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£1bn cash pot for 50 high streets, Bank of mum and dad is going bust helping homebuyers, and more top news

Posted on August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Fifty towns in England will be given a share of £1bn to tackle the high street crisis that has left one in 10 shops in UK town centres lying empty. The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) declared an additional £325m in funding to the £675m High Street Fund announced by then chancellor Philip Hammond last year. The money could be used by towns — including Blackpool. Scar...
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Will the 4-Day Workweek Take Hold in Europe?

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but this debate is front and centre within numerous European economies, not only because of a culture shift toward accommodating flexible working but also because some evidence suggests it’s good for business. Many organizations in Europe are cutting workweeks, though not wages, from 36 hours (five days) to 28 hours (four...
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Why every HR agency needs Services of Termination VOIP Providers?

Posted on August 8, 2019May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

If you are a HR agency, making hundreds of calls to scout for right talents then the wholesale A-Z VOIP termination services are absolutely necessary for you. The calls made by an employment agency or firm are completely different in purpose and pitch than conventional marketing calls. Though clarity is required in both these calls, it is absolutely essential for HR agencies, why? The end custo...
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PSA are introducing new Special conditions for subscription services

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Following a full examination of services which make recurring charges to a consumer’s phone bill in exchange for digital content - such as games, music streaming or videos - the Phone-paid services Authority has introduced tough new rules. Phone-paid subscriptions are used by millions of consumers engaging with popular services, many operated by leading games publishers and music streaming serv...
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BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network

Posted on July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network in Britain, with the intention of shifting all customers over to IP telephony services by 2025. The closure of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is part of plans by BT toward internet-based voice calls via a fibre network. As such it will be looking to close a chunk of exchanges. Openreach wrote to its communic...
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STUN Servers

Posted on May 27, 2019May 29, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

What is STUN? A STUN (Session Traversal of User Datagram Protocol [UDP] Through Network Address Translators [NATs]) server allows NAT clients (i.e. IP Phones behind a firewall) to setup phone calls to a VoIP provider hosted outside of the local network. What does a STUN server do? The STUN server allows clients to find out their public address, the type of NAT they are behind and the Internet s...
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Trump’s Huawei ban a ‘double-edged sword’

Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

As the US and China square off, tech companies on both sides feel the heat US president Donald Trump’s move to effectively ban Chinese telecommunications firms from doing business with American companies is going to impact both the nations and the global tech industry alike, industry experts said. Huawei and ZTE have been added to the “Entity List” from Friday and prevents it from ...
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Huawei’s use of Android restricted by Google

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Google has barred the world's second-biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese company. New designs of Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps. The move comes after the Trump administration added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms cannot trade with unless they have a license. Google...
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First 5G cities in UK named by EE

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

EE has announced which six UK cities will be the first to get faster 5G mobile networks. Building on existing trials, EE will turn on 5G in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, and Manchester by mid-2019. By the end of 2019, another 10 cities will get EE networks which could transmit data at speeds faster than 10 gigabits per second. Other UK networks are now trialing 5G to acce...
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