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• Vodafone Three lobbying campaign zeroes in on the NHS

  14-09-2023 17:25
  5G, or the lack thereof, could have significant financial consequences for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
  This is according to a study published this week by Vodafone. The UK-based telco has invoked the highly-emotive subject of healthcare as the latest ploy in its effort to win support for its merger with rival MNO Three. It follows a more broad survey about the tie-up’s supposed benefits to the UK economy published in June.
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• Vodafone Three lobbying campaign zeroes in on healthcare

  14-09-2023 17:25
  5G, or the lack thereof, could have significant financial consequences for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
  This is according to a study published this week by Vodafone. The UK-based telco has invoked the highly-emotive subject of healthcare as the latest ploy in its effort to win support for its merger with rival MNO Three. It follows a more broad survey about the tie-up’s supposed benefits to the UK economy published in June.
  Research carried out by WPI Economics on behalf o
  
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• BT plans liquid cooling trials with Iceotope and others

  14-09-2023 17:19
  BT has become the latest telecoms operator to embrace the idea of liquid cooling as a way to reduce energy consumption, which in turn helps with climate-related targets and saves some cash.
  The UK incumbent has outlined a range of liquid cooling experiments it is currently undertaking with various vendors, chief among which seems to be a trial with specialist vendor Iceotope for cooling network switches.
  Specifically, the telco said it is evaluating a precision liquid cooling solution from Iceot
  
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• Hounslow Council awarded £130k to improve local railway stations

  14-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hounslow Council has been awarded £130,000 to be spent on improvements around railway stations in the area, including new cycling hubs in Feltham and Hounslow.
  The funding from South Western Railway’s (SWR) Customer and Communities Improvement Fund (CCIF) will pay for the implementation of a new cycle training hub at Feltham Arenas with the purchase of 30 new cycles. The funding will also cover the purchase of new adaptive cycles to be used at Feltham Arenas and at Inwood Park All Ab
  
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• Get a preview of Horizon 22 – London’s highest viewing gallery

  14-09-2023 14:29 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In a few week’s time, London’s highest viewing gallery will open, and you’ll be able to look down at the Shard and across an awful lot of London. And it’ll be free to visit. Yes, totally free!The viewing gallery is Horizon 22, a play on the view of the horizon that you’ll get to see, and the skycraper’s address of 22 Bishopsgate. It’s quite a remarkable view, even if you’ve been up London’s other viewing galleries, thanks to the very high spa
  
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• Veon navigates some bumps on its route out of Russia

  14-09-2023 14:07
  Netherlands-based Veon has agreed a minor tweak to the management buyout of its Russian arm VimpelCom.
  It is coming up to a year since Veon agreed to offload VimpelCom to a group led by the unit’s CEO, Aleksander Torbakhov, for $2.1 billion. It was agreed initially that a big chunk of the purchase price would be covered by VimpelCom taking on and cancelling a portion of Veon’s debt.
  This week, Veon revealed that the transaction will now be entirely funded this way.
  Veon also seems to
  
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• T-Mobile US racks up another $3.3 billion in spectrum spend

  14-09-2023 14:00
  T-Mobile US has brokered a deal that will see it buy up to US$3.3 billion worth of 600 MHz spectrum from cable operator Comcast.
  Never one to shy away from a major spectrum purchase, T-Mobile this week unveiled an agreement that will boost its 600 MHz portfolio in some major US markets with the option of others also being thrown in. All for a pretty hefty fee, of course.
  Under the terms of the deal, T-Mobile will acquire $1.2 billion worth of frequencies covering around 39 million pops in New Yo
  
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• US accuses China of ‘inappropriate retaliation’ over possible Apple ban

  14-09-2023 13:52
  Following reports that China is banning the use of iPhones in government agencies, the US government indicated such behaviour is wrong.
  Last week the WSJ reported that China is banning the use of Apple iPhones for government officials at work. At a general press briefing yesterday, which you can see the video recording of below, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby was asked what he thought of the report and what he was going to do about it.
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• Free theatre tickets for 18-25 year olds

  14-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  To mark the 60th anniversary of the National Theatre, they will be giving away 3,600 tickets for free to people aged 16-25.The National Theatre was founded by Laurence Olivier in 1963, although it was based at the Old Vic theatre until 1976/7, when the brutalist Southbank building was ready for them.
  To mark the anniversary, there will be 60 tickets for 60 performances for free throughout October on the South Bank and in the West End. Productions include The Father and the Assassin, Death of Eng
  
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• ZTE vSTB to reshape what TV services look like

  14-09-2023 11:55
  Cloud-based terminals and applications like cloud PCs, cloud phones, cloud gaming, and cloud VR, which are growing increasingly popular, have proved their value in accelerating the uptake of new services, saving investment in terminals while improving operation and maintenance efficiency. In the TV industry, after decades of development, the existing set-top boxes (STBs) have increased to a huge number, posing enormous upgrade and replacement challenges. The cloud terminal technology has proven
  
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• ZTE 5G VR Solution Brings the Culture of Tang Dynasty to Life

  14-09-2023 11:55
  Metaverse has gradually gained acceptance in recent years. Industries build their own independent metaverse spaces respectively, which forms a discrete, multi-centered ecosystem, with AR, VR and immersive display technologies as the current technical foundation. Nowadays, metaverse is usually adopted in information services, culture and entertainment industries, particularly widely used in museums. Many museums tend to create a digital twin in metaverse for visitors to experience exhibitions whe
  
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• Altnets call for structural separation of BT and Openreach

  14-09-2023 11:24
  The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA), which represents the UK’s alternative network operators, has called for a dramatic re-shaping of the market.
  In a new report (PDF), it argues that competition in the fixed broadband sector is being jeopardised by Ofcom regulations that benefit incumbent BT’s infrastructure arm, Openreach.
  INCA also notes that BT – as the largest ISP in the country – has committed to only use Openreach for its retail broadband networ
  
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• From Poverty to Power: Chanel’s journey unveiled in V&A’s fashion exhibition

  14-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This weekend, an exhibition opens at the V&A that you can’t visit because the demand for tickets has been so great that the earliest anyone can visit now is the middle of December. That’s the appeal of the apparels created by a designer best known simply as Chanel.Born into relative poverty, Chanel was taught to become a seamstress and while trying to become an actress, she met a rich man, setting the stage for several rich dalliances in her life. It was her later affair with the
  
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