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• St Pancras station’s Christmas tree is a spiralling tower of books

  07-11-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hatchards, London’s oldest bookshop, has provided the annual crafted Christmas tree for St. Pancras International Station, in the style of a ziggurat tower of books.
  (c) ianVisits
  Standing at 12 metres tall it features a winding staircase, wrapping around 270 shelves with more than 3,800 books, but also around the base, nooks to sit in and rest, or if you prefer, listen to books being read out loud through some speakers in the cubby holes.
  (c) ianVisits
  The station’s Christmas tree i
  
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• What will the Global Coalition on Telecommunications actually do?

  07-11-2023 18:44
  The UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the US signed a telecoms pact in October which promises more collaboration on market issues. We spoke to law firm Linklaters about what it might actually involve.
  The Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) purports to be about synching up how the five countries approach telecoms. The scope of corporation includes information sharing, joint R&D, funding alignment, the development of standards, skills, supply chain diversification, security, and 6G,
  
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• Abu Dhabi fund joins KKR in TIM network acquisition

  07-11-2023 18:19
  TIM has signed the deal that will see KKR pick up its network assets next year, noting in the process that a major Emirati sovereign wealth fund will also be a part of the transaction.
  The Italian incumbent revealed that it has signed the transaction agreement relating to NetCo – as announced over the weekend – with KKR’s Optics BidCo and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s (ADIA’s) Azure Vista subsidiary. The deal covers the transfer of TIM’s primary network
  
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• ZTE launches new optical access platform ZXA10 C600E at Network X 2023

  07-11-2023 16:01
  Chinese vendor ZTE launched a new platform, the ZXA10 C600E, at the Network X 2023 exhibition, which features a number of significant new capabilities. ZTE aims to enable massive deployments of 50G Passive Optical Network (PON). The launch of this all-optical access platform is ahead of such large-scale commercial deployments, which the vendor expects to take off fully commercial readiness anticipated in several years.
  PON is a passive broadband access technology that uplinks and downlinks
  
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• Garrison Chapel exhibition blends traditional art with baffling description

  07-11-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of modern interpretations of religious art manages to be both really enjoyable to look at and utterly baffling if you read the description.Hosted in Chelsea’s Garrison Chapel, the show is a display of traditional arts, so expect lots of icons painted using old techniques, bronze works, needlecraft and drawings.
  However, the accompanying descriptive text in the small brochure is just baffling and doesn’t really tell you anything about the art, or the artists or the techn
  
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• Telefónica seeks to acquire the 28% of German arm it doesn’t already own

  07-11-2023 13:35
  Spanish operator group Telefónica has offered to buy every last share in Telefónica Deutschland that it doesn’t already own.
  That amounts to 28.19% of the shares, for which it is offering a premium of around 37% on the current share price. Obviously, Telefónica is hoping that will be a sufficient inducement for them to cash in but, for that to be the case, they would have to conclude there is little hope of the company organically growing its value by more than that in
  
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• Bell Canada cuts capex to punish regulator

  07-11-2023 13:10
  Bell Canada is cutting its planned fibre spend over the next couple of years by C$1 billion in protest over a regulatory decision on wholesale network access.
  The telco spat the dummy after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) moved to open up fibre networks run by large operators in the major cities of Ontario and Quebec, and set the prices those big players can charge for access, in a bid to boost competition.
  Bell believes this decision is hugely unfair and a
  
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• Horizon 22 viewing gallery tickets are now being released daily

  07-11-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tickets to visit London’s highest viewing gallery were snapped up as soon as they were released, but some are now being released each morning for booking in advance.You don’t need a ticket to visit, as you can turn up on the day, and if they have space, they will let you in any way — but that’s a risky approach to take if you want to make a special trip. So, for most people, that means booking tickets in advance to guarantee entry.Originally, Horizon 22 planned to release
  
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• SK Telecom adds new AI partners and invests in more start-ups

  07-11-2023 12:55
  SK Telecom’s relentless effort to lead the telco AI market shows no signs of abating.
  Fresh from agreeing with Deutsche Telekom to jointly develop a telco-specific large language model (LLM), SKT this week ploughed billions of won into two more AI start-ups, and added them to its growing roster of Korea AI (K-AI) Alliance members.
  It’s all in line with SKT’s recently launched AI Pyramid Strategy, under which it has pledged to triple its AI investments over the next five years i
  
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• Eutelsat OneWeb satellites hook up polar exploration ship

  07-11-2023 12:32
  Marlink has partnered with satellite operator Eutelsat OneWeb who will provide space based connectivity to exploration cruise firm Ponant for its luxury icebreaker.
  Marlink together with Eutelsat OneWeb has deployed a hybrid network setup onboard the polar exploration ship Le Commandant Charcot – apparently the world’s only luxury icebreaker, combining GEO VSAT, LEO and 4G/5G cellular services.
  An encrypted network using a layered service approach ensures privacy while multiple servi
  
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• The surprising story of steam trains on the Central line

  07-11-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When it opened in 1900, the deep tunnels of the Central line had to use electric trains because of the lack of ventilation for steam engines, but it’s not that widely known that they did have steam trains, used in the tunnels.
  (c) TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
  In its early days, when the London Underground used steam trains, they were limited to the sub-surface lines, with plenty of ventilation for the smoke to escape. Later, when the deep level tunnels were built, they u
  
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• Google Street View is coming to London Underground stations

  07-11-2023 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  You’ll soon be able to use Google’s street view to remotely wander around several major tube stations just as you can the streets of London.
  Mock-up image of Google backpack camera operator in a tube station. Google / Unsplash
  By showing the routes that people take through some of London’s key stations, Transport for London (TfL) hopes that customers will be able to useGoogle Street View within stations in the same way they would for journeys made by walking and cycling across
  
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