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• English National Opera offering free Gilbert & Sullivan themed walking tours

  10-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For two days next month, the English National Opera (ENO) will be hosting a unique guided walking tour of Victorian London, encountering the operettas and history of Gilbert & Sullivan.
  ENO 2022 The Yeomen of the Guard Neal Davies (c) ENO/Tristram-Kenton
  Along the route, you’ll meet a cast of characters played by Ruairi Bowen, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Zoe Drummond, Harriet Eyley, Ossian Huskinson, Bethan Langford and Richard Suart, as well as John Savournin, who will sing live to music newl
  
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• Qualcomm and telcos throw their collective weight behind XR

  10-07-2023 17:02
  Operator alliance Alaian has brought in Qualcomm to help it throw a lifeline to budding extended reality (XR) start-ups.
  Alaian made a splash when it launched in April last year but since then has flown under the radar somewhat. Comprised of seven telcos – Bouygues, KPN, MTN, Nos, STC, Telefónica and WindTre – and towerco Cellnex, they promised to share their expertise on new 5G and fibre use cases, and seek out and nurture promising young companies.
  Late last week, Alaian tur
  
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• Two more tube strikes announced for the London Underground

  10-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tube train drivers who are members of the ASLEF union will walk out in strike action later this month in an escalation of an ongoing dispute over wages, pensions and working conditions. The strikes will take place Wednesday 26th and Friday 28th July — right in the middle of a week of rolling strike action being planned by the RMT union.The union says that ASLEF members on London Underground – including management grades, London Underground APD, and LU Test Trains – will not boo
  
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• Has the fibre market reached boiling point?

  10-07-2023 15:55
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Simon Wilmott, Director of Wholesale Business Development at Neos Networks, takes the temperature of the UK fibre market.
  Despite its inherent nature, the future of UK fibre is anything but ‘fixed’. UK incumbents and alternative network providers, or “AltNets”, have been in a fibre-laying frenzy to make gigabit-capable broadband avai
  
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• BT/Philip Jansen: fibre vibe leaves chief in unmerited sackcloth

  10-07-2023 15:46 via ft.com
  Telecoms boss could not have done better with Ofcom demanding a full-fibre rollout to homes and expansion of 5G
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Threedafone, Threads and Huawei

  10-07-2023 14:27
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Threedafone, Threads and Huawei
  
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• Talk of Dish-EchoStar merger continues

  10-07-2023 14:16
  Rumours over the possible merger of Dish Network and EchoStar continue to swirl as the industry speculates that Charlie Ergen is looking to shore up the financials of one of his companies at the expense of the other.
  Dish and EchoStar have both hired advisors to hammer out what a merger deal could look like, Semafor reported late last week, citing sources familiar with the matter. The story has done the rounds since then, but there has been no official comment from either of the companies involv
  
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• Satellite 5G revenues on course to hit $18 billion by 2031

  10-07-2023 13:40
  Analyst firm ABI Research is predicting stellar growth for the 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) market.
  Late last week it said it expects global service revenues will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 59% between 2024 and 2031, by which time they will have reached $18 billion. ABI Research reckons those service revenues will be generated by some 200 million connections.
  “The emergence of satellite-enabled mobile devices from major consumer smartphone manufacturers and chipset mak
  
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• BT CEO Jansen decides his work there is done

  10-07-2023 13:39
  Philip Jansen (pictured) has had enough of running BT after five years and will seek new challenges once his replacement is found.
  The official press release is keen to stress what an orderly and undramatic succession process this will be, but you have to wonder how much ‘push’ versus ‘jump’ is involved. BT’s share price is at almost half the level of its 5-year peak – achieved not long after Jansen’s appointment was announced but before his first day in
  
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• The Jewish Museum will close its doors permanently on 30th July

  10-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  You have just seven days left when you can visit the Jewish Museum in Camden before it’s forced to close its doors and sell off the building.
  (c) Jewish Museum London
  Based in Camden, the Jewish Museum London houses and displays the UK’s nationally designated collection of Judaica, as well as collections from the Jewish Military Museum, United Synagogue and Jewish Historical Society of England.
  Although it reopened after the pandemic, the museum has faced rising costs, which also pre
  
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• Forgotten Gainsborough painting discovered in Greenwich after decades in storage; Restoration needed to put it on display

  10-07-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A hitherto unknown painting by Thomas Gainsborough has been discovered in Greenwich, after spending decades in storage after it was donated to the National Maritime Museum in 1960.The three-quarter length painting is of Captain Frederick Cornewall, and the Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) is now planning to restore the painting ahead of putting it on public display next year.
  The portrait, painted in 1762 had been attributed to Gainsborough by the previous owner, but when it was donated to the Nati
  
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• London’s Alleys: Dirty Lane, SE1

  10-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a new alley that runs underneath a railway through a long line of brick arches that have been polished up to become a row of posh shops. The alley is part of Borough Yards, an upmarket development that has been turning a few yards and the railway arches into a cluster of shops and cafes.The area of the development pretty much fills the site that was once occupied by Winchester Palace and its gardens. By the 1740s, the area was fully developed with a large timber yard in the middle and lo
  
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