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• Ericsson/Vonage: counting the cost of a poor call

  12-10-2023 18:20 via ft.com
  Swedish telecoms-equipment maker has written $2.9bn off the value of the US cloud based telecom group
  
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• A whiff of nostalgia: St. Paul’s Cathedral welcomes the public to the newly restored Triforium library

  12-10-2023 18:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After five years of work, one of London’s best-preserved 18th-century interiors is reopening to the public.
  (c) ianVisits
  This is the library high up on the Triforium level inside St Paul’s Cathedral, and while it’s reopening as a reference library for researchers, it will also be included in public tours offered by the Cathedral so everyone can see it.
  The Cathedral nearly didn’t have a library at all because the Great Fire of London did such a good job of destroying the
  
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• Lumen sells CDN customers to Akamai

  12-10-2023 16:30
  Lumen is getting out of the content delivery network game and with that end in mind has announced the sale of select CDN contracts to Akamai.
  The deal involves the transfer of customer contracts, but does not include any Lumen technologies or staff. The two companies will operate under a transition services agreement for 90 days, after which time Lumen plans to wind down its content delivery services business.
  Lumen did not disclose the value of the deal and neither did Akamai. However, Akamai s
  
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• Two exhibitions look at the legacy of Shakespeare’s First Folio

  12-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, without which it’s likely that most of his plays would have been lost, and there are two exhibitions to mark the anniversary.
  Fortunately, they’re also in two venues practically next to each other.The leading exhibition is in the Guildhall Library and looks at how the folio was printed and its history over the centuries as it faded from importance and was later rediscovered. It’s very much a story of acci
  
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• Gartner sees generative AI as ‘top priority’ for C-suite

  12-10-2023 16:00
  Excitement over generative AI is reaching fever pitch, with Gartner forecasting rapid growth for enterprise uptake.
  The analyst firm has predicted that by 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used genAI application programming interfaces (APIs) or models, and/or deployed genAI-enabled applications in production environments. That compares to less than 5% in 2023.
  “Generative AI has become a top priority for the C-suite and has sparked tremendous innovation in new tools beyond found
  
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• Ericsson takes $3 billion hit on Vonage acquisition

  12-10-2023 13:27
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has announced a non-cash impairment of SEK 32 billion (around $3 billion) in Q3 2023, ‘relating to the impairment of goodwill attributed to the Vonage acquisition.’
  This comes roughly a year after the $6.2 billion purchase of the cloud and API specialist, a move central to its ambitions to start selling network APIs and development of a Global Network Platform (GNP).
  The announcement states: “The impairment charge represents 50% of the total amount o
  
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• Tickets Alert: Spend Halloween inside a Mausoleum

  12-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  What could be more appropriate for Halloween than spending time inside a house of the dead — inside a Mausoleum? And not just any Mausoleum, but one that is famous for its unusual decoration and the fact that you can go inside.
  (c) ianVisits
  This is the Kilmorey Mausoleum, and on All Hallows Eve, you will be able to go inside the Victorian neo-Egyptian temple and hear about the illustrious history of its creator and occupant, Francis Jack Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey and Priscilla Hoste.
  
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• Glotels 2023 shortlist unveiled

  12-10-2023 13:00
  A record number of entries to the 2023 Global Telecoms Awards has been whittled down to the shortlist stage.
  Sifting through hundreds of worthy telecoms products, service and projects is never easy and it was especially challenging this year due to their exceptional quality and quantity. More than ever, the Glotels 2023 shortlist offers a unique snapshot of all the great work being done across the telecoms world in the past year.
  You can view the complete shortlist below and, if you submitted an
  
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• Breton pushing single market but telcos want in-country consolidation first

  12-10-2023 10:56
  Thierry Breton (pictured) is once again banging the cross-border consolidation drum, extolling the virtues of a single European market for telecoms, but operators are still asking for in-market tie-ups.
  The European Commission’s Internal Market commissioner shared a lengthy LinkedIn post this week to accompany the publication of the results of the EU’s consultation into the future of connectivity and infrastructure in Europe. The big tech versus telco element of that consultation has
  
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• Huawei repeats 5.5G clarion call as telco capex stutters

  12-10-2023 10:00
  Chinese kit maker Huawei is pressing the industry to push on with 5.5G, but in the current climate, it sounds as much like a plea for spending as it does a vision for the future.
  The vendor is in Dubai this week, hosting its Global Mobile Broadband Forum together with the GSMA, the GTI, and the SAMENA Telecoms Council. It provides an opportune moment for Huawei to take stock of where the industry is, and help steer its general direction of travel.
  For companies like Huawei, an ideal trajectory w
  
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• The Elizabeth line has been testing new train departure displays

  12-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Observant travellers on the Elizabeth line may have noticed that some of the departure boards above the platform doors have been showing different displays from the usual.
  Standard display (c) ianVisits
  One of the advantages of modern digital screens is their flexibility in what they show compared to the older LED/LCD based information screens, which lets the Elizabeth line tweak its screens and see if people like the changes, or not as the case may be. The trial ran for a week on a few of the s
  
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