IoT connectivity company Wirepas, selling a non-cellular mesh technology for industrial IoT, has raised $22 million to amp-up its enterprise sales operation in global markets. Wirepas, offering both low and high-power IoT mesh technology (and using 5G branding for the latter), claims higher levels...
NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has signed a wholesale deal with O2 Telefónica in Germany to offer IoT coverage and applications for the automotive sector and wider industrial market. The arrangement gives the France-based firm, offering local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two...
Note: this article is continued from a previous entry, available here, which went under the headline: ‘If you want 100% cellular, then you get what you get’ – why hybrid IoT is the only IoT.
Where were we? Oh yes; this idea that governments, regulators,...
There are some clever companies in the IoT space. Of course there are; but there are, arguably, more in IoT than anywhere else in the tech game. They just don’t generally make the same kind of noise. Sure, some talk way too much, but...
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “After More Than Four Years, Has 5G Lived Up to Expectations?” The article explores whether or not 5G has lived up to the hype, and potential reasons for the technology’s overall performance in the market....
Nokia has handed UK-based engineering and services firm NG Bailey a distribution contract to sell its private LTE and 5G solutions into the healthcare, manufacturing, education, infrastructure sectors in the UK. NG Bailey said it will open a 5G demonstration lab at its headquarters...
Cellnex-owned Edzcom, one of the pioneer firms in the industrial private cellular market, has a deal with electronics firm OMRON to provide industrial enterprises with a managed private LTE/5G service with the Japanese firm's industrial robotics products. The partnership has been formalised in the...
Canadian network design company iBwave Solutions has released a new library of common network modelling templates, or stencils, to accelerate the network design process for radio engineers. The new Stencil Library combines user-defined templates of frequently used markups, images, 3D materials, and objects. The...
Network operator Hutchison Drei (Three) in Austria is rolling out a nationwide LoRaWAN network in its home work to provide industrial IoT connectivity for Industry 4.0 use cases, including for manufacturing companies, energy companies, solution providers, smart cities, retail companies, and facility management services....
Note, this article is taken from the RCR editorial report on Critical 5G Edge Workloads, published in September. The following is the first part of the foreword to the report. Go here to download the full report. The subject will be further explored in the upcoming...
The business arm of US wireless carrier UScellular has installed a private 5G network at KPMG’s customer co-creation centre at its headquarters in Chicago. The venue, dubbed the Ignition Center, measures 30,000 square feet and houses KPMG’s technology solutions teams. The new 5G network...
Annual spending on 5G and LTE-based RAN equipment for use in shared and unlicensed spectrum will hit $3 billion by the end of 2026, up from around $1.4 billion by the end of 2023. SNS Telecom & IT forecasts compound annual growth of small...
Note, this article is taken from the RCR editorial report on Private 5G for IoT, published in July. The following is the first part of the foreword to the report. Go here to download the full report. It also takes and collates excerpts from...
Ahead of its Network X trade event in Paris next week (October 24-26), UK publishing and exhibitions group Informa has said the telecoms industry faces a “pivotal moment” to monetise its fibre and 5G network investments and reassert its influence in the developing digital...
Global cellular IoT module shipments saw a three percent annual decline in the second quarter of 2023, compared with the year-ago period, according to the latest IoT module tracker by Counterpoint Research. The firm cited “lower demand and weaker economic sentiments”. China-based duo Quectel...
Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) has selected Nokia to deploy a private LTE/5G network at its container terminal in Kingston, Jamaica, in the Caribbean. The deployment has been handled by US-based system integrator EGC International. KFTL is taking both Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud private...
Private network specialist Betacom, cloud provider Google Cloud, and IT distributor Ingram Micro have opened an Industry 4.0 showcase at the Factory Floor Lab in the Digital Manufacturing (MxD) Institute, located at the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing in Chicago in the US....
Nokia has hailed RedCap “successful” trials with telecoms firm BT Group and module maker MediaTek in the UK. Without saying much about the tests themselves, the trio took the opportunity to talk up the potential of reduced capability (RedCap) 5G to benefit both business...
In a major show of industry collaboration, Deutsche Telekom has combined with AWS and VMware, plus Mavenir and Dell, to develop a global private 5G network and edge compute platform for enterprises. The new proof of concept is dubbed a “globally distributed enterprise network”,...
The oil company said that the private network has improved operational efficiency and safety at its RGTSU Melaka facility
Malaysian oil company Petronas claimed to have deployed the country’s 5G private network.
In a release, Petronas said that the 5G private network has been successfully deployed...
Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has joined Electricity Canada, representing the electric power industry in Canada, to deliver private LTE networks for utilities in the 900MHz, 1.4GHz, and 1.8GHz bands. The arrangement furthers Ubiik’s international expansion, as well as...
Nokia has been selected by Brazilian agricultural machinery manufacturer Jacto to build a private LTE and 5G network at its new ‘smart factory’ in Pompeia, in the province of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new network will cover the entire factory floor, of 96,000 square...
Nokia has released a cut-down version of its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private-cellular product for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the industrial sector. Called DAC Compact, the new solution claims a smaller form factor to deliver LTE/5G coverage at smaller sites. The Finnish firm...
US-based system integrator Kyndryl is working with Palo Alto Networks to provide network and cybersecurity services for Industry 4.0 customers running private LTE and 5G networks. The pair are combining their network security services and platform security capabilities, respectively, to design, build, and manage...
