Private Networks

US private cellular Ondas Holdings has completed the acquisition of Israeli drone system and platform developer Airobotics through a merger acquisition, in a deal worth $15.2 million. The new drone …

Norway has opened up 400 MHz of prime mid-band spectrum, at 3.8-4.2 GHz, for enterprises to deploy local-area private 5G networks. Following pilots last year, the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) …

The second best thing to making a full-circle pivot to zero emission is to reduce your current footprint – with miles that are not driven, flights that are not taken, …

Comcast and Celona have deployed a private 4G/5G network using the CBRS band at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. The network has already provided support for back-of-house …

The World Economic Forum has identified 18 more Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories that have managed to “transcend debilitating macro forces” by making use of the latest industrial IoT-related tech. The …

Brazilian oil and gas giant Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) is multiplying its private LTE operations across its offshore and onshore facilities, according to a report in Latin American business publication BNamericas. …

The latest edition of ABI Research’s likeable annual tech predictions about what will fly in the year ahead, and what will splutter on the runway and return to the shed, …

Ericsson has added a new IT-focused private cellular offering from US-based subsidiary Cradlepoint, acquired in late 2020, into its private 5G portfolio. Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Private Networks solution is said to …

Amantya will set up and maintain 5G private networks for its customers in partnership with BSNL   State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has signed a partnership with system integrator …

As promised and previewed last week, here is a full transcript of the interview with Marc Overton, managing director of BT’s industrial go-to-market business Division X – from a conversation …

A new survey by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company says robotics and automation systems will account for 25 percent of capital spending by industrial companies over the next …

Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, …

Adani had previously applied for a universal license in six geographic regions across India   Indian conglomerate Adani Group aims to launch 5G services for enterprises in 2023, according to local …

Contrary to the popular narrative among new telco upstarts that traditional mobile operators will be left behind in the Industry 4.0 race – on the grounds they are entrenched and …

Taiwanese IoT metering company Ubiik has won a $17 million tender from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the deployment of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system to host 450,000 additional …

Taiwanese electronics maker Asus has announced a deal with German media company Media Broadcast to deploy smart-city solutions at various locations across Germany. The agreement is with Asus’s AI and …

In March 2022, Arcep opened a trial platform in the 3.8-4.0 GHz band for manufacturers looking to experiment and test new 5G use cases   French regulator Arcep said it …

Note, this is the foreword from a new report on IoT tracking in the supply chain industry; the report is linked here and (repeatedly) in the article below – and …

The government of India has not given any deadline for direct spectrum allocation for 5G private networks   India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has initiated a process to identify 5G …

Risk of intellectual property (IP) theft, including of industrial trade secrets, is rising fast as manufacturing companies connect private equipment and processes. Analyst house ABI Research has put a figure …

Another private 5G story, and another which claims primacy and (apparently) unmatched scale. Vodafone Business, the enterprise division of UK operator Vodafone, has said it has built “Europe’s first hybrid …

The “largest private industrial 5G network in Europe” has opened in Calais, in France, using 59 small cell antennas to cover a 50,000 square-metre production site belonging to Alcatel Submarine …

Private network deployments continued to see growth during the third quarter of 2022, with the Global mobile Suppliers Association’s (GSA) latest report on the space saying that the group has …

The smart logistics operation at China-based retail giant JD.com “makes Amazon look primitive”, reckons regional English-language title The Asia Times. Certainly, its warehousing and fulfilment business, JD Logistics (JDL), caught …

The U.K.’s Manufacturing Technology Centre houses advanced manufacturing equipment for digital manufacturing, additive manufacturing, automation and robotics, among others; the independent research and technology group focuses on process and manufacturing …