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• Simpson’s in the Strand selling off surplus fixtures and fittings

  14-07-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of London’s oldest traditional English restaurants, Simpson’s in the Strand, is going to sell off a load of its surplus fixtures and fittings.The restaurant is currently closed and plans to reopen next year, but ahead of that, they will be offering for sale a range of furnishings and artefacts that have decorated Simpson’s in the Strand.
  While the stories, history and foundation of Simpson’s remain, a select few items will be available to purchase. The sale will featu
  
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• EE opens first ‘experience store’ in Cardiff

  14-07-2023 16:44
  UK operator EE will open what it’s calling an ‘experience store’ in Cardiff on Monday, designed chiefly it seems to let customers play around with new tech.
  EE rather grandiosely says the new store ‘reinvents the role of the traditional phone shop’ and is ‘a vote of confidence in the Welsh high street.’ More specifically, what the shop comprises of is four different ‘zones’ all of which in some way shape or form are designed to get people usi
  
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• Exhibition shows off 175 years of railway history at Waterloo station

  14-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As part of the 175th-anniversary celebrations, a large exhibition about the railway station’s history has appeared in the main concourse.There’s the opening, by Queen Mary, because the King was ill on the day next to an article about how Southern Railway used Hovis loaves in their marketing to explain which routes the trains ran on.
  Quite a lot of maps and photos from the early days are here, including the massive semaphore signal rack that used to span the railway just outside the s
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: BT, AI and digital ID

  14-07-2023 14:11
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · BT, AI and digital ID
  
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• Nokia and Ericsson hit by weaker demand in US

  14-07-2023 14:03 via ft.com
  Europe’s largest telecoms groups warn customers are being buffeted by high inflation
  
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• Nokia and Ericsson hit by US consumer slowdown

  14-07-2023 14:03 via ft.com
  Europe’s largest telecoms groups warn on weak American markets
  
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• Sateliot joins AI fuelled project to link terrestrial and space networks

  14-07-2023 13:14
  Satellite firm Sateliot will provide its nanosatellite constellation to the ETHER project, which seeks to use AI to combine terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
  ETHER (which stands for Self-evolving terrestrial/non-terrestrial hybrid networks) is a $3.5 million project backed by the European Commission that is supposed to achieve this conjoining of infrastructure and create a ‘network of networks’ via some AI cleverness.
  Its main aim appears to be connecting people in Europe who
  
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• Ericsson and Nokia shares plunge after gloomy updates

  14-07-2023 13:04
  Ericsson’s Q2 23 numbers were in line with expectations but its share price fell after competitor Nokia lowered its outlook for the year.
  A sales decline of 9% year-on-year for Ericsson was what it had anticipated and even exceeded some analyst expectations so, in the absence of any significant change in its own outlook, it would be reasonable to expect its share price to be unmoved by its latest earnings. But major competitor Nokia chose today to announce a downgrade of its outlook for th
  
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• Discounts on tickets to Horrible Histories – Terrible Tudors

  14-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Horrible Histories returns to the West End’s Garrick Theatre with Terrible Tudors this summer. with tickets discounted to just £18.It might be nice to really connect with history, feel like it was speaking to you. The trouble is, everyone’s already dead. Fear not, Horrible Histories have you covered. get ready for Terrible Tudors live on stage in the West End. Settle in and meet people from history.
  There are horrid Henries and an evil Elizabeth, pull up a seat and prepare to h
  
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• No RAN market uptick expected until 6G

  14-07-2023 11:50
  The remaining growth in 5G globally is not expected to be enough to reverse a declining market for radio access network equipment, which leaves the industry waiting anxiously for 6G for a return to growth.
  RAN revenues flattened out last year and are predicted to decline at a CAGR of 1% over the next five years, according to Dell’Oro Group.
  It’s all part of a fairly normal cycle. High growth is the norm for a number of years as operators in more advanced markets roll out a new genera
  
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• Ericsson, MediaTek eye 5G FWA market with new upload speed record

  14-07-2023 11:00
  Fixed-wireless access (FWA) is already the darling of the consumer 5G crowd, and a new speed milestone could make it even more compelling.
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson and chip maker MediaTek this week laid claim to a record upload speed of 565 Mbps. It was achieved by combining two Ericsson software features – uplink single user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) and uplink carrier aggregation – with MediaTek’s T830 chipset for 5G FWA routers, and three transmit antennas.
  
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• No RAN market uptick until 6G – analyst

  14-07-2023 10:50
  The remaining growth in 5G globally will not be enough to reverse a declining market for radio access network equipment, which leaves the industry waiting anxiously for 6G for a return to growth.
  RAN revenues flattened out last year and are predicted to decline at a CAGR of 1% over the next five years, according to Dell’Oro Group.
  It’s all part of a fairly normal cycle. High growth is the norm for a number of years as operators in more advanced markets roll out a new generation of mo
  
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