BROWSING: Disruptive Analysis

A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...

Some quick thoughts on the big IT outage today, which grounded planes, trains, banks, hospitals, shops, telcos, and broadcasters around the world. Reports on the radio this morning – when the story was breaking, as I drove the kids to school – led on...

Short of detail, high on intrigue; the news from AWS this week that it will launch its own private 5G offer, pulling together telco parts from anonymous partners as a new-age plug-and-play enterprise networking system, has caused great excitement within the telecoms market. But...

The chair’s address ahead of an afternoon session on private 5G networks at 5G World in London today (September 22) brought some perspective. The market promises so much but the promise gets over-hyped, said Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst for private networks at Omdia. There...

If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation into how and where they might run operations, then the below Q&A session veers...

How is Nokia doing with private networks for enterprises? Pretty well, and probably better than Ericsson, choruses the analyst community in response. Except its strategy is too narrow, its offer is too inflexible, and its competition – beyond its traditional vendor peers, and beyond...

Germany has issued 67 local spectrum licences for private LTE and 5G to enterprises since November 2019. What should we make of this number, and the run-rate so far for industrial-grade cellular in the home of Industrie 4.0? Because 67 does not sound like that...