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• A chance to abseil off Europe’s highest helipad

  14-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A charity fundraiser for the London Air Ambulance offers the chance to launch yourself off the top of a helipad mounted 17 floors up on top of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
  It’s a free hang aspect abseil – which means no body contact with the wall.
  (c) London Air Ambulance
  The abseil takes place in September, which will give you enough time to raise the minimum £300 that is needed to participate.
  There’s a £40 registration fee, and to register and for mo
  
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• EU gives Huawei millions in R&D funding

  14-06-2023 18:05
  Huawei has received millions of euros from the EU to fund some of its R&D activities, despite the EU itself heaping pressure on telcos to avoid using the vendor’s kit.
  The Financial Times reported (paywall) on Wednesday that Huawei is participating in no fewer than 11 projects under the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, which runs to 2027 and has a budget of €95.5 billion. One of its pillars, called ‘Global challenges and European industrial compet
  
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• Vodafone set to plough another $120m into India

  14-06-2023 18:02
  Vodafone Idea is reportedly set to receive an equity infusion worth around US$1.7 billion, with its UK parent contributing a chunk of the total.
  So claims the Economic Times, whose unnamed sources privy to discussions around the telco’s financial future noted that Vi shareholders Vodafone and Aditya Birla group are on the hook for half of an infusion of 140 billion-rupee ($1.7 billion) in equity as part of a turnaround plan for the troubled telco.
  The parent companies have already invested
  
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• Hyperscalers are killing the traditional telecom software model — that’s not a bad thing

  14-06-2023 17:58
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Joy King, VP, GTM Strategy for Optiva, argues that if telcos want to innovate and build new revenue streams, there are important lessons to learn from hyperscalers.
  Most industries have had their “digital disruption” moment. From factories to brick-and-mortar retail to banks, plucky startups with big ideas or tech companies with resources to match th
  
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• Vodafone: sceptical CMA will check if adding Three equals 5G

  14-06-2023 17:44 via ft.com
  Chief executive Margherita Della Valle hopes scale benefits will increase profitability
  
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• Greatest Hits mural covering the Museum of London doors

  14-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although the Museum of London has closed its London Wall site for the move to Smithfields, there’s still a reason to visit the old museum, as there’s a large mural on the outside of the building.Created by the artist, Willkay, the 13-meter wide mural, titled Greatest Hits, captures moments from the capital’s history through items in the museum’s collection.
  It features illustrations of items from the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977, the Donald Trump baby blim
  
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• Vodafone and CK Hutchison agree UK mobile merger

  14-06-2023 14:00 via ft.com
  Companies must convince regulators that deal to create country’s largest operator will not hurt consumers
  
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• Private network spending expected to hit $10bn by 2028

  14-06-2023 13:28
  Juniper Research has made a surprisingly optimistic forecast for the private cellular networking market.
  The analyst firm predicts that enterprise spending on private networks will reach almost $10 billion worldwide by 2028. That compares to $1 billion in 2023.
  Manufacturing is expected to be the single biggest sector, accounting for 35 percent of the. It is followed by energy and public services, which will account for 20 percent and 16 percent respectively.
  “The manufacturing market dema
  
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• UK arms of Vodafone and Three announce merger – now the hard part begins

  14-06-2023 13:23
  After flirting with each other for months, Vodafone and CK Hutchison have formally announced they want to merge their UK operations but getting regulatory approval won’t be easy or quick.
  In clear acknowledgment of the challenge the companies face in convincing regulators that reducing the number of UK mobile network operators from four to three (ironically enough) is a good idea, the vast majority of the announcement is focused on trying to communicate just that. As is not uncommon with m
  
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• From Riches to Rags: National Gallery’s free exhibition highlights the life and suffering of St Francis of Assisi

  14-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A true riches to rags story is being told in the National Gallery at the moment, with a large exhibition about an Italian, Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, who gave his wealth away to live a life of poverty. He’s rather better known though as Saint Francis of Assisi.Not only is the exhibition substantial in what it has pulled together, but it’s also totally free to visit, which seems apt for a display about a man who rejected the trappings of wealth.
  Not that his followers were quit
  
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• Go on a tour of a church crypt in Greenwich

  14-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy an evening spent wandering the brick-lined vaults of the dead, then there’s a chance this summer with tours of the crypt underneath St Alfege church in Greenwich town centre.The tours take in a brief tour of the church itself, founded on the claimed site of the murder of Alfege, Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1012. The current church replaced an older medieval building that collapsed in a bad storm, and this church was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
  It was badly damaged du
  
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• EU funding Huawei in critical tech projects despite bans on Chinese group

  14-06-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Number of sensitive Horizon Europe research programmes include communications company facing range of curbs
  
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