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• For one week only – Chelsea and Belgravia streets filled with a free flower show

  22-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For one week, many of the shops in Chelsea and Belgravia are showing off some impressive floral work with free displays that align with the Chelsea Flower Show.Of the two, Chelsea in Bloom is the larger, with a lot more displays to check out, and a very impressive exhibit in the centre of Sloane Square.
  Chelsea in Bloom’s 2023 theme is Flowers on Film, taking inspiration from the characters and storylines that have graced the big screen, which is why there’s a massive Jurassic Park i
  
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• Infrastructure site sharing provides an alternative to exclusive self-building but is that enough?

  22-05-2023 18:13
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Stefan Schmitt, Group Director, Product and Innovation at BAI Communications explores the merits of shared infrastructure.
  Mobile network operators (MNOs) have a growing problem on their hands. 5G rollouts are proving complex and expensive and, as a result, difficult to scale and meet the growing demand for data consumption. Several hundred million people and co
  
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• NTT and Cisco offer up IoT-as-a-service

  22-05-2023 16:56
  Industry heavyweights NTT and Cisco have teamed up to launch a suite of repeatable IoT solutions that can be sold as a managed service.
  Announced late last week, the partnership brings together NTT’s edge infrastructure, managed services, and IT systems integration expertise and Cisco’s IoT capabilities. Together, they promise to offer IoT services that encompass real-time data insights, enhanced security, improved decision-making, and reduced operational costs through predictive mai
  
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• Elizabeth line’s new peak time timetable starts with a broken down train

  22-05-2023 16:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Elizabeth line’s full peak timetable commenced today, but the start was marred by another broken down train that knocked out services between Paddington and Abbey Wood.The two events were unrelated, but at their recent committee meeting, TfL’s Elizabeth line director, Howard Smith had warned that they are not as comfortable as they would like to be with the line’s reliability. The recent cluster of problems on the Elizabeth line stems from a software upgrade applied at East
  
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• Historic railway track restored at Paddington station

  22-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two lengths of railway track from the very earliest days of the railways have been restored at Paddington station, although you might need a few tips to be able to find them.There are two lengths of railway — one dates from around the 1850s and to the untrained eye looks like a fairly routine piece of railway track, but was created by William Henry Barlow, the same engineer who built the massive train shed at St Pancras station. The other railway track visibly looks older, and is from an e
  
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• China inevitably bans US chip company Micron

  22-05-2023 14:03
  China has decided that two can play at the game of sanctioning the companies of its geopolitical rivals on vague national security grounds.
  The Cyberspace Administration of China has completed a review of US chip maker Micron and concluded its products pose a threat to China’s national security. As a consequence, operators of key national information infrastructure, which seems to encompass IT as well as telecoms, are banned from using Micron products.
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• UK earmarks £1 billion for chip R&D

  22-05-2023 13:57
  The UK government plans to support the semiconductor industry with new funds and a partnership with Japan.
  Unveiled late last week, the National Semiconductor Strategy will see £1 billion spent over the next decade to stimulate research and development, improve access to infrastructure, and facilitate greater international cooperation. The first £200 million will be allocated in 2023-2025.
  The strategy – which follows on from the £539 million in research grants and £
  
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• AT&T and T-Mobile US in satellite spat

  22-05-2023 13:49
  AT&T is petitioning the FCC to block rival T-Mobile US’s plan to use SpaceX’s satellite service to boost its mobile network coverage.
  The US operator hopes the regulator will put the brakes on T-Mobile’s plans – at least for now – citing possible interference issues and the breaking of spectrum allocation rules, it explained in a filing published on Friday. The FCC had called for comments after T-Mobile and SpaceX requested authorisation to deploy supplemental c
  
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• Meta slapped with €1.2 billion EU fine and told to stop sending data to US   

  22-05-2023 13:31
  Facebook owner Meta has been issued a €1.2 billion fine for GDPR violations in relation to data on European citizens being transferred to the US from its HQ in Ireland.
  The Irish Data Protection Commission decreed that Facebook breached GDPR by sharing data ‘on the basis of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) since 16 July 2020.’ This seems to essentially mean according to GDPR, European Facebook user’s data was/is unlawfully processed and stored in the US.
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• Chance to climb a church tower

  22-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance next weekend to climb up a church tower that’s not usually open to the public.
  The church of St Mary’s is in Hampton, a short walk or bus ride from Hampton Court Palace, and is a classic early Victorian church with a tall square tower and belfry at one end.The church is close to the river and there are not a lot of tall buildings around, so the views, should be quite good from the top.
  The tours take place on Saturday 3rd June and need to be booked in advance f
  
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• India drives global RAN sector growth

  22-05-2023 12:45
  The latest radio access networking kit sector numbers from Dell’Oro reveal stronger than expected growth, thanks mainly to the APAC region.
  “Despite lackluster topline growth, the quarter was actually very interesting both from a regional and supplier perspective,” said Stefan Pongratz of Dell’Oro Group. “Not surprisingly, growth is now transitioning away from the advanced markets towards the slower-to-adopt 5G markets.
  “But the speed of this shift was perhaps
  
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• London’s Alleys: Gordon Place, W8

  22-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a charming quiet little alley near Kensington High Street that’s lined with richly planted patio gardens.The alley still shows up as fields in the Greenwood map of 1828, although you can start to see the local road layout appearing, including  Holland Street where the alley leads off. According to the Kensington Conservation Area Appraisal from 2017, the row of houses was constructed between 1820-47, making the alley around 200 years old.
  By the 1890s, the area around Gordon P
  
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