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• Tickets to Grease the Musical now from just £17.50

  16-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the world’s most popular musicals is back touring theatres across the UK and is showing at the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road.This time even grittier and more glamorous than before! After a moonlit summer romance between leather-clad greaser Danny and goodie-two-shoes Sandy, the holidays come to an end and so does their love affair. Until the pair are expectedly reunited when Sandy transfers to Rydell High for senior year.
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• HPE completes purchase of Athonet

  16-06-2023 17:22
  Tech giant HPE has finalised its acquisition of Italian private cellular network technology specialist Athonet, giving its private networks offering some significant additional firepower.
  HPE first announced the acquisition in February, which was touted as a move to put it ‘at the forefront’ of the private 5G market by combining Athonet’s assets with its existing HPE telco and Aruba networking portfolios.
  Based in Vicenza, Italy, Athonet has been in the 4G and 5G mobile core so
  
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• Isaac Julian’s videos fills Tate Britain galleries

  16-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Tate Britain has given over a large space to the film making artist, Isaac Julian, and he’s filled several rooms with huge moving tapestries.The show follows the development of his work in film and video over four decades from the 1980s through to his current work. It opens with a large room filled with hanging panels and experimental films are interlaced into the space, which leads you into a central alcove into which you can wander into side chambers for more videos.
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the Post-Modern architectural gem that’s “Cosmic House”

  16-06-2023 14:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A slightly unassuming house in Holland Park conceals a remarkable interior — a house packed full of early Post-Modernist designs — and is now occasionally open to the public.Externally it looks like a normal sort of house for the area, but the architect Charles Jencks and family gutted most of the interior and built something that is really quite stunning. Not necessarily nice, as that’s down to individual tastes, but it is most certainly stunning.
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• Europe moves to effectively ban Chinese vendors from members’ 5G networks

  16-06-2023 14:14
  EU messaging around ‘high-risk’ vendors is looking increasingly like an outright ban on Huawei and ZTE, with pressure mounting on countries that have yet to remove them from their 5G networks.
  The ‘EU toolbox on 5G cybersecurity’ is a set of guidelines adopted in 2020, which encouraged EU member states to assess the security of ‘high risk’ (Chinese) vendors in their networks. While it started out sounding more like recommendations, the rhetoric in an ‘up
  
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• TfL’s submits plans to extend the DLR to Thamesmead

  16-06-2023 13:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to extend the DLR across the river to the Thamesmead part of southeast London have taken a step forward after Transport for London (TfL) submitted its Strategic Outline Case (SOC) to the government.
  If built, the DLR’s Becton branch would add a spur to a new station on the north side of the river and then a tunnel under the Thames to a new station at Thamemead. TfL expects that this would enable around 25,000-30,000 new homes to be built on both sides of the river.
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• Tickets Alert: Climb to the top of Windsor Castle

  16-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a couple of months each year, it’s possible to climb to the top of the ancient Round Tower inside Windsor Castle, with views that reach right across London.Official blurb: Join a Conquer the Tower Tour to climb the 200 steps to the top of Windsor Castle’s iconic Round Tower. From a height of 65.5 metres, you can enjoy breathtaking views across the historic Windsor parkland, the Thames Valley, London skyline as well as the extent of Windsor Castle.
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• Nokia’s latest Android slicing trial highlights dearth of 5G SA networks

  16-06-2023 11:30
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia this week showed off how its network slicing solutions work seamlessly with Android 14.
  If that opening sentence has a familiar ring to it, that’s because this is not the first time Nokia has used Google’s smartphone OS to showcase its network slicing capabilities. The last such occasion was in August 2022, when Nokia and rival kit maker Ericsson announced – separately – that they had successfully trialled networking slicing on Android 13.
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• Telekom Austria names execs to head up towers spinoff

  16-06-2023 11:25
  Telekom Austria has named the two men who will lead its towers business, due to be spun off and floated later this year.
  The move marks a concrete step in the right direction for the creation of the new towers business, which has been under discussion for some time, but seems to be taking a while to come to fruition.
  We now have a little more information on possible timelines though. The new leaders of the business are tasked with getting the business ready for a listing in Vienna during the sec
  
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• UK telcos ordered to be clearer about mid-contract price increases

  16-06-2023 10:22
  The recent prices rises imposed on UK subscribers have not gone down well, so the Committee of Advertising Practice has published new guidance on related advertising.
  The typical price increase passed on to customers of operators and ISPs in April of this year was 14.4%. Their contracts will have had a clause entitling their provider to increase prices by the rate of inflation plus 3.9% at the start of every tax year. But nobody reads the small print, do they? So the main controversy came from t
  
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