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• 5G: modernize to monetize

  30-05-2023 18:12
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Jean Lawrence, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia, looks at how best to go about monetizing 5G.
  Over the course of my 25 years in the telecom industry, I’ve seen multiple waves of major investment, often with uncertain future returns. We are poised to repeat this with 5G.
  In fact, according to recent researc
  
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• There are three days of railway strikes this week

  30-05-2023 16:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be national rail strikes this week taking place on Wed 31st and again on Fri 2nd and Sat 3rd June.
  Two unions are striking, with ASLEF on strike on the Wednesday and Saturday, while the RMT is striking on the Friday.On RMT strike day, around half of the network will shut down, with around 50% of normal services running.  On Aslef strike days around 40% of trains will be running but there will be wide regional variations with some operators running no services at all.
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• 5G ready to support FWA in Europe

  30-05-2023 16:20
  Europe’s 5G networks are offering download speeds that make them a credible contender for fixed wireless access (FWA) connectivity, a new study published this week shows.
  Norway is the fastest in Europe with maximum 5G download speeds indoors of 1.12 Gbps, while Spain leads outdoors – which is handy, given the weather – with maximum speeds of 1.11 Gbps, according to Cellsmart, which carried out thousands of speed tests in 29 countries last month.
  Given that Cellsmart’s mi
  
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• Foundling Museum given until September to secure its long term future 

  30-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Foundling Museum in central London has been given until September to secure its long term future as launches a fundraising appeal.The Museum has already raised over £3.6m from over 20 supporters, but it needs an additional £1 million to hit the £4.6 million total needed. This is because much of the museum’s collection is on loan and the agreement to look after the collection will expire in 2027, unless they secure the long term custodianship of the collection.
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Security, China and Open RAN

  30-05-2023 14:40
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Security, China and Open RAN
  
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• Dish deal with Amazon could boost mobile sales

  30-05-2023 14:18
  Dish Network is reportedly close to announcing a deal to sell mobile plans through Amazon, a move that could give its fledgling mobile business a shot in the arm.
  The US mobile operator is holding talks with the online retail giant and could unveil details of new plans to be sold on Amazon as soon as next month, the Wall Street Journal reported late last week, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation.
  The sources added that there are a number of factors that could still delay or even d
  
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• AI leaders publish desultory public statement addressing ‘risk of extinction’

  30-05-2023 14:11
  As the artificial intelligence arms race continues to accelerate, so does the rush to signal concern about where it could lead.
  The parallel trajectory of these two trends seems increasingly disingenuous, with the latter coming over as a crude attempt to sugar the potentially lethal pill represented by the former. We had Elon Musk, et al, calling for an implausible pause on AI development after Open AI announced GPT-4, followed by purposeful rustling of papers by US, UK and EU regulators and pol
  
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• Nvidia bets on AI hype to help it chip away at Intel

  30-05-2023 14:07
  Chip maker Nvidia hopes to mount a stronger challenge to Intel with a new product line that promises the best generative AI capabilities.
  Over the weekend, the company announced that its new ‘superchip’ has entered full production, and will power a new supercomputer offering. The chip combines Nvidia’s Grace line of central processing units (CPUs) with its Hopper graphics processing unit (GPU) into one, all-powerful product, cleverly named Grace Hopper, after the pioneering Ame
  
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• Dumbphones may be emerging as a salve for social media overkill  

  30-05-2023 13:55
  As HMD drops a couple of new barebones flip phone models, it claims millions of Nokia feature phones are sold monthly as consumers ‘crave going back to basics.’
  Nokia was once probably the most well known phone brand in the world in the early noughties, before touch screen smartphones came along and flipped over the apple cart, so to speak. These days it makes its money primarily from selling network infrastructure to operators – but ask anyone on the street and they’ll p
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the 350 year old Stationers’ Hall

  30-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden away around the corner from St Paul’s Cathedral is Stationers’ Hall, one of the largest and opulent of the City of London’s livery halls, and they hold occasional public tours.The livery hall has been sort of open to the public, as they have tours for groups, or you can hire it, but other than during London Open House weekend, it’s not really open to individuals to visit.
  But they offer occasional general public tours — and the next one will be on Friday 23rd
  
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• Lost sculpture from the Festival of Britain found in a back garden

  30-05-2023 11:59 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A sculpture created for the Festival of Britain and then seemingly lost has been discovered, in a Londoner’s back garden. It’s now been acquired by the Museum of London with the intention to put it back on public display again.
  Original of Youth at Festival of Britain (c) Henrion family archive
  Called Youth, the sculpture by British sculptor Daphne Hardy Henrion was prominently located in front of 51 bar, which was designed by architect Leonard Manasseh on the South Bank.
  The artist
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: McDermott Gardens, SE15

  30-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a lovely local nature reserve just to the south of Peckham Rye town centre that owes its origins to the devastation of WWII, and a TV show.The area was laid out pretty much as conventional rows of terraced houses with gardens behind them, but the houses in this part of Peckham were badly damaged by a direct hit from a bomb during WWII.
  After the war, the area was cleared and used for prefab housing, and slowly bits of it were redeveloped. In fact, the very last of the prefabs was removed
  
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• Telecoms companies take first steps on emissions cuts

  30-05-2023 06:00
  
  The sector’s switch to renewable energy is a good start — but the supply chain accounts for most of its carbon footprint
  
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