Private LTE

The Freshwave Group, a new UK network provider, is seeking to combine telecoms expertise and real-estate savvy to plug coverage gaps in public mobile coverage with shared and private networking. …

Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has approved local energy distributor Neoenergia to operate a private LTE network in the 3.5 GHz frequency. It will be the first private LTE network in …

A consortium of technologists, industrialists, and academics have joined a new European working group to develop and demonstrate a new ‘beyond-5G’ system for private networks, integrating 5G, Wi-Fi, and LiFi …

How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no …

Karl Bream, head of strategy and portfolio, Nokia Enterprise “The market is ripe as all sectors of the global economy are embracing digitalization and are beginning to tap into Industry …

Nokia has said it is building a “strategic partnership ecosystem” to bring private LTE and 5G networks to industrial and government customers in Japan.  Spectrum for local LTE and 5G …

Digital technologies present many exciting opportunities for improving patient outcomes. Remote monitoring with medical sensors, shared access to patient records, personalized care plans, remote robotic surgery — and, the list …

Firstly, that headline: too much? Perhaps, but let us make the case – and draw breath, for this may take some time. Industrial 5G is the only version of 5G …

Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in …

Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks …

Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.  The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five …

Nokia is working with Hitachi Kokusai Electric in Japan to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for industrial and government customers in Japan. It has struck a parallel deal in …

Private LTE works as a control and communications technology for drones, said Nokia, after concluding a test flight of a drone on a private LTE installation in Japan. The Finnish …

The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments. …

The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better …

Vodafone is the first network operator in the UK to sub-license unused LTE / 4G spectrum under UK regulator Ofcom’s new spectrum policy, which seeks to bolster rural and indoor …

A private LTE network testing the use of the technology for distributed energy grid applications has successfully completed its first phase and is moving into its second. The trial network, …

The rise of private cellular networks has been a key narrative recently in the story of industrial transformation, propelled by the emergence of advanced data analytics (AI), distributed sensing and …

Amazon has applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a temporary license to work in the CBRS band in California to test and analyse the performance of new 3.5 …

Finnish operator Elisa is offering enterprise customers and public safety agencies a private LTE solution, after trials with Swedish vendor Ericsson during the first half of the year. Ericsson said …

Ofcom will open up a large tranche of the UK airwaves for enterprises to deploy private and shared networks, dedicating the 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local deployments, requiring national operators …

Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon …

The rise of private industrial networking should be measured by the number of new networks, and network operators, and not by the number of cell sites, reckons Italy-based industrial networking …

The world’s first standalone private NB-IoT network has been launched in Florida, using upper 700 MHz A-Block spectrum and covering major urban centres in northern Florida initially. The operator, San …

Australian operator Telstra has switched on a private LTE network at a gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The deployment at the Lihir gold mine, on Aniolam Island in the …