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5G is here to stay in APAC, with operators in the region showing their commitment through increased Capital Expenditure (CapEx) for 5G rollouts. For example, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom are investing a total of US$ 173.3 billion on their 5G network by 2025,” says Kanguri Ling, Research Analyst at ABI Research. “5G will bring many use cases into play for APAC, which is extremely beneficial to the economy and technological progression. In the prosumer space, 5G can enable real-time control for remote production of live broadcasts. For enterprises and end verticals, 5G will enable smart cities through 5G-based autonomous form factors and 5G-powered autonomous driving just to name a few. 5G will also propel an increasingly wireless factory and create new value-based business models for operators in APAC, reducing their profit-reliance on Average Revenue Per User (ARPU).”
https://www.abiresearch.com/press/asia-pacifics-5g-digital-factory-revenue-primed-for-a-post-covid-19-recovery-worth-us60-billion-in-2030/
https://channellife.com.au/story/apac-5g-digital-factory-market-to-reach-us-60-billion-by-2030
The Chinese operators have always been the pioneers in 5G SA. At the beginning of 2020, the Chinese government called for faster construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks, which accelerates the migration to SA 5G. In the first half of 2020, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom have all completed the second round of their 5G tenders, covering SA core equipment and base stations. From 2020 onwards, all the newly deployed 5G base stations will be either in SA or NSA/SA dual-mode, and those NSA base stations deployed earlier will be gradually upgraded to NSA/SA dual-mode or SA. It is expected that China’s three major operators will launch commercial 5G SA service in the second half of 2020, and for that to succeed, they have made a lot of preparation in collaboration with equipment vendors and industry partners.
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20200922/5g/5g-sa-empowering-digital-transformation-across-industries
5G network infrastructure is being rolled out fastest across China followed by the U.S. Ethernity, an Israel based technology company, has a direct relationship with three major Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) - China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. Ethernity is seeing increased focus on building a 5G mobile network based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) which is opening up SmartNIC engagement opportunities not just in China but also the U.S.
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/929821/vsa-capital-market-movers---ethernity-networks-929821.html
18/09/2020
Hubei Mobile and FiberHome Sign a Strategic Cooperation Agreement
http://www.iccsz.com/site/cn/News/2020/09/18/20200918011653010831.htm
Interim 2020
$359,375 over the comparable period (H1 2019: $971,709)
One Contract Win with Indian OEM is already valued more than 4 times the revenue of H1 2020.
"The contract provides for stage payments totalling $1.5 million on a milestone basis during 2020 and 2021 and includes a committed order for design kit, initial design, FPGA, and software. Subject to successful execution, the OEM anticipates that the contract could lead to further significant annual revenues for Ethernity from the supply of additional ENET FPGAs and vRouter software licenses for large scale deployments."
20 September 2020
Trump says he has approved a deal for purchase of TikTok
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/19/tech/donald-trump-tiktok-deal-approval/index.html
18 September 2020
Braveheart Investment Group plc
("Braveheart" or the "Group")
Update on the Pharm2Farm anti-viral mask project
Braveheart Investment Group (AIM: BRH), is pleased to announce that Pharm 2 Farm Limited ("P2F") has placed an order for an automated face mask production line which is expected to be delivered in November 2020 and commissioned by the end of December 2020.
The face mask production line, which is manufactured in Europe, has the capacity to produce up to five million standard or anti-viral face masks per month.
Conventional surgical type masks typically comprise of three layers, with the inner layer acting as a physical barrier to viruses and bacteria. However, they are only recommended for up to two hours of continual use as this layer can become moist and fail, thereby allowing the virus to penetrate though. P2F has developed a second defensive layer that incorporates its own nanotechnology, which is engineered to kill viruses and bacteria. Combining this new active layer with the physical barrier layer, to produce four layer (ply) masks, is expected to improve user safety over a prolonged use. This new material is currently undergoing testing, specifically, with respect to the time taken to kill viruses, including COVID-19. These tests are, being undertaken at the University of Nottingham and results are expected by the beginning of October. Following a satisfactory outcome of the tests undertaken at the University of Nottingham, it is envisaged that manufacture of the anti-viral face masks will commence in the first quarter of 2021. In the event that these tests do not provide a satisfactory outcome, the production line will be used to produce conventional surgical type masks, which P2F believe could still be produced on a profitable basis.
Pharm2Farm's industrial scale face mask production line is expected to be commissioned before the end of the year. The robust automated line will produce Pharm2Farm's anti-viral face mask. #nanotechnology #PPE #facemasks
https://twitter.com/Pharm2Farm_org?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Braveheart owns 25.79+% of the issued share capital in Remote Monitored System plc.
