Sixty to 80% of mobile data usage is generated indoors, yet carriers consistently under-invest in indoor coverage. Nowhere is this more true than in the “middleprise” — buildings that fall between 50,000 and 500,000 sq ft.
Middleprise property owners, IT teams and facilities managers are...
Today’s enterprise faces a dizzying array of wireless infrastructure options for managing important business operations. Considering factors such as business need, location, security requirements, and expansion plans, organizations can opt for Wi-Fi, public cellular, or private cellular wireless networks—or select any combination of these...
A loose poll – please don’t roll your eyes – of 2,000 adults in the US about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the jobs market says, basically, that nothing good will come of it, at least insofar as the availability of...
Last week, three companies, Betacom, Axis Communications and Evolon, introduced an always-on, affordable 24/7/365 perimeter security solution made possible by private wireless. Not only is private wireless giving enterprise the ability to better control their own wireless communications, but it is also proving to...
CFO lays out how ‘hybrid-cloud platform-centric strategy’ is driving growth for IBM
In 2022 IBM grew revenue by 12% to $60.5 billion with its software, consulting and infrastructure businesses all posting double digit growth, 12%, 15% and 14% respectively. For 2023 CFO and SVP Jim...
ZTE said its net profit surged 18.6% year-on-year last year
Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenues of CNY 122.95 billion ($17.68 billion) in 2022, up 7.4% year-on-year.
In its earnings statement, the Chinese company said that its net profits amounted to CNY 8.08 billion, an increase...
France-based telecoms operator Orange has signed with satellite operator OneWeb to augment its fixed and cellular network connectivity in rural and remote areas of Europe, Latin America, and particularly in Africa. Orange said OneWeb’s low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites will “complement” its cellular backhaul infrastructure...
Indonesian operator Telkomsel and ZTE Corporation announced a collaboration to boost the use of 5G services for the enterprise segment in Indonesia. This agreement was formalized through a memorandum of understanding during the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
Wong Soon Nam, chief planning...
TIM says the restructuring will improve the efficiency of designing and selling enterprise services
Telecom Italia (TIM) has restructured its enterprise business unit as part of the company’s larger strategy to separate its fixed-network infrastructure assets from services. The new division will serve large enterprise...
IT services company Capgemini has opened a 5G solutions facility in San Francisco, in the US, to help enterprises boost their adoption of 5G and edge technologies. Located at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), the center claims to provide a co-creation environment for innovative...
Operators globally have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to deploy and scale 5G networks. However, meaningful new service revenue lift remains elusive. In the quest to realize a return on investment, how should operators approach delivery of differentiated, value-added services into the consumer...
Nokia added 45 new customers for its private networks products in the fourth quarter of 2022, outrunning its third-quarter total (30 new customers) by 50 percent, and taking its total customer count beyond the 560 mark, the company said. It had closed the third...
According to the study, the APAC region is forecasted to have 38.9 billion IoT devices in circulation by 2030
The Asia Pacific (APAC) region is set to overtake the rest of the world in terms of IoT adoption, according to report from global research firm...
ABI Research noted that revenues from 5G network slicing deployments in APAC will grow from $151 million in 2022 to $12 billion by 2028
The deployment of 5G private networks in Asia Pacific is expected to reach revenues of $13 billion in 2028, up from...
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...
We have watched new growth opportunities in the wireless industry change over decades, from analog to digital, and from 2G, to 3G, 4G and now 5G. However, another slice of the wireless pie is showing strong growth and that will continue through 2023 and...
Network connectivity is just like any aspect of an enterprise: 'There are different tools for different jobs'
Of the many possible takeaways from the recent Private Networks European Forum, one of the most ubiquitous was that nearly every enterprise across a variety of verticals can...
BT noted that the project will demonstrate value in three use case areas for ports and highways, including port operations and management, marine operations and highway safety and defect inspections
U.K. carrier BT said that the government committed to provide financing for a project in...
Huawei generated $61.8 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of the year, down 2.2% y-o-y
Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have reported their financial results for the first nine months of the year.
Huawei said it generated CNY445.8 billion ($61.8 billion) in revenue in...
Back in 2012, when the industry first began exploring private cellular networks, the future seemed wide open — in every sense. On one hand, we could imagine seemingly unlimited ways in which enterprises could benefit from private infrastructures running on shared public spectrum. At...
The Inseego edge solution integrates 5G, wired connections, security and networking functions
Over the summer, Inseego released 5G SD EDGE, a 5G cloud solution that delivers networking and security through a 5G network fabric for enterprises, eliminating the need for complex and expensive on-premise...
When you think of enterprise Wi-Fi, what comes to mind is an office with many laptops, smartphones, and other devices all seamlessly connecting over wireless. However, the irony is that it takes lots of cabling and rooms full of wired routers and switches to...
An addendum of sorts, to the piece Enterprise IoT Insights compiled at the end of last week (October 21), on private networks in numbers; Analysys Mason has just issued a report that says private LTE/5G network deployments are “growing rapidly”, to the point spending...
Today’s 4G/LTE and 5G private wireless networks offer enterprises a key enabler to digital transformation. They provide the secure flexible mesh required to connect an ever-growing ecosystem of mission-critical applications, devices and Industry 4.0 use cases and achieve operational, safety and sustainability goals.
Even as...
