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...
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...
Charter will use Nokia’s 5G RAN solutions to provide wireless 5G connectivity and increased network capacity to customers in its trial markets in the United States
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that U.S. cable operator Charter Communications is implementing Nokia’s AirScale equipment portfolio for the deployment...
Federated Wireless provided Cal Poly with its Neutral Host 2.0 solution
California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, also known as Cal Poly, has expanded its private wireless network and added new neutral host capabilities, allowing it to support T-Mobile US customers. The network, deployed in...
The network covers eight city blocks in Las Vegas’ Fremont Street area
Cox Communications has deployed a private wireless network in Las Vegas’ Fremont Street area. The network covers eight city blocks and supports safety and security applications like video cameras and real-time data analytics, but according...
US-based Federated Wireless, offering spectrum services in the CBRS band, has convened a new neutral host sales push, under the banner Neutral Host 2.0, to make available interoperable cellular products from a tight band of pre-approved private 4G and 5G suppliers to networks operators...
The future of spectrum is at a crossroads
PITTSBURGH, Penn.—Good wireless spectrum is hard to find, and it's getting harder and more complex. There are pressures all the way from the local level to the international one, for leadership in defining new bands that will...
Data analysis from NTIA looks at CBRS trends from April 2021 to January 2023
Deployments of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) grew at a steady clip of about 12% per quarter during 2021 and 2022 and are dominated by outdoor sites using General Authorized Access...
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...
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...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will, at some point, replicate its managed private 5G service offering in global markets, it says. The product, currently limited to CBRS installations in the US, has underpinned 200-odd private cellular deployments so far – mostly LTE-based, mostly using componentry...
The US division of Italian porcelain and tile manufacturer Del Conca Group has deployed a CBRS-based private LTE/5G system at a large production facility in Loudon, in Tennessee. It has selected US private wireless specialist Celona for the new deployment, which covers 30-odd acres...
900 MHz spectrum in hand, Anterix is building an ecosystem to enable digital transformation of utilities in the US
Anterix is around the halfway point of clearing its nationwide 900 MHz spectrum, and its focus on utilities is paying off with four customers in hand...
Private networking specialist Celona has it in for Nokia. Some way through a pre-brief about its MWC news – about expanding beyond LTE to support 5G in the US, and beyond the US to support a range of 5G bands in global markets –...
Extended, expanded partnership tap Palo Alto Networks for private 5G security
Based on a partnership initially announced in February 2022, Kyndryl and Nokia now tally 100 “active engagements” around private 5G and 4G networks, as well as mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies, for enterprises. To...
How do you measure the success of a new technology? Do you review adoption numbers? User satisfaction? What about the ecosystem that builds around the technology including equipment manufacturers and solution providers? Does unlocking new use cases factor into the value proposition? Does solving...
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 operations at a number of events, including the annual Sonoma County Fair last August....
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 be tailored to the needs of “lean IT-oriented enterprises”, including in the logistics, light...
Key private 5G considerations include spectrum, use case, technology, and network architecture
Private 5G is billed as a vital enabler for enterprise digital transformation in virtually all vertical sectors. Today the telecoms set is working to deliver end-to-end private 5G systems tailored to meet the...
Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...
Siemens has worked with Qualcomm to deploy an indoor private 5G network in CBRS spectrum at Siemens headquarters in Chicago, with a view to test and develop solutions to automate building functions and services. The private 5G trial network is being used, initially to...
The mobile experience in and around major stadiums is crucial to keeping customers happy as they browse, text, call and share their pictures and video from large sporting events or concerts. With tens of thousands of subscribers concentrated in a small area at very...
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association (EUWENA), and Maria Cuevas, networks research director at UK-based...
Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to hail the “success” of the Citizens Broadband Radio...
