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• Della Valle vows to draw a line under Vodafone’s past

  16-05-2023 19:32 via ft.com
  UK telecom group’s new CEO hopes fresh strategy can revitalise lacklustre results
  
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• London Underground themed clothing on sale at Uniqlo Covent Garden

  16-05-2023 18:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you head up to the top floor of the newly opened Uniqlo Covent Garden store, there’s a whole section of specially designed tube themed t-shirts that are exclusive to that one store.The t-shirts come in a range including the tube roundel, tube map, and designs inspired by the London Underground’s heritage posters.
  Apart from the range of clothing though, there’s also a London Underground display, with items from the nearby London Transport Museum, examples of moquette, and al
  
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• Vodafone/Della Valle: calls for a break-up will intensify

  16-05-2023 16:50 via ft.com
  An organic turnround seems a distant hope while remaining investors need little excuse to disconnect
  
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• New Zealand hands over mid-band spectrum in return for rural rollouts

  16-05-2023 16:45
  Spark, 2degrees and One New Zealand have all received a chunk of 5G frequencies as part of a scheme to improve mobile coverage.
  The government’s Radio Spectrum Management department late last week allocated each telco 80 MHz of 3.5-GHz spectrum, enough to deliver nationwide service. In return, the operators will each pay the government NZ$24 million (£12 million) between 2023 and 2025.
  This money will be given to the Rural Connectivity Group, a joint venture between the aforementione
  
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• Mondrian meets Af Klint at the Tate Modern

  16-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tate Modern’s latest exhibition pairs two artists who never met and likely didn’t know about each other’s work, but in their own ways were contemporaries, even if they themselves didn’t know it.Hilma af Klint was a spiritual artist who moved from early landscapes and naturalistic paintings into becoming a very early proponent of abstract art, and while overlooked in her time, and for some years later – she’s now a lauded artist.
  She’s been paired with Pi
  
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• EU gives green light to Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard purchase

  16-05-2023 14:14
  Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been approved by EU regulators, a few weeks after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority blocked it.
  After an investigation into the deal, the biggest in video games history, The European Commission concluded that Microsoft would have ‘no incentive’ to refuse to distribute Activision’s games to Sony, it’s rival in the console space. Furthermore, even if Microsoft did decide to withdraw Activision’s g
  
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• TIM loses one of its networks bidders

  16-05-2023 14:02
  TIM’s hopes of bringing in a sizeable amount of cash for its networks business appear to have been seriously dented, with reports emerging that one of the bidders has pulled out.
  The pairing of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Macquarie Asset Management has decided to drop its offer for TIM’s network assets, currently dubbed NetCo, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
  It seems that the CDP/Macquarie tie-up has not only declined to increase its offer – as req
  
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• Vodafone presents turnaround plan which includes 11,000 job cuts

  16-05-2023 13:49
  11,000 jobs in Europe are to be axed as Vodafone’s new boss Margherita Della Valle says: ‘Our performance has not been good enough. To consistently deliver, Vodafone must change.’
  Vodafone’s new boss Margherita Della Valle means business. More specifically, Vodafone Business, which she believes could play a pivotal role in revitalising the whole company.
  Presenting a turnaround plan for the troubled telco, Vodafone on Tuesday singled out Business as one of the bright spot
  
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• Isleworth station is next to receive step-free access upgrade

  16-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Isleworth station in southwest London is the latest to get an upgrade to step-free access as Network Rail outlines plans to add two lifts to the station.Isleworth station is raised up on an embankment, with two platforms on either side of the railway tracks. Access to the platforms is via stairs up from a subway that runs under the railway tracks, from the station entrance.
  Due to the layout of the station, the lift to the London bound platform will be outside the station away from the ticket of
  
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• Netflix alerts telecoms groups over looming account-sharing crackdown

  16-05-2023 12:00 via ft.com
  Streaming service braced for potential outcry against move to stop customers from giving passwords to family and friends
  
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• Upgraded RADOX® EV-C with high-voltage Flex cable to ease harness preparation and installation for electric vehicles

  16-05-2023 11:36
  
  Complexities of electric vehicle (EV) production often leads to process and quality variations, inefficiencies, and a deterioration of manufacturing performance. Due to the complex manufacturing solutions used during production, coupled with overburdened workforces, extended manufacturing times and mistakes resulting in reworks and scrap are commonplace. With the RADOX® EV-C Single-Core connection system, alongside the RADOX® Flex high-voltage cables, HUBER+SUHNER has enabled manufacture
  
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• Dell launches Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab in Ireland

  16-05-2023 11:16
  Tech giant Dell has opened doors to a €2 million telecoms research lab at its campus in Cork, Ireland – the first of such facilities to be launched outside of the US.
  The Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab has been set up to test and deploy 5G and 6G innovations, in such areas as smart manufacturing, industry 4.0, and digital cities, and is intended to act as a point of collaboration between Dell engineers and telecom firms across the EMEA region, such as Vodafone, Ericsson, VMware and Druid
  
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• Lee Valley ice rink opening with £1 skate day

  16-05-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The hugely enlarged Lee Valley Ice Centre is reopening next month, and they have an opening day offer of skating for a quid, if you register in advance. There are now two Olympic sized ice rinks alongside the usual amenities for a fitness centre, and the whole site reopens on Saturday 17th June 2023.
  The new Lee Valley Ice Centre (c) LVRPA
  Activities on the opening day will include a tour of the venue, public skating, taster lessons, an ice hockey display and a selection of fitness classes inclu
  
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• Speedcast Expands Presence in Saudi Arabia 

  16-05-2023 10:47
  
  New licenses, facilities and staff bring advanced connectivity to meet energy demands in region Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — May 16, 2023 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, announced today that it has significantly expanded its presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as major changes to the energy market expand opportunities for producers in the Middle East. Speedcast has long delivered communications services to customers through in-country partners. With req
  
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• STN extends offering to include MENAFLIX, the rapidly growing Arabic language OTT service

  16-05-2023 10:45
  
  Dob, Slovenia, May 16, 2023. Viewers can now watch MENAFLIX programming from the Middle East anywhere in the world on any device with internet access thanks to global content distribution provider, STN. Announced today on the first day of CABSAT, STN - one of the founding partners of MENAFLIX - now offers content owners, the ability to convert their channel to an OTT stream and become part of this new and growing service. As one...Source: RealWire
  
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• Excavation at Old Oak Common station reaches HS2 track depth milestone

  16-05-2023 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Excavation of the huge underground space that will eventually become HS2’s new station at Old Oak Common has reached down to the track level, and they’ve completed the first base slab concrete pour at the western end.
  First concrete pour to create bases slab for HS2 tracks at Old Oak Common station (c) HS2
  The station is being built on two levels, with the HS2 trains arriving at an underground level, with the mainline trains and Elizabeth line arriving at the surface level. The subte
  
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• Vodafone plans 11,000 job cuts

  16-05-2023 08:39 via ft.com
  New chief executive Margherita Della Valle sets out strategy to restore growth at telecoms group
  
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• A display of coronations from ancient to the most recent at Lambeth Palace Library

  16-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Coronations have been held pretty much since we invented the idea of a monarchy, and there’s a topical exhibition about the coronations of the past, ranging from 900 years ago to the one that happened just a few days ago.The display, which is in the Lambeth Palace Library, opens with a book, open of course, and it’s the earliest surviving English Coronation Charter, for the coronation of Henry I in August 1100. This charter document was cited as a precedent for the Magna Carta a cent
  
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