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• Jools Holland will be making London Underground station announcements tomorrow

  01-11-2023 17:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Listen carefully on your commute on Thursday as you might hear Jools Holland on the tannoy. You’ll hear him because Thursday 2nd November is TfL’s annual Poppy Day, where they raise money for the Royal British Legion (RBL).
  Jools Holland at Victoria tube station (c) TfL
  In addition to broascasting Mr Holland, TfL has also created special poppy themed roundels, which will be displayed at ten Underground stations and five Overground stations and some bus stations across the network.
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• Telco opposition grows to NTT Law change in Japan

  01-11-2023 15:55
  KDDI, Softbank and Rakuten Mobile have outlined their objections to a proposal by the Japanese government to abolish certain rules governing former incumbent NTT.
  The three telcos published a joint statement on Tuesday in which they shared three key areas of concern if the so-called NTT Law is scrapped. The statement comes a fortnight after they announced that a total of 180 entities, including telecoms operators and local governments, jointly formally expressed their opposition to the abolition
  
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• A new tube map celebrates the engineers who built London

  01-11-2023 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new tube map has been designed, with the stations renamed after leading engineers to recognise the achievements and contributions of engineers, including Harry Beck, Brunel and Ada Lovelace.
  Central section of the Engineering Icons tube map (c) TfL
  The map has been released today (1st November), which is National Engineering Day, organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering to encourage people to consider the impact of engineers on the world around us.
  London would not be the city it is today
  
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• Virgin Media O2 inks £360 million deal for Cornerstone

  01-11-2023 13:55
  Virgin Media O2 has revealed that it will sell one-sixth of its Cornerstone UK towers business to investment firm GLIL Infrastructure for £360 million.
  The announcement comes just days after the circulation of rumours to that effect and hours ahead of the publication of the telco’s third quarter results, which show growth in its fixed customer base and fibre footprint, as well as decent financials.
  The Cornerstone deal has come in below some industry estimates, as we thought it might
  
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• O2 Telefónica partners with Samsung for German vRAN and Open RAN trials

  01-11-2023 13:18
  German operator O2 Telefónica is stepping up its efforts to embrace the latest radio access network buzzwords.
  That, of course, means Open RAN and vRAN, which all the cool operators are into these days. While part of the point of these technologies is to open up the RAN vendor ecosystem, O2 Telefónica has chosen to partner solely with Korean giant Samsung on these trials. Perhaps cognisant of this paradox, the joint effort is being framed as a bid to set up even more flexible netwo
  
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• Ten London exhibitions to visit in November 2023

  01-11-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of ten exhibitions to visit in London while dodging the Christmas carol signers and Father Christmases popping up all over the place.UVA: Synchronicity
  180 Studios, Strand
  Adults: £20 | Concessions: £15 | Children (<12): Free
  London-based collective United Visual Artists largest show to date will feature a number of newly commissioned works and collaborations that explore the elements that structure our perception of reality and challenge the human instinct of finding
  
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• Sonic gives Open RAN a taste of inner city life

  01-11-2023 12:54
  UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has opened another Open RAN test site in an effort to prove it can cope with the bright lights of the big city.
  Launched in partnership with regulator Ofcom, towerco Cellnex, and consultancy Capgemini, this new site is based in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and is operated by Digital Catapult’s Sonic Labs (SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre) programme.
  Vendors will have an opportunity to put products through their paces under co
  
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• Virgin Media O2 cuts revenue guidance as consumers curb spending

  01-11-2023 12:39
  UK telecoms group warns customers are less willing to upgrade or buy new phones
  
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• Nokia shows off voice activated, self-adapting network

  01-11-2023 12:36
  Nokia Bell Labs is showcasing an AI proof of concept called Natural-Language Networks, an ‘industry-first research breakthrough’ that will allow networks to be operated via speech or text prompts.
  Dubbed as a technology that will make networks ‘truly anonymous’, Natural-Language Networks is a proof of concept combining natural language processing and AI/ML models that is supposed to interpret text or speech requests and automatically allocate the right combination of netw
  
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• HS2’s Thame Valley viaduct – taking a look at a waterlogged construction site

  01-11-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A landscape that, thanks to recent rainfall, is currently more lake than land is also the location for one of HS2’s more innovative railway structures that’s now under construction.This will be the Thame Valley viaduct, a long strip of concrete skimming low over the valley near Aylesbury, where the floodplain is proving a challenge to work in. What is known as the North Chilterns to Aylesbury project will create 24km of theHS2 railway, spread over three viaducts and a number of over
  
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