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• HS2 completes core of the Euston station’s ‘Sugar Cube’

  07-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large “sugar cube” that’s being built as part of HS2’s station at Euston has been topped out, marking the completion of their first above ground structure at the station.
  CGI of the planned surface building (c) HS2
  Although main station works were put on hold in April, this project has carried on as it is a replacement for a London Underground ventilation shaft and electricity substation that sits in the middle of the future HS2 station.
  To replace the lost facility, a
  
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• UK full fibre growth slows

  07-09-2023 14:09
  More than half of UK homes now have full fibre broadband coverage, while access to Gigabit services in general is on the up, according to new data published by Ofcom on Thursday.
  But while the UK telecoms regulator is upbeat on progress in its latest connectivity report, fibre growth slowed in the first few months of 2023 and there is a serious question mark over government targets on Gigabit broadband.
  Full fibre coverage for the UK as a whole passed the halfway mark earlier this year, the most
  
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• Full fibre grows but slows in the UK

  07-09-2023 14:09
  More than half of UK homes now have full fibre broadband coverage, while access to Gigabit services in general is on the up, according to new data published by Ofcom on Thursday.
  But while the UK telecoms regulator is upbeat on progress in its latest connectivity report, fibre growth slowed in the first few months of 2023 and there is a serious question mark over government targets on Gigabit broadband.
  Full fibre coverage for the UK as a whole passed the halfway mark earlier this year, the most
  
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• Online censorship pressure mounts ahead of 2024 election season

  07-09-2023 13:31
  Recent developments in the EU, US and UK all contribute to a sense of increasing pressure to shape and constrain the digital public square.
  The US-based Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) today issued a press release with the following headline: “Media Freedom Act: EU Parliament Risks Enabling Spread of Harmful Content With Media Exemption”. The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) aims to improve the functioning of the internal (EU) media market. Part of this aim
  
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• Deutsche Telekom to offload T-Mobile US shares

  07-09-2023 13:27
  German incumbent Deutsche Telekom plans to reduce its ownership of T-Mobile US, even though it only became majority shareholder in the operation earlier this year.
  DT has yet to decide how many shares it plans to offload, but insists the sale will not jeopardise its majority position. The process is due to kick off next year.
  T-Mobile used to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, once upon a time, but the acquisition of MetroPCS, followed by the merger with Sprint, diluted DT’s
  
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• Vestager leaves EU competition job as M&A decision looms

  07-09-2023 13:17
  The European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager (pictured) is taking a temporary leave of absence to pursue a top position at the European Investment Bank at a time when telecoms M&A is hoting up again.
  EU president Ursula von der Leyen granted Vestager, EVP for the European Commission, a period of unpaid leave to enable her to serve as the Danish government’s candidate for the position of President of the Management Committee of the EIB, Brussels announced earli
  
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• Alexander Fleming Museum celebrates 30th anniversary: From nappy storage to medical milestone

  07-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A small museum in Paddington that celebrates the man who accidentally discovered penicillin is marking its 30th anniversary this month.The Alexander Fleming Museum is, to be honest, not that amazing, being a couple of exhibition rooms, and then the Hallowed Space, where he famously left his window open in a dirty lab and discovered penicillin. The Hallowed Space is however just a recreation.
  It has largely original objects, but for many years, the room was used to store nappies for the maternity
  
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• VMO2 calls time on 3G

  07-09-2023 12:52
  UK operator VMO2 will begin the process of switching off 3G services in 2025, which it says will enable it to expand and upgrade its 4G and 5G footprint and save some energy.
  3G services will be turned off in phases across the UK, a process which the operator expects to be complete by the end of 2025. VMO2 estimates last year 3G – which launched two decades ago – accounted for less than 4% of all data on its network last year.
  2G will be switched off by 2033, but will remain in place
  
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• Restored tea room at London Bridge taken over by Starbucks

  07-09-2023 11:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the railway arches in the recently restored Findlater’s Corner at London Bridge that was once a tea room is to become a branch of a high street coffee chain.
  Not the main corner site, with the large Findlater’s sign on it, which comes from the wine merchants who originally occupied the corner, but a side railway arch around the corner which recently revealed a very unexpected piece of history.The railway arch was for many years home to a branch of William Hill, and it was only
  
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• Go on a history tour of Wilton’s Music Hall

  07-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Down an East End alley can be found the decaying frontage of one of London’s last surviving music halls — and they offer tours of the building.Wilton’s Music Hall started as a house that turned into a pub, then expanded a bit next door to create a salon theatre, and when that was popular built a small music hall over their back gardens.
  That is not the music hall that’s there today though, because in 1859, a much larger hall, with a crowded capacity for 1,500 people was b
  
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