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• A Sex and the City pop-up comes to London

  12-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As part of a promotional event to plug their new TV series, there’s a Sex and the City pop-up in London for a few days later this month.The “immersive” pop-up will be at Piccadilly Circus, and assuming it’s the Manhattan set moved to London, you can expect a series of rooms recreating scenes from the TV show, a lot of clothing and fashion accessories and video screens.
  Photography is allowed, and indeed, seemingly very actively encouraged.
  The tickets cost £5, inclu
  
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• East Asian telcos ahead on digital transformation

  12-06-2023 18:20
  Telecoms operators the world over are embracing digital transformation and developing services in new sectors, and players from East Asia are ahead of the pack, new research published this week shows.
  Three of the top four telecoms operators in the latest iteration of Omdia’s service provider digital strategy benchmark hail from that part of the world, led by global mobile market leader China Mobile. SK Telecom ranks second and NTT DoCoMo comes in in joint fourth with Deutsche Telekom (see
  
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• OneWeb’s maritime LEO service goes live

  12-06-2023 18:09
  UK low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite outfit OneWeb has partnered with VAR Speedcast and German shipping company F. Laeisz to launch its connectivity service for ships.
  The three companies have been collaborating on trials, which have clearly gone well. The first lucky recipient of OneWeb’s maritime terminals is the Research Vessel Polarstern (pictured), which is managed by F. Laeisz and focuses on polar research. There are presumably not a lot of terrestrial base stations in the Arctic and A
  
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• UK government announces even more telecoms initiatives

  12-06-2023 18:08
  Satellite broadband for a remote Scottish area, an MoU with Australia, and ‘smart lampposts’ are the latest government initiatives designed to make the UK ‘an international leader in telecoms.’
  The three initiatives were announced by Technology Minister Sir John Whittingdale at an event called London Tech week. First up, the island of Papa Stour in the Shetland Islands – one of the most remote communities anywhere in the UK we’re told – will get space ba
  
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• A new series of Secrets of the London Underground returns in July

  12-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Rail historian Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway will be returning to the TV screens for a new series of Secrets of the London Underground in July.
  (c) UKTV
  Tim and Siddy will be able to explore disused parts of London’s tube network, with access to abandoned stations,  preserved passageways hidden right under passengers’ noses; to enormous depots brimming with marvels of modern engineering.
  At the London Transport Museum and Depot, Tim and Siddy experience tube carriages through the
  
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• Florence Nightingale’s customized wheelchair returned to the UK after fundraising campaign

  12-06-2023 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Florence Nightingale’s customised wheelchair is going on display in the UK for the first time, as part of a new permanent display at the Florence Nightingale Museum.
  (c) Florence Nightingale Museum
  Acquired by the Museum from the Johns Hopkins University, USA earlier this year, following a successful fundraising appeal, the wheelchair was used by Florence Nightingale in her Mayfair home, as she fought her own illness.
  After her death in 1910, the wheelchair was kept in storage, but in 1920
  
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• VMO2 persists in attacking competitors over ‘split contracts’

  12-06-2023 13:51
  UK operator group Virgin Media O2 reckons its competitors don’t do a good enough job of protecting their postpaid mobile customers from overpaying.
  A couple of months ago, VMO2 accused EE, Vodafone and Three of overcharging their customers through ‘opaque, confusing and out-dated mobile contracts’. The other operators subsequently defended themselves, on which more later, but apparently failed to persuade VMO2, which decided to send out some ‘secret shoppers’ to exp
  
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• Industrial and enterprise metaverse ‘exceeding expectations’ – survey

  12-06-2023 13:07
  An industrial metaverse revolution is already underway, albeit quietly, according to a new study by Nokia and Ernst and Young.
  With the hype train currently on a tour of generative AI and the surrounding environs, there is a pervading sense that the metaverse is a rapidly-diminishing speck in the rear-view mirror.
  The word was noticeably absent from Apple’s press release last week about its new and eye-wateringly expensive mixed reality (XR) headset, Vision Pro. It is clearly designed with
  
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• Strike action due to affect buses across north London for four days in June

  12-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Strike action will affect buses in north London and parts of central and east London on four days later this month, with little or no service expected on affected routes.
  In total, around a tenth of London’s bus routes are affected by the strike.If the strike, called by the Unite union, goes ahead, little or no service is expected on the affected routes, and other local bus, Tube and rail services in this part of London will be busier than usual if the action goes ahead.
  Bus drivers at som
  
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• TIM gets new NetCo bids, but sale could still falter

  12-06-2023 12:48
  TIM has confirmed receipt of two new bids for its network assets, but despite the fact that there are still two horses in the race, it could yet draw to a close with no winner.
  The Italian incumbent issued its now customary short statement to let us know that it received new non-binding bids from both the CdP Equity/Macquarie consortium and KKR ahead of Friday’s deadline. It provided no more information about the new offers, including giving no indication of value or increase therein, but
  
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• Elisa and Ericsson claim 5G SA milestone

  12-06-2023 12:27
  Finnish telco Elisa and kit vendor Ericsson have deployed what they say is the first In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) capability on a live production 5G Standalone network in Europe.
  The ISSU is being touted as a milestone in automating and creating self-driving networks by the firms. Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core is designed to be fully cloud-native and is deployed using containers with Kubernetes orchestration, we’re told.
  The benefit of such a thing is apparently ‘the abili
  
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• London’s Alleys: Spring Mews, SE11

  12-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a brand new alleyway and courtyard in Vauxhall that runs through the middle of a modern mix-use development in an area that’s never had public access before.This patch of south London was still fields in 1746, but you can start to see some early housing development along the streets around the site by 1799. However, in 1875, most of the area was dominated by the Albert Glassworks, which burnt coal to produce town gas. Three large gasholders filled the site, but were demolished in t
  
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