So where were we? Ah yes: five conclusions about the potential of private 5G to transform telco operations, and telco fortunes – as told by mobile network operators (MNOs) at RCR Live in London last month (all sessions available on-demand).
The conclusions, if we recall,...
Verizon Business has opened a UK demo office in London to showcase private 5G services and applications for enterprises. The new venue, called the London Hub, is aimed at customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, the company said, which it finds itself pitching to...
Samsung Electronics and NAVER Cloud have expanded their collaboration to launch a private 5G network for Hoban Construction, a Korean company specializing in construction, property development and manufacturing. company.
The aim of the network is enable 5G-supported applications like drone-based, high-resolution monitoring for live site...
HPE sees the Indian market as an opportunity for its private 5G network offering
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is currently engaged in talks with telecom operators in India to deploy automation technologies, local newspaper The Economic Times reported.
Tom Craig, global vice president and general manager...
Nokia estimated that the addressable market for core networks in enterprise private wireless is expected to reach $1.6 billion by 2027
Nokia unveiled its new network software solutions for the field and wide area network (FAN/WAN) needs of public safety and power utilities.
The vendor said...
Over 20 companies in India had applied to secure 5G spectrum to set private networks in the country
India’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has reportedly decided that it will not directly allocate 5G spectrum to enterprises for the deployment of private 5G networks, local newspaper...
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...
Jio is seeking to attract firms across automobile, healthcare, manufacturing and other industries to develop possible use cases of 5G
Indian operator Reliance Jio is said to be in negotiations with U.S. company Tesla for the deployment of a private 5G network for the latter’s...
SoftBank and Sumitomo Electric have been conducting joint demonstrations to realize 5G-based smart factories since 2019
Japanese companies SoftBank and Sumitomo Electric announced plans to collaborate with the aim of realizing smart factories using 5G technology, the companies said in a release.
As part of the...
The Canadian government has announced it will licence 80 MHz of mid-band spectrum at 3900-3980 MHz for local shared and private 5G networks. It has also proposed to release portions of the mmWave bands at 26 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz for local...
New industry-poll shock: critical comms vendor says enterprises are suffering with un-critical comms. That is the gist of a new survey from Ericsson-owned Cradlepoint, now established (or viewed, at least) as the Swedish firm’s enterprise-facing private 5G business, which says that 70 percent of...
Verizon updates on C-Band, fiber build, FWA sub growth and enterprise 5G outlook
While acknowledging his dissatisfaction with the company’s performance in 2022, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg this week gave a wide-ranging update on the operator’s approach to 5G monetization. Looking at 5G-backed service revenues,...
John Stankey says AT&T will finish $6 billion cost-cutting plan this year, then move into cutting legacy infrastructure costs
Now that it’s well-past the divestiture of Warner Media and executing on a back-the-basics approach to wired and wireless networks, AT&T CEO John Stankey touted a...
An interesting news release from today, in light of the state-of-the-market address at Private Networks Forum yesterday; French cellular IoT maker Sequans Communications has announced what it calls the first “specifically optimized” 5G chip for IoT devices, offering a Release 17 bundle of broadband...
Note, this is a transcript of the introductory address at Private Networks Forum (May 23), to tee-up the show and capture the state of the market; the full event is available on-demand now.
This is the fourth version of Private Networks Forum (May 23; available...
European aerospace firm Airbus has teamed up with Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom to collaborate on critical private 5G solutions for public safety agencies and private enterprises in Europe. The pair has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), announced at Critical Communications World (CCW)...
Global system integrator NTT has announced a deal with Cisco to jointly “develop and deploy” IoT sustainability solutions for large organisations, mostly based on LoRaWAN. The new applications will be available on subscription, as-a-service, in order for enterprises to wrap their bids for sustainability...
Development of the 5G standard is ongoing, and much of its most enterprise-relevant functionality will be made available in forthcoming releases.
This webinar considers what private 5G offers to enterprises today, how and when its functionality will develop for enterprises over the next few years,...
Amdocs claims to have developed / solved a series of “new use cases” for private 5G networks at its new sandbox lab in Texas. The US telecoms software firm said it has worked with Microsoft to create new solutions for industrial maintenance and training...
Sony and Mitsui have jointly started system feasibility testing of the DSA technology for wide-area deployment of local 5G network on urban expressways
Japanese companies Sony Group Corporation and Mitsui announced the launch of a joint research project to analyze the use of Dynamic Spectrum...
This article continues from another post, under the header: ‘They’re still figuring it out; we've moved beyond’ – Nokia expands Industry 4.0 view. Click here to read the previous instalment.
The problem with Industry 4.0 in brownfield sites is that playground software is fighting for...
A couple of years back, Nokia talked up its private 5G cloud system like a Netflix-style content platform; almost three years later, it is looking to deliver on that concept by loading its MXIE edge-compute servers with Industry 4.0 applications. It is a telling...
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...
UK telecoms group BT has folded its Division X business, founded early 2022, further into its BT Business division. The consolidation, which makes Division X a part of its product team within BT Business, has seen Marc Overton, managing director at Division X, call...
