At its WWDC23 developer event last week Apple announced its support for private 5G networks in a big way with a lot of exciting enhancements. This includes the ability to prioritize private cellular networks over Wi-Fi, goefencing, and many others. All of this is...
The new innovation center at the Samsung headquarters in Plano, Texas explores vRAN, FWA and private 5G
Samsung has opened the doors to a new innovation and briefing center at its headquarters in Plano, Texas. In a press statement, Christine Nelson, senior manager of Samsung...
Are we being hoodwinked? Has the marketing got away from us? Maybe, and maybe not. When will we see a tech vendor put its name to a report that discusses the societal dangers of sacking a workforce to make everything zero-touch autonomous – so...
Wipro said that new offering enables enterprises to integrate private 5G with their existing LAN/WAN/Cloud infrastructure
Indian IT services and consulting firm Wipro launched a managed private 5G-as-a-service solution in partnership with Cisco, the former said in a release.
Wipro said that new offering enables enterprise...
The pair have created a roadway warning system to identify and then alert drivers and pedestrians to hazardous situations
NEC Corporation of America (NEC) and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) announced this week that they have created a roadway warning system that relies on private 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) to potentially...
Apple has opened support in iOS 17 for private data-only cellular networks running LTE and 5G (in both standalone and non-standalone mode), meaning most new and new-ish iPhone (13 and up) and iPad models can now be used as work devices in private network...
Federated Wireless showcased how private 5G can make applications like real-time robotics and smart security cameras possible
Federated Wireless revealed that its demonstrations of a 5G private wireless network leveraging 5G-enabled IoT applications to support smart warehouse automation were deemed successful. The demos, which took place in...
Latest stats from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) says at least 1,148 organisations in 74 countries had deployed private LTE (4G) and 5G networks by the end of March (Q1 2023), up from 1,077 at the end of 2022. Which means (!?) 71...
Note, this article, a direct transcript of a conversation with Kathiravan Kandasamy, vice president of product management at US-based carrier services company Syniverse, continues from a previous entry, which can be found here.
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You mentioned also that, in your experience with customers, that the private...
So, is the correct way to look at this, then, that the private 5G market, when it talks about private 5G, is obsessed with a future where Volkswagen is animating its production lines using Release 18-level URLLC 5G networks? But that the wider enterprise...
So where were we? Ah yes: five conclusions about the potential of private 5G to transform telco operations, and telco fortunes – as told by mobile network operators (MNOs) at RCR Live in London last month (all sessions available on-demand).
The conclusions, if we recall,...
Verizon Business has opened a UK demo office in London to showcase private 5G services and applications for enterprises. The new venue, called the London Hub, is aimed at customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, the company said, which it finds itself pitching to...
Over 20 companies in India had applied to secure 5G spectrum to set private networks in the country
India’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has reportedly decided that it will not directly allocate 5G spectrum to enterprises for the deployment of private 5G networks, local newspaper...
A session at RCR Live in London last month considered the role of new private cellular networks as a platform for industrial transformation, and as part of the broader event topic of telco transformation. It brought together private 5G specialists from UK-based mobile network...
Jio is seeking to attract firms across automobile, healthcare, manufacturing and other industries to develop possible use cases of 5G
Indian operator Reliance Jio is said to be in negotiations with U.S. company Tesla for the deployment of a private 5G network for the latter’s...
SoftBank and Sumitomo Electric have been conducting joint demonstrations to realize 5G-based smart factories since 2019
Japanese companies SoftBank and Sumitomo Electric announced plans to collaborate with the aim of realizing smart factories using 5G technology, the companies said in a release.
As part of the...
BT is launching a series of 5G-based augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) showcases in the UK to give private enterprises and public sector organisations a taste of how their industries will change with new digital technologies, and a sense of how they...
The Canadian government has announced it will licence 80 MHz of mid-band spectrum at 3900-3980 MHz for local shared and private 5G networks. It has also proposed to release portions of the mmWave bands at 26 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz for local...
New industry-poll shock: critical comms vendor says enterprises are suffering with un-critical comms. That is the gist of a new survey from Ericsson-owned Cradlepoint, now established (or viewed, at least) as the Swedish firm’s enterprise-facing private 5G business, which says that 70 percent of...
An interesting news release from today, in light of the state-of-the-market address at Private Networks Forum yesterday; French cellular IoT maker Sequans Communications has announced what it calls the first “specifically optimized” 5G chip for IoT devices, offering a Release 17 bundle of broadband...
Note, this is a transcript of the introductory address at Private Networks Forum (May 23), to tee-up the show and capture the state of the market; the full event is available on-demand now.
This is the fourth version of Private Networks Forum (May 23; available...
European aerospace firm Airbus has teamed up with Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom to collaborate on critical private 5G solutions for public safety agencies and private enterprises in Europe. The pair has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), announced at Critical Communications World (CCW)...
NTT has developed an integrated push-to-talk (PTT) application for airport workers to switch between private 5G and terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) communications. The solution, a joint development with Nippon Airport Radio Services (NARS), has been deployed at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. The...
Development of the 5G standard is ongoing, and much of its most enterprise-relevant functionality will be made available in forthcoming releases.
This webinar considers what private 5G offers to enterprises today, how and when its functionality will develop for enterprises over the next few years,...
