25 new Covid cases on 20 Jan. brings total to 1,287: 34 hospitalised: 19 resident + 8 in ICU: 4 resident, 142 home monitored, 1,058 recoveries, 9 deaths
Monaco Telecom unveiled, as a world premiere, its nationwide 5G mobile network on the occasion of the Monaco Yacht Show.
Frédéric Genta, Interministerial Delegate in charge of the digital transition, stressed that “The Principality is the first country in the world to open the 5G: the face of the Monaco of tomorrow is emerging today and we could not create a smart nation without a strong partnership with a telecom operator.
“The power of the 5G implemented via a precise grid of the territory will be an essential platform for the digital transition. This launch proves that, day after day, the Prince’s Government is creating the face of the Monaco of tomorrow.”
At the same time, a 5G-connected UAV, flying over the world’s leading yachting market, broadcast live 360° High Definition images to a virtual reality headset.
From a technical point of view, the 5G will be able to obtain rates multiplied by 10 and connection times divided by 10. Simultaneous processing will be 10 times higher and can support more objects connected by antenna.
Thus, 5G will support the exponential growth of Internet usage in mobility. The first smartphones capable of supporting this new technology will be available in 2019.
This development is therefore naturally part of Monaco’s evolution as a precursor in the field of connectivity, and accompanies the Principality’s digital transition, a project led by M.Genta.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation has signed the Arctic Commitment and pledged its support for a ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping.
A new website, Monaco Santé, has been created in the Principality, providing information and services for residents and visitors including online bookings and consultations.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation has signed the Arctic Commitment and pledged its support for a ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping.
A new website, Monaco Santé, has been created in the Principality, providing information and services for residents and visitors including online bookings and consultations.
Monaco has just completed its seventh year of Winter School in conjunction with the Sciences Po Menton campus, only this year, all classes were held virtually for the first time ever.
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The Monaco Town Hall has arranged free parking at Stade Louis II for those attending the pre-election meetings on Wednesday, February 7 and Thursday, February 8, at the Gaston Medecin Omnisports Hall.
In addition, free transport is available on the Monaco bus network from 18:30 to midnight on presentation of a Monegasque identity document.
Polling in the elections to the National Council takes place on Sunday, February 11, at Espace Leo Ferre, 7, terrasses de Fontvieille. The polling station opens at 08:00 and closes at 19:00 with no lunch break. Voters should bring ID card or valid passport.
More information on the municipal elections: www.mairie.mc
Sotheby’s, the prestigious auction house, is preparing to contest a legal challenge from Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Monaco resident and billionaire owner of AS Monaco.
Sotheby’s expects that the Russian tycoon will use the British courts to claim that they may have acted improperly in the long-running case involving Yves Bouvier, the Swiss art dealer.
The auction house, which has its head quarters in the US, has said it would “vigorously” fight any action brought by Rybolovlev, saying that any suggestion it had been involved in fraudulent conduct or taken part in a conspiracy to inflate the values of art works was “categorically false”.
Rybolovlev has claimed in a number of jurisdictions that Bouvier cheated him by marking up the prices of up to 40 art works. In particular, attention has fallen on Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which Bouvier bought for €66 million ($80 million) at a private Sotheby’s sale, which he then sold for a reported €104 ($127 million) to the Russian.
Rybolovlev has claimed that Bouvier was acting as his agent and so had a duty not to mark up items he bought on his behalf. He has also asserted, through his lawyers, that Samuel Valette, Sotheby’s Senior Director, Vice Chairman, Private Sales Worldwide Impressionist & Modern Art, had written bullish assessments of a number of works that Bouvier forwarded on to him.
Meanwhile, Salvator Mundi was subsequently sold by the Russian for a record €382 million ($450 million) in a Christies sale.
