US-based Federated Wireless has watched at close quarters as US enterprises have piled into the CBRS band to deploy private LTE and 5G networks. Here, Deepak Das, in the company's CTO office, describes the unfolding landscape, as enterprises put cellular to work in the...
German operator Deutsche Telekom said it has built up 5G capacities at 892 mobile sites across Germany in the past two months.
The European carrier also said that the mobile sites also provide LTE connectivity through Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology.
In addition, Deutsche Telekom has...
Chinese operator China Unicom revealed its 5G user numbers for the first time since the telco launched the technology in October 2019, closing 2020 with 70.8 million package subscribers.
In its earnings statement, China Unicom noted that 5G customers accounted for 23.2% of its total...
The Danish Energy Authority has started the auction of spectrum in five frequency bands, namely the 1.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands.
The agency also confirmed that the bidders are TDC Net, 3 Denmark, and the Telia-Telenor joint venture,...
Some quick (perhaps not fully-formed) thoughts on the supply and management of private 5G networks for industry. These come from a series of conversations for an upcoming report (and webinar) about the kind of service level agreements (SLAs) that might go to under-write industrial-grade...
Nokia has announced a deal with Danish network operator and internet provider Cibicom to deploy an LTE network in the 450MHz band to underpin mission critical services and “mass volume IoT adoption”. Separately, the Finnish vendor has said it is working with broadband provider...
France had a total of 21,714 5G authorized sites as of March 1, of which 12,310 were declared technically operational by the local mobile carriers, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR.
The agency said that all of the 5G sites...
Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) gave conditional approval for Asia Pacific Telecom Co (APT) to share Far EasTone Telecommunications Co’s (FET) 5G frequencies using its own 5G network, local newspaper Taipei Times reported.
In September 2020, FET and APT had announced a partnership to provide...
Indian telecommunications operators committed to pay INR778 billion ($10.6 billion) for additional spectrum to expand 4G across the country.
India’s latest spectrum auction ended after two days of bidding, although the 5G-suitable 700 MHz band did not receive offers due to high reserve prices.
Operators acquired...
Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has selected Ericsson as its vendor for 5G Standalone (SA) and Non-standalone (NSA) dual-mode 5G Core and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services, the latter said in a release.
The deal builds on Ericsson’s existing 5G partnership with FET, including...
Nokia has been selected by Ecuadorian mobile operator, Corporación Nacional de Telecommunicaciones (CNT) to bring the first 5G network to the country, the Finnish vendor said in a release.
The deal includes Nokia support CNT's extensive network modernization of existing LTE infrastructure as well as...
U.K. operator Three UK currently operates 1,250 5G sites in 193 towns and cities across the country, the company said in a release.
At the end of December 2020, the U.K. telco had 1,000 operational 5G base stations across the country.
Three also said that hundreds...
Among the many things we’ve learned during the era of Covid-19 is the importance of efficient, reliable, and always-available healthcare services. The urgency of the pandemic has not only spurred innovation and progress but has shined a bright light on the promise of healthcare...
Ondas Networks has announced a deal with systems integration firm Rogue Industries to sell its mission-critical IoT platform to US government and defence markets, including for military drones and unmanned aircraft. The company said the pair will “leap-frog over commercial wireless technology bring...
(Am I really going to write this?) 6G is a trillion dollar opportunity, apparently. So says the headline in a PR missive about a new report from research firm IDTechEx, making a stab at forecasting the next generation of mobile comms, even before the...
Private cellular network vendor Druid Software has announced new distribution deals for its private LTE core networking solution in the US with Nebraska-based network engineering firm Pierson Wireless and Ohio-based network distributor Winncom Technologies. Both firms will sell the Irish firm’s RAEMIS core networking...
Mobile operator COSMOTE has deployed the first LTE-based private campus network in Greece for smart manufacturing, it has announced. The new deployment, at a production facility belonging to Greek solar thermal manufacturer Calpak, uses a localised chunk of licensed spectrum from COSMOTE and LTE...
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has sharpened industrial appetites for private LTE and 5G based networking solutions, with the market growing in the face of global economic crisis in 2020 by more than seven percent. So says US-based analyst group Mobile Experts, which claims first-hand...
France had a total of 19,938 5G authorized sites as of February 1, of which 9,426 were declared technically operational by the mobile telephone operators, France’s spectrum agency ANFR reported.
The agency said that all these 5G sites have been authorized on existing sites, already...
The network will be built on the Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution
Ericsson and Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) announced plans to jointly deploy a commercial LTE/5G-ready private network at steel and mining company EVRAZ’s digital Sheregeshskaya mine in south-central Russia. The private network will be built on...
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their new deal extends to a global market. Ericsson is providing the LTE and 5G...
Note, this post is continued from an article called, "5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone". Click here to see the previous instalment.
But this is not about how a nascent technology will save your business. That is...
Nokia said it deployed private LTE and 5G networks with 79 new customers in the final quarter of 2020, finishing the year with 260 enterprises on its books for private wireless solutions. The company’s enterprise division saw net sales rise one percent in the...
Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been at it for decades, already: connecting machines, processing data, bringing intelligence into the field....
