Enterprise

As we look forward to 2021, we must also reflect on this past year. In addition to tragic human cost, the pandemic cast a spotlight on the ability of business …

The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis has changed the way we work like no event or crisis before. What it has shown is that digitization of the industrial sector, and of factories …

The European Council and the European Parliament, representing the governments and citizens of European Union member states, have approved the European Commission’s new €95.5 billion Horizon Europe fund for the …

Aerospace and defence company Saab has deployed a factory-wide private 5G network at a manufacturing plant in Sweden. The facility in Linköping, in the south of the country, produces ‘aerostructures’, …

Hyundai Motor Group has agreed a $1.1 billion deal with Softbank to acquire an 80 percent stake in US-based robotics company Boston Dynamics. Japan-based telecoms group Softbank will retain a …

Finnish vendor Nokia announced the ‘Nokia Local 5G Technology Partnership’, a new strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of 5G-based enterprise industry solutions in Japan. Members of the new alliance include …

RCR Wireless News · Private wireless podcast – 2020, the year everything changed (episode #3) 2020; what a year! As society has sought new ways to work amid the fallout …

It is a little early, some way ahead of the standardisation schedule, but the first (?) market-sizing forecast is in for Release-17 era ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), pegged as the …

Spanish clothing brand Desigual has deployed a blockchain solution to improve transparency and resiliency in its supply chain, the company has announced. It is working with Finboot, also headquartered in …

How is Nokia doing with private networks for enterprises? Pretty well, and probably better than Ericsson, choruses the analyst community in response. Except its strategy is too narrow, its offer …

  U.S. firm CIMCON, which provides smart city technologies, announced that the Suffolk County Council in the U.K. has selected its NearSky smart city platform and smart lighting controls. The …

  Nokia announced that it will deploy industrial-grade 5G Standalone (SA) private wireless networking for the 5G4KMU project, which spans five leading research centers in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in …

The New York Power Authority, the largest state public power group in the US, has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to experiment with private LTE …

AT&T has extended its agreement with Nokiato use the Finnish firm’s worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) solution to offer enterprise customers IoT connectivity at home and abroad. Nokia’s WING service …

Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB and French simulation company CORYS have signed a deal to “advance digital twin modeling and simulation technology” across the energy and process industries. CORYS supplies transportation, …

Vodafone has put-live its multi-access edge computing (MEC) offer on its LTE and 5G infrastructure in the UK, with data storage and processing functionality from AWS. The 5G-MEC combo is …

There has been a paradigm shift when it comes to who is involved in delivering enterprise network connectivity; Catherine Sbeglia chats with Athonet and Nokia about the unfolding landscape.  Private …

Global investment in Wi-Fi infrastructure in the industrial space will grow from $1.7 billion in 2021 to $6.9 billion in 2030 at a compound rate of almost 17 percent per …

Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Swedish network vendor Ericsson are to deploy a private LTE network for Anglo-Russian mining company Polymetal. The deployment is at Polymetal’s Nezhdaninskoye gold …

The German federal network agency Bundesnetzagentur said it has awarded 88 spectrum licenses for private 5G campus networks, one year after the start of the application process. In a release, …

Vodafone has pulled together an enterprise bundled with the various component parts in an IoT stack to enable business customers in the UK to make their own IoT solutions. The …

China Mobile will use Nokia’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers IoT connectivity at home and abroad. Nokia’s WING service affords operators a way to offer cellular …

IoT device management platform Pelion, previously a unit within Arm, has been spun-out as a standalone business, wholly-owned by the UK chip design firm. At the same time, it has …

From tractor maker to network operator; should we be surprised Deere & Company, in charge of the John Deere machinery brand, has snapped up five mid-band CBRS licenses in five …

France-based Bouygues Telecom has joined with IBM to collaborate with enterprises on industrial 5G use cases in the manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy and utilities, and smart city sectors. Bouygues Telecom …