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• Netcracker launches generative AI tool for telcos

  11-09-2023 18:23
  The Netcracker GenAI Telco Solution promises to provide operators with a tool to do things like ‘enhance customer interactions’ and increase automation and productivity by feeding data into generative AI models.
  Netcracker asserts that the telco business is very specialised and most of its data highly confidential and a large proportion of it changes constantly, creating challenges for operators to leverage real-time data. And thus the pitch is that a generative AI tool can help them
  
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• Growth in 5G FWA kit matches operator hype

  11-09-2023 18:11
  The market for fixed wireless CPE is on the up, driven by growth in 5G devices, according to new figures released this week.
  The data, shared by the GSA, shows strong growth, albeit from a relatively low base, given the size of the global telecoms industry. But nonetheless, the figures serve to back up some of the recent hype over FWA we have seen from the operator community, particularly on the other side of the Atlantic.
  5G FWA customer premises equipment shipments more than doubled to 7.4 mil
  
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• A piece of Royal history: Coronation Chairs being sold to raise money for charity

  11-09-2023 17:50 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you have admittedly rather deep pockets, you could own one of the rich blue chairs sat on by exceptionally important bums during the Coronation earlier this year.The auction of six pairs of Coronation Chairs will raise funds for four charities chosen by Their Majesties; Emmaus UK, SafeLives, The Prince’s Trust and The Prince’s Foundation.
  Designed and Created by the Rugby-based cabinetmaker N.E.J. Stevenson, in collaboration with The Snowdon School of Furniture, one hundred Corona
  
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• A new Lido is being planned for Ilford

  11-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A century after the first one was built, Ilford’s Valentines Park could be getting a replacement outdoor swimming pool to replace the Lido that was demolished in 1995.
  Early concept image (c) Redbridge Council
  The former lido was built by Ilford Urban District Council in 1923-4 on a site that had previously been a gravel pit in the eastern corner of Valentine’s Park and was in use up to 1994 and demolished in 1995. Since demolished, the area is now just an expanse of open grass in th
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Huawei, Open RAN and Europe

  11-09-2023 14:46
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Huawei, Open RAN and Europe
  
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• Spain mulls block on STC’s Telefonica buy

  11-09-2023 14:34
  The Spanish government is at sixes and sevens over Saudi Telecom’s proposed acquisition of a 9.9% stake in Telefonica.
  There has been vocal opposition to the move since Saudi Telecom, better known as STC, shared its decision to spend €2.1 billion to become the Spanish incumbent’s largest shareholder last week, including from one of the country’s leading government officials. Spain has the power to block the move, but deciding whether to exercise that power will be a tricky
  
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• Red Arrows flypast over London on Tuesday lunchtime

  11-09-2023 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Look to the skies, because the Red Arrows will be flying over London’s Docklands on Tuesday (12th Sept) at lunchtime.The flypast is to greet the opening of the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) conference at ExCeL, but naturally, the Red Arrows can’t just pop into the air for that one place, so there are several locations they’ll be flying over as well.
  The exact route is not confirmed, but based on the turn points below, it’s likely that they will fly i
  
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• Huawei continues to taunt the US with more smartphone launches

  11-09-2023 13:03
  Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has followed the launch of the Mate 60 Pro with a new foldy phone but is still being coy about the specs.
  The foldable Huawei Mate X5 has a page on the Huawei Chinese consumer website and is even available for preorder through Huawei’s ecommerce platform. But, just as with the contentious launch of the Mate 60 at the end of last month, the company has declined to publish any details about either its application processor or its cellular modem.
  As a reminder, t
  
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• Elizabeth line records busiest month to date

  11-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Elizabeth line has reported its busiest month since the line opened, carrying 16.7 million passengers in the 28 days from late June to late July.The line first past the 16 million passenger mark for the first time only the month before that as well, and was loitering around the 13-14 million mark for the previous few months. So passenger numbers are rising fast according to the latest GLA datastore numbers.
  However, passenger numbers may drop in the next report as the Elizabeth line has also
  
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• Deutsche Telekom claims 12 Gbps mobile speed record on 6 GHz

  11-09-2023 12:59
  Deutsche Telekom has realised mobile network data rates of 12 gigabits per second in tests, using 6 GHz frequencies.
  It claims that’s a world record, which is highly likely to be the case given that, in its own words, it generated data speed and bandwidth as much as 12 times higher than current 5G networks.
  The German incumbent has been banging the 6 GHz drum for a while. Late last year it declared the frequency band to be “ideal” for mobile communications, having carried out s
  
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• Qualcomm and Samsung claim carrier aggregation milestone

  11-09-2023 12:33
  Chip firm Qualcomm and tech giant Samsung claim to have achieved the ‘world’s first’ simultaneous 5G 2x uplink and 4x downlink carrier aggregation for FDD spectrum.
  The trial was done using a ‘mobile phone form-factor test device’ – which is presumably not dissimilar from a phone – running on a Snapdragon X75 5G Modem-RF System and Samsung’s 5G dual-band and tri-band radios, using carrier aggregation technology.
  The trial achieved 200 Mbps uplink p
  
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• London’s Alleys: Spring Mews, W1

  11-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a narrow passage in Marylebone that once led to horse stables for the rich folk who lived here and is now more of a back access for a replacement mansion block
  The mews first shows up as a plan only in a map from 1799 as the area was being developed by the Portman Estate from fields into housing.
  R Horwood Map 1799
  Just a few years later, the whole area was developed, and Spring Mews was now providing access to the backs of grand houses facing outwards onto the roads.
  The road to the eas
  
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