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Microsoft to sell former private 5G unit Metaswitch to telco provider Alianza

Microsoft has signed a deal to sell its networking business Metaswitch to Utah-based cloud communications provider Alianza. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025; the fee has not been disclosed. Microsoft only acquired Metaswitch in 2020, as part of...

Local MNOs vs global MVNOs in smart metering – legacy telcos rule, says Kamstrup

An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility companies go about choosing connectivity technologies and connectivity providers by declaring cellular as the...

Is 5G a success? Ask enterprises, not consumers (Reader Forum)

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “After More Than Four Years, Has 5G Lived Up to Expectations?” The article explores whether or not 5G has lived up to the hype, and potential reasons for the technology’s overall performance in the market....

Private 5G – the bigger view | “… the future will be hybrid” (part 2)

Note, this article, a direct transcript of a conversation with Kathiravan Kandasamy, vice president of product management at US-based carrier services company Syniverse, continues from a previous entry, which can be found here. … You mentioned also that, in your experience with customers, that the private...

Private 5G – the bigger view | “Yes, that is the dream, but…” (part 1)

So, is the correct way to look at this, then, that the private 5G market, when it talks about private 5G, is obsessed with a future where Volkswagen is animating its production lines using Release 18-level URLLC 5G networks? But that the wider enterprise...

The role of private 5G in telco transformation (five conclusions)

A session at RCR Live in London last month considered the role of new private cellular networks as a platform for industrial transformation, and as part of the broader event topic of telco transformation. It brought together private 5G specialists from UK-based mobile network...

Overcoming the MNO and enterprise language barrier (Reader Forum)

What MNOs say isn’t always what enterprises hear. How to bridge the disconnects in the name of private wireless network progress. No matter how many times I’ve seen it, the experience remains wildly uncomfortable. I’m sitting at a table where MNOs are pitching to a major...

“Customer and vendor, home and abroad” – China’s JDL explains global private 5G vision

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 attention of the industrial tech media this summer when it revealed a fleet...

Celona on CBRS-bashing by old telco crowd – plus global expansion, growth verticals

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...

Big game hunting with private 5G – more takeaways from Private Networks Forum

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum last month put the spotlight on the discipline of network and system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other groups include system...

Transatel on the “ultimate” public/private 5G mashup for Industry 4.0 (an MVNO story)

France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...

Neutral host networks to revolutionize indoor cellular, says Celona (Reader Forum)

A long-time pain for many businesses has been dealing with poor indoor cellular coverage. Fortunately, recent advances in cellular technology have given rise to a more modern approach to improving in-building cellular coverage. The emergence of new shared cellular spectrum options, such as Citizen’s Band...

Open virtualised RAN will accelerate adoption of private 5G (Mavenir on 2022)

Digital transformation, distributed computing and the democratisation of spectrum are driving significant interest in private 5G. Corporate networks are becoming the backbones of businesses. As enterprises digitize business processes, they typically see the need for more wireless connectivity. 5G appeals as an on-premises connectivity solution...

The ‘failure’ of private 5G – another telco bungle, or just industrial inertia? (Is the window really closing?)

Did you see the writeup last week (or the week before?), that the window of opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G, as more than just dinosaur utility pipes, is closing, almost before it has even opened? Sound somewhat alarmist? We thought...

MNOs vs NEPs vs SIs – the pitched battle (in numbers) over private 5G management

Note, this is part of a forthcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next month; sign up here for the upcoming webinar on carrier-run private 5G enterprise NOCs, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and others. What do we think we know...