Taiwan-based mobile operator Chunghwa Telecom is to deploy an outdoor 5G-based open RAN private network in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, according to a report on local news site DigiTimes. Chunghwa Telecom said the new private 5G network will operate in the 4.4-5 GHz frequency band....
Luxembourg-based 5G IoT satellite operator OQ Technology has secured €13 million ($12.9 million) of new investment in a Series A funding round to develop its own tech solutions, acquire more spectrum, and expand its satellite constellation, the company has said. The funding round was...
California-based wide-area IoT network provider Actelis Networks has claimed it has received $312,000 in orders since reporting a major multi-year deal with an unnamed provider of airport operations management systems to “modernise and digitise networks”. Actelis Networks said the contract, announced on a recent...
Celona has introduced a new device certification scheme to reassure customers that certain user equipment will work without a hitch on its local-area (LAN) private LTE and 5G systems. The scheme is for “cellular-native private wireless devices”, it said; it is the first of...
Vodafone is looking to offer enhanced satellite positioning to locate IoT devices and autonomous vehicles within centimetres, rather than with standard metre-range accuracy, as with straight GNSS services. It is working with US-based GNSS system developer Topcon Positioning Group to test the new service...
Some time back – actually months back, ahead of Hannover Messe 2022 – Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Sven Hamann, chief executive at Bosch Connected Industry to discuss the interplay between 5G connectivity, IoT sensing, and AI analytics as a developing Industry 4.0...
Berg Insight reported that Iridium, Orbcomm, Inmarsat and Globalstar are currently the largest satellite IoT network operators
The global satellite IoT subscriber base is forecast to reach 21.2 million units in 2026, up from 3.9 million units in 2021, according to a recent report by...
A couple of interesting press notes about energy harvesting in IoT modules during the past week, all originating in the Low Countries; Dutch firm Nowi, a key supplier of energy harvesting circuits, has said Chinese IoT chip design company Telink Semiconductor is using its...
Satellite IoT company Wyld Networks has signed a deal with Switzerland-based IoT manufacturer Miromico to design and manufacture a new range of sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN modules and terminals to support remote and hard-to-reach IoT applications. Miromico will also resell the UK firm’s Wyld Connect portfolio...
NNNCo said that the new IoT network has the capacity to support more than 600,000 IoT sensors
Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Co. has launched its IoT network for the business community of the city of Gold Coast, the company said in a release.
The...
Snap IoT analysis just in from ABI Research; the US-headquartered firm has run the rule over the post-coronavirus market for IoT gateways and concluded, because of industrial IoT takeup among other factors, that total global revenues from the sale of IoT gateways will jump...
IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications has gained entry to the Chinese market, via an unnamed partner—and it expects the results to be very, very big. The firm announced that it has struck a five-year strategic licensing deal that gives the Chinese partner...
Nokia said that the new offering will chiefly benefit ports, manufacturers, energy, transportation, warehousing and logistics companies
Finnish vendor Nokia announced it is extending its industrial portfolio of ruggedized devices with the launch of an industrial 5G fieldrouter certified for the Japanese market.
In a release,...
South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All the deployments utilise the newly-liberated 4.7 GHz and 28 GHz bands in South Korea,...
AT&T in Mexico has installed a private LTE network from Finnish vendor Nokia at the APM Terminals port in Puerto Progreso, in the Yucatán in Mexico. The pair are billing the new LTE installation as “industrial grade”. It uses Nokia’s Digital Automaton Cloud (DAC)...
NTT is making waves in the private 5G market right now; deals with BMW on a test installation at its production site in Dingolfing in Germany and with local airport operator Fraport on a major commercial engagement at Frankfurt Airport (which followed a parallel...
More research from a private cellular network provider into the business value of private cellular networks says… private cellular networks rock, compared to enterprise Wi-Fi. Well, of course they do – the findings echo previous total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) calculations, from Nokia and others (and they...
Italian-American IoT module maker Telit has followed up its deal for the cellular IoT division of French firm Thales with the purchase of California-based custom IoT solutions startup Mobilogix for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition has closed already, said Telit. Mobilogix will make Telit...
A California-based research firm, called TECHnalysis Research, has polled 400 US-based organisations either using or interested in using private cellular networks, and come up with a handy (regional-anecdotal) snapshot of the state of the market, with some decent figures to consider. Among them, it...
Adani Data Networks had secured 400 megahertz of spectrum in the 26 GHz band
Finnish vendor Nokia is in talks with Indian company Adani Data Networks to deploy private 5G using the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported, citing a...
ERTICO, the European public-private collective of road transport agencies and organisations, has signed a provisional deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to collaborate on space technology and services to improve the safety and reliability of assisted and automated vehicles on European roads. The...
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So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking to pull off with its purchase of cellular IoT maker Sierra Wireless? Or rather, how...
Vodafone Indea secured frequencies in a recent 5G auction
Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea is focusing on potential partnerships with the aim of expanding its enterprise solutions following the acquisition of 5G frequencies, local newspaper The Economic Times reported.
“The 5G ecosystem is still evolving. Our...
As the modern-day enterprise continues growing in complexity, so too does the data used within it – both in nature and usage. This is especially true of businesses employing IoT networks. Connected devices are becoming increasingly more sophisticated in terms of their functionality and...
