While the UK decision to ban Huawei from national 5G infrastructure does not, as it stands, cover the China-based firm’s ability to supply private cellular to UK enterprises, it will effectively disrupt its involvement in the space – and its scope may yet expand...
Spanish infrastructure company Cellnex Telecom has acquired Finnish private networking specialist Edzcom for an undisclosed fee. The deal was announced in the company’s six-month business update for the period to the end of June, alongside the purchase of Arqiva's Telecommunications division in the UK...
German operator Deutsche Telekom has selected Ericsson for a new multi-year agreement to deploy the carrier’s 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) across Germany.
Under the terms of the deal, various mobile sites will be upgraded to the latest 5G technology standard over the next few...
UK based telecoms provider Vilicom has struck a deal with Danish power company Ørsted to design and deploy an LTE network at its Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. On completion, in 2022, Hornsea Two will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
The...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 14.4 million 5G subscribers in June, the telco said in its website.
The carrier said it ended the first half of 2020 with a total of 70.2 million 5G subscribers, compared to 6.7 million...
Nokia has announced the commercial availability of its industrial-grade standalone 5G (5G SA) solutions for private enterprise networks, alongside a new contract with the mining division of Swedish tool manufacturer Sandvik for deployment of a 5G SA network at its test mine in Tampere,...
Spending on private and shared enterprise networks will surpass spending on public cellular networks in about 15 years. The traditional operator community has a fight on its hands to guarantee a place at the table, as the new Industry 4.0 networking feast unfolds over...
The U.K. government announced that Chinese vendor Huawei's gear will be completely removed from the country’s 5G networks by the end of 2027, following new recommendations by the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) on the impact of U.S. sanctions against the telecommunications vendor.
The government...
Ericsson is to deploy private LTE and 5G networks at three major Paris airports as part of a new contract with Groupe ADP (Aéroports de Paris) and Air France, as well as Groupe ADP’s digital tech subsidiary Hub One.
The Swedish vendor will install a...
Claro using Ericsson's Dynamic Spectrum Sharing technology
Brazilian mobile operator Claro, owned by Mexican telecommunications group America Movil, announced it will start offering 5G services in limited areas in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on July 14.
In Sao Paulo, 5G services will be available...
As much as 30 percent of the installed base of outdoor small cell networks and 71 percent of indoor enterprise systems in the next five years will be operated by new entrants to the cellular segment. This is the conclusion of a new market...
Deutsche Telekom said that the company continues to be committed to a multi-vendor strategy for the deployment of its mobile networks.
In a company blog post, the German carrier said that this strategy allows it to buy gear from a large number of different manufacturers...
AT&T and Accenture have teamed up on private cellular for US oil company Phillips 66. The trio are developing a bespoke industrial LTE and 5G setup for low-latency refinery automation and analytics, they said. The solution utilises AT&T’s public network and edge compute infrastructure.
The...
Anyone who has used a public Wi-Fi hotspot for more than the occasional web browsing and emailing knows how unpredictable it can be. Wi-Fi’s lack of predictability has held back the deployment of wireless in many enterprise applications where predictable performance is essential. Fortunately...
Swedish network vendor Ericsson is offering trial kits of private industrial 5G networks to enterprises via its mobile operator customers. It has confirmed Deutsche Telekom in Germany as its first operator partner to resell the test networks to local industry.
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom already...
Italian operator Linkem has signed with Nokia to resell The Finnish firm’s cloud-based private network platform to industrial companies in its home market.
Linkem claims a 40 per cent share of the fixed-wireless access (FWA) market it Italy; the company has live 5G network operations...
The drone solution will simplify cell site management, says Samsung
Samsung Electronics demonstrated its new drone-based antenna configuration measurement solution for 4G and 5G networks. Performed on the company’s campus, the demonstration involved the use of a smartphone with a remote control application that connected...
German operator Deutsche Telekom is already proving 5G coverage to 16 million people in over 1,000 towns across Germany, the carrier said in a release.
By mid-July, a total of 40 million people throughout Germany will be reached by the operator's 5G network, Deutsche Telekom...
Swiss Association of Telecommunications (Asut) has called on politicians and public authorities in Switzerland to accelerate the switch to 5G technology in the country.
According to the association, the upgrade of the mobile networks with the latest 5G technology is making little progress due to...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) has introduced an 'edge orchestrator' to enable telecoms carriers to bundle-up and resell edge-based compute, connectivity, and apps to verticals on a subscription basis, and to attack the Industry 4.0 space.
The offer is presented by HPE as a means for...
Momentum for NB-IoT and LTE-M will slow in 2020 with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, but not enough to knock mid-term projections for the cellular IoT sector. The Swedish telecoms vendor has even revised up its six-monthly market forecast, with cellular IoT to top 5.2...
German industrial giant Bosch restated its expectation to capitalise both ways on new industrial connectivity and analytics in the next years as it revealed a 25 percent jump in sales of its own Industry 4.0 solutions, and a new €500 million investment to procure...
Premiership rugby club Wasps has installed a thermal imaging camera from Vodafone UK at its training facility to safeguard players, staff, and visitors as they return to training during the coronavirus pandemic.
The installation comes as rugby clubs return to non-contact training in England, subject...
French telecoms regulator Arcep confirmed that a 5G spectrum auction which had been delayed by COVID-19 will begin in September.
In a statement, Arcep said it plans to run a sale of spectrum in the 3.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz bands between September 20 and...
