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• Altice co-founder placed under house arrest in Portugal in corruption probe

  25-07-2023 19:35
  Armando Pereira suspected of being involved in scheme to rig telecoms and media group’s local procurement processes
  
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• Video art venue Frameless launches adults-only Late nights

  25-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The immersive video art venue, Framless, which fills large rooms with animated versions of masterpiece artworks is launching a new monthly adults only late season.The monthly Friday night sessions will see a complete takeover of Frameless, with after-hours, over-18s only access to the four permanent galleries and an exclusive first look at a new show from emerging digital art talent, Cem Hasimi.
  Cem’s work will be featured alongside the re-imagination of masterpieces, from the likes of Van
  
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• T-Mobile rolls out four-carrier aggregation in the US

  25-07-2023 17:42
  Operator T-Mobile is promising faster speeds and lower latency in the US thanks to the implementation of four-carrier aggregation on its 5G standalone (SA) network.
  The operator achieved peak speeds of 3.3 Gbps in recent tests of four–carrier aggregation, which is now live in parts of its network and will be available nationwide in the coming weeks, we’re informed.
  In terms of the technical wizardry, it is merging four 5G channels of sub-6 GHz spectrum – two channels of 2.
  
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• Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko’s paintings on show in London for the first time

  25-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of paintings that survived a Russian attack on the Ukrainian museum that housed them has gone on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The paintings, by one of Ukraine’s best-loved artists, Maria Prymachenko have never been seen in the UK, so this is a very timely show of her work to remind us of the artistic cost of the war as well as its human cost.Maria Prymachenko, born in 1908 was a self-taught folk artist, whose work gained widespread acclaim during her life, noted fo
  
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• HS2’s London tunnel segments being made in Hartlepool

  25-07-2023 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of over 83,000 tunnel segments that will be used to form the tunnels under London for HS2 trains has been cast in an old oil rig factory in Hartlepool.
  STRABAG factory in Hartlepool begins casting tunnel segments for HS2 (c) HS2
  Strabag is part of a consortium including Skanska and Costain that was awarded the design and construction of the Euston Tunnels and Approaches and the Northolt Tunnels in April 2020.
  The factory was built by Strabag in Hartlepool docks, which was chosen becaus
  
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• EE and Three go head-to-head in UK 5G market

  25-07-2023 13:44
  EE remains the best mobile network in the UK, according to the latest testing data, but the telco is not having things all its own way in 5G, where rival Three is giving it a run for its money.
  RootMetrics conveyed its so-called Overall RootScore Award for the UK on EE for the 20th consecutive time based on data for the first half of this year, or to put it another way, the telco has been the UK’s strongest network operator for 10 years in a row. Naturally, it’s pretty excited a
  
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• VMO2 wields the axe as customer base declines

  25-07-2023 13:32
  Virgin Media O2 has confirmed plans to cull 2,000 jobs as some fixed and mobile customers also head for the exit.
  Reports emerged in late June that the cableco was planning a round of redundancies, with the rumoured figure ranging between 800 and 2,000. And earlier this year, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said it held talks with VMO2 about the future of 1,357 ‘at risk’ positions at the company.
  It seems those positions – and others – were more than ‘at risk&
  
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• Bharti Airtel hooks up 20 million IoT devices

  25-07-2023 13:17
  Indian operator Bharti Airtel has connected over 20 million IoT devices via its B2B division Airtel Business, as the country’s 5G surge rolls on.
  The operator flogged this vast haul of asset tracking, vehicle telematics, industrial asset monitoring, smart metering, and other types of IoT gadgetry through its Airtel Business’s integrated IoT platform which uses 5G, 4G, NB-IoT, 2G and satellite to pipe the connectivity through.
  It highlighted key recent wins as propelling it to cross t
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of South London’s “Bovril Castle”

  25-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A “castle” built over 200 years ago in South London has been under conservation work for the past few years, and is offering free tours of the building.Kingswood House was built in 1811, but its most famous owner was John Johnston who bought it in 1891 and added the stone facade and castle battlements that now make it so distinctive. As Johnston was also the inventor of Bovril, the house gained the nickname locally of Bovril Castle.
  It later became a library but was recently handed t
  
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• LGBTQ+ cultural space planned for Southwark’s Bankside

  25-07-2023 12:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two railway arches close to Blackfriars railway station are to be turned into an LGBTQ+ cultural space, as part of the planning agreement for the wider area’s property development.
  Bankside Yards Arches (c) Edmund Sumner
  The developer of the Bankside Yards estate, Native Land has now opened a call for an operator to run the space.
  The cultural space is being delivered to ensure that a prominent space is retained for the use of the LGBTQ+ community as the 5.5 acre Bankside Yards development
  
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• Virgin Media O2 to axe 2,000 jobs in UK

  25-07-2023 09:20
  Reductions come after sweeping job cuts at telecoms rivals Vodafone and BT
  
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• Virgin Media 02 to axe 2,000 jobs

  25-07-2023 09:20
  Reductions come after sweeping job cuts at rivals Vodafone and BT
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Mulberry Square, SW1

  25-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a brand new linear park in raised beds that sits in the Chelsea Barracks development near Sloane Square.It’s a park that’s lined on both sides by long rows of hedges with plenty of seating spaces along it, but dominating the space is the large raised bed in the centre packed full of flowers.
  According to the official description, the linear park is “inspired by the kitchen gardens of English country houses, Mulberry Square is planted with dozens of English fruits, veget
  
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