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• Climb to the top of One Canada Square skyscraper

  23-08-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to walk up the stairs to the very top of the One Canada Square skyscraper in Canary Wharf — if you have strong calf muscles and can raise money for charity.The chance to walk up the skyscraper is in aid of the food charity, The Felix Project, and they expect that the money raised will enable it to deliver over 870,000 meals in the run-up to Christmas.
  The charity is looking for people to step up and register to complete 1,031 steps of the Canary Wharf skyscraper. The
  
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• AI’s role in the future of connectivity

  23-08-2023 16:58
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Nathan Howe, Vice President of Emerging Technology at Zscaler, examines ways in which artificial intelligence will affect the telecoms industry.
  Whether you believe it is the answer to all our problems or a threat to life as we know it, there can be no argument about the rising influence of AI on the world around us. And seemingly no industry, service or so
  
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• Huawei accused of using affiliates to skirt US chip sanctions

  23-08-2023 16:43
  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) claims that Huawei is secretly involved in an effort to build chip factories that could flout US export controls.
  Rather than come out and say it directly, a presentation on the subject given by SIA to its members found its way into the hands of Bloomberg.
  Since being subject to trade restrictions, Huawei has generally looked to Chinese suppliers for chips to use in its smartphones and other related gear. However, these homegrown products currently ca
  
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• Take a walk through the Mail Rail tunnels — with an extra bit for Christmas

  23-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Postal Museum has announced fresh dates for the chance to walk through the tunnels under Mount Pleasent where the Mail Rail used to carry the post.
  (c) The Postal Museum
  Visitors get access to the original tunnels, tracks and station platforms of London’s 100-year-old postal railway, letting you explore parts of the railway that aren’t accessible on the Mail Rail ride.
  The route involves walking on uneven ground in low-light conditions for around 1.2km (0.75 miles) including step
  
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• Tickets Alert: An exhibition about old telephone exchanges

  23-08-2023 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For one evening only, there will be an exhibition about telephone exchanges taking place inside BT’s headquarters building.
  Woolwich telephone exchange
  It’s organised by Lisa Kinch as part of a PhD research project at Lancaster University funded by the NWCDTP, looking into the history and design of the UK’s telephone exchanges.
  Telephone exchanges are buildings that once dominated urban landscapes, often built in — at the time — very modern styles and standing out a
  
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• Turkcell ploughs $240 million into solar energy

  23-08-2023 13:51
  Turkcell is investing US$240 million in solar energy production as part of an effort to use solely renewable energy by 2030.
  The Turkish telco revealed that it is planning to install solar power plants with a total installed capacity of 300 megawatts, purely for its own consumption – nothing will go back to the grid – within three years. As it stands, state-owned electricity transmission company the Türkiye Elektrik İletim and the relevant regional electricity distribution
  
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• Global RAN market experiences major decline

  23-08-2023 13:40
  A new report from Dell’Oro Group says RAN sales declined at their fastest pace in nearly seven years during Q2 of this year.
  According to preliminary findings from the analyst firm, which tracks the telecoms, security, networks, and data centre sectors, following the ‘intense ramp-up’ from 2017 through 2021, RAN revenues stabilized in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, however market conditions worsened in Q2 resulting in the year-on-year decline.
  While this was not unexpected
  
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• AT&T treads carefully with ramped up FWA rollout

  23-08-2023 13:18
  AT&T is keen to take on T-Mobile and Verizon in the 5G fixed-wireless access (FWA) market, but not at the expense of mobile customers or its fibre business.
  Having hinted at a broader rollout of Internet Air earlier this year, the US telco this week announced its arrival in 16 new locations coast-to-coast, and said more markets will get it in future.
  It offers uncapped data for $55 per month before taxes, and comes with no equipment costs, or annual contract. That’s broadly in line wit
  
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• Nokia drops new 25G PON starter kit for operators

  23-08-2023 13:02
  Nokia’s 25G PON (Passive Optical Network) starter kit solution is pitched as offering operators tools to ‘maximize and monetize’ 10Gbs+ deployments.
  The 25G PON kit is supposed to provide operators with ‘everything they need to accelerate the deployment of high-speed connectivity to businesses’, and each kit has the capability to connect up to 10 businesses.
  Nokia says ‘10Gbs business connectivity has emerged as the golden standard in markets worldwide’,
  
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• The London Museum wants your old signs

  23-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When it opens in 2026, the new London Museum wants to have a space filled with old London signs and is now asking the public for donations.
  The installation, Hanging Out, will aim to celebrate how the capital brings people together to dance, play, see and be seen, using signs from indoor and outdoor spaces and community hubs across the city.
  Welcome to the ‘Stow, sign from Walthamstow Stadium, c. 1970-1990, previously hung at the entrance to the dog racing track (c) Museum of London
  To bui
  
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• Severe disruption expected due to train strike on Saturday

  23-08-2023 11:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Train companies are warning that rail travel this coming weekend will be severely disrupted by strike action by the RMT union.The RMT union has announced strike action on Saturday 26th August and Saturday 2nd September, and that will affect most of England’s train companies ability to run services on the Saturday and cause late starts on the Sunday.
  The train companies have now published their planned timetables for this coming Saturday, and most are expecting to run very few trains and on
  
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