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• For Vodafone, the bell tolls 4G

  28-07-2023 17:18
  UK operator Vodafone is looking to the heavens for a solution to rural mobile coverage.
  It revealed on Thursday that it has partnered with the Church of England and coverage solutions specialist Net CS to deploy Open RAN 4G signal boosters in 11 church bell towers across the country. Each one has a range of up to 500 metres, enough to cover the surrounding area.
  The Blessed Virgin Mary in Brompton Regis, Somerset, and St Michael’s and All Angels in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire have gone liv
  
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• Sateliot and Telefónica claim the first 5G roaming connection in space

  28-07-2023 17:10
  Operator Telefónica and satellite firm Sateliot say they have successfully extended the reach of 5G into space ‘for the first time in the history of telecommunications’.
  The test, which was supervised by the European Space Agency, provided satellite coverage extension to Telefónica’s cellular network through standard GSMA roaming using a regular SIM card on an IoT cellular device, which weas able to switch to the Sateliot network.
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• Horniman Museum awarded £5.7 million towards major redevelopment project

  28-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  South London’s Horniman Museum has been awarded £5.7 million towards the cost of a significant redevelopment they are planning. The National Lottery Heritage Fund has provided the funding. That covers just over half of the estimated £10 million cost of the project, which will revamp three parts of its estate, most notably the historic Natural History Gallery, home to the much-loved Horniman walrus.In the Natural History Gallery, built in 1901, the fabric of the Grade II listed
  
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• London cricket team scores a stylish six with limited edition tube map clothing

  28-07-2023 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A stylised version of the London tube map is appearing on clothing worn by the London cricket team, London Spirit.London Spirit is a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in North London representing the historic counties of Middlesex, Essex and Northamptonshire in The Hundred cricket matches. Both the men’s and women’s sides play their home games at Lord’s.
  As a London team, they’ve secured an agreement with Transport for London (TfL) to include the tube map onto their t
  
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• Protected: iConnect ONE unlocks global connectivity for operators around the world

  28-07-2023 14:15
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• iConnect ONE unlocks global connectivity for operators around the world

  28-07-2023 14:15
  With soaring demand for data bandwidth and high costs in network deployments, telecom operator margins are increasingly coming under pressure. But the rapidly digitised world of today enables network operators to exploit new business opportunities beyond their national borders.
  Many services, including those offered to verticals such as the automotive industry (e.g. connected vehicles), logistics and transport sector (e.g. connected shipping), financial services (e.g. smart banking), infrastruct
  
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• Another attempt to fly the Lord Mayor’s hot air balloons over London

  28-07-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Another attempt will be made to fly upwards of 50 hot air balloons over central London later this year after the organisers were able to secure some extra dates.
  (c) Lord Mayor’s Balloon Regatta
  The Lord Mayor’s Hot Air Balloon Regatta, a now annual event that raises money for the Lord Mayor’s charity, had tried to fly over London earlier this year, but each time the weather wasn’t favourable so they had to stand down the flights.
  They’ve now received permission to
  
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• T-Mobile US grabs 760,000 postpaid phone customers in Q2

  28-07-2023 13:27
  US operator T-Mobile hails ‘our best Q2 postpaid phone net adds in eight years’.
  As well as the additional 760,000 postpaid phone customers it gained in Q2, T-Mobile US also snapped up 509,000 FWA home Internet customers during the period.
  This was announced as part of its Q2 financials, in which service revenue was up YoY 2.8% to $15.7 billion and post-paid 5.5% to $12.1 billion – however overall revenue fell 2.6% to $19.2 billion, while net income landed at $2.2 billion.
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• Tickets sale on the Dickens’ comedy Bleak Expectations

  28-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Based on the hit BBC Radio 4 comedy by Mark Evans this brand-new stage adaption portrays the story that Charles Dickens may have written after one too many gins…
  The show takes all of Dickens’ tropes and exaggerates them to hilarious and absurd levels.Brace yourself for this chaotic caper through Dickensian London with tragic, half-orphan young Pip Bin, hopeless romantic and would-be-hero. Experience the adventure of Pip’s remarkable escapades with his sisters Pippa and Poppy
  
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• Greater Anglia reveals its first “trainbow” for Pride

  28-07-2023 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Greater Anglia has unveiled a special train livery to celebrate Pride and the LGBT+ community. The livery, which has been applied to an Alstom-built ‘class 720’ commuter train (number 720506), includes both the Pride and transgender flags adjacent to the driver’s cab, on both ends and sides of the five-carriage train.
  The Pride livery was applied to a class 720 commuter train. (c) Greater Anglia
  The train will be seen mainly between London Liverpool Street and Cambridge, betwee
  
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