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• Ten London exhibitions to visit in October 2023

  02-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of ten exhibitions to visit in London before the clocks go back and the darkness falls into winter.Wren at Work – Wren300 Exhibition
  Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London
  (Note: closes on 15th Oct)
  Free
  Visit this re-creation of Wren’s St Paul’s working ‘office’ and experience the intensity of a significant moment in the Capital’s history, the rebuilding of London and the new St Paul’s cathedral after the 1666 fire.
  Details here
  A Great and D
  
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• Energy efficiency in an open, virtualized and disaggregated RAN

  02-10-2023 18:18
  How will Open RAN improve energy efficiency compared to a traditional RAN? Learn about the long-term solutions in this Fujitsu and Senza Fili report.
  Energy efficiency has become a high-priority target for all operators, to meet net-zero emissions and to reduce operating expenses. At the same time, the industry is moving to more open, virtualized and disaggregated networks. In this conversation between Fujitsu and Senza Fili, learn how energy efficiency and openness will fundamentally change the
  
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• Nexfibre makes CEO switch as rollout rumbles on

  02-10-2023 18:17
  UK fibre joint venture Nexfibre has announced that interim chief exec Bernardo Quinn is heading out the door.
  Quinn has spent the largest period of his career at Telefónica, which together with Liberty Global owns 50% of Nexfibre. The company is building out a wholesale fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network with Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) – Telefónica and Liberty’s UK telco JV – as its anchor tenant. The other half of Nexfibre is controlled by French private equity fir
  
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• TIM shows off digital booths ‘for cities of the future’

  02-10-2023 18:07
  Italian incumbent TIM has introduced some new digital booths with touch screens providing access digital services, content, and public services.
  The ‘Smart Stations’ were created in association with Urban Vision and previewed at Italian Tech Week. They are designed to provide such things as infotainment, smartphone charging, digital payments, ticketing, free fixed and mobile national calls, and video surveillance functions are supposed to provide a ‘safety facility in potential
  
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• Tickets Alert: Late opening at Westminster Abbey

  02-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Later this month, Westminster Abbey will host one of its occasional late openings, which, apart from seeing the Abbey in a very different light from daytime visits, are also half-price compared to a daytime visit.
  As sunset is at 7pm, you’ll likely get some lovely light in the Abbey during the evening as the sun sets and the beams pass through the windows at a lower angle than usual.Apart from a chance to visit the Abbey at, for many, a more convenient time, there’s a number of event
  
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• Singtel finally sells Trustwave at low end of estimates

  02-10-2023 14:02
  Singtel has sold its Trustwave cybersecurity business to MC2 Titanium for US$205 million as part of a business reshaping that has been ongoing for a couple of years.
  The sale comes as no surprise, the business having been on the block for some time. If anything, we could have expected an announcement sooner.
  The Singaporean telco announced a strategic review of Chicago-based Trustwave as long ago as May 2021, alongside a weak set of full-year numbers that included write-downs at the unit and mob
  
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• Spark dips a toe in the choppy waters of videogaming

  02-10-2023 13:54
  New Zealand incumbent Spark has entered the gaming market, a place where many a telco and tech giant has come unstuck.
  It has launched Spark Gaming Arena, kicking off the strategy by hosting a nationwide online esports tournament – The Rise Cup featuring Fortnite – in partnership with organiser Letsplay.live.
  It begins on 28 October, and invites players to battle it out for a share of a NZ$30,000 prize pot, the largest ever offered in New Zealand – also known as Aotearoa in M&#
  
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• European telcos once again push for ‘fair contribution’ to network costs

  02-10-2023 13:32
  Some of Europe’s biggest telcos have signed a letter pushing for big tech firms to contribute to the costs of running telecoms networks, again.
  BT, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Vodafone, and many others (20 operators in total) have signed the open letter, which warned that ‘the European “Digital Decade” will fail’ unless future investments and regulatory change are brought in.
  The letter points to EU estimates that at least €174 billion of new i
  
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• From Freddy Mercury to Jake Gyllenhaal – Exhibition explores Levi’s jeans link with LGBTQ+ culture

  02-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal’s jeans from Brokeback Mountain are one of the highlights of an exhibition looking at the fusion between gay men and a particular brand of clothing – Levi Strauss.Mounted onto a shop mannequin, the jeans look rather limp and uninspirin, to be honest – more Marks and Spencers than Brokeback Mountain – but at least they are the authentic item. Elsewhere, you might want to get close to Freddy Murceury’s posterior in the jeans he wore in the 1980s, or se
  
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• London’s Alleys: Plumtree Court, EC4

  02-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a fairly wide modern rebuild of an old alley near Holborn that came into existence around 300 years ago.Back in Tudor times, when there was more green and fewer buildings, this part of London was occupied by Holborn Manor. The later Agas Map of 1561 shows a large open farmland with a large house and an ornamental garden to the south side of the manor house.
  By the 1600s though, it was built up and densely populated and two small courtyards in the area are named on the William Morgan map
  
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• European telecom groups ask Brussels to make Big Tech pay more for networks

  02-10-2023 06:00
  BT, Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica CEOs among those calling for internet traffic drivers to contribute to investment
  
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