WWE Launches Free Version of Streaming Network (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

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6:00 AM PDT 6/1/2020 by Natalie Jarvey

WWE Network will make more than 15,000 titles available at no cost and without ads.

WWE Network is going free.

A no-cost version of the streamer launches today with more than 15,000 titles including episodes of Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

Jayar Donlan, executive vp of advanced media at WWE, tells THR that the company sees the introducing of the free product, dubbed the Free Version of WWE Network, as “a balance of providing a great experience for our fans by essentially offering unlimited access to a larger array of programming while still maintaining the value of our more premium content at $9.99 per month."

The free version will not be ad-supported at launch. It will offer recent episodes of WWE flagships Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown and NXT. In addition, it will carry new shows like Raw Talk, which will stream every Monday night; original series like Monday Night War, Ride Along and Table for 3; some historical pay-per-view programming; and weekly highlights like Top 10 and The Best of WWE.

WWE Network launched in 2014 to offer live and on-demand professional wrestling programming. Earlier this year ahead of WrestleMania, WWE gave away much of the streamer’s content for free. “It proved to be a good acquisition strategy for us,” says Donlan. That combined with the streaming of WrestleMania contributed to WWE Network’s highest weekend of signups. It hit 2.1 million subscribers in early April. Donlan adds of the plan to make the programming free permanently, “Evolving is smart and putting new offers in the marketplace stimulates consumer activity. It gives us a good fan experience.

The introduction to the free tier comes as WWE — which has continued to air new programming during the shut down — explores strategic options for the streamer. Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon announced during the company’s quarterly earnings call in late April that WWE had been “very close” with a number of potential partners on a deal before the coronavirus pandemic and that negotiations had been extended as a result.

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Colombia enlists ports in quest to equip renewable auction winners - PV-Tech

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Energy Minister Maria Fernanda Suárez, here pictured to the right of president Iván Duque, said the port dispensation will help deliver solar and wind projects meant to diversify Colombia's hydro-reliant power mix. Image credit: Colombian Ministry of Energy and Mines

Colombia is to mobilise private players to ensure solar and wind components from abroad can reach auction project winners, powering the renewable shift of a nation scaling positions in global energy transition rankings.

The Latin American country will allow private ports to process imported green energy equipment even if the counterparty has no prior ties with the port operators, doing away with a legal obstacle for solar and wind firms looking to source components at the time of COVID-19.

In a new statement, Colombia’s Energy Ministry said it hopes the “exceptional” measure will ease the importing of solar and wind parts, allowing developers to choose from a wider array of port locations and ultimately speeding up the commissioning of projects.

According to the statement, the special permission will be granted on a case-by-case basis. Colombian private ports keen to become a gateway for renewable equipment will have to show they meet a new set of requirements, set out by the country’s Transport Ministry.

The port waiver is meant to bring down the logistical barriers for the 14 renewable projects working to complete construction nationwide by 2022. From nine wind schemes in La Guajira to five PV counterparts in César and others, the pipeline is scattered across Colombia’s north and west.

These 14 green energy projects – winners all of either last October's renewable auction or last March's separate “reliability charge” tender  – will spark total investments of 7 trillion Colombian pesos (US$1.87 billion), according to Energy Minister María Fernanda Suárez.

Colombia's renewable auction highlights of 2019

4 March 2019: PV secures 238MW at Colombia’s ‘reliability charge’ auction (see here to read the PV Tech story in full)

Two PV developers have won contracts to provide power in 2022 and 2023 at a Colombian auction designed to boost supply in the event of droughts. At a respective 170MW and 68MW, Enel and Emgesa were the two successful PV bidders at the so-called “reliability charge” tender held last week. The auction tendered a combined 4.01GW in new capacity across all forms of energy, renewable or otherwise. Solar’s aggregate 238MW placed it far behind hydropower’s 1.372GW, thermal power’s 1.24GW and wind power’s 1.16GW.

23 October 2019: Colombia awards 1.3GW of solar and wind in ‘historic’ first renewable auction (see here to read the PV Tech story in full)

Colombia's national mining and energy planning unit (UPME) has awarded 1.3GW of solar and winds contracts in what the Energy Ministry has called "a historic step towards the renewable energy revolution in Colombia". The winners included three solar projects by Trina Solar, including CSF Continua San Felipe (90MW) and CSF Continua Cartago (99MW).

In her statement, Colombia’s top energy policy maker said the 14-strong green energy pipeline will create 6,000 new jobs and foster economic growth even as they help diversify a hydro power-reliant, climate-vulnerable national power mix.

