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Household appliances and electronics manufacturer Arçelik Global, owners of the Beko and Grundig brands, is to deploy the first private celluar network in Turkey, as an LTE-based setup with a …

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), responsible for transport services in the West Midlands region in England, is working with Vodafone and Nokia to offer a new cloud platform that uses …

Qualcomm is working with Dallas-based professional services and consulting firm Jacobs to deploy and test 5G-based cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in …

Finnish pair Edzcom and Signal Partners have signed a deal to combine private LTE and 5G networks and industrial LTE and 5G devices for customers in Europe. Their plan is …

Deutsche Telekom told Private Networks Forum yesterday that its role is not to dictate to enterprises about spectrum and technology, but to support every variation of these, and steer enterprises …

The AstaZero test track includes a 5G corridor between France, Germany and Luxembourg Ericsson and Volvo Cars have carried a successful test handover of connected cars between two mobile 5G …

US private cellular provider Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, has struck a deal to acquire industrial drone developer American Robotics for $70.6 million. The strategy is to provide users …

The OPC Foundation and the 5G-ACIA, the organisations promoting OPC-based machine protocols and wide-area 5G for industry, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to run OPC UA over 5G. …

Brazilian electronic equipment manufacturer WEG is working with the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and Finnish network vendor Nokia on parallel Industry 4.0 testbeds using public and private 5G networks …

    Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate the digital transformation of the mobility industry. The Japanese firm said that …

Nokia has picked up a couple of other contracts for deployment of private cellular networks in the mining sector, it has said, with Russian palladium and nickel mining company Norilsk …

Nokia is working with mobile operator Claro in Chile, a regional subsidiary of Mexican telecom group América Móvil, to equip South African mining company Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte mine …

Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has given an initial thumbs-up to private factory-based 5G, after six months’ working with Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET on a test network …

Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT …

French firms Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe Renault, STMicroelectronics, and Thales have joined together to create a new ‘Software République’ to develop home-grown “sustainable mobility” solutions for cities, regions, and businesses, …

It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and …

Verizon and Honda are testing how new edge-based 5G could ensure reliable connectivity between road infrastructure, vehicles, and pedestrians. The pair are working at the University of Michigan’s Mcity, a …

Brussels Airport has announced it has successfully tested drones for inspections and surveillance using its private 5G network, installed by network vendor Nokia and network operator Citymesh. Local air traffic …

Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at …

Focus on cloud-based automotive cyber security monitoring Israeli company, Argus Cyber Security, a specialist in automotive cyber security, has collaborated with Microsoft Azure IoT and joined the Microsoft partner network …

Sweden-based Telia has launched a private LTE and 5G network solution for enterprises in Norway using its licensed spectrum, otherwise used for its public network services. It follows the launch …

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the …

As promised last week, in an op-ed write-around of the same conversation, here is the full interview with Phil Skipper, group head of IoT business development at Vodafone, on the …

IBM has teamed up with network vendor Samsung and mobile operator M1 in Singapore to open an ‘Industry 4.0 studio’, in its own name, to develop and test 5G and …