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• Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out tickets now available from £10

  10-11-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Peppa Pig returns to the West End for a strictly limited run in Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, and tickets are now available from £10 on selected performances.Join Peppa on a special day of activities with George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig and all of her best friends. There are plenty of muddy puddles and snorts to go around for Peppa fans and it’s the perfect introduction to theatre for the little ones.
  There will be all of our favourite things, from zoo trips to a special, sandy beach p
  
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• Can street cabinets offer more value to ISPs and their local communities?

  10-11-2023 17:44
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Joe Thompson, Global Head of Optical & Network Product at TXO, explores some possibly overlooked uses for fibre cabinets.
  In the UK’s pursuit of fibre for the masses, ISPs of all sizes – from mammoths like Openreach to local rural network providers – have installed fibre cabinets across the country.
  The general public and operators alike vi
  
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• Qualcomm and Iridium end their satellite chip partnership

  10-11-2023 17:36
  Less than a year after it was announced, mobile chip giant Qualcomm has drawn a line under its satellite-to-phone collaboration with satellite firm Iridium.
  Announced at CES 2023, the partnership was supposed provide satellite-to-phone services via Snapdragon Satellite, which was based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, and satellites from Iridium.
  Iridium said in a statement that while the two firms had successfully developed and demonstrated the technology, smartphone manufacturers have not opted to i
  
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• Cellnex U-turns on private 5G with Edzcom sale

  10-11-2023 13:48
  Cellnex has agreed to sell its private networks business unit to Boldyn Networks, essentially pulling out of a market that it targeted as a key growth area just a couple of years ago.
  The passive infrastructure specialist is offloading the business to Boldyn Networks, a growing presence in the neutral host space. The firms did not disclose the size of the transaction, but said that, pending regulatory approvals and so forth, they expect it to close in the first quarter of next year.
  The private
  
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• Humane launches AI Pin – a wearable and chatty AI gizmo

  10-11-2023 12:37
  Pitched as ‘the first wearable device and software platform built to harness the full power of artificial intelligence’, the AI Pin is a wearable, screen-less device designed to allow the user to interact with AI verbally.
  Once pinned to their shirt, users can ask AI Pin to search for info which it ‘contextualizes’, get it to craft messages in your tone of voice, sift through an inbox, play music, translate foreign languages and perhaps most bizarrely ‘support your
  
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• Huawei: Antenna Innovation Facilitates Mobile Network Evolution Towards 5.5G

  10-11-2023 12:23
  Antenna innovation will be fundamental to the success of operators’ 5G and 5.5G business. This is the firm view of Eric Zhao, President of Huawei Antenna Business Unit. “If wireless networks are to evolve, antennas must meet new and changing operator requirements compared to past traditions,” he says.
  Eric was speaking to Telecoms.com at the recent Global Mobile Broadband Forum held in Dubai.
  The overarching theme of the event was “Bring 5.5G Into Reality,” somethin
  
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• BT pilots AI patient concierge service for NHS

  10-11-2023 10:43
  UK incumbent BT has stepped up its health-related activities with some AI-enhanced patient messaging tech.
  Together with the NHS and Soprano – which offers an SMS platform for businesses – it is piloting ‘Patient Concierge’. It is designed to streamline patient communication, cutting the amount of time spent arranging appointments for diagnosis and treatment. The hope is that it will also reduce the number of double-booked or missed appointments.
  BT said it is currently s
  
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• European IT spending ‘continues to be recession-proof’

  10-11-2023 10:00
  According to figures from Gartner, IT spending in Europe will total $1.1 trillion in 2024, an increase of 9.3% on this year.
  Software and IT services are expected to enjoy the highest spending increase in 2024, while in the data centre market new spending continues to skew toward cloud options which is expected to grow 27%.
  In terms of where European CIOs priorities lie, enhancing cybersecurity spending in the cloud and planning for AI and generative AI are identified as key factors. Spending on
  
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