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• Jio’s FWA service goes live in eight cities

  21-09-2023 17:27
  India’s Reliance Jio has finally launched its hotly-anticipated fixed-wireless access (FWA) service, giving its rivals one more thing to worry about.
  JioAirFiber offers unlimited data, and is pitched to customers who want to experience high-speed fixed broadband but don’t live within reach of a fixed network.
  Prices start at INR599 (£3.91) per month for the entry-level 30 Mbps service. That is marginally more expensive than Jio’s cheapest fixed fibre tariff, which comes i
  
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• Half price offer on TfL’s cycle hire scheme

  21-09-2023 16:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The standard monthly subscription charge to use a Santander cycle hire bike has been halved for the next few days.As part of a number of events to mark the Car Free Day, you can purchase a one-month subscription to the cycle hire scheme for £10 instead of the usual £20.
  The subscription gets you unlimited cycle rides for free so long as each trip is under an hour long. That compares to the £1.65 charge for a 30-minute cycle ride for pay-as-you-go users.
  Subscribers can also use
  
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• Building Digital UK gives update on Project Gigabit

  21-09-2023 14:18
  In an exclusive interview the chair of BDUK shares an update on Project Gigabit, as over £2 billion of the total £5 billion investment programme is already underway.
  The government’s broadband initiative aims to enable hard-to-reach communities access to what is considered by the government as ‘lightning-fast gigabit-capable broadband’. Meanwhile, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is celebrating the fact the first 100,000 Gigabit Broadband
  
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• More tickets to visit Horizon 22 viewing gallery coming next month

  21-09-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tickets to visit London’s highest viewing gallery were released yesterday, and 5,000 of the free tickets were snapped up in just the first few minutes.The viewing gallery is now fully “sold out” for the month ahead — with over 28,000 free tickets booked in advance. Horizon 22 says that they were seeing ticket reservations coming from  Canada, USA, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, Singapore, and mainland Europe, so it’s already on the tourist visitor agenda.
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• China 5G customer growth slows, but networks expand

  21-09-2023 13:52
  China’s 5G operators added getting on for 17 million 5G customers in August, but while that’s a sizeable figure by the standards of most markets, growth in the country is slowing.
  That’s understandable, of course. The country’s three main telcos – four, if you include the limited contribution from newcomer China Broadnet – have been adding 5G customers at a rate of knots for the past couple of years, a curve that was always going to be unsustainable.
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• Ericsson gets Cloud RAN up and running on Google

  21-09-2023 13:42
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson is helping to bring some hyperscale benefits to telco cloud with a version of its Cloud RAN solution that works on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC).
  GDC is Google’s hybrid edge cloud offering, extending its hardware and software to the edge of the network and into on-premises data centres. The whole thing is managed from the public cloud via a secure, dedicated connection to the on-premises infrastructure.
  Ericsson and Google have successfully demonstrated a full i
  
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• VMO2 trials ‘connected farm of the future’

  21-09-2023 13:03
  UK operator VMO2 has launched a trial with Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, throwing out some ideas of how connectivity could improve rural agriculture in the future.
  Connecting up the entire 126-acre estate to wipe out historic blackspots and not-spots allowed the distribution of a network of sensors and monitors around the farm, which laid the ground work for some tests of teched-up farming concepts such as monitoring soil conditions, machinery, livestock, and land boundaries.
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• Morden tube station wins TfL’s annual best garden award

  21-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Morden tube station’s disused platform garden has been judged the best in the annual “In Bloom” competition for the best garden on the Transport for London (TfL) network.
  Morden station (c) TfL
  Each year, TfL staff dedicate their own free time to create gardens at stations, depots, and offices, often in collaboration with local people and businesses, and each year, the best are awarded prizes.
  The competition launched more than a century ago at the time of the District Railway,
  
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• London’s Public Art: The Reflection sculpture by David Breuer-Weil

  21-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Standing almost unnoticed next to the Elizabeth line station entrance on Dean Street is a large bronze sculpture that’s remarkably to walk past without noticing it’s there.It’s a sculpture by David Breuer-Weil and was commissioned as the requisite public art contribution for the block of residential flats built above the Dean Street entrance to the Elizabeth line. We’re told that the sculpture refers to the cultural figures that are particularly associated with the Soho a
  
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