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• Fantasia, The Black Hole and Tron to highlight a Disney season at the BFI

  31-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  To mark a century of Disney, there’s a two-month long film season taking place at the BFI showing a range of movies from the big headline names to some lesser known and harder to see on the big screen outings.
  So, yes, you can now watch films such as The Black Hole on your home TV with a Disney+ subscription, but it’s much rarer to see it on the big screen instead.
  Tickets to the screenings go on sale on Thursday 8th June 2023 at 11:30am – click on the links below for details.
  
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• BSNL posts $1 billion loss but things could be worse

  31-05-2023 18:10
  BSNL posted a net loss of close to US$1 billion for the most recent financial year, but its business is actually looking healthier than that figure suggests, despite the fact that while its rivals are focusing on 5G, it is still to roll out 4G.
  The Indian state-owned operator, which has has more than its fair share of troubles in recent years, or even decades, as the market’s private players have built at scale, reported a bottom line of 81.17 billion rupees (US$981 million) for the twelve
  
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• Network Rail recruits Turner and Townsend to beef up telecoms services

  31-05-2023 18:05
  ‘Professional services company’ Turner and Townsend have been drafted in to help improve the state of telecoms on the National Rail network across the UK.
  Turner and Townsend, whose website also describes it as the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, will be working on Network Rail’s telecoms professional services framework as it attempts to transform its legacy systems into ‘a simpler, more resilient and affordable set of technologi
  
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• Mobile phone coverage expanding on the Northern and Central lines

  31-05-2023 17:55 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The next phase of expanding mobile phone coverage on the London Underground has been revealed, with more of the Northern and Central lines coming on first.
  Projected phone coverage in tunnels – green is existing coverage (c) TfL
  At the moment, along with the Jubilee line between Westminster and Canning Town, there is phone coverage in the Central line between Holland Park to Queensway and the Nothern line between Archway to Kentish Town.
  According to a map included in TfL’s latest Ma
  
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• What is network slicing?

  31-05-2023 17:02
  Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about network slicing in telecoms – including the technology behind it, what it is used for, and who is buying it.
  Network slicing is cropping up more and more as a term within telecoms discussions, particularly with reference to the benefits of 5G in certain industrial or business settings. It’s pitched as a way of improving the reliability and performance of connectivity in certain situations where there is congestion or mission
  
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• Indiana Jones statue coming to Leicester Square

  31-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The various bronze statues around Leicester Square have been joined by Indiana Jones, although he’s stuck in a box for the next few weeks.
  The proposed sculpture – source: Planning document
  The addition to Leicester Square is to mark the release of the latest of the Indiana Jones movies which is set to be released in UK cinemas on 28th June. The statue will depict Indi at the moment he first donned the whip and fedora in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  So it’s also a sculpture of the
  
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• Veon on cusp of Russia exit as MegaFon gets litigious

  31-05-2023 13:54
  Netherlands-based Veon has taken another step closer to bidding ‘do svidaniya’ to Russia.
  The telco group on Tuesday announced that it has submitted all necessary paperwork to Euroclear and Clearstream – two European securities transaction settlement firms – pertaining to the cancellation of Veon’s Eurobonds held by its Russian unit, PJSC VimpelCom.
  Cancelling these bonds means Veon has cleared another hurdle on its way out of Russia. That’s been the plan sinc
  
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• Keysight and Nokia Bell Labs try to solve 6G ‘subterahertz’ frequency challenges

  31-05-2023 13:29
  Testing and measurement outfit Keysight has teamed up with Nokia Bell Labs to wrestle with the problems posed by using very high frequencies for mobile.
  Amid the struggle to create new mobile technology paradigms beyond mobile broadband, one persistent avenue of enquiry involves creating greater bandwidth by tapping chunks of spectrum previously considered impractical for mobile. 5G has seen the embrace of ‘mid-band’ (3.5-6 GHz) and even mmWave (somewhere between 26-300 GHz, dependin
  
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• UK consumers ditch SVOD services

  31-05-2023 13:10
  The number of UK households with a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service continued to decline in the first quarter of this year, new data shows, despite the fact that consumers are still migrating away from traditional platforms to Internet delivery, as evidenced by reports of job cuts at Sky.
  19.08 million UK homes, or just over 67% of households, had an SVOD service in the three months to the end of March, down by 1.7% from 19.42 million in the last quarter of 2022. The data comes from U
  
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• New exhibition looks at the UK’s role in indenture labour

  31-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A little-known period of post-slavery life in the Caribbean is being explored in a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands.
  I say little known, for those involved, it’s very well known, but often the narrative in the UK about the ending of slavery in the sugar plantations seems to end at that point, and doesn’t look at the “slavery in all but name” that followed on afterwards.Following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, British planters in the Caribbean devised a
  
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• US smartphone trade-in values increase as global shipments decline  

  31-05-2023 12:55
  The average trade-in value of smartphones in the US rose in Q1 according to a report, amid a backdrop of declining global shipments of new devices.
  US consumers scraped back $865 million through trade-in programs in Q1 2023 in fact, according to figures from Assurant’s latest Mobile Trade-in and Upgrade Industry Trends report, and the average iPhone trade-in value surpassed $200 for the first time since 2021.
  Other stats to come out of the report include the fact the top five traded device
  
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• A visit to St Bartholomew’s Church, Horley

  31-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a circa 14th-century church on a site that’s seen Christian worship for at least 800 years, and where it was once rural, these days it’s on a main road to Gatwick Airport.The church of St Bartholomew’s Horley is known to have existed from around 1150, although it had a different name then. The earliest known rector for the church was “Walter” who joined the church in 1218 – 806 years ago. The church was renamed after St Bartholomew for some reason, in
  
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• How Taiwan became the indispensable economy

  31-05-2023 06:00
  Fearing a potential conflict in Asia, western companies are looking to move production out of Taiwan. But turning away from the self-ruled island will come at a high price for manufacturers
  
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