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• Guided tours of Battersea Power Station’s 1950s control room

  18-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  These are candidly not the cheapest tours in London right now, but there’s a sort-of guided tour of the 1950s electricity control room inside Battersea Power Station on offer.
  The half-hour tours are not led by a tour guide, but by an audio guide with headsets you wear, so no chance to ask questions — and that’s going to be because the Control Room is also now a public bar. As you’re weaving around the bar customers, this is a tour that includes a glass of champagne.
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• Railway upgrade halves delays on Southern and Gatwick Express services at Victoria station

  18-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Delays to Southern and Gatwick Express in and out of Victoria station have more than halved since a new signalling system was switched on last Christmas, according to Network Rail analysis.
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  The new signalling came into use on the lines between Balham, Clapham Junction and London Victoria (platforms 9-19) last Christmas. replacing increasingly unreliable equipment that dates back to the 1980s.
  This work is part of Network Rail’s wider London Victoria South London resignalli
  
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• Ericsson makes ‘world’s first’ 6CC data call

  18-08-2023 13:47
  Kit vendor Ericsson has combined six component carriers to clock a 5G download speed of 5.7Gbps, which is says is a record.
  The data call was achieved in an Ericsson lab using (brace yourselves) three FDD (frequency division duplex) bands combined with three TDD (time division duplex) bands in sub-6GHz, Ericsson RAN Compute hardware, carrier aggregation software, and something called Advanced RAN Coordination functionality.
  By combining FDD spectrum with TDD spectrum, more users can benefit
  
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• Another railway strike announced – by ASLEF train drivers

  18-08-2023 13:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The ASLEF union has announced there will be a strike by train drivers next month, that will likely see most train services cancelled.The one-day strike will affect 16 train companies across England on Friday 1st September, but there will also be an overtime ban on the following day, Saturday 2nd September, which will likely severely affect the train company’s ability to restore services following the strike.
  The Saturday disruption will also be magnified by an RMT strike on the same day.
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• Sale on Tina Turner Musical tickets – from £25

  18-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Based on the life of international recording artist Tina Turner, this production made a huge splash in the UK during its West End premiere.
  Seats start from £25, but there’s a good sale on the better seats closer to the stage.£72 seats are on sale for £50
  £84 seats are on sale for £60
  £102 seats are on sale for £75There are also no booking fees on full-priced seats.
  The snap sale is valid for all performances up to 30th September 2023 when booked f
  
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• 5G and eSIM drive increased enterprise IoT growth

  18-08-2023 12:48
  New research reveals that enterprises around the world are broadly optimistic about the prospects presented by IoT and are harnessing the latest technologies to exploit them.
  Analyst firm Omdia polled hundreds of enterprise professionals across eight verticals in a global survey designed to establish their attitudes and strategies towards IoT (Internet of Things). On the whole, respondents were, somewhat surprisingly, bullish about the commercial prospects for IoT, with 95% of them expecting to
  
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• Deutsche Telekom launches new 5G tablet for €1

  18-08-2023 12:47
  Operator Deutsche Telekom has bolstered its low-cost T Phone range with a the T Tablet courtesy of a collaboration with Google.
  The T Tablet is being sold for €1 when purchased with the operator’s Magenta Mobile or Data plans –  or on its own for €219 –  and will be available from August 24th. It’s already got a range of own-branded phones, but this is its first tablet.
  It will be launching in Germany, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary
  
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