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• Vendor-Neutral Messaging Platforms

  08-11-2023 20:13
  Messaging platform vendors are offering vendor-neutral messaging platforms combined with smart tools, and telcos can use these to more easily, quickly, and effectively engage with enterprise customers directly to generate revenue from app-to-person (A2P) SMS and SMS Internet of Things (IoT).
  Telcos are a trusted provider of communications services to consumer and enterprise customers, and as such hold a privileged position in the enterprise messaging value chain. But it is a position that telcos
  
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• Train companies and RMT breakthrough in rail strikes dispute

  08-11-2023 19:25 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There appears to have been a breakthrough in the long running rail strikes, as the RMT union says that is putting a new offer to its members.The strikes over pay and conditions have been ongoing for 18 months. In a carefully worded statement, the RMT says that it has an agreement with the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents the train companies for a “mutually agreed way forward, including a backdated 2022 pay rise for staff and job security guarantees.”
  However, the offer is
  
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• Orange Business says it occupies the sweet spot between telco and IT

  08-11-2023 18:18
  At a press briefing in London, Orange Business ran through some wins in bespoke B2B technology deployments as an update to its ‘Lead the Future’ plan announced in February.
  Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, CEO of Orange Business (pictured) led the briefing, alongside Usman Javaid, Chief Products and Marketing Officer, Orange Business, and Hriday Ravindranath, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Orange Business.
  When it was announced back in February, the ‘Lead the Future&rsqu
  
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• Ofcom slaps £39m reserve on UK mmWave spectrum auction

  08-11-2023 16:58
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has fired the starting gun on the UK’s first millimetre-wave (mmWave) spectrum auction.
  On Wednesday it published proposed rules for the process of allocating frequencies in the upper and lower 26 GHz band, and the 40 GHz band.
  The lower 26 GHz band constitutes seven lots of 200 MHz in the 25.1-26.5 GHz band, while the upper is comprised of five lots of 200 MHz spanning 26.5-27.5 GHz. The 40 GHz band has been divided into 15 x 200 MHz.
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• Optus outage paralyses Australia

  08-11-2023 13:24
  Australia’s second mobile network operator suffered a lengthy outage, which affected infrastructure as well as individual subscribers.
  Communication from Optus, which reportedly suffered a complete network outage for around 12 hours earlier today, has been limited. The only information we could find on its website were a few updates claiming incremental restoration of services. Possibly most damaging for Optus is the concession that people can’t even use the 000 emergency services nu
  
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• Tickets Alert: Steam engines back in action at the London Museum of Water and Steam

  08-11-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the first time in nearly two years, the steam engines at the London Museum of Water & Steam will be turned on again. The Museum’s 96-year-old Lancashire Boiler failed early last year, and the steam engines have been switched off ever since while repairs were carried out.
  (c) London Museum of Water & Steam
  The repaired boiler is now ready to start powering the steam engines again, and just in time for the museum’s 50th anniversary.
  To celebrate, the Museum will be hosting
  
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• Telecom vendors sound alarm over EU Cyber Resilience Act

  08-11-2023 12:49
  Ericsson, Nokia and others have warned that the EU’s effort to apply common cybersecurity standards to connected devices may lead to ‘COVID-style’ supply chain disruption.
  Their concerns are set out in a letter sent via lobby group DigitalEurope to internal market commissioner Thierry Breton; EU vice presidents Margaritis Schinas and Věra Jourová; Spanish secretary of state for digitalisation and AI Carme Artigas; and Italian MEP Nicola Danti.
  In a nutshell, they ar
  
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• Strike action on the buses in west London for the next few weeks

  08-11-2023 12:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A number of bus routes in west London will be hit by several strikes between now and Christmas in a dispute with the Unite union.
  Photo by Jeremy Downes on Unsplash
  Some bus drivers on eight bus routes plan to strike on:Friday 10th November
  Monday 13th November
  Friday 1st December
  Monday 4th December
  Friday 22nd December
  Saturday 23rd DecemberIf the action goes ahead, little or no service is expected on the affected routes between approximately 5am on strike days and 6am the day after each strik
  
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• Half of British rural deprived areas have no 5G – Vodafone

  08-11-2023 11:32
  A huge number of people living in areas of Britain classed as rural and deprived have no access to 5G networks, according to a new study published by Vodafone.
  With urban areas faring much better in terms of mobile coverage, the mobile operator highlights a growing digital divide, something it pledges to tackle… provided it gets the green light to merge with rival Three, of course.
  Indeed, while interesting, Vodafone’s data is not remotely surprising, as anyone living in a more rura
  
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• HS2’s Colne Valley railway viaduct reaches construction halfway point

  08-11-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Construction of HS2’s long Colne Valley railway viaduct in west London has reached the halfway mark, with the railway deck now assembled on 28 of the supporting piers.
  Colne Valley viaduct (c) HS2
  Construction of its 56 piers to carry the deck across land and water began in December 2021. For the past 18 months, a massive launching girder has been working its way south across the valley, one pier to the next, to lower and fix into place the viaduct’s deck segments.
  Weighing up to 140
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Abbey Gardens, E15

  08-11-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next to the DLR in east London is a large community garden that sits on a partially excavated ancient monument.This is Abbey Gardens, which you will not be surprised to learn takes its name, as does the wider area, from the Stratford Langthorne Abbey. The abbey, one of the richest in England, was closed down by King Henry VIII in 1538, and the buildings were sold off for their stone. The land wasn’t heavily developed until the 1800s though as London expanded and the area became industriali
  
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• Google and prominent telecom groups urge Brussels to act over Apple’s iMessage

  08-11-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Companies want chat app designated a ‘core’ service that would require it to be fully compatible with rivals
  
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