US network design and services firm Betacom has pulled a bunch of ecosystem partners together into a go-to-market club around its private 4G and 5G offer. The group – which …
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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The first fruit of NTT’s new tie-up with Cisco on private 5G; the pair have combined to deploy a private 5G network for research purposes at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule …
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Anterix, developing private cellular systems for the utilities industry in the US, has commissioned French IoT chip maker Sequans to develop a multi-band LTE Cat-4 module to work in 900 …
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Bosch has said it wants to increase sales of industrial technology by around 40 percent over the next five years, to top €10 billion by 2028. It said rising interest …
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Electronics and appliance manufacturers are leading the way for Industry 4.0 ‘maturity’, according to a new poll of 500 industrial companies by Nokia and ABI Research. Their research says that …
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) will, at some point, replicate its managed private 5G service offering in global markets, it says. The product, currently limited to CBRS installations in the US, …
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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened a six-week consultation with a view to open more cellular spectrum for shared and private usage. It said the success of its Shared Access …
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Swedish vendor Ericsson has acquired secure access software provider Ericom Software via its US-based enterprise networking division Cradlepoint. The transaction, for an undisclosed sum, shores up Cradlepoint’s secure access service …
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The third part in a loose trilogy on the late rise of the IT crowd in the new private cellular space, following announcements by HPE and Cisco at MWC last …
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Big news at the low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT world, particularly for those in the trenches with Sigfox, and final proof if it was needed that Sigfox-owner Unabiz, …
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Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has said its smart-city consortium project with the city of Wavre in Belgium has received a €3.9 million grant from the …
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Clearly, IoT solutions should be designed for whatever is to be tracked. In high-value and low-volume cases, this may be the goods themselves. More likely, IoT solutions will need to …
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Swedish vehicle manufacturer Scania is working with German tech security group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) and its UK-based IoT MVNO subsidiary Pod Group to develop a new connectivity platform for management of …
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A snapshot from a session at Telco Cloud & Edge Forum this week, which asked about edge-oriented use cases in enterprises, and threw up a couple of interesting examples – …
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A loose poll – please don’t roll your eyes – of 2,000 adults in the US about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the jobs market says, basically, …
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Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way …
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Amazon has issued a clarion call to the IoT crowd to build IoT devices for Sidewalk, its nationwide LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network in the US. It said the Sidewalk …
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UK-based BT Group has further expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collaborate on IoT industry solutions, cloud networking propositions, and 5G edge computing services for UK enterprise …
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The US division of Italian porcelain and tile manufacturer Del Conca Group has deployed a CBRS-based private LTE/5G system at a large production facility in Loudon, in Tennessee. It has …
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One would be forgiven for thinking the Industry 4.0 game is all about shiny new private 5G networks. Certainly, the telecoms hype machine, and much of the telecoms trade press, …
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IoT virtual mobile network operator (MVNO) KORE Wireless Group has signed a deal to acquire the IoT division of customer engagement platform company Twilio. The Atlanta-based firm said the move …
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AT&T has marked five years of network building in the US with a press note about what $140 billion of infrastructure investment gets you – in terms of best-of awards …
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Chinese search engine and cloud analytics firm Baidu has won a permit to provide a driverless ride-hailing service in Beijing. It said the new taxi service will be the “first-ever …
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News out of MWC a couple of weeks back that Cisco had teamed with NTT to get serious about big-ticket private 5G for multinational enterprises was somewhat overshadowed by rival …
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Unabiz has announced yet another deal in its unremitting pursuit of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) mashup, as it seeks to add the telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) standard, commercialised in the …
