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• Strike on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) next week

  30-10-2023 21:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a two-day strike on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) next week which is expected to severely affect services.Transport for London (TfL) is warning that at the moment, they don’t expect any DLR services to run on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th November 2023 – but if any services do run, they will start late and finish early.
  To be safe though, it’s probably best to assume no DLR service will run, unless the strike is called off at the last minute.
  Estimated impact of D
  
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• Robbie Williams pop-up in Covent Garden this week

  30-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Later this week there will be a free Robbie Williams pop-up in Covent Garden with giveaways, photos and a screening of the opening episode of his new Netflix documentary.They’re not saying much about what will happen other than the main event being a screening of the documentary show. There will however also be limited free giveaways, including surprise signed items. Limited quantities per day and first come, first served.
  The screenings take place in the former James Bond museum/Harry Pot
  
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• VMO2’s towers sale looks smaller than expected

  30-10-2023 17:57
  Virgin Media O2 is reportedly close to selling a stake in its UK towers business, but it may bring in a little less money than previously predicted.
  The UK operator is in exclusive talks with UK investment firm GLIL Infrastructure that could lead to it selling a chunk of Cornerstone, Reuters claimed over the weekend, citing as many as four anonymous sources.
  Any resulting deal – and there are no guarantees, of course – could value the business as a whole at around the £2.5 bill
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the Fan Museum when it’s lit by candles

  30-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A small museum in Greenwich that you’ve probably never visited will be a bit more interesting to visit in December when candles illuminate it.
  The Fan Museum, based in Greenwich, holds a collection of fans and fan leaves, including the Hélène Alexander Collection and further acquisitions since the museum opened to the public over twenty-five years ago. Although it’s a museum of hand-held fans, what you’re really looking at is art — the decorative patterns an
  
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• Jio intros satellite broadband service

  30-10-2023 13:59
  India’s Reliance Jio has added yet another connectivity service to its stable in the form of JioSpaceFiber.
  Following the recent rollout of fixed-wireless access (FWA), it has now launched a new satellite broadband service that promises to provide gigabit speeds to the most remote parts of the country.
  To underscore that commitment, Jio said JioSpaceFiber has been made available in four particularly isolated areas: Gir in Gujarat; Korba in Chattisgarh; Nabrangpur in Odisha; and Jorhat in A
  
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• KKR to pump $400 million into subsea cable firm

  30-10-2023 13:55
  Investment firm KKR will drop $400 million onto infrastructure and subsea cable services firm OMS Group, which it is the parent of.
  We’re told the investment will enable OMS to expand its fleet size and capabilities, invest in cable landing stations and subsea cable routes serving cross-border data transmission, and is specially in relation to the region of Southeast Asia.
  KKR has recently pumped investment wedge into the region via the the regional data centre platform of Singtel –
  
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• TIM shareholders say keep network, sell retail ops

  30-10-2023 13:51
  A group of TIM’s minority shareholders has called on the Italian incumbent to cancel its plan to sell its fixed-line assets and instead offload its retail business and Brazilian operations.
  The new plan comes from Merlyn Partners, a fund that represents shareholders collectively holding less than 3% of TIM. Alessandro Barnaba, one of Merlyn’s founders, and former TIM executive Stefano Siragusa have been working together for the past few months to come up with an alternative strategy
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Network X, fibre and cloud

  30-10-2023 13:41
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Network X, fibre and cloud
  
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• G7 thrashes out a code of conduct for AI

  30-10-2023 13:06
  The G7 bloc are reportedly putting together a ‘voluntary’ code of conduct for the development of AI systems, according to a document.
  The rules ‘will set a landmark’ in regards to how the G7 countries –  Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US – govern AI in relation to privacy concerns and security risks, according to Reuters who have got their hands on a document.
  The process of drawing up an 11-point code began in May at a ministerial
  
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• Controversial plans push on for massive office block above Liverpool Street station

  30-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After months of consultations, the formal planning application has been filed for a massive office block to be built above Liverpool Street station.
  The view along Liverpool Street (c) Sellar / Herzog & de Meuron
  In an area dominated by tall slender buildings, the proposal is a huge groundscraper of a building, albeit one raised several stories above the ground and plonked rather awkwardly above the surrounding architecture.
  The argument put forward by the developer is that Liverpool Street
  
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• London’s Alleys: Globe Yard, W1

  30-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a narrow slip of a passage that runs behind some of the posh shops on Mayfair’s South Molton Street.South Molton Street was initially called South Moulton Row and was laid out in the 1720s by the Grosvenor family — making it some 300 years old, but initially, only with buildings on the eastern side. The buildings on the other side of the row were added later by the City of London, which still owns some of the freeholds on that side of the road.
  Globe Yard is on the eastern si
  
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