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Aviat Networks inks private networks deal with Smartfren

Aviat said the deal targets Indonesian private networks and enterprises including hospitals, agriculture, mining, buildings, oil and gas companies, factories, smart cities and other vertical industries Aviat Networks, has put in place strategic collaboration agreement with Indonesian telco PT Smartfren Telecom to deliver high speed...

5G and IoT will benefit society more than AI – Vodafone on 2024 (Reader Forum)

David Joosten, director of the Americas and partner markets at Vodafone Business, identifies key trends that will shape the digital enterprise market in 2024, as follows... 1 | 5G and IoT will benefit society more than AI The convergence of 5G and IoT will create more...

Celona integrates cybersecurity from Palo Alto Networks into private 4G/5G system

US-based private cellular provider Celona has teamed up with Palo Alto Networks to integrate the latter’s cyber-security and -analysis software into its private 4G and 5G network management solutions. It means enterprises can gain closer visibility and control of the identity profiles and access...

India set to allow telcos to lease spectrum for private networks

This move by the government of India will allow domestic telcos to secure additional sources of revenue India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) will soon announce the rules around the leasing of mobile spectrum by local carriers to companies willing to deploy private networks, paving the...

Dynamite deployments, decent growth, desperate telcos – private 5G in 2024 (four predictions)

Is this a review of 2023, or a forecast for 2024? It could be either, on the grounds it looks backwards to look forwards, taking its cues from the past 12 months in private cellular – when the market showed decent growth, but was...

TeamViewer invests ‘double-digit millions’ in Industry 4.0 duo to drive AI/AR IoT offer

German enterprise group-comms software provider TeamViewer, which has featured prominently in remote collaboration and augmented reality (AR) use cases for early private cellular network deployments, has invested a “low double-digit million” euro sum into two separate Industry 4.0 solution providers: US-based industrial data platform...

Seven IoT reports to set you up for 2024 – on cellular/non-cellular edge/cloud private/public IoT

Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and high-power, and in between) to set the conversation for 2024-in-tech. Enjoy. 1 | Smart...

Private LTE/5G networks number 2,900 at the end of 2023

There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these in trial mode, but...

Nokia has private 5G drone solution certified for US Industry 4.0 by FCC

Nokia has had its industrial LTE and 5G drone solution (Nokia Drone Networks) certified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US. It said it is the first “native 4G/5G drone-in-a-box solution” to get the nod from the FCC. It is targeted at...

Five factors in the private IoT network push on corporate sustainability

A session at Telco Sustainability Forum, hosted by RCR Wireless last week, considered how private networks are a driver for enterprises to drive efficiency and productivity, and reduce their carbon emissions along the way. The panel comprised Amit Kohli, senior solution director and sustainability...

Actility raises funds to drive private network sales, IoT sector acquisitions

French low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, has raised €16 million ($17.2m) in a new funding round to drive its own growth in the private networks space and consolidation in the wider low-power IoT market. The implication is that Actility remains...

Seven telecom predictions for 2024 (Reader Forum)

As we embark on the journey into 2024, the telecom landscape stands at the threshold of a profound transformation: In the realm of technology convergence, envision cloud computing, container/microservices architecture edge computing and CI/CD practices blending seamlessly for the 5G crescendo, akin to technological Avengers...

BT stitches metro edge connectivity and computing into Global Fabric service

BT has started to roll-out its global network-as-a-service (NaaS) offer in carrier neutral metro-edge cloud facilities (CNFs) around the world. The service, offered as Global Fabric, was announced in October; the UK-based telecoms group has since expanded a deal with US real estate investment...

Celona intros automated eSIM solution for private 5G networks

US-based private networking specialist Celona has claimed the industry’s “first automated eSIM solution” for enterprise mobile device management (MDM) systems. The embedded SIM (eSIM) solution “streamlines” the onboarding of cellular devices on Celona private LTE/5G system, the company said. Enterprise IT staff can “quickly...

Ooredoo claims MEA ‘first’ with private LTE deployment for offshore oil-and-gas

Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo has deployed a private LTE network from Nokia for the oil and gas industry, covering offshore and onshore operations. In a press statement, Finnish vendor Nokia called it the “first” private cellular network in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)...

A pioneer, a practitioner and a pragmatist walk into a factory…

For Industry 4.0, business case development and technical considerations are clearly important but maybe market catalyzation will come from leaps of faith Uptake of industrial 5G solutions has been a bit of a mixed bag. While the vision of Industry 4.0 hasn’t yet been relegated...

Verizon tracking fixed wireless, private networks momentum

Asked if he’s ready to build 6G, Verizon CFO says, “Not at all”  While Verizon stock prices have been on a bit of a wild ride this year, the operator’s CFO projected confidence in a discussion at the Morgan Stanley European Technology, Media and Telecom...

Port of Virginia preps private 5G for autonomous trucks

The Port of Virginia in the US expects to have autonomous trucks running on a private 5G network at its site from early next year (2024). The port has a new private 5G network from Verizon Business, operating in high-band millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum,...

Kyndryl and Nokia deploy eight-plant private LTE network for Chevron Phillips

The ‘private 5G’ partnership between system integrator Kyndryl and network vendor Nokia has so far resulted in 18 “large installations” on three continents, according to the former. Certain of them have covered enterprise environments of up to 50 square kilometres. The pair have a...

Siemens and ServiceNow move OT device management into the cloud

Siemens is working with US software firm ServiceNow to offer a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to identify and manage operating technology (OT) devices in industrial settings. The solution is designed to help enterprises manage new industrial-grade IoT, Wi-Fi, and 5G devices from a central cloud...

Boldyn buys Edzcom from Cellnex, targets private 5G ‘leadership’

UK-headquartered neutral host provider Boldyn Networks, majority owned by Canada-based CPP Investments, has agreed to acquire private networks specialist Edzcom from Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom for an undisclosed fee. The deal is for Cellnex’s entire private networks business, which mostly equates to Finland-based...

‘Tech-co first, telco second’ – private 5G firm Citymesh emerges as MNO for enterprises

On the face of it, the acquisition of local internet service provider EDPnet by Belgium-based Citymesh, which describes itself lately as a telco “challenger” brand in its home market, holds limited interest – to RCR’s enterprise readership, at least. But in ways, the deal...

Netherlands opens 3.6 GHz band for private 5G

The Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI) has announced local spectrum licences in the so-called ‘3.6 GHz band’ are available now for local private 5G networks. It has confirmed that enterprises and institutions can now apply for two 50 megahertz portions of the band,...

NTT unites local vendors, plus Nokia and HP, on multi-vendor private 5G trials

Local mobile operator NTT East, part of the multinational NTT group, has convened a cellular-geared Industry 4.0 working group of 18 domestic and international 5G equipment vendors to collaborate on private 5G propositions for enterprises in the eastern part of Japan. The likes of...