Industry 4.0

From the newsletter (October 20; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): A new 6G architecture is taking shape, but its business case remains elusive. This week: AI-RAN performance …

Nokia’s sale of its campus private 5G business to Aurelius includes its MPW platform but excludes its drone unit, it turns out. The latter is under strategic review, as the …

From the newsletter (October 13; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Nokia’s sale of its ECE business gives Aurelius a 1,000-person industrial networking operation to grow, while simplifying …

From the newsletter (October 6; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Schneider Electric is to buy PTC for a cool $22.6bn – to consolidate its stake in the …

RFID-enabled smartphones and tablets are moving inventory tracking beyond dedicated scanning rounds, allowing workers to update stock continuously while improving accuracy, productivity and cost efficiency across retail, logistics and other …

From the newsletter (September 10; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Nokia’s new Cognitive Operations and Cognitive Edge Node look strikingly familiar as the company exits campus private …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Telco integration is back in fashion (again), from satellite and terrestrial networks to private 5G and Wi-Fi. Mostly, it is an …

Celona is folding Wi-Fi 7, private 5G, public cellular and satellite into one AI-managed platform, targeting the complexity, cost and device shortages that have held back enterprise wireless adoption. In …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Private 5G is maturing, clearly, and the market is changing shape: Nokia is in retreat, slipping to fourth in the rankings, …

As connected vehicles, robots, and other physical AI systems cross borders, data sovereignty becomes about more than storage. Curtis Govan at Flolive argues regulators and operators must address “network sovereignty” …

Following years of demonstration experiments, Japan’s private 5G market is moving into operational deployment, with spending on track for a 55 percent CAGR through 2030 as port operators, manufacturers, utilities, …

Or: why a market leader became a market leaver. Private 5G is growing fast, but not explosively. SNS explains the market maths, the hype gap, and why Nokia has called …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Europe’s AI sovereignty push is gathering pace with the launch of Soofi S, while telecoms and governments reposition networks, chips, submarine …

Physical AI for robot automation in factories and plants requires lightweight maths models, not token-hungry language models, says NTT Data. It does not have to wait on expensive GPUs, when …

Industrial humanoid robots and physical AI are moving from pilot to production – as Siemens, Nvidia, and lots of private 5G providers (including Nokia) roll up to Hannover Messe. In …

Bain & Company warns that traditional industrial control systems are losing their central role as AI and smart devices redefine the economic landscape. By 2030, software, AI workflows, and intelligent …

Ericsson has new tie-ups with system integrators Future Technologies and NTT Data to combine private 5G and physical AI in Industry 4.0. Ericsson appears to be picking up where Nokia …

Partnerships with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and industrial IoT specialist Geoforce show how AT&T is positioning fibre, edge infrastructure, and enterprise connectivity to support AI workloads from data centre to factory …

Debate at the UPTIME forum today highlighted Asia Pacific’s fragmented regulatory and structural barriers for private 5G – in India, in particular, where Vodafone Idea argues IT/OT integration and use-case …

As industrial AI and automation grow, reliable connectivity will matter as much as the machines themselves As the adoption of automation, robotics, and industrial AI accelerates, the network has now …

Private 5G is outpacing Wi-Fi for its early growth, and its trajectory is diverging as well. Just as Nokia checks-out, Ericsson argues that a rising tide of high-value industrial use …

Ericsson won’t be drawn on Nokia’s retreat, but it’s happy to talk about its own momentum in the private 5G market: rising deployments, surging traffic, and sales that are outrunning …

At Industrial Wireless Forum, industry leaders explored