Digital Catapult, organising national tech innovation centres on behalf of Innovate UK, the UK government’s innovation agency, has recruited operator Vodafone to connect up its newest 5G innovation lab in …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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As we heard last week, good 5G is bad 5G without careful network design – especially with private 5G in complex enterprise venues. This was the line from Nazim Choudhury, …
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US-based spectrum management provider Federated Wireless has launched a premium CBRS service for high-end workloads on private 4G and 5G networks in shared spectrum. It claims the new service, called …
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UK broadband and digital services provider Connexin and regional UK broadband and connectivity provider NYnet have signed a network sharing and operations agreement to expand LoRaWAN infrastructure across North Yorkshire. …
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You can have the best 5G network in the world, and make it into the worst; or, at least, you can render it as completely ordinary without much effort, and …
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Japan-based KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in the third-tier Growth Market section for emerging high-growth companies. Soracom claims to have more than 20,000 …
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Managed enterprise IoT provider Kajeet has a deal to integrate its Sentinel platform with Cisco’s cellular gateways and mobility services platform. The pair hailed it as a “strategic partnership”; they …
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Following on from the article last week, about “ecosystem linkage” in the private 5G market, Stephen Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent, presents five key trends with cellular in …
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Service provider Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) has signed a deal with Nokia to sell the Finnish vendor’s various private LTE and 5G systems, plus edge componentry and industrial devices, to …
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In case you missed it (we did); China-based Quectel Wireless Solutions, the biggest cellular IoT module maker on the planet, is getting into the non-cellular low-power-wide-area (LPWA) IoT game with …
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Want to know what’s happening, and also what’s about to happen, in telecoms? You could do much worse, and also not much better, than to ask a well-placed test and …
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The global market for cellular IoT module slipped by around two percent in terms of annual shipment volumes in 2023, compared to 2022. It is the first time the cellular …
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Evidence, or indication at least, that the burgeoning market for private networks in Industry 4.0 is as much about local knowhow and boots-on-the-ground as it is about global corporate reach; …
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Philadelphia-based managed private cellular provider Velaspan is targeting enterprises in global markets with Nokia’s private 4G/5G solution. It is the one of the first managed service providers to be authorised …
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IBM has purchased Boston-based network and IT infrastructure automation company Pliant for an undisclosed fee. Pliant offers a platform to simplify infrastructure automation for software developers to quickly deploy API-enabled …
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New York based system integrator Kyndryl is working with “connectivity cloud” company Cloudflare to “design, build, manage, and modernize” enterprise networking systems for global clients. Ther pair have expanded a …
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Austin-based GXC, offering an Industry 4.0 twist with cellular mesh technology, is recruiting operators, resellers, and distributors to sell its private 5G system to US enterprises. It has announced a …
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Chicago-based carrier UScellular, the fourth biggest operator in the US, has installed a private 5G network at a new Industry 4.0 customer lab in Ohio belonging to Rockwell Automation. Their …
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Is there an echo in here? Swedish vendor Ericsson has established a new federal division in the U.S. to deliver “5G-driven digital transformation” across multiple agencies in the U.S. federal …
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What have we here? As we navigate the one-way system at the far end of hall three at MWC last month, and amble up the stairs into a serious-sized meeting …
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French IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications, which saw its $249m takeover by Japan-based Renesas Electronics come undone at the eleventh hour at the end of last month, has been granted €10.9 …
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Nokia is preparing an ultra-compact version of its private cellular network solution to pitch to the small-and-medium sized enterprise (SME) market, particularly as it aligns with its focus on selling …
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Comcast Business has deployed a private 5G network, plus an upgraded Wi-Fi network, at the Stadium Course at The Tournament Players Club (TPC) Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, for …
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This article, recounting an interview with Accenture’s ‘cloud-first’ commander Jefferson Wang at MWC at the end of last month, might be taken as a companion piece, of sorts, with last …
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Nokia has struck a deal with enterprise infrastructure provider Eurofiber to integrate its private LTE (4G) and 5G macro products into the Dutch firm’s “open digital infrastructure” offer, which utilises …
