California-based private cellular provider Celona has staffed-up its nascent European operation with new senior-level joiners from Qualcomm in the US, notably, plus from UK-based tech consultancy and integrator Empowered Technology. Celona is seeking to sell its private LTE/5G system into operator channels in Europe,...
In case you missed it, RCR Wireless ran a webinar session last month under the heading ‘Private 5G for IoT – plotting timelines, defining applications, and making bets’. The session is available on-demand, and also attached to a full editorial report, out in a...
Another day, another techno hub, and another carrier-sponsored effort this time. After Verizon and BT opened private-5G style demo rooms of various sorts in the last couple of weeks, Spain-based Telefónica has cut the ribbon on a new “open lab” in the name of...
Are we being hoodwinked? Has the marketing got away from us? Maybe, and maybe not. When will we see a tech vendor put its name to a report that discusses the societal dangers of sacking a workforce to make everything zero-touch autonomous – so...
In this four-part podcast series presented in partnership with Nextivity, learn the ins and out of a robust and effective enterprise wireless strategy for the Industry 4.0 era. The first episode, featuring Nextivity Chief Commercial Officer Stephen M. Kowal, digs into how public and...
New York headquartered GlobalFoundries and Switzerland-headquartered STMicroelectronics (STMicro) have confirmed a deal to build a jointly-operated semiconductor manufacturing facility in Crolles, in France, at a total project cost of €7.5 billion – of which around €3 billion will reportedly be provided by the French...
US carrier T-Mobile has provided 5G connectivity for an unmanned drone flight going beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), for a distance of over 120 kilometres. Nebraska-based Valmont Industries – which makes irrigation equipment, windmill support structures, and traffic steel utility poles – managed...
Apple has opened support in iOS 17 for private data-only cellular networks running LTE and 5G (in both standalone and non-standalone mode), meaning most new and new-ish iPhone (13 and up) and iPad models can now be used as work devices in private network...
Latest stats from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) says at least 1,148 organisations in 74 countries had deployed private LTE (4G) and 5G networks by the end of March (Q1 2023), up from 1,077 at the end of 2022. Which means (!?) 71...
Note, this article, a direct transcript of a conversation with Kathiravan Kandasamy, vice president of product management at US-based carrier services company Syniverse, continues from a previous entry, which can be found here.
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You mentioned also that, in your experience with customers, that the private...
So, is the correct way to look at this, then, that the private 5G market, when it talks about private 5G, is obsessed with a future where Volkswagen is animating its production lines using Release 18-level URLLC 5G networks? But that the wider enterprise...
So where were we? Ah yes: five conclusions about the potential of private 5G to transform telco operations, and telco fortunes – as told by mobile network operators (MNOs) at RCR Live in London last month (all sessions available on-demand).
The conclusions, if we recall,...
Verizon Business has opened a UK demo office in London to showcase private 5G services and applications for enterprises. The new venue, called the London Hub, is aimed at customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, the company said, which it finds itself pitching to...
ZTE and Telekom Malaysia will work on network and technology planning and overall digital transformation strategies
Chinese vendor ZTE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Malaysian telco Telekom Malaysia (TM) with the main aim of collaborating on a range of research and development...
A session at RCR Live in London last month considered the role of new private cellular networks as a platform for industrial transformation, and as part of the broader event topic of telco transformation. It brought together private 5G specialists from UK-based mobile network...
BT is launching a series of 5G-based augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) showcases in the UK to give private enterprises and public sector organisations a taste of how their industries will change with new digital technologies, and a sense of how they...
The Canadian government has announced it will licence 80 MHz of mid-band spectrum at 3900-3980 MHz for local shared and private 5G networks. It has also proposed to release portions of the mmWave bands at 26 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz for local...
New industry-poll shock: critical comms vendor says enterprises are suffering with un-critical comms. That is the gist of a new survey from Ericsson-owned Cradlepoint, now established (or viewed, at least) as the Swedish firm’s enterprise-facing private 5G business, which says that 70 percent of...
NTT has developed an integrated push-to-talk (PTT) application for airport workers to switch between private 5G and terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) communications. The solution, a joint development with Nippon Airport Radio Services (NARS), has been deployed at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. The...
NGA published a white paper exploring how the integration of advanced communications technology in these systems will transform industries
ATIS’ Next G Alliance (NGA) announced the publication of a new white paper on network-enabled robotic and autonomous systems, in which it explores how the integration...
Amdocs claims to have developed / solved a series of “new use cases” for private 5G networks at its new sandbox lab in Texas. The US telecoms software firm said it has worked with Microsoft to create new solutions for industrial maintenance and training...
This article continues from another post, under the header: ‘They’re still figuring it out; we've moved beyond’ – Nokia expands Industry 4.0 view. Click here to read the previous instalment.
The problem with Industry 4.0 in brownfield sites is that playground software is fighting for...
A couple of years back, Nokia talked up its private 5G cloud system like a Netflix-style content platform; almost three years later, it is looking to deliver on that concept by loading its MXIE edge-compute servers with Industry 4.0 applications. It is a telling...
STMicroelectronics has updated its STM32 family of Industry 4.0 microprocessors (MPUs) with a new architecture and higher performance. The new STM32MP25 product line combine 64-bit core processing units with on-device edge AI acceleration, advanced multimedia features, graphics processing, and “digital connectivity”, said a statement....
