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 New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea, will bring greater levels of safety, remote...
Three Finnish industrial-change specialists, including telecoms vendor Nokia, have banded together on a collaboration project to construct a private LTE test network for developing industrial IoT applications for shipping ports and terminals.
Private networking specialist Ukkoverkot and port machinery maker Kalmar, owned by port automation...
The company formerly known as pdvWireless has a new name -- Anterix -- but its focus on using 900 MHz spectrum to support private broadband LTE networks for the utilities industry remains the same.
Anterix officially began trading yesterday under a new Nasdaq ticker symbol:...
Maravedis and EJL Wireless have partnered to provide a unique and thorough market analysis of the CBRS indoor opportunity which provides a reality check to all the marketing buzz currently going on in the marketplace.
We see two clearly distinct market segments for initial CBRS...
Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band for private usage.
Three Sweden has struck a deal with Finland-based “micro-network” operator Ukkoverkot to...
Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes.
The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...
Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...
Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri was crystal clear in an earnings call this week that the first quarter of 2019 was weak, but the network infrastructure vendor is sticking to its full-year guidance based on the expectation that 5G will deliver in the second-half of...
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland.
The Port of Kokkola is the third largest ‘general’ port in Finland. It is also...
With the increasingly global adoption of LTE/4G technology, greater opportunities for private LTE networks are emerging. According to ABI Research, by 2025 those sectors using private LTE will create a market worth $16.3 billion – a CAGR of 45 per cent since 2018.
ABI...
Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial 5G debate.
Adel Al-Saleh, member of the board at Deutsche Telekom and chief executive...
AURORA, COLORADO--Private LTE may be attracting attention, but private cellular networks are not a new model, according to industry experts at a Besen Group seminar on private LTE ahead of the Competitive Carriers Association's Mobile Carriers Show this week in Denver.
"This isn't actually...
HANNOVER, Germany--Based on conversations with executives from network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson during the Hannover Messe industrial fair, both companies see the mining industry as a huge opportunity for driving private network sales.
So, of all the industrial verticals to pick from, why...
HANNOVER, Germany--Rival network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson staked out slightly different stances regarding how to bring private networks to industries at Mobile World Congress. The conversation on what makes a private network private continued this week at the Hannover Messe industrial fair.
Before we...
HANNOVER, Germany--Nokia has made clear it sees private networks for industrial users as a market segment with huge potential. And, this week at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in a country with a massive industrial economic base, Stephane Daeuble, Nokia's head of industry...
The FirstNet-AT&T partnership is just one example of public safety LTE
The standardization of mission-critical features in LTE has helped to foster a number of global efforts to use LTE for public safety. The U.S.' Firstnet project is one, but there are a number of...
Nokia is building private LTE and 5G coverage for the ARENA2036 automotive research factory in Stuttgart in collaboration with members of the German car and manufacturing industries, including Daimler, Bosch and TRUMPF.
Nokia will provide full private 4G/LTE and 5G New Radio coverage for the...
Among telecoms operators grappling with the concept of private industrial networks, and ways to coexist with enterprises seeking control of their own LTE and 5G infrastructure, Telefónica cuts an assured figure. It has been developing its strategy around private networks for 18 months at...
Ericsson has launched a private network solution that seeks to simplify the deployment and management of private LTE and 5G networks for industrial enterprises with no prior experience of cellular network operations.
Compatriot transport company Scania has already implemented the package, dubbed Ericsson Industry...
Private cellular networks are standard 3GPP-based cellular networks offering a combination of low-power wide-area (LPWA), broadband LTE, and even ‘massive’-scale, ultra-reliable 5G connectivity for exclusive use by private parties.
They are deployed and managed separately of public cellular networks, but function in the same way....
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a five-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Oulu, also in Finland. The project will start with the establishment of a private LTE network, attaching to internet...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.
Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...
Will Nextel essentially be reincarnated as a private LTE provider?
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow a broadband allocation at 900 MHz, reconfiguring the band from its current narrowband-only allocation and opening up the possibility that it...
Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...
