Nokia has announced a go-to-market deal for its private edge networking system with US-based system integrator DXC Technology. The pair said they will bundle the former’s compute and cellular components with the latter’s network operations centre (NOC) and management analytics in a DXC-branded managed...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its purchase of Italian private core networking specialist Athonet. The US outfit hailed it as “a major leap forward… to revolutionize the private networking market”. It said it would do this, “in part”, by “simplifying and accelerating” private...
Vodafone has extended a major broadband-IoT deal with South Korean automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group to provide in-car streaming and entertainment (‘infotainment’) services for all new Hyundai, Kia and Genesis models sold in Europe. The multi-year deal covers 40 countries in Europe, and starts...
Note this article is continued from a previous post, under the header: Private 5G for IoT – a year to get real, two to get really-real, six to be ‘seamless’. To read the previous entry, go here.; to watch the original webinar discussion on...
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...
The total number of cellular IoT connections, on all cellular network technologies, grew 29 percent in the last 12 months, to finish 2022 on 27 billion connections, and will more than double in the period to 2030, when the figure tops six billion. So...
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...
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...
More than six billion devices with embedded or integrated SIMs (eSIMs and iSIMs), plus related form factors (nuSIM and Soft SIM, for example), will be shipped over the next five years, to 2030. Seventy percent of all cellular-based devices shipped over the period will...
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...
Botnet traffic forcing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) on IoT networks, originating from insecure IoT devices, increased five-fold over the past year. This is the key finding from a new report on IoT cybersecurity vulnerabilities by Finnish vendor Nokia, plus others.
The report,...
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...
South Korean supply-chain pallet-pooling company AJ Networks has fitted 10,000 plastic pallets in its home country with Sigfox and WI-Fi combination trackers. The deal is with local Sigfox operator AMO-SNet; the IoT hardware units are by Japanese electronics manufacturer Alps Alpine, a Sigfox stalwart....
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...
Samsung Electronics and NAVER Cloud have expanded their collaboration to launch a private 5G network for Hoban Construction, a Korean company specializing in construction, property development and manufacturing. company.
The aim of the network is enable 5G-supported applications like drone-based, high-resolution monitoring for live site...
The government of China said that emerging sectors, such as Internet data centers, cloud computing and the IoT, saw their revenues expand by 22.3% year-on-year
The telecommunication industry experienced a robust expansion in China in the first four months of this year, chiefly due to...
Agreement between China Telecom and stc will revolve around the strategic development of IoT industries
Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabian telco stc to focus on opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT).
The primary aim of...
RedCap targets IoT services requiring higher data rates with a reduction of UE complexity and leverages power saving, while allowing for smaller form factors of the IoT device. This white paper presents the RedCap technology extension of the 5G system on user equipment and...
