Telecom news

• Ericsson makes changes to its top brass

  11-10-2023 17:57
  Kit vendor Ericsson has appointed Chris Houghton as Chief Operating Officer and Åsa Tamsons as Head of Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions.
  Chris Houghton is currently Senior Vice President, Market Area North East Asia, and has been with the kit vendor for 35 years. His new role will focus on cross group initiatives, including ongoing cost efficiency initiatives, we’re told.
  Åsa Tamsons’ present role is Senior Vice President, Business Area Technologies & New B
  
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• From sewage shaft to public plaza: Putney’s newest public space opens

  11-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A former Thames Tideway building site in Putney has been turned into a new public space, expanding the riverside walkway next to Putney Bridge.The new plaza-style space sits on top of a 36-metre deep shaft which is now forming part of the sewer diversion as the combined sewer overflow (CSO) shaft will take sewage from the older local sewage mains and drop it down to the Tideway tunnel. Once the construction left, the top was converted into a public space beside the river.
  (c) Thames Tideway
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• CMA questions competition and investment impact of Vodafone/Three deal

  11-10-2023 15:53
  The Competition and Markets Authority has asked for comments on the proposed merger of Vodafone and Three in the UK in advance of opening a formal investigation into the deal.
  The UK’s competition watchdog said it is providing an early an early opportunity for interested parties to share their thoughts on the deal. It also took the opportunity to highlight what will be the key aspects of its upcoming investigation: the potential impact of the tie-up on both competition and future investmen
  
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• Spain launches €544 million rural 5G SA tender

  11-10-2023 13:23
  The Spanish government has launched the next phase of its €1 billion plan to ensure remote areas benefit from the latest mobile tech.
  The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation (MINECO) this week invited applicants to apply for a share of €544 million of funding for 5G standalone (SA) deployments in locations with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.
  More specifically, the money has been allocated for both active as well as passive infrastructure, and is targeted at sparsely
  
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• BT gets closer to Google Cloud with new cyber security deal

  11-10-2023 13:09
  As part of a new deal with Google, UK incumbent BT will become an official reseller of some of the tech giant’s cloud security products.
  BT will become a ‘managed services delivery partner’ for Google Chronicle based Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) products, utilising BT’s Security Advisory Services team and its ‘track record of delivering cybersecurity services to organisations with complex estates and requirements.’
  ASO as a security platform is supposed
  
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• From fake tanks to bulletproof jumpers: Secrets of the spies revealed in an IWM exhibition

  11-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fake feet, special matches, hidden radios, cameras in lipsticks, hairbrushes for camera film – not from James Bond, but from the real spies, and all on display for a few months before they go back into locked cupboards again.This is the Imperial War Museum’s winter exhibition, looking at the spies who work in the shadows. Although spying has gone on ever since civilisation was formed, this exhibition is a collection of stories of spying over the past century or so, when it became mor
  
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• EU stalls on making big tech pay for networks

  11-10-2023 11:09
  Thierry Breton appears to be kicking the can down the road when it comes to his aspiration to make the technology giants share the cost of rolling out 5G networks in the EU.
  The European Commission’s internal market commissioner has been batting around the idea of making the big Internet players contribute to the cost of the networks they use for the past year or so, and it seemed that all the talk might turn to action before the end of this year. But this week Reuters reported that Breton
  
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• The power of towers

  11-10-2023 10:33
  We spoke to Tom Greenwood, CEO of Helios Towers about the distinctions between operating telecoms towers in Africa and the Middle East compared to Europe, the rise of satellites, and the towerco relationship with operators.
  Give us a quick outline of your trajectory over the past few years and how 2023 has been for Helios so far.
  For the past three years we’ve been on a big expansion drive. Through covid, which was very soon after we did the IPO on the London Stock Exchange, we had a strat
  
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• Google Maps partners with TfL to prioritize safer cycling routes in London

  11-10-2023 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Google Maps will soon start to prioritise safer, quieter roads when giving cycling instructions for journeys within London — thanks to an information sharing partnership with Transport for London (TfL).The update to Google Maps follows on from an innovation summit held last July, where cyclists highlighted that some of the key barriers to cycling include the need for travel planning tools to include up-to-date data. What was noticed is that existing digital journey planners do not always c
  
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• Ericsson sees major role for microwave backhaul in 6G era

  11-10-2023 10:00
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson reckons microwave will still account for half of mobile backhaul in 2030.
  This is the headline figure from the company’s latest Microwave Outlook, through which it offers a snapshot of trends in the microwave radio market. As you can see from the charts below, Ericsson expects the global rollout of fibre to macro sites to plateau at around the 50% mark as we approach 2030, when is roughly the time 6G should start to appear in the wild. That figure, it should be
  
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• Exceptional visual arts exhibition inside a concrete basement

  11-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Deep down two floors underneath central London, a large concrete basement has been taken over by a display of lighting art that is as varied as it is remarkable.
  (c) ianVisits
  Fusing sounds, lighting effects, and the dark concrete basement space, the exhibition at 180 Studios is by the artist collective United Visual Artists (UVA), who have filled large empty spaces to mark their 20th anniversary.
  There are also few tickets left for sale on their website.
  It takes a moment to get used to the dar
  
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