Colombia’s efforts to shelter renewable imports from COVID-19 disruption come after the country enacted lockdown measures to contain the pandemic. At 27,000-plus cases, reported infections remain some way below Brazil’s (514,849), Peru’s (164,476), Chile’s (99,688) and others.

Recent stats from planning body UPME suggest solar will be central to Colombia's green energy campaign. The figures, published in April, showed that 9.47GW of PV projects had been proposed as of the end of Q1 2020, passing hydro (4.4GW), wind (2.5GW) and thermal power (1.9GW).

In line with the winners of renewable auctions, the avalanche of solar project proposals revolves around high-irradiation departments in the north, including La Guajira (1.84GW, 13 projects), Santander (1.44GW, 23 projects) and César (1.31GW, 26 projects).

In recent months, PV Tech has charted the progress of some of the firms part of the solar rush, including Cubico-Celsia (400MW), Invenergy (400MW), Diverxia (240MWp) and AES Gener, who last year settled on Colombia as one of the two locations for a 1.6GW renewable push.

Interviewed for a PV Tech Power feature, solar operators were largely confident in Colombia’s odds of success with renewables. Some, however, urged the state not to overlook the need for grid investments in the congested north, where demand for connection points is highest.

Tags: latin america, south america, colombia, upme, america, americas, tenders and auctions, renewable auctions, solar supply chain, covid-19, coronavirus

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Oracle looking to sell 5G core to network operators - Light Reading

Oracle said it plans to sell 4G and 5G core network services to mobile operators starting later this year. The company said the offering would run inside Oracle's cloud and would be available "as a service," meaning operators will be able to pay only for what they need on a recurring basis.

"5G was actually developed as a web-based application," Oracle's Travis Russell explained during a recent Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) webinar on the topic. The event was targeted at CCA members, which are primarily small and regional wireless network operators in the US.

"Because 5G is built in the cloud, it's a perfect candidate for a SaaS," the software-as-a-service model, Russell said, explaining that operators will no longer have to purchase equipment under the "Mother's Day rule" whereby they must invest in enough equipment to handle their biggest traffic days. Instead, with SaaS, they can scale up and down as needed, paying only for what they use.

"We are the only 5G supplier that is also one of the largest cloud suppliers in the world," he boasted, noting that although companies like Microsoft and Amazon are increasingly selling telecom services via partnerships, Oracle provides much of its own telecom offerings in-house. "We're our own supply chain, we build our own hardware, we build our own chipsets."

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"Expect to hear a lot about how we're growing this out," Russell said, pointing to Oracle's announcement last year that it would provide 5G Policy Control Function (PCF) for KT in South Korea.

Crowded core
Oracle's entry into the 5G core market comes as little surprise. The company has long had a presence in the telecom market, most notably via its acquisitions of Tekelec and Acme Packet in 2013. Russell said Oracle has been working on 5G for the past four to five years.

But Oracle isn't alone in chasing the 5G core opportunity. For example, HPE recently threw its own hat into the 5G core marketplace, as did Microsoft via its acquisitions of Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch Networks. Established vendors in the space include Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Mavenir, Nokia and ZTE.

The reason for all the interest in the 5G core is a matter of timing. Today's early versions of 5G primarily rely on 4G cores because the "standalone" (SA) version of 5G wasn't ready yet. But now that 5G SA specifications are ready for prime time, a number of operators – including all of the major operators in the US – are planning to deploy 5G SA cores in the next year or so. Doing so will provide them with much more flexibility than they have today using the "non-standalone" (NSA) version of 5G.

This transition is a major opportunity for vendors. For example, China Mobile – the world's largest mobile operator in terms of customers – recently awarded 5G core contracts totaling $1.3 billion to Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson. Research and consulting firm Dell'Oro reported that the Mobile Core Network (MCN) market grew to $8 billion in 2019.

Plenty of complexity
But Oracle faces a steep climb to gain success in the 5G core market, argued core analyst Dave Bolan with Dell'Oro.

"There are a lot of people with 5G core ambitions right now," he explained. "It is hard to know who will be successful. Over time, as we know, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, and ZTE are hard to beat."

Indeed, Bolan wrote in a recent Dell'Oro post that Huawei and Ericsson are the top two wireless packet core suppliers with a combined 60% of the market. And he noted that both already have plenty of momentum in 5G.

Bolan also said that Oracle may need to ink partnerships to flesh out its core offering – that's exactly what HPE has done for its own core play.

