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• Modernism Beyond Metro-Land explores London’s lesser-known Modernist marvels

  09-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new book, Modernism Beyond Metro-Land is taking a look at the modernist architecture of London’s eastern and southern boroughs, away from the northeastern Metro Land of the London Underground.
  (c) Joshua Abbott
  From the same author of A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott, it’s a crowdfunder book, so will go on sale once enough people have pre-ordered copies.
  The guide will cover 12 London boroughs from Waltham Forest in the northeast to Kingston upon Thames in the so
  
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• Analyst urges Amazon to make Kuiper satellites compatible with 5G

  09-10-2023 18:29
  Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite initiative is finally off the ground, but one expert is already advocating for a rethink.
  After multiple delays, the first two prototype versions of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites, Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2, finally blasted off on United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s Atlas V rocket on Friday.
  Once operational, they will allow Amazon to test out its upcoming satellite broadband service, which like Space-X’s Starlink and OneWeb will
  
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• Generative AI and Telecoms – How to Best Navigate Through the Potential Trough of Disillusionment

  09-10-2023 17:41
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Martin Morgan, Head of Digital Marketing at Qvantel, looks at how generative AI may be able to live up to the hype.
  Anyone who has worked in telecoms technology will have seen new tech come and go. Some have been more hyped than others, and generally the greater the hype (and associated expectations) the greater the initial disappointment when the technology is
  
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• Veon finally completes Russia exit

  09-10-2023 17:17
  Operator group Veon has completed the sale of its Russian subsidiary PJSC VimpelCom to the latter’s senior management team.
  The process has taken almost a year to play out after it was announced last November. The price paid for VimpelCom was originally going to be some combination of cash and the assumption of its debt. But last month, perhaps because it must be difficult to raise money to invest in Russian assets these days, they decided taking on the debt alone was sufficient payment.
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• Dennis Severs House offers cheap entry to young people

  09-10-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As it puts on a display created by a young man, Spitalfield’s atmospheric Dennis Severs House is also offering cheap tickets to young people.
  Dennis Severs lived in the house which he part-converted, part-restored into an exceptional experience to visit between 1979 to 1999, and in 1983, was joined by his boyfriend, Simon Pettet, an artist who specialised in ceramics. Inspired by the interior of the house, Simon started creating modern versions of Delftware pottery but died from HIV aged j
  
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• Plans to open Holborn’s cold war tunnels to the public shown off at a consultation

  09-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few weeks ago, plans were announced to open up some Cold War tunnels to the public, and now some more details have emerged about how they plan to do that.
  (c) DBOX for The London Tunnels
  The tunnels run under parts of Holborn and were built as shelters during WWII, but repurposed during the Cold War as a deep-level telecommunications exchange. They were put up for sale in 2008, but no serious bidders emerged until recently, when fund manager Angus Murray bought the tunnels with the plans to op
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: China, Open RAN, and fair contribution

  09-10-2023 13:57
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · China, Open RAN, and fair contribution
  
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• Vodafone continues Open RAN push into Italy

  09-10-2023 13:48
  Vodafone is pushing harder on Open RAN, announcing a pilot project in Italy alongside Nokia, a move it claims will be beneficial for Europe as a whole.
  Vodafone is in the vanguard of Open RAN rollout in Europe, focusing in particular on its home market, the UK. The deal with Nokia will see it bring the technology to Italy for the first time.
  Just to be clear, Vodafone notes that it and Nokia plan to run a commercial 5G Open RAN pilot in Italy for the first time, but there have been other Open RA
  
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• Deutsche Telekom shows off globe-spanning enterprise network

  09-10-2023 13:29
  German incumbent Deutsche Telekom has combined hyperscale cloud infrastructure with private 5G to enable centralised control of multinational enterprise networks.
  It’s a proof-of-concept (PoC) at this point, one that was carried out in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Mavenir, and the Open Grid Alliance (OGA).
  They took two private 5G standalone (SA) networks – one in Prague, Czechia, the other in Seattle, US – and connected them via AWS’ backbone inf
  
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• Vodafone and Orange complete Open RAN calls in Romania

  09-10-2023 13:14
  Operators Vodafone and Orange conducted a joint pilot ‘with the first real-life experience of 4G calls’ over a cluster of shared commercial network sites based on Open RAN in Romania.
  The pilot took place in a rural area near Bucharest and follows an announcement in February that the operators would build an Open RAN with RAN sharing in some rural parts of Europe where they both have mobile networks.
  The commercial traffic pilot purports to demonstrate the benefits of a virtualised r
  
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• Vodafone and Orange complete 4G calls over Romanian Open RAN network

  09-10-2023 13:14
  Operators Vodafone and Orange conducted a joint pilot ‘with the first real-life experience of 4G calls’ over a cluster of shared commercial network sites based on Open RAN in Romania.
  The pilot took place in a rural area near Bucharest and follows an announcement in February that the operators would build an Open RAN with RAN sharing in some rural parts of Europe where they both have mobile networks.
  The commercial traffic pilot purports to demonstrate the benefits of a virtualised r
  
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• Tickets Alert: Backstage tours of the Royal Court Theatre

  09-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sitting right in the heart of Sloane Square is the 135 year old Royal Court Theatre, and they’re now offering tours of the building and the backstage areas.The current building, the second on the site, opened in 1888 as the New Court Theatre but was converted into a cinema in 1935 until it was closed by WWII bomb damage. Rebuilt as a theatre after the war, it reopened in 1952 with a mission to present plays by young and experimental dramatists and “the best contemporary plays from ab
  
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• Latest US concessions over chip kit in China add to the confusion

  09-10-2023 12:58
  Two South Korean chip makers are now allowed to use their own kit in Chinese factories without getting permission from the US each time.
  Yonhap News reports ‘The United States has decided to allow exports of its semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix factories in China without a separate approval process’. Those factories mainly make flash memory and DRAM chips, which presumably fall short of being technologies the US is trying to prevent China from
  
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• London’s Alleys: St Michael’s Alley, EC3

  09-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This winding passage snakes around a cluster of alleys in the City and is probably more famous for the former coffee house that can be found here. The name though, doesn’t come from the coffee house, but from the church that sits on the northern corner of the alley, St Michael, Cornhill.This is one of the oldest parishes in the City of London, predating the Norman Conquest, although naturally, the church on the site today is somewhat younger, being a post Great Fire of London rebuild and l
  
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