• How to get tickets for the Last Night of the Proms 2023

  20-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Prom season is starting again and it’s time to enter the ballot to get tickets to attend the Last Night of the Proms. Due to the intense popularity of the evening, the tickets are allocated in ballots only.
  (c) BBC Proms
  The five concerts ballot
  The largest ballot is reserved for people who attend the Proms – which is perfectly understandable – and if you buy tickets to at least five performances, then you can opt into the ballot, which is for about 3,700 seats.
  Just remember t
  
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• The UK fibre boom continues at pace

  20-04-2023 12:56
  The UK was the fastest growing fibre market in Europe last year and is forecast to expand rapidly over the coming half decade.
  A newly-published report from the FTTH Council Europe gives special mention to the UK, which seriously upped its game in the year to September 2022 – the council’s standard data deadline – and has continued to accelerate in fibre since.
  The UK reached 42 percent fibre coverage as of September, up from 28 percent a year earlier, thanks to fibre builders
  
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• Nokia Q1 23 – similar story to Ericsson but more diversified

  20-04-2023 12:31
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia shared its main competitor’s reliance on India in the first quarter of this year but its risks are more spread out.
  Nokia’s net sales were up 9% year-on-year in Q1 2023, which compares favourably to Ericsson’s flat numbers, reported earlier this week. In common with its competitor, Nokia relied heavily on India’s 5G roll out to offset declines in North America. But Nokia seems less exposed to the US market and has a more diversified portfolio than
  
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• IPv6 Enhanced A New Era of IP Networks

  20-04-2023 11:41
  At the keynotes session during the 2023 MPLS SD & AI Net Network World Congress, Mr. Li Zhenbin — Huawei’s chief IP protocol expert — delivered a keynote speech titled “IPv6 Enhanced: A New Era of IP Networks”, in which he systematically elaborated on the development of IP networks. New applications continue to emerge in each phase to drive constant IP network transformation. With the emergence of new applications such as 5G, cloud, and IoT, IPv6 Enhanced become
  
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• Rajant Named 2023 “Best Places To Work In Kentucky” And “Top Workplaces” In Philadelphia For Third Consecutive Year

  20-04-2023 11:15
  
  Morehead, KY and Malvern, PA Locations Recognized in Small-Sized Employer Category Malvern, PA – April 20, 2023: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with manufacturing and development operations in Morehead, Kentucky, is now a three-time consecutive award-winning employer. The distinctions of being The Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Top Workplaces of 2023” and “Best Places to Work in Kentucky&rdqu
  
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• The race to protect networks against quantum computing powered cyber attacks

  20-04-2023 10:17
  Telecoms.com spoke to Vanesa Diaz, CEO at Quantum Key Distribution firm LuxQuanta about quantum computing becoming a reality and the technologies pitched as the best defence against nefarious future uses of it.
  Quantum computing, the next stage in supercomputing based on mind bending quantum mechanics principles, is getting more and more column inches as we appear to be getting closer to it reaching sufficient reliability and subsequent widespread availability.
  The benefits are not precisely def
  
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• Visit St Barts the Great in its 900th anniversary year

  20-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, a magnificently gothic-looking church in central London is marking its 900th anniversary this year — which makes it a good year to pay a visit. It’s also that famously large church that is so often used in TV and films because frankly, it looks damn stunning inside.The church on this site was founded in 1123 by the Anglo-Norman priest Rahere – so 900 years ago this year.
  The story goes that while in Italy, he had a dream that a win
  
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• Virgin Media O2 fires starting gun on sale of stake in masts business

  20-04-2023 06:00
  UK’s largest mobile tower network may be valued at up to £3bn
  
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