That's partly because the 5G core – the brain of a 5G network – will need to be able to handle a massive array of features and functions in the months and years to come. Everything from Network Slicing Selection Function (NSSF) to Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) to Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is handled by the core. And those are the kinds of services that operators are hoping will ultimately make 5G profitable.

"Time will tell how this will play out," Dolan concluded. "And for sure the cloud service providers [like Oracle] want to be players. It will be interesting to see which strategy or strategies will be the winner(s)."

— Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading | @mikeddano

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Emirates President Says Could Take Four Years to Rebuild Network From Virus Hit - The New York Times

DUBAI — Emirates' outgoing President Tim Clark on Monday said it could take the state carrier up to four years to resume flying to its entire network that has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Dubai-based airline, which flew to 157 destinations in 83 countries before the pandemic, grounded passenger flights in March and has since operated few, limited services.

"I think probably by the year 2022/23, 2023/24 we will see things coming back to some degree of normality and Emirates will be operating its network as it was and hopefully as successfully as it was," Clark said in a webcast interview with aviation consultant John Strickland.

Emirates has warned that the current period would be the most difficult in its 35-year history and on Sunday said it had made some staff redundant due to the impact of the pandemic.

Clark, who is to become an adviser to the airline this month when he steps down as president, said the industry could start to recover by the summer next year if a widely available vaccine was successfully developed by early 2021.

"We will start to see an uptick, quite a large uptick in demand for travel," Clark said, adding that Emirates would be able to get its fleet ready within 48 hours if it had to.

Demand would likely continue to increase into 2023 and 2024 unless there was another major trauma to the global economy, he said.

However, Clark warned that physical distancing on planes was not economically and environmentally practical because it would mean flying aircraft half empty.

Emirates will for now continue to ask passengers to wear gloves and face masks onboard, he said.

(Reporting by Alexander Cornwell and Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Toby Chopra and Louise Heavens)

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IHC to equip new TSHD for Weeks Marine - ShipInsight

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Royal IHC (IHC) has been awarded the contract for the engineering and equipment delivery for a new 6,540m³ Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) for Weeks Marine Inc. (Weeks).

This is an identical sister vessel to the Magdalen that was delivered in 2017. Part of the contract is the supply of key components as well as the provision of several technical services during the construction process. The vessel, which will sail under the name R.B. Weeks, will be built at Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton Shipyard Panama City, Florida. The new TSHD is designed for beach nourishment and capital dredging works and is highly automated.

This repeat order confirms the satisfaction expressed by Weeks about the construction of the Magdalen and its performance, and underlines IHC’s proven track record in designing world-class dredging vessels and equipment. Moreover, IHC is very excited and committed to become the partner of choice in a very challenging but promising market, which has all the signs of picking up momentum. Hans B. Blomberg, Weeks’ Technical Manager Hopper Dredgers, said, “We are excited to be working with Royal IHC again on our sister vessel construction project. IHC’s engineering and hardware supply services will assure that we will once again have a first-class vessel utilising the most modern and innovative technology available on the market.”

His view is shared by Erdinç Açıkel, IHC’s Head of Custom-Built Hopper Dredgers, who added, “We are proud that Weeks – a long-standing and highly valued customer of ours – has again chosen IHC to be its reliable partner. It underscores the trust that this leading market player in the USA puts in the performance and technology of our engineering and dredging solutions.”

Like the Magdalen, the R.B. Weeks will be equipped with IHC-designed and built equipment, including the complete and highly efficient dredging installation, dredging automation and instrumentation, propulsion and main electrical system. The vessel will again be equipped with IHC’s unique dynamic positioning and tracking (DP/DT) system and eco pump controllers, which will both further enhance its efficiency. IHC will also provide a number of technical services, including the assistance of its qualified engineers for inspection during installation of the delivered equipment at the shipyard, and support during start-up and commissioning of the dredger. The delivery of the R.B. WEEKS is scheduled for early 2023.

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Emirates president says could take four years to rebuild network from virus hit - Reuters

FILE PHOTO - Members of cleaning staff in protective suits board an Emirates Airbus A380 to disinfected it against the coronavirus, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates March 5, 2020. Picture taken March 5, 2020. Emirates Airline/Handout via REUTERS

DUBAI (Reuters) - Emirates President Tim Clark said on Monday it could take the airline four years to rebuild its network that has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.

“I think probably by the year 2022/23, 2023/24 we will see things coming back to some degree of normality and Emirates will be operating its network as it was and hopefully as successfully as it was,” he said in a webcast interview.

The Dubai-based airline was flying to 157 destinations in 83 countries before it grounded passenger flights in March and has since operated limited services.

Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Toby Chopra

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