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• e&: Transforming from a Telco to a Global Techco

  31-08-2023 18:33
  In early June, I met Mr. Obaid Bokisha, the Group Chief Operating Officer of e&, and we discussed e&’s transformation from a regional telco to a global technology group. His presentation of e&’s transformation strategy and plans were insightful and also highlighted learnings for other operators undergoing transformation.Empowering the digital economy
  e& headquartered in the UAE is one of the leading global technology groups today. Founded in Abu Dhabi over 47 years ag
  
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• Government kickstarts upgrade of Colindale and Leyton tube stations with initial £2.6 million grant

  31-08-2023 16:50 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first tranche of government funding to upgrade both Colindale and Leyton tube stations has been handed over to Transport for London (TfL).
  Earlier this year, the government agreed to provisionally provide £43 million towards the cost of rebuilding the two tube stations to cope with demand and include step-free access. The funding is provisional, subject to a full business case being accepted by the government, so an initial package of £2.6 million has been provided to TfL to pay
  
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• UK altnet Hyperoptic gets a new tech boss

  31-08-2023 16:39
  Fixed-line industry veteran Duncan Macdonald has been poached from Liberty Global to become Hyperoptic’s CTIO.
  The move is being framed by Hyperoptic as necessary to give the company the technical capability it needs to support what it describes as rapid customer growth. Macdonald will also look at introducing some of the latest network and systems technologies in what looks like a pretty broad technology strategy remit.
  Macdonald arrives with 25 years of experience, primarily in European
  
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• Harrow school offering public tours in September

  31-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few times a year, there are tours of the famous posh private school in northwest London, and tickets for the next tours are on sale.
  The tours take in the historic rooms and buildings at Harrow School including the Fourth Form Room, Speech Room, Chapel and War Memorial Building, amongst others, accompanied by their guides. The tours are a mix of the history of Harrow school and how it was founded, the day-to-day life of a Harrow student today with the traditions and customs, but really, it&rsq
  
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• Denmark launches its first standalone 5G network

  31-08-2023 13:52
  Ericsson and TDC NET have collaborated to bring Denmark into the proper 5G era.
  TDC NET seems to have consistently made the early 5G running in Denmark, having gone live with the country’s first non-standalone (NSA) 5G (i.e. 5G RAN on a legacy core) three years ago. The fact that it took so long to complete the transition to proper (standalone – SA) 5G illustrates how complicated that move is. The Ericsson press release frames it as ‘a monumental leap forward in connectivity&rs
  
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• Vodafone UK finally commences volume Open RAN deployment

  31-08-2023 13:28
  2,500 Vodafone sites across Wales and the southwest of England are to have their legacy technology replaced by Open RAN kit.
  It has been around three years since Vodafone UK first started publicly mulling this technological paradigm shift. Since then we have seen a sequence of incremental dipping of toes in the water, as Open RAN was trialled first in rural settings, then more urban ones. All that due diligence has finally enabled Vodafone to reach the point when it feels confident enough to inf
  
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• Samsung’s new app uses AI to choose meals for you

  31-08-2023 12:17
  Samsung has dropped an AI-powered food and recipe app called Samsung Food that will suggest meal plans, synch with Samsung Health, and control connected cooking equipment in the kitchen.
  Samsung Food is loaded with 160,000 recipes and is pitched as a personalised assistant that helps users discover new things to cook, create tailored meal plans, order ingredients online, and control smart cooking appliances.
  The AI bit seems to be a product of Whisk, a smart food platform which Samsung acquired
  
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• Finsbury Square’s lost “Sodomites Walk”

  31-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A strip of land to the south of Finsbury Square in the City that’s today just a busy road was once far more notorious — as a space where gay men congregated.
  This was Sodomites Walk.The exact location isn’t known, although usually described as being on the south side of Finsbury Square, and if you look at contemporary maps of the time, there was a marked boundary between Upper Moor Fields — which is Finsbury Square today — and a similar sized Middle Moor Fields to t
  
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