Also in today s EMEA regional roundup: French village says non to Starlink ground station; KPN buffs up green credentials; MVNO specialist returns to Three UK.
Telefónica has notched up 600G and 800G transmission speeds on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) photonic meshes in a pilot with Huawei in Madrid. The tests used Huawei OSN 9800 devices over the 47km network. Telefónica intends to begin implementing 400G speeds this year and subsequently tweak its Fusion IP network to meet the need for higher capacity and even faster speeds.
In related news, Telefónica UK (O2) has bagged the Best Network for Coverage gong in the Uswitch Broadband and Mobile awards for the fourth year in a row. O2-owned MVNO Giffgaff also landed Network of the Year in the awards, which are based on a survey of more than 10,000 people.
Pet Shop Boys bound onto Billboard's Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart at No. 5 with "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" following the Feb. 6 Super Bowl premiere of an Allstate insurance commercial featuring the song.
Updated / Thursday, 4 Feb 2021
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Welcome to Creative Bursts, the short series of creative activities to do at home with your children. Creative Bursts are created by Sarah Webb and supported by MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland.
Sarah Webb is an award-winning children s writer and children s book champion. Her children’s books include A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, illustrated by Steve McCarthy which won the Irish Book Awards Junior Category, Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World, illustrated by Lauren O’Neill which won the Irish Book Awards Senior Category, and Animal Crackers with Alan Nolan.
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Last year, Ben Wheatley released a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” in which his heroine suffers a trippy newlywed’s nightmare. She’s married to Armie Hammer, following him through the halls of Manderley, and the hallway carpet turns to crawling ivy, grabbing her ankles and pulling her down toward hell. This hallucination stands out in the otherwise traditional film, but it’s one of the few moments in “Rebecca” where we sense the filmmaker’s personality coming through. That freaky interlude might as well have been a trailer for Wheatl