Braveheart owns 19.5% of the issued share capital in Gyrometric Systems.
https://braveheartgroup.co.uk/investments/gyrometric-systems-limited/
Conditional Agreement to Acquire 100% of P2F
RMS (AIM: RMS) is pleased to announce that further to the announcement of 17 July 2020, it has signed a binding Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Pharm2Farm Limited ("P2F") (the "Acquisition"). Completion of the Acquisition is subject to regulatory and RMS shareholder approval. The Acquisition will be satisfied by the issue of 600,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Consideration Shares"), equating to approximately £2,370,000 based on RMS's closing share price on 20 August 2020.
RMS considers that the opportunity to acquire and unite the two shareholdings of P2F, a business operating in two vital sectors and on the brink of near term growth, will lead to significant enhancement of shareholder value for RMS shareholders.
The vendors of P2F are Braveheart Investment Group plc (51.72%) ("Braveheart") and Dr. Gareth Cave, the founder of P2F (48.28%) who will receive 310,354,815 and 289,645,185 Consideration Shares respectively (the "Vendors"). On completion of the Acquisition, Braveheart will hold 509,992,405 ordinary shares, representing 37.12% of the enlarged share capital of the Company. Dr. Gareth Cave will own 21.08% of the enlarged share capital of the Company.
The Vendors are presumed to be acting in concert and as they will own more than 50%, and Braveheart will own more than 30%, of RMS on completion of the Acquisition, the Acquisition is conditional upon a waiver being granted by the UK Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (the "Panel") from the obligation of Braveheart and the Vendor concert party, to make a mandatory offer for the Company under Rule 9 of the City Code. Such waiver, if granted, will be subject to the Company obtaining approval of independent shareholders of RMS at a General Meeting.
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https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/RMS/conditional-agreement-to-acquire-100-of-p2f-pwilvw67azgmujn.html
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/work-on-gawadar-thar-energy-projects-contin-1026329.html
Sep 11 2020
Work on Gwadar and Energy projects under CPEC in full swing
http://cpecinfo.com/work-on-gwadar-and-energy-projects-under-cpec-in-full-swing/
(Shares in issue) 2,069,878,598 * (Current Price) 0.0075 = 15.5m (Market Cap)
Shares issued today valued at £100,000 is negligible 0.6%.
MM's will have a minuscule amount to trade with on Monday morning 14 Sep 2020, after the 11 Sep 2020 Meeting, where chances are LOI could be finalised with over weekend.
6-8 Billion Thar Project value to investors
73% China National Coal Development Company Ltd (£4,380,000,000 - £5,840,000,000)
15% Private office of UAE’s Highness Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum (£900,000,000 - £1,200,000,000)
12% Oracle Power (£720,000,000 - £960,000,000)
Current market cap Oracle £15.500,000
Friday 11 Sep 2020
http://tools.euroland.com/tools/PressReleases/GetPressRelease/?ID=3814288&lang=en-GB&companycode=services
73% China National Coal Development Company Ltd
15% Private office of UAE’s Highness Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum
12% Oracle Power
• Joint Development Agreement with the Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Juma Al Maktoum and China National Coal Development Company Limited, a subsidiary of China National Coal Group Corporation to develop Block VI
• Consortium Agreement with JDA partners, which envisages project equity interests of China National Coal 73%, the Private
ffice 15%, and Oracle 12%, in a US$ 6-8 billion project
http://www.oraclepower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/A1-Oracle-Corporate-Presentation-August-2020.pdf
he owner of Joe Media Ltd is poised to initiate legal action against the former presenters of its popular sports show, House of Rugby in Britain.
Greencastle Capital, which financed the acquisition of the Irish founded digital media company, has appointed international law firm DLA Piper to represent them in their action against the show’s presenter, the journalist Alex Payne, and his co-presenters, former professional rugby players James Haskell and Mike Tindall.
Legal letters have been exchanged between both sides, and the action now appears set to go to the courts.
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A house divided: Joe owner Greencastle to sue ex-rugby stars Haskell and Tindall over new show
Journalist Alex Payne and former rugby stars James Haskell and Mike Tindall presented the popular House of Rugby show. Having set up a rival programme, the new owners of Joe, are now set to initiate legal action over alleged similarities.
https://www.thecurrency.news/articles/22547/a-house-divided-joe-media-to-sue-former-rugby-stars-haskell-and-tindall-over-rugby-show