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• RMT members vote to continue national rail strikes

  04-05-2023 20:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  RMT members working for 14 of the train operating companies (TOC) have voted to continue their long running strike action. The RMT says that all the ballots it held at each of the companies passed the 50 percent participation threshold required for the ballot to be valid.
  On an average turnout on each TOC of nearly 70 percent over 90 percent of votes cast backed strike action.The ballot had to be held as the previous ballot for strike action had an automatic 6-month expiry, and needed to be rene
  
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• OneWeb bags Philippines critical comms deal

  04-05-2023 16:20
  Filipino business services provider Now Corp has become the latest telco to tap up satellite specialist OneWeb.
  The two signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday that paves the way for delivering broadband connectivity in hard-to-reach places via OneWeb’s fleet of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.
  Now Corp’s Now Telecom unit already offers cellular fixed-wireless access (FWA) services to enterprises and SMEs across the Philippines under the Fiber Air brand. It is also i
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the Speaker’s House inside Parliament

  04-05-2023 14:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The now semi-regular opportunity to see inside the richly decorated Speakers House within the Houses of Parliament is returning, and will be running through most of the summer.
  The State Dining Room in Speaker’s House (c) UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor
  Speaker’s House can almost be described as a Palace within a Palace, as it’s exceptionally richly decorated and is both the private home of the Speaker of the House of Commons, but also a suite of state rooms used for events away f
  
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• UAE investor spends half a billion dollars on US fibre

  04-05-2023 14:14
  Mubadala Investment Company is ploughing US$500 million into Brightspeed as part of a move to expand its portfolio globally.
  The United Arab Emirates-based investor will take an unspecified minority stake in the US fibre builder, alongside Apollo Global Management, which bought Brightspeed and gave it its current name 18 months ago.
  Brightspeed, which started life as an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business with operations across 20 states mainly in the Midwest and Southeast of the US
  
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• Vodafone spins off Economy of Things business and sells stake to Sumitomo

  04-05-2023 14:01
  UK telco Vodafone is accelerating plans to enable machines to pay for stuff automatically.
  It announced on Thursday that it will spin off its Economy of Things assets – comprised of its Digital Asset Broker (DAB) platform, intellectual property, contracts, technology, and software – into a new business.
  It has also agreed to sell – subject to regulatory approval – a 20% stake in this new venture to Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation, for an undisclosed fee. Togeth
  
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• Malaysia announces second 5G network but who will provide the kit?

  04-05-2023 13:57
  The Malaysian government has decided the country needs another national 5G network, following pushback against the existing state monopoly.
  The tweet and video below show the announcement by Malaysian Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil. There doesn’t seem to be an English-language announcement but reports by The Borneo Post, SCMP and Reuters confirm the auto translations of that material are accurate.Petang tadi, saya telah mengumumkan hala tuju baharu 5G.
  5G akan beralih kepada model dw
  
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• Tickets Alert: Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow’s disused gasworks

  04-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there is a chance to go on a tour of the decommissioned gasholders that dominate the view from the trains passing through West Ham station.The gasworks was established here by the Imperial Gas Imperial Gas Light & Coke Company in 1870, but the site is now being earmarked for housing development. However, while the developers work on the plans and hold consultations they are occasionally opening up the gasworks site to the public.
  The first tours took place last year, and now they
  
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• US and UK regulators talk up the need for AI regulation

  04-05-2023 12:52
  As the rapid march of generative AI continues, regulators on both side of the pond seem to have decided they had better start taking a proper look at what’s going on.
  Yesterday the New York Times published an op-ed by Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US with the headline ‘We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How.’ In the piece, she contrasts the current technological Rubicon we appear to be crossing with the rapid development of generative AI programm
  
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• See the Coronation Stone in Kingston

  04-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When King Charles III is crowned, he will sit on a throne containing a Scottish stone, but there’s another Coronation Stone he could have sat on — and it’s in southwest London.
  What is today called the Coronation Stone is claimed to be where seven or eight of our Anglo-Saxon Kings were crowned, and is permanently on display in the appropriately named Kingston upon Thames in southwest London.Despite many reports thatKingston is named after theKings Stone, in fact, in Old English
  
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• Vodafone and CK Hutchison poised to unveil £15bn UK mobile tie-up

  04-05-2023 06:00
  Agreement likely to be announced this month following appointment of Margherita Della Valle as Vodafone chief
  
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