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• Nokia and Red Hat announce cloud strategic partnership

  29-06-2023 18:29
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has announced a strategic partnership with IBM-owned Red Hat that will some Nokia cloud services migrated to Red Hat.
  This is one of those more intimate, comprehensive corporate partnerships, with a high degree of mutual commitment. Some Nokia people are even moving to Red Hat to make it happen. The aim is to tightly integrate Nokia’s core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift, in the name of cloud-friendliness.
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• OneWeb and SES both improve their coverage

  29-06-2023 17:27
  OneWeb’s connectivity services are now available throughout Europe and across much of the US, the satellite provider announced this week.
  Meanwhile, still with satellites, albeit in higher orbit, SES is trumpeting the successful launch of its SES-19 satellite and the start of services on SES-18, which amongst other things means the company is on track to meet its requirements for clearing C-band spectrum in the US.
  But first to OneWeb. The part UK government-owned low-earth orbit (LEO) sat
  
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• VMO2 commercially launches XGS PON service

  29-06-2023 17:15
  Virgin Media O2 has begun selling broadband services via its new, 10 Gbps-capable XGS PON network.
  The UK cableco began a commercial trial of the technology with select customers last November.
  “These trials proved successful so now we are taking the next step forward in our network evolution and starting to sell services powered by the latest fibre technology, known as XGS-PON, much more widely,” wrote VMO2’s chief technology officer, Jeanie York, in a blog post on Thursday.
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• New rainbow plaques celebrate London’s LGBTQI+ history

  29-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s classic blue plaques are being joined by rainbows as five new rainbow-coloured plaques are unveiled.
  The new plaques will be placed at sites in Greenwich, Peckham, Westminster, Ladbroke Grove and Haringey and are the latest plaques in a national scheme to identify hidden and lost LGBTQI+ heritage and celebrate the importance of the communities in our public spaces.
  (c) Rainbow Plaques
  Unlike Blue Plaques, which record a building where someone significant lived, the new rainbow pla
  
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• T-Mobile US targets safer roads with C-V2X pilot

  29-06-2023 14:00
  T-Mobile US has partnered with its home city of Bellevue, Washington to help it make road-related deaths a thing of the past.
  They have agreed to pilot cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology, providing relevant, near real-time information to improve the safety of road users and pedestrians alike.
  T-Mobile US will do most of the heavy lifting. It will supply 5G connectivity, C-V2X hardware, IoT solutions, technical integration and end-to-end testing. The C-V2X solutions and early proto
  
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• Orange backs out of banking with BNP Paribas deal

  29-06-2023 13:53
  French operator group Orange has decided to leave the retail banking game just five years after it arrived, brokering a deal that should see it transfer its customer base to BNP Paribas.
  The French telco group revealed this week that it has completed a strategic review of its banking operations and has entered into exclusive talks with major banking group BNP Paribas geared towards supporting its existing customers in France; essentially, they will be transferred to BNP Paribas services, should
  
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• New Lyca Mobile boss suddenly swaps O2 for BT as wholesale provider

  29-06-2023 13:50
  A new CEO has precipitated a change in UK wholesale partner for MVNO group Lyca Mobile, to the surprise of some users.
  The incumbent mobile network provider for Lyca was O2 but Richard Schäfer, who was only promoted from CFO to CEO last week, wasted little time in deciding it was time for a change. The company formally announced it was moving to BT (i.e. EE) this week, apparently after the change had already come into effect.
  “The partnership with BT Wholesale is a critical milestone
  
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• Illusionaries, an immersive video art installation comes to Canary Wharf

  29-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new video art installation has opened at Canary Wharf that is, well, it’s interesting, in a good way and rather unusual.Called Illusionaries and created by Arash Irandoust, it’s a collection of video art-filled rooms that sort of tell a narrative that flows between the rooms, but each of the rooms is so very different from the other that they stand alone as well.
  It’s a very immersive space though – entry is through a sliding black door in a silver wall, and then into a
  
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• Ofcom probes BT over 999 glitch

  29-06-2023 10:28
  UK telco watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into BT following a widespread outage of the 999 emergency call service.
  A technical fault on Sunday affected 999’s availability nationwide, forcing BT, which handles and routes the calls, to temporarily switch to a back-up system.
  However, as pointed out at the time by London’s Metropolitan Police, the back-up system was not as effective at providing location data, making it harder to pinpoint where emergencies were occurring. It
  
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• Visiting the church of St Edward the Confessor in Romford

  29-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is the main church in Romford town centre, with a tall spire dominating the area, but it’s also an accidental church that was nearly considerably smaller.The town’s first church, built by 1177 was to the south of the railway in an area known, unsurprisingly, as Oldchurch. That church was demolished in the 14th century when a new much larger church was built on the site of the current one. The new old church opened on 23d March 1410, and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St Ed
  
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