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• Greater Anglia offering £10 return fares on train trips this autumn

  25-09-2023 21:41 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Train operator, Greater Anglia, is launching special autumn ‘Hare Fares’ from London for just £10 return for a limited time.
  (c) Greater Anglia
  The new ‘Hare Fares’ offer passengers off-peak returns across the Greater Anglia network with simple return prices: £10, £15 and £20, with children travelling for just £2 return each.
  (There are also some return fares for £5, but only for trips wholly outside London)
  Tickets are on sale now and
  
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• Qualcomm confirms it is downsizing in China

  25-09-2023 17:53
  Qualcomm plans to downsize its business in China amidst concerns over the economic situation and demand uncertainties, it emerged late last week.
  However, the US-based chipmaker denied a rumour that it will close down its R&D centre in Shanghai, according to local financial news outlet Yicai.
  The business publication contacted Qualcomm following what it describes as Internet reports that claimed the Shanghai facility was for the chop, a move that would bring about large-scale job losses. Qua
  
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• Plans revealed to restore a disused theatre on Westbourne Grove

  25-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans have been revealed to restore a disused theatre back to public use some 60 years after it closed. The theatre, on Westbourne Grove in west London, was built in 1862 as the Victoria Hall, although renamed the Bijou Theatre in 1893. After a short stint as a cinema in 1911-18, it reopened as a theatre and was renamed the Twentieth Century Theatre in 1936.
  However, it closed in 1962 and has been used as an antiques warehouse ever since.
  (c) Aspect Foundation / Caruso St John Architects
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: DTW 2023, AI, and China

  25-09-2023 14:37
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · DTW 2023, AI, and China
  
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• TIM confirms potential NetCo sale delay

  25-09-2023 13:59
  KKR wants more time to submit a final offer for TIM’s networks business, leaving the Italian incumbent facing yet another delay in the sale process.
  To the untrained eye that could look like bad news. But we saw it coming – there have been rumblings in the Italian press over a possible delay for the past week or so – and a slightly later bid deadline could actually indicate that the process is progressing well, rather than signifying trouble in the ranks.
  TIM at the weekend con
  
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• Amazon favours Anthropic’s Claude AI after acquiring major stake

  25-09-2023 13:49
  Having made a virtue of supporting multiple AI models on AWS, Amazon’s massive investment in one provider indicates that is set to change.
  Hyperscaler-enabled AI was a major theme at the recent DTW telecoms trade show. AI requires an exceptional amount of computing grunt so that, along with the ability to augment stuff already running in the public cloud, suggested another major reason for operators to hand over one more piece of their soul to one of the three US giants that dominate this
  
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• Nokia’s AI strategy gathers momentum with new lab

  25-09-2023 13:46
  Finnish kit maker Nokia is building on last week’s launch of an AI tool for operators with the opening of a new lab.
  Based in Dubai, it has a fairly broad remit, one that includes fostering the development and adoption of new AI and machine learning (AI/ML)-based network intelligence tech by operators throughout the Middle East and Africa. Nokia also hopes the lab will drum up business for two of its cloud RAN partners, Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
  The new facility, called th
  
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• Amazon to introduce ads to its Prime Video streaming service

  25-09-2023 13:30
  Tech giant Amazon will begin including ‘limited’ adverts with to shows and movies on its Prime Video SVoD service – but for an additional charge you’ll be able to keep them off your screen.
  After clearing its throat by celebrating its original content chops and highlighting awards its won for shows like The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Amazon said in a blog post that it is introducing the ads in order to continue investing in content and increase that investment over a long peri
  
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• Roads closed for overnight delivery of lift shafts to Plumstead Station

  25-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The project to add step-free access to Plumstead station in southeast London is progressing after an overnight delivery of the two lift shafts. The lift shafts were preassembled off-site and the delivery took place at night to allow them to close off the local roads for the crane to hoist them over the side of the railway onto the platforms.
  Lift installation (c) Network Rail
  Network Rail says that completing construction of the lift shafts remains on course to be completed next spring.
  Work on
  
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• A cut-back HS2 could end up being slower than the existing railway

  25-09-2023 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The threat to cut the HS2 railway to a short shuttle service between Birmingham and the edge of London could mean that a journey by HS2 is slower than the existing railway.
  HS2 as a shuttle (red) vs what was planned (grey)
  Citing TfL research, the Mayor of London noted in an open letter to the government that stopping HS2 at Old Oak Common and asking people to switch to the Elizabeth line to get into central London would add so much time to the journey that it would be quicker to use the existin
  
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• Private 5G Goes Mainstream Enterprise demand and QCT momentum in the market

  25-09-2023 09:03
  The private 5G market continues to expand supporting enterprises’ transformation and delivering benefits in areas such as security and real-time data insights. However, cellular is a new technology for many verticals such as manufacturing or healthcare. Consequently, many enterprises still face challenges related with the complexity and management of a private 5G network. QCT OmniPOD solution powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with OmniView is an end-to-end solution which
  
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• The Need for Visibility in Private 5G: Introducing QCT OmniView

  25-09-2023 09:01
  Compared to previous iteration of cellular technology 5G is better suited to connect a wide variety of devices and thus support vertical markets. Besides the strengths of the technology and the advantages that 5G has over other connectivity options in areas such as performance reliability, the expansion of private 5G is also underpinned by spectrum liberalization. Here, QCT is gaining momentum thanks to its OmniPOD end-to-end turnkey solution powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
  
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• QCT Partners with Intel to Advance vRAN for 5G Edge Applications

  25-09-2023 09:00
  Open vRAN is the future for mobile network infrastructure exploiting software-defined systems running on commodity hardware and providing the flexibility and performance required for 5G with power saving for greater energy efficiency. QCT has partnered with Intel in offering servers that implement Intel FlexRAN, the architecture leading open vRAN designs. These servers offer the latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost, combining CPU and acceleration in a single s
  
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• London’s Alleys: Langley Court, WC2

  25-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an annoying alley in Covent Garden that’s been here for centuries and left scarcely a mark in the history books.It’s generally said that Langley Court was named after Sir Roger Langley, who owned land here in the early 18th century. However, it may have originally been called Angell Court, as that seems to be the name it has in the 1682 edition of William Morgan’s map of London, and while it is a little difficult to be absolutely certain what the name was — it cer
  
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