Telecom news

• Delivering the Smart City Metaverse

  22-09-2023 17:38
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Rolf Werner, Senior Vice President of Europe at Nokia, explores developments in Smart City technology.
  Over the last two decades we have seen a dramatic shift in how we live. Until 2009, more people lived in rural than in urban areas. Today, around 55 per cent of the world’s population live in towns and cities, and up to 70 per cent will do the same b
  
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• Toshiba opens quantum computing lab in Cambridge

  22-09-2023 16:39
  Tech manufacturer Toshiba has opened doors to its Quantum Technology Centre, a commercial offshoot from the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory in Cambridge Science Park.
  It represents a £20 million investment from Toshiba into the development of quantum-secure networking products and will initially create over 30 new jobs ranging from business development to production.
  The hub is a commercialised business operating under Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, and will be tasked with co
  
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• Hunt for hand-written notes by Andy Leek in Marylebone this October

  22-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An art trail has popped up in Marylebone, all featuring messages dotted around the area.
  (c) Portman Marylebone
  The textual art is by Brixton based artist Andy Leek, and numerous messages in a range of sizes can be spied around the area. There’s a bit of a map on their website, which may not be particularly good on a phone, so maybe you will need to print it out first.
  From October, Andy Leek will also place limited edition, hand-written notes in some of the retail stores in the area. To f
  
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• Vodafone and partners explore new silicon photonic chips

  22-09-2023 15:19
  Network operator Vodafone together with partners, including Salience Labs and iPronics, are exploring new silicon photonic chips as hardware for ‘higher capacity’ open RAN in a Malaga R&D centre.
  UK-based Salience Labs and Valencia-based iPronics startups joined Vodafone, and other participating vendors, to advance the chip architecture with the goal to enhance new open radio access networks (open RAN). The two startups are assisting with testing the latest silicon photonics.
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• Flash sale on Frozen the Musical tickets

  22-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The long-running stage musical version of the Disney film currently has an offer on tickets with £48 tickets reduced to just £25 for most performances.The magical world of Arendelle comes to life with all of your favourite characters and songs to tell a story of love, hope and discovery. Watch as the sisters who melted the hearts of people around the world cast their spell on the West End.
  The 2013 film had 7 original songs, including fan favourites ‘Do You Want to Build a Snow
  
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• Vodafone reportedly in talks to sell off Spanish operation to Zegona

  22-09-2023 12:13
  According to reports operator Vodafone is negotiating the sale of its Spanish business to investment group Zegona.
  The reports appear to have emanated from Spanish newspaper Expansion (paywalled) and subsequently reported elsewhere by the likes of Bloomberg and Reuters.
  The gist of the reporting is that Zegona is looking for financing to buy Vodafone’s Spanish operations and that the bid could value the whole company at over €5 billion, though Zegona could only purchase a 50% stake. M
  
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• Size matters when it comes to trade shows

  22-09-2023 11:11
  Attendees at the DTW 2023 event seemed to appreciate the emphasis on quality over quantity.
  Covering trade shows is one of the more challenging assignments for us trade hacks. We strive to summarise an event that can consist of thousands of people having millions of interactions and distil all of it into one overarching theme.
  Many people we have spoken to about Mobile World Congress agree that, while it’s almost mandatory for telecoms professionals, it’s hard to get much done amid t
  
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• EchoStar ramps up European IoT push with The Things Industries

  22-09-2023 10:29
  Satellite operator EchoStar is adding a terrestrial element to its European IoT strategy.
  The US-based company, which last month agreed to merge with Dish, has partnered with The Things Industries, a Netherlands-based developer of enterprise LoRaWAN solutions.
  Its portfolio includes a LoRaWAN network server which it calls The Things Stack. It handles connectivity, management and monitoring of IoT devices, gateways and applications. It is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable data ro
  
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• CityFibre brings in the builders for Project Gigabit

  22-09-2023 10:22
  CityFibre has inked contracts with four civil engineering firms that will enable to crack on with building fibre network infrastructure in tricky locations using the government funding it won earlier this year.
  The fibre network operator shared details of the companies it will use to start the building work for fibre infrastructure in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Granemore Group, OCU Group, CCN Communications and Telelink will get the projects underway in the various counties,
  
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• Wearables on the up again as prices slide

  22-09-2023 10:20
  The global market for wearable devices returned to growth in the second quarter of the year, but while the rise of smaller players helped to drive shipments, it also contributed to falling prices.
  So says IDC, which this week shared new market data and forecasts for the wearables space. Its headline finding showed unit shipments grew by 8.5% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June to 116.3 million devices, the growth coming after two quarters of decline.
  Those Q2 numbers mean that ID
  
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