Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private networks has shifted, decisively....
Chile-based copper mining group Antofagasta Minerals has recruited Nokia to deploy a private LTE network at its Minera Centinela (Centinela mine) open pit copper mine in the Antofagasta region in northern Chile. It is the latest in a string of wins for the Finnish...
The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 series routers work in hybrid 5G systems, attaching to private and public cellular infrastructure,...
Australian telo TPG Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nokia as part of a new partnership to develop and deliver mobile private network solutions for the mining and energy sectors.
The agreement will see TPG Telecom and Nokia collaborate across their portfolio...
Rogers Business, the enterprise division of Canadian operator Rogers, has installed a private 5G network at Detour Lake, an open pit mine in northern Ontario belonging to gold producer Kirkland Lake Gold. The private 5G setup uses Rogers’ “full range of spectrum frequency bands”...
Ericsson has recruited US-based mapping company HERE Technologies to provide the mining industry with “custom mapping capabilities”, to go with its own private LTE and 5G network offer to the sector. HERE Technologies joins the Swedish vendor’s roster of approved Industry 4.0 vendors (“partner...
Nokia and Telia have combined to deploy a private 5G network for Canada-based Agnico Eagle Mines in Finland. The new 5G standalone (SA) setup will support above and below ground mining operations at the firm’s Kittilä mine in the Lapland province of Finland, billed...
Steel giant Severstal has appointed Russian mobile operator MTS, working with Swedish network vendor Ericsson, to build a private LTE network at the Karelskiy Okatysh iron ore mining and processing plant. The site, in the Republic of Karelia, is one of the largest iron...
MTS first announced plans to build the private network using Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution in October 2020
Russian operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched the country’s first commercial 5G-ready private network for gold and silver producer Polymetal International plc. at the Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in...
Nokia and AngloGold Ashanti Colombia have conducted the first Colombian underground 5G mining trial in Jerico, Colombia. The trial examined four mining use cases in particular: Mission-critical communications, connectivity and remote teleoperation of vehicles, mining machinery and systems, and inspection and monitoring with drones and high-definition...
Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in the Australian agriculture, mining, transport, logistics, and public sector industries.
A press statement provided little...
The state-owned Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) is coordinating a joint research and development project with Finnish network vendor Nokia and Swedish mining company Sandvik around industrial private 5G networks, edge computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enable digital transformation in the...
The industry organization Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) said that it is tracking at least 370 companies around the world that have been or are investing in private mobile networks, with 5G deployments beginning to gain momentum.
The number includes trials and pilot deployments, commercial...
Swedish vendor Ericsson has introduced a new plug-and-play style private 4G and 5G product for manufacturing, mining, and energy companies, alongside the ports, airports, and other industrial sectors. The solution for cloud-based private cellular management looks to simplify telecoms for industry and industry for...
Ericsson has combined with industrial design consultancy Sigma Connectivity and industrial IoT firm Mobilaris to produce a cellular IoT tracking device for the mining industry, and other industrial environments. The trio, all based in Sweden, said the wearable NB-IoT / LTE-M device uses “sensors,...
Huawei in February opened the Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in Shanxi province
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, speaking at the opening of the company's Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in China's Shanxi province, discussed how the "main goal" of 5G is enabling the digital transformation of vertical...
Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed a Wi-Fi based real-time IoT tracking solution from Orange Business Services to help sort different grades and types of coal at a coal preparation factory in the Kemerovo region of Russia.
Raspadskaya, partly owned by British steel making...
Nokia has picked up a couple of other contracts for deployment of private cellular networks in the mining sector, it has said, with Russian palladium and nickel mining company Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) and with Chilean copper mining company Codelco.
The new announcements -- by Nokia’s...
Nokia is working with mobile operator Claro in Chile, a regional subsidiary of Mexican telecom group América Móvil, to equip South African mining company Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte mine with a private LTE network.
The new network will support remote-controlled trucks, excavators, drills, and...
Ericsson using 4G/5G private networks to enable the Miner 4.0; Smart Mining Value Calculator pins TCO to return on five mining use cases
In its Connected Mining report, published in December 2020, and an accompanying deep dive webinar hosted earlier this year, Ericsson explored the...
Rogers sees private network opportunity in verticals like mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing
Canadian operator Rogers announced the launch of a managed solution for wireless private networks (WPN), the company said in a release.
The company said that the new offering chiefly targets large businesses...
Industry 4.0 is here, and private wireless is enabling industry verticals to capitalize on the promise of this ‘fourth industrial revolution’. 2021 will see a major transformation in automation of factories, ports, and other industrial IoT venues. Enterprises are ready to automate their processes,...
2020 has been a year of reckoning with a devastating human toll. Technology was a silver lining. It has helped us – as people, businesses and societies – to cope with an unprecedented situation.
Even before the pandemic, the Nordic and Baltic countries were considered...
Australian satellite communications provider Speedcast International has signed a deal with Nokia to offer the Finnish vendor’s plug-and-play private LTE and 5G solution to remote industrial customers. Speedcast supplies satellite-based networking solutions to the manufacturing, supply chain, mining, utilities, and oil and gas sectors,...
