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• Tickets Alert: Ride a heritage tube train through central London next month

  27-06-2023 21:18 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month is a chance to ride in a 1938 era tube train through central London and up to north London on the Piccadilly line.
  Or to watch it from the sidelines if you prefer.The 1938 tube train will make three long journeys on the Piccadilly line on Sunday 9th July, starting in West London at Acton Town station, and running right through central London up to Oakwood at the far end of the line.
  Apart from the pleasure of rumbling through central London in these old beasts, much of the pleasure is
  
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• Telecoms M&A: navigating challenges and capitalising on opportunities

  27-06-2023 19:22
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Jonny Parkinson, managing partner at Marktlink, offers an overview of the current telecoms mergers and acquisitions scene.
  Despite various challenges including recessions, geopolitical tension, supply chain disruption, and general macroeconomic volatility, communications technology M&A is here to stay.
  With the world’s ongoing digitisation, the TMT sec
  
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• US reveals how it will spend $42 billion in broadband subsidies

  27-06-2023 19:10
  The US government has decided it needs to subsidise its broadband sector to make sure everyone has access to the internet.
  The programme is called Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment – BEAD for short. The $42.45 billion of public funding had previously been announced but, for some reason, the President and Vice President decided to make a big event of announcing how that money is going to be distributed. They even drafted in some bloke to talk about what a nightmare having rubbish int
  
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• Hornby releases HS2 model train

  27-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although HS2 isn’t carrying passengers yet, it’s using a lot of trains, and Hornby has released a model of one of its locomotives.The 00 gauge class 66 (66796) miniature locomotive – rebranded in 2021 by GB Railfreight (GBRf) as The Green Progressor with an HS2-inspired design is now on sale from Hornby.
  The Green Progressor has now joined a select group of other classic Hornby model locomotives including ‘Flying Scotsman’, ‘Mallard’ and ‘Rocket&rs
  
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• Orange and Tele2 spearhead initiative to recycle old phones

  27-06-2023 18:34
  Industry body the GSMA, along with a bunch of telcos, have set the goal of recovering a fifth of the devices they distribute for repair, reuse or recycling by the end of the decade.
  It’s a laudable aim – and a boost to the operators’ green credentials, of course – but we don’t know much about how they intend to do it, nor how much of an improvement that would be on their current efforts. All we really know is that they aim to get back the equivalent of at least 20%
  
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• London getting a new public square with pedestrianisation of the St Paul’s Gyratory

  27-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large public square is to be created just to the north of St Pauls’s Cathedral as the City of London has approved plans to pedestrianise the roads in the area. Known as the St Paul’s Gyratory, the roads form a large roundabout encircling the former BT headquarters building and dates from a 1970s remodelling of the former GPO buildings area.
  Design concept – Source: Appendix 11 King Edward Square Stage 2 Summary
  The plans will see one side of the gyratory pedestrianised, which
  
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• Tickets Alert: New Scientist Live returns to the ExCeL Centre

  27-06-2023 14:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  New Scientist Live, a family festival of science has confirmed that it will return this October for two days of public events, plus a special day for schools.
  (c) New Scientist Live
  From live science experiments to talks by scientists, up-and-coming researchers and the UK’s top academic minds, the educational and enlightening festival aims to showcase breakthroughs, innovations, and discoveries. The festival is aimed at science enthusiasts, students, families looking to introduce their chi
  
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• VMO2 could cull up to 2,000 jobs – report

  27-06-2023 13:32
  Virgin Media O2 is reportedly preparing to join UK rivals BT and Vodafone in wielding the axe.
  Sources cited by the Mirror over the weekend suggested that anywhere between 800 and 2,000 jobs could go. One claimed that an upcoming pay rise for staff has been moved to 1 August – a day after the redundancies are due to be made – so as to avoid the pay increase being added to redundancy packages.
  This will be an unwelcome development for staff who were led to believe they would be able t
  
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• Brent Cross West station passes safety tests ahead of opening

  27-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The under-construction Brent Cross West station in north London has passed a range of safety and technical tests, with Thameslink trains arriving and departing on overnight trial runs over the past two weeks.
  (c) GTR
  The testing ranged from safe boarding, alighting and dispatch from the platforms to on-board passenger information displays, with the station name added to arrival announcements and route diagrams.
  When it opens later this year, Brent Cross West will provide a new stop between Crick
  
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• Ireland poised to set a raft of draconian digital censorship precedents

  27-06-2023 12:59
  A bid to legally muzzle critics of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is just the tip of the iceberg in this increasingly authoritarian country.
  The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called for politicians to challenge an amendment to a law that would prohibit people revealing the details of their interactions with the DPC, when it comes up for debate tomorrow. The amendment seems to have been recently sneaked into a miscellaneous piece of legislation and includes the followin
  
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• Brussels says Orange/MasMovil merger would be anticompetitive

  27-06-2023 12:30
  The European Commission has declared that the proposed tie-up between Orange and MasMovil in Spain could harm competition, casting doubt over the likelihood of it approving the merger.
  As expected, the Commission on Tuesday published a Statement of Objections to the deal. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will move to block the merger: Orange and MasMovil will now have a chance to address its objections and propose remedies. But the wording of its statement will not make comfortable reading
  
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• National Portrait Gallery reopens transformed with an easier layout and refreshed displays

  27-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the past three years, the National Portrait Gallery has been a building site, but now it’s reopened, with a large new reception entrance, a dramatic escalator to the top floor, and loads more space.Although it holds a national museum collection, the Portrait Gallery has always felt a bit like an afterthought stuck onto the back of the National Gallery, not helped by sharing a lot of the same name, and much of the same building design — and a fairly small entrance onto a narrow bu
  
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