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• HS2’s two TBMs now three-quarters of the way under the Chilterns

  09-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The two tunnel boring machines that set off from just inside the M25 motorway are now three-quarters of their way under the Chilterns as they head north out of London.
  At the tunnel entrance just inside the M25 motorway
  The two TBMs are digging two tunnels for the HS2 railway and have now reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft, more than three-quarters of the way through their 10-mile drive under the Chilterns.
  The two machines set off at staggered times in early 2021 and have now caught
  
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• Marble Arch’s unseen interior may be opened up again

  09-08-2023 17:55 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Marble Arch, the large stone edifice rather than the tube station is undergoing restoration at the moment, and its rarely seen interior could be opened up again afterwards.
  Marble Arch (c) English Heritage
  Designed by John Nash, the arch was originally built in 1833 to go outside Buckingham Palace as a grand entrance gateway, but the location turned out to be short-lived and it had to be moved. That’s because at the time, Buckingham Palace looked very different to how it does today, and th
  
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• Private network market bucks downward RAN trend

  09-08-2023 17:02
  There is one bright spot amid all the doom and gloom about lower telco capex and its effect on vendor earnings.
  The market for private cellular networking equipment saw revenues in the second quarter jump 60% year-on-year, according to Dell’Oro.
  The research firm was at pains to point out that private networking is only a small part of the overall RAN market. In February, it predicted that cumulative spending on LTE/5G small cells for private networking will reach $1 billion by 2027. Admit
  
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• Kew Garden’s festive light trail returning from November

  09-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Kew Garden’s annual festive light trail returns this November with a range of new lights and trails to mark ten years since the first winter lights festival in 2013.
  (c) Kew Gardens
  This year’s trail is a celebration of nature by night, bringing Kew’s natural architecture to life. Visitors can expect the return of seasonal favourites alongside new installations, seven of which are making their UK debut.
  Bespoke new installations include Lili by TILT, a series of abstract, illum
  
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• Verizon cuts off its BlueJeans

  09-08-2023 14:16
  US operator Verizon is closing down the video conferencing service it acquired at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, having decided that it can’t compete with the likes of Zoom after all.
  Verizon has not made a formal statement on the matter, but industry publication 9to5 Google shared details of an email sent to users of the BlueJeans app that details its plans for closure. It felt the need to use the word ‘sunset,’ but however you dress it up, the message is the same: BlueJ
  
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• Opinion divided over London Mayor’s demand for industry to do more about phone theft

  09-08-2023 14:16
  London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the mobile phone industry to help reduce phone theft in the capital – which one industry insider says is “like blaming Kellogg’s for people shoplifting at Tesco”.
  Khan (pictured) and Met Commissioner Mark Rowley called on operators and device manufacturers to “play their part and deliver bold and innovative technological solutions to help tackle the rising number of robberies in the capital,” in an announcement this mornin
  
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• LEO in the ascendancy as operators rack up satellite deals

  09-08-2023 13:56
  Telefónica is one of three service providers to have announced a deal with a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite operator this week.
  The Spanish incumbent’s enterprise division, Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS), said on Tuesday that the service is already operational in Mexico, and will be extended to Peru, Colombia, Chile, Brazil and Spain throughout the rest of this year. Other markets are due to follow at a later date.
  Starlink’s enterprise service differs slightly from
  
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• Intel and Samsung renew vRAN vows

  09-08-2023 13:45
  US chipmaker Intel and Korean electronics giant Samsung have doubled down on their mutual commitment to advance the vRAN paradigm.
  Intel’s interest in encouraging as much RAN processing to be done on general-purpose silicon is clear, while Samsung is engaged in a perpetual game of catch-up with the dominant incumbent RAN vendors. So both companies have a strong incentive to make vRAN as viable an alternative to the legacy RAN technology as possible.
  They have been collaborating since 2017,
  
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• Your face could be on the Piccadilly Circus lights

  09-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve ever fancied seeing your face blown up to a huge scale and shown on the Piccadilly Circus lights, then all you need to take a photo and send it to them.
  (c) Art of London
  As part of an art exhibition being shown on the big screen and also at the National Portrait Gallery which will show some 300 celebrities on the screen from the middle of September to the middle of October.
  It’s part of a project about mental health, as photos of celebrities is supposed to encourage us to
  
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• Explore Baker Street station’s disused spaces in a new London Transport Museum tour

  09-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, people will be able to see parts of Baker Street station that have rarely been seen before, as the station joins the Hidden London series of tours run by the London Transport Museum.Baker Street is famous as much for a fictional detective as it is for being one of the stations that opened along the world’s first underground railway, but it has expanded haphazardly ever since and there’s a surprising amount of hidden spaces to see in the station.
  It’s also a station
  
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