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Indian conglomerate Adani Group seeks more time to deploy 5G

Adani Group’s head Gautam Adani previously said the group aimed to launch 5G services for enterprises in 2023 Indian conglomerate Adani Group is requesting that the government allow it additional time for the rollout of 5G services, as the company said it had been unable...

‘The driver is not low latency’ – Airbus is positive, also cautious, on private 5G

Airbus listed the key benefits of private cellular networks, more or less in order, at Hannover Messe last week, and said, as it has before, that the initial business case hinges on coverage, mostly, in terms of both outdoor reach and indoor penetration. The...

Vodafone intros full private 5G managed service offer in the UK

Vodafone has launched an all-edge private 5G service offering in the UK for enterprise-geared on-premise cellular connectivity. The package, branded simply as Vodafone MPN (for mobile private network), offers standalone and non-standalone 5G (SA and NSA) radio (RAN) and core networks, plus system management,...

New deal explores potential of 5G in steel manufacturing in India

The use of 5G technologies can enhance the safety and security of the workers at the steel plant The Steel Authority of India Limited's (SAIL) Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) with the...

“But I ordered a McCrispy…” – searching for 5G in the home of Industry 4.0

First impressions count – and the trains are late, the stairs are broken, and the food is wrong. This is not the fabled German efficiency we came here to discuss – and see projected into the digital age across 17 cavernous halls of the...

Vodafone, Coventry University launch 5G SA media innovation lab

Vodafone said that the 5G SA environment will offer extremely fast download speeds, near-real time latency capabilities and network slicing U.K. carrier Vodafone and Coventry University have collaborated to open what they say is the U.K.’s first 5G Standalone (SA) media innovation lab in Coventry,...

How to scale commercially successful MEC use cases—a Q&A with Vodafone (Part 2)

The first part of this Q and A with Vodafone’s Joanna Newman, senior director of technology partnerships, covers the operator’s dedicated vs. distributed MEC approach, the logic behind its various hyperscaler partnerships, and addresses how many MEC use cases involve common sets of building...

How to scale commercially successful MEC use cases—a Q&A with Vodafone (Part 1)

Whether its considering a private 5G network coupled with a dedicated mobile edge computing (MEC) solution for an enterprise, or a consumer-facing use case that taps into more widely distributed computing infrastructure, Vodafone has recognized that addressing this nascent space requires a strong focus on...

How are enterprises using MEC?

MEC is delivering low-latency, real-time enterprise applications As has been pointed out by operators on recent earnings calls, the market for advanced 5G-enabled services—things like mobile edge computing (MEC) combined with public and private 5G, and private 5G itself—has been slower to create revenues than...

“A small part of the complete network” – VW puts private 5G in its place

The truth about private 5G, certainly so far as Industry 4.0 goes, lies somewhere between the desperate excitement of MWC and the distracted indifference of Hannover Messe – and probably closer to the big German industrial show. This will be discussed in another piece,...

Northeastern University launches O-RAN private 5G network

Northeastern said that the private 5G network follows the O-RAN architecture in a multi-vendor environment, with open interfaces and near real time RAN Intelligent Controller (RICs) The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University and its Open6G R&D Center announced...

Taking a slice out of private wireless networks (Reader Forum)

Private wireless is quickly infiltrating enterprise networks everywhere. For the first time, companies now have direct access to new shared cellular spectrum, made available by the FCC and other telecom regulatory bodies around the world, to own and operate their own mobile networks. The big...

Verizon private 5G to help Ohio clinic realize ‘fully digital’ vision

The private 5G network will enable use cases like patient check-in kiosks and assisted surgery and imaging, said Verizon Verizon Business has deployed a private 5G network at the new Cleveland Clinic hospital in Mentor, Ohio. The network, based on an Ericsson platform, will help to...

Siemens promises summer launch for OT-grade SME-friendly private 5G system

Siemens has said its new home-grown industrial 5G system will be available in the summer finally, with availability in Germany initially, followed by Brazil subsequently, and other European and global markets in line with demand. The Brazilian launch is made simple by the fact...

Kagan: Betacom Private 5G Ecosystem includes many industry leaders

Private wireless continues its rapid growth trajectory. Next, Betacom Private 5G Ecosystem was just introduced a few days ago along with top, industry partners including Google Cloud, Intel, Ingram Micro and Qualcomm. Why are all these companies partnering on this? They say, this will...

Unabiz signs with Actility to further converge Sigfox and LoRaWAN

Unabiz deserves credit; the Singapore-based IoT house, owner of the Sigfox technology for a little over 12 months, is doing what most of the IoT community has considered for some years to be a minimal requirement for massive IoT, and brought the tribal elders...

Deutsche Telekom works with AWS for 5G campus network offering

Deutsche Telekom currently operates more than thirty of these local mobile networks based on 5G or LTE across Germany and Austria German operator Deutsche Telekom announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) under a new program which connects AWS services with Deutsche Telekom’s private...

Betacom joins with Google, Ingram, Intel, Qualcomm to streamline private 5G

US network design and services firm Betacom has pulled a bunch of ecosystem partners together into a go-to-market club around its private 4G and 5G offer. The group – which numbers 15, and includes Google Cloud, Intel, Ingram Micro, and Qualcomm, among others –...

NTT deploys Cisco/Airspan private 5G system at RWTH university in Germany

The first fruit of NTT’s new tie-up with Cisco on private 5G; the pair have combined to deploy a private 5G network for research purposes at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, in Germany. It is that valuable thing for an industry looking...

Anterix taps Sequans for multi-band LTE module for private and public networks

Anterix, developing private cellular systems for the utilities industry in the US, has commissioned French IoT chip maker Sequans to develop a multi-band LTE Cat-4 module to work in 900 MHz spectrum, the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band, as well as with public mobile operator...

Keysight, Future Technologies to boost private 5G infra in the US

Keysight offers a software-focused portfolio of private 5G network lifecycle management solutions Keysight Technologies and system integrator Future Technologies Venture are collaborating to boost the adoption of private 5G network across the U.S. The companies aim to offer solutions encompassing the design, deployment, delivery, and operations...

Hybrid vs. public—How should operators move to the telco cloud? 

As operators move into the telco cloud era, which deployment option(s) will win out?  As the title of this piece—and the Telco Cloud & Edge Forum session it’s based on—suggest, it seems that the two most likely outcomes for operators on a long-term journey to...

Electronics makers lead the Industry 4.0 charge – ports and mines behind

Electronics and appliance manufacturers are leading the way for Industry 4.0 ‘maturity’, according to a new poll of 500 industrial companies by Nokia and ABI Research. Their research says that electronics and appliance manufacturers are marginally further along with their digital transformation than companies...

Logicalis US launches private network services with Cisco

Logicalis claims to be the first U.S. partner to deliver Cisco's private 5G as-a-service, including professional services Managed service provider Logicalis U.S. announced the launch of its private network services, supported by compatriot networking company Cisco. Logicalis, which is a Cisco integrator, said it combines its...