Private 5G

The Port of Virginia in the US expects to have autonomous trucks running on a private 5G network at its site from early next year (2024). The port has a …

The ‘private 5G’ partnership between system integrator Kyndryl and network vendor Nokia has so far resulted in 18 “large installations” on three continents, according to the former. Certain of them …

It seems strange for a telco to lean on its telco roots to sell digital services to enterprises – but that’s what Orange has done, as OBS becomes Orange Business. …

Siemens is working with US software firm ServiceNow to offer a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to identify and manage operating technology (OT) devices in industrial settings. The solution is designed to …

UK-headquartered neutral host provider Boldyn Networks, majority owned by Canada-based CPP Investments, has agreed to acquire private networks specialist Edzcom from Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom for an undisclosed fee. …

Has 5G failed? No. Except you’d be forgiven for thinking so given everything that has been written about it in recent months – at least among the things I read, …

On the face of it, the acquisition of local internet service provider EDPnet by Belgium-based Citymesh, which describes itself lately as a telco “challenger” brand in its home market, holds …

Telefónica and Siemens are to provide Spanish battery manufacturer Basquevolt with the “best technological and connectivity solutions” to launch a new “prototyping line” at its plant in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital …

The Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI) has announced local spectrum licences in the so-called ‘3.6 GHz band’ are available now for local private 5G networks. It has confirmed that …

Nokia Bell Labs, the Finnish vendor’s research division, is working with Saudi energy company Aramaco, owned by Saudi Aramco, are working to develop 5G-related Industry 4.0 cases and proofs for …

Local mobile operator NTT East, part of the multinational NTT group, has convened a cellular-geared Industry 4.0 working group of 18 domestic and international 5G equipment vendors to collaborate on …

Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS is working with Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND), the system integrator (SI) division of German aviation firm Lufthansa Group, and an early pioneer …

The Port of Tyne has deployed a private 4G and 5G network across its southern cargo terminal and industrial site in South Shields in the northeast of England. The project …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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, …

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 …