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• HMD spins up 5G smartphone manufacturing in Europe

  03-10-2023 18:25
  HMD says it is the first major global smartphone manufacturer to bring manufacturing to Europe, and the first phone off the line will be the Nokia XR21.
  The manufacturer most famously produces Nokia branded phones. The new Nokia XR21 is aimed at enterprise customers and the USP appears to be its ruggedness. It has ‘military-grade durability certification’, an IP69K rating, and is certified to withstand dust, heat, impact, and water, we’re told.
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• Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon comes to Southwark Cathedral

  03-10-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Southwark Cathedral will have a huge floating moon filling the nave for a few weeks, as Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon takes up residence.
  Museum of the Moon (c) Southwark Cathedral
  Measuring seven metres in diameter, the replica of the moon features high resolution NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 5km of the moon’s surface.
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• From dollhouse to design icon: Design Museum’s Barbie exhibition opens in 2024

  03-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Design Museum will go very pink next year as it has announced that it will have an entire exhibition devoted to the pink lady – Barbie.
  2023 Barbie The Movie Doll Gloria Pink Power Pantsuit (c) Mattel, Inc.
  The exhibition, which in no way is jumping on the movie bandwagon as they were keen to note it’s been under preparation for three years, will be opening to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Barbie brand. However, having a Barbie movie that grossed over $1.4 billion at
  
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• Tube strikes this week are CANCELLED

  03-10-2023 13:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Good news for commuters, as the tube strike on the London Underground this Wednesday and Friday has been called off.There will still be an unrelated national rail strike, but the London Underground will operate normally.
  The RMT union says that the strike action on the tube has been suspended following significant progress made by their negotiators and London Underground representatives at ACAS.
  Planned strike action by over 3,000 members on LU stations on Wednesday 4th, and Friday 6th October w
  
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• Reliance Jio gets a big loan as Indians embrace 5G

  03-10-2023 13:23
  Reliance Jio Infocomm has reportedly secured a multi-billion-dollar loan to enable it to buy 5G equipment, coinciding with reports that Indian consumers are getting hooked on the new generation of mobile tech.
  India’s biggest mobile operator has inked a loan deal worth US$1.5 billion-$2 billion with HSBC specifically to fund the purchase of 5G network equipment from Nokia, the Economic Times reported, citing people familiar with the situation. Finland’s Finnvera has provided insuranc
  
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• Groundhog day as Ericsson study finds users will pay for tiered QoS

  03-10-2023 13:13
  Ericsson’s ConsumerLab interviewed more than 37,000 people and hit upon an idea that has been doing the rounds in telecoms for decades.
  According to the survey, 20% of 5G smartphone users are interested in tiered network quality and would be willing to pay a premium of up to 11% for it.
  Ericsson found that factors that influence consumer satisfaction are shifting from things like network coverage and availability, to experience-based considerations, like app performance, video streaming qu
  
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• Analyst slams ‘hoax’ claim that Sky Mobile outages are linked to Huawei rip-and-replace

  03-10-2023 13:02
  A recent story in the FT claimed that recent mobile outages experienced by Sky in the UK were the result of government pressure to remove Huawei from networks.
  The story was headlined ‘Sky suffers mobile outages in push to strip Huawei from UK 5G networks’ and opened with the following statement: ‘The government’s drive to rip out Huawei kit from Britain’s telecoms network has led to mobile outages for customers of Sky, in the first sign of disruption long warned ab
  
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• London’s 2023 bonfire night firework displays

  03-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s time to start plotting how we shall remember the downfall of a papist plot, and watch the skies over London explode with fireworks. And in a few locations, the displays still include the traditional bonfire as well.
  One of the nice things about this year is that with Bonfire Night on a Sunday, there are fireworks taking place all weekend, so you can have three days of displays if you want to.Most of the fireworks shows that are listed below need booking in advance this year, with few
  
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• BT opens testbed to tinker with immersive experiences

  03-10-2023 12:54
  UK telco group BT has opened doors to a new testbed designed to play around with immersive experiences for work, home, health and entertainment.
  The testbed will enable it and collaborators to test out how things like network exposure functions, cloud-rendering and enhanced localisation might support mixed reality use cases, and it’s all being hinged off EE’s public and private 5G.
  BT will use the facility to work out how networks, platforms, services and apps can be optimised for cl
  
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• Private 5G to Drive the Evolution of Smart Manufacturing

  03-10-2023 12:28
  Manufacturing is one of the leading verticals for private 5G, contributing 23% of all networks rollouts as of 2Q23 according to Omdia’s Private LTE and 5G Networks Tracker 2Q23. Manufacturing is shaped by multiple trends including the need to increase the flexibility of production lines to create more personalized products, to increase yield to stay competitive in global markets, to improve the lifespan of devices thus reducing downtime, and to drive automation to improve safety and tackle
  
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• QCT OmniPOD Solution for the 5G CBRS Market

  03-10-2023 11:05
  The US is a leading country for private 5G The relevance of the US in private 5G networks is due in no small part to the benefits derived from CBRS and its three-tier shared spectrum approach. Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) in partnership with Intel is targeting use cases such as automation in manufacturing or remote teaching in the education sector by providing its OmniPOD private 5G solution with both indoor and outdoor radio units certified by FCC.
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• A tale of two stags: Tracing the origins of the Albert Gate’s sculptures

  03-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A curiosity has struck me about two fine sculptures of stags that can be found on Albert Gate, a short road next to Hyde Park.They flank either side of a new road, named after the Prince Consort, which was created as part of a property development in the 1840s. What had been a row of houses and Goding’s cannon brewhouse owned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster was sold to the government for redevelopment.
  The road was created to run between two grand buildings, designed by Thomas Cubit
  
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