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Australian satellite communications provider Speedcast International has signed a deal with Nokia to offer the Finnish vendor’s plug-and-play private LTE and 5G solution to remote industrial customers. Speedcast supplies satellite-based …

  Nokia announced it has been selected by U.K. telco BT as its 5G RAN vendor, the Finnish company said in a release. As part of the agreement, which will …

AT&T has released an LTE and LTE-M gateway device to backhaul data from IoT sensors over cellular in global markets. The new solution, presented by AT&T as a ‘guardian device’, …

Ericsson has signed off a $1.1 billion deal to purchase US-based Cradlepoint, which provides LTE and 5G wide-area networking (WAN) for the emergency services sector, office and retail spaces, and …

Nokia has integrated key industrial IoT capabilities into its as-a-service edge networking solution for on-premise private LTE and 5G. These include high-end machine learning analytics and high-precision BLE-based positioning, plus …

Italy-based core network vendor and private network pioneer Athonet has released its open 5G core network on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable mobile carriers, radio vendors, and enterprises to …

US-based IoT provider Ubicquia has closed a $30 million Series C funding round with new investment from Florida-based Fuel Venture Capital, as well as existing investors. The investment is focused …

Celcom CEO: Malaysia needs to ‘improve its 4G foundation’ Malaysian mobile operator Celcom Axiata is working with Italian network provider SIAE Microelettronica to implement integrated IP/MPLS services across its wireless …

Traditional network operators, as well as network vendors, do not have the in-house expertise to serve the enterprise market with industrial-grade private LTE and 5G networking. They need hand-holding by …

Brazilian mining firm Vale has said it will extend its private LTE rollout to the Serra Leste open pit iron ore mine in Pará, Brazil. The move is part of …

According to Cradlepoint, bandwidth needs are on the rise across a number of industries Cradlepoint released its latest iteration of its annual State of Wireless WAN Report, compiled by IDG, …

The OpenRAN 4G site will extend mobile services to rural communities Vodafone UK has switched on an OpenRAN 4G site around the Royal Welsh Showground in Powys, Wales with support …

Finnish private networking and edge computing specialist Edzcom has signed a deal with Netherlands-based lighting company Signify to offer Li-Fi based solutions combining two-way wireless infrared and visible light connectivity …

The energy industry should consider the LTE family of cellular technologies, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 4G and 5G, to spur their longer-term Industry 4.0 ambitions, according to analyst house Guidehouse …

Germany has issued 67 local spectrum licences for private LTE and 5G to enterprises since November 2019. What should we make of this number, and the run-rate so far for …

“Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it’s almost everything.” This oft-quoted aphorism from economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has new life in the shadow of Covid-19. Despite …

Deutsche Telekom is to build a “new type” of LTE-based campus network using spectrum from its public network to test drone deliveries of medical supplies. The deployment is at the …

Texas-based Apptricity has launched a long-range Bluetooth beacon capable of connecting sensors at distances of up to 20 miles outdoors, and up to 20 storeys indoors. It is presented as …

Bosch has started to build a private industrial 5G network at its semiconductor factory in Reutlingen, in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, to test for Industry 4.0 compatibility and network optimisation, along …

Vodafone is to build a private LTE network, upgradeable to 5G, for Centrica Storage Limited (CSL), the gas storage and processing unit of UK gas and electricity supplier Centrica. The …

  Chinese vendor Huawei is forecast to lead the global mobile base station market this year with a total share of 28.5%, up from 27.5% in 2019, according to a …

Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full …

Nokia and Telefônica Brazil have struck a deal with Brazilian mining firm Vale to provide a private LTE network to the open-pit Carajás Mine, the world’s largest iron ore mine, …

  Worldwide 5G network infrastructure market revenue will almost double in 2020 to reach $8.1 billion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. However, total mobile infrastructure revenue is expected …

  Nokia and US Cellular announced a commercial deal to add 5G millimeter-wave capabilities in the 24 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands to the carrier’s network, the European vendor …