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• Late openings of St Paul’s Cathedral

  24-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  St Paul’s Cathedral will be open late on four Thursdays in August letting you see inside the cathedral and take photos after it closes to the main tourist visits of the day.The evening openings will take place on 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st August from 6:30pm to 9:15pm, and will be a slightly quieter way of visiting the building. Photography is also now allowed in the Cathedral.
  The opening is for the main Cathedral floor and Crypt, but not the Dome — so is at the slightly lower price
  
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• 5G set to rocket in Asia-Pacific

  24-07-2023 18:30
  The number of 5G subscriptions in the Asia-Pacific region will rocket before the end of the decade, but it will cost operators hundreds of billions of dollars to get there, raising once again the age-old question of how they will monetise their investments in the technology.
  There will be 1.4 billion 5G connections in the region by 2030, or to put it another way, 41% of mobile connections will be over 5G, up from 4% last year, according to new predictions from the GSMA.
  But the growth will come
  
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• Deutsche Telekom signs another deal to offer quantum computing services  

  24-07-2023 18:03
  German incumbent Deutsche Telekom’s IT arm, T-Systems, has signed a deal with IQM Quantum Computers which will allow it to offer its customers cloud access to quantum systems.
  The deal is described as a Memorandum of Understanding and will mean T-Systems customers can play around with IQM’s quantum infrastructure via Deutsche Telekom affiliate’s cloud landscape.
  Customers will also be offered ‘quantum know-how and training’ ranging in scope from one-day introdu
  
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• A mixed bag of doggy portraits at the Wallace Collection

  24-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition devoted to man’s best friend is a bit of a mongrel display of paintings and drawings that struggle to form a cohesive collection.At the Wallace Collection, the exhibition ranges, as the title says, from Gainsborough to Hockney, taking in a very wide range of mutts along the way, so it can be said undeniably to be a very good collection of pooches and pups hanging on the wall.
  Opening with what are classic Georgian landed estate portraits of a lord’s favourite dogs, it s
  
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• Beam Park station delays push Havering Council to buy out housing partner

  24-07-2023 14:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The delays in opening a new railway station in east London have pushed Havering Council to buy out a housing partner in order to secure the long-term future for the neighbouring housing developments.
  The site, Beam Park is the former Ford manufacturing plant in Dagenham, now owned by the GLA, and in 2019 received consents for a 3,000 home development, with around half classed as “affordable”. As part of the agreement, a new railway station was to be built next to the site on the exis
  
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• Drahi reportedly keen to up BT stake despite turbulent times

  24-07-2023 13:36
  Patrick Drahi is reportedly looking to increase his stake in BT, a rumour that comes at a time of turbulence for the UK incumbent and for Drahi’s own telecoms empire.
  The latest report on Drahi’s intentions towards BT – and there have been many over the past couple of years – comes from This Is Money, which cites unnamed City sources as saying that the French businessman is mulling raising his stake to as much as 29.9%, the highest it could go without triggering a mandato
  
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• Price hikes help Vodafone slow the rot

  24-07-2023 13:25
  Vodafone’s first quarter service revenue grew 3.7% organically compared to last year, thanks to improved performances in the UK, Italy and Germany.
  Germany attracts close scrutiny, given that it accounts for the biggest single chunk of group sales. Here, service revenue in the three months to 30 June fell 1.3% on last year, but improved sequentially compared to Q4, when it declined by 2.8%. Vodafone attributed the performance to broadband price increases, which came into effect from May, o
  
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• Vodafone revenues boosted by price rises as turnaround continues

  24-07-2023 13:17 via ft.com
  Quarterly performance exceeds expectations but customer numbers fall in Germany, its biggest market
  
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• Ericsson and O2 Telefónica showcase some Cloud RAN 5G mmWave action

  24-07-2023 13:14
  Kit vendor Ericsson and operator O2 Telefónica have put together a proof of concept demonstrating Cloud RAN and mmWave technology in Germany.
  The firms claim the demonstration, which took place at O2 Telefónica’s Wayra innovation hub in Munich, is Europe’s first Cloud RAN 5G mmWave use case demo.
  It used a centralized control unit (CU) and mmWave frequency to achieve an end-to-end speed of more than 4 gigabits per second, and the collaborating firms say it ‘valida
  
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• The King’s Observatory is reopening for tours

  24-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A grand building in Richmond built for King George III to observe a rare astronomical event will be open next month for tours.The large square building with a telescope observatory dome on top was built to watch the 1769 Transit of Venus, an event which had seen Captain James Cook sent to the other side of the world to observe it from a better location, while at the same time nabbing a few continents for the crown.
  It later became a government building, and oddly, a company office. The King&rsqu
  
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• London’s Alleys: Denmark Place, WC2

  24-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an alley that slips behind the back of the modern Outernet building and was the scene of a disaster in 1980 that killed 37 people.Denmark Place runs behind the shops that front onto Denmark Street, and both were developed in the late 17th century and are named after Prince George of Denmark. The land on which Denmark Place stands was formerly part of the grounds of St Giles Hospital, founded as a house for lepers in the early 12th century by Henry I’s wife Matilda (Maud).
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