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• Musicians to be given busking pitches in Elizabeth line stations

  06-11-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Musicians will be able to apply for busking spaces in Elizabeth line stations, as Transport for London (TfL) will be reopening its music audition process for the first time since 2017.
  Twenty years ago, TfL introduced a licensed scheme to replace the ad-hok musician busking that used to take place, and since then, authorised spaces within stations have been set aside for musicians to use. Since it was introduced in 2003, over 200 registered buskers have passed the audition process — and no
  
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• Telecom Italia: good deal was arrived at through flawed process

  06-11-2023 17:14 via ft.com
  By accepting an offer without putting it to shareholders, TI is storing up trouble
  
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• DoCoMo targets 2040 for carbon neutral supply chain

  06-11-2023 16:53
  Japanese incumbent NTT DoCoMo has unveiled bold plans to tackle its scope 3 emissions.
  That’s a fancy way of saying the carbon pumped out by its supply chain, which according to DoCoMo accounts for around 80% of its total greenhouse gas emissions.
  When it comes to sustainability, scope 3 is by far the toughest nut to crack. Scopes 1 and 2 – which cover direct emissions and emissions caused by energy usage respectively – can be addressed in-house, but scope 3 can sometimes invol
  
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• City of London unveils its vision for 2030s skyscraper skyline

  06-11-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The ever changing skyline of the City of London will look very different by the end of the decade, as the City has released a vision of what the Square Mile will look like in 2030.
  The new images capture all major developments which have been approved or resolved to be approved by the City Corporation over the past 12 months and has been released amid a strong year of activity for the Planning and Transportation Committee, including a 25% increase in the applications received and decided, compar
  
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• Hardly any trains out of King’s Cross station on Sunday 3rd December

  06-11-2023 15:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A warning to travellers that there will be very few trains at King’s Cross station on Sunday 3rd December because the railway north of London will be closed.
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  Network Rail and the train companies are advising people to avoid travelling on the day, as most services won’t run, and the few that do will be very busy and often have replacement buses along the route. The engineering work that is being carried out is between Welwyn Garden City and Hitchin in Hertfordshire and i
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: UKTIN, AI and operators

  06-11-2023 13:22
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · UKTIN, AI and operators
  
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• One NZ beefs up spectrum with Dense Air buy

  06-11-2023 13:15
  One New Zealand has agreed to acquire small cell provider UK-headquartered Dense Air’s local operation, a move that will bulk up its mid-band spectrum.
  Under the deal, One NZ will get its hands on 2×35 MHz of 2600-MHz spectrum, which it plans to put to use in its 4G and 5G networks before the end of the year, significantly improving the performance of its fixed-wireless access (FWA) services. Dense Air has the rights to this spectrum for another five-and-a-half years, and so One NZ w
  
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• From portraits to drawings: The many aspects of David Hockney’s artistic career at the National Portrait Gallery

  06-11-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of one artist’s lifetime of work opens appropriately with two self-portraits of him as a young man and a recent one as a rather older man.
  This is how people experience their first moments in the reopening of the David Hockney exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which famously opened in 2020 just days before the UK went into pandemic lockdown.
  Then, the gallery itself closed for three years of rebuilding works, so the exhibition has been effectively in storage, waiti
  
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• T-Mobile US faces class-action suit from AT&T and Verizon subscribers

  06-11-2023 12:57
  Some US mobile subscribers reckon the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint resulted in higher bills and want the deal to be reversed.
  We have Reuters to thank for this update, as well as links to court documents. The class-action case, potentially on behalf of all AT&T and Verizon subscribers was filed last year any feels somewhat speculative. Nonetheless, Judge Thomas Durkin has ruled against TMUS’s motion to dismiss the whole thing for ‘failure to state a claim. He did, however, suppo
  
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• Vivendi to sue as TIM accepts up to €22 billion KKR bid

  06-11-2023 12:40
  TIM has accepted a bid from KKR that values it network operations business at up to €22 billion, but major shareholder Vivendi is unhappy with the decision and is lawyering up.
  The announcement from TIM on Sunday finally brings some clarity to a saga that has been playing out for many months, but with the threat of legal action looming, a firm conclusion could be some way off.
  The industry has been speculating on what KKR would be willing to pay for NetCo since June, when TIM selected it ra
  
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• Dell’Oro optimistic about long-term RAN market prospects

  06-11-2023 12:32
  Dell’Oro Group’s RAN 2030 Advanced Research Report asserts that, despite the uncertainties in the RAN market, there are reason to be optimistic about it’s long-term growth prospects.
  The report says that after growing at a 2% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) in the 4G era, global RAN revenues are projected to increase at a 1% CAGR between 2020 and 2030, ultimately culminating in investments of over $40 billion at the end of that period.
  The ‘base case scenario’ is
  
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• Dell’Oro offers some long-term optimism on RAN market, but points to challenges

  06-11-2023 12:32
  Dell’Oro Group’s RAN 2030 Advanced Research Report asserts that despite the uncertainties in the RAN market, there are reason to be optimistic about it’s long-term growth prospects.
  The report says that after growing at a 2% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) in the 4G era, global RAN revenues are projected to increase at a 1% CAGR between 2020 and 2030, ultimately culminating in investments of over $40 billion at the end of that period.
  The ‘base case scenario’ is
  
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• London’s Alleys: Church Path, SW14

  06-11-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is the remains of a once much longer path that later lost its southern half and would once have linked two main roads running through Mortlake in south London
  The outline of the path dates to at least the 1740s, as it shows up as a path through fields in John Rocque’s map of wider London from 1746.
  John Rocque’s 10 miles around London 1746
  However, by the 19th century, as London expanded and fields turned into houses, the path became more clearly defined and straightened from it
  
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• Fibre broadband in emerging markets powers growth of digital economies

  06-11-2023 06:30 via ft.com
  
  Latest update of the FT-Omdia Digital Economies Index highlights rapid spread of fast and reliable internet connections
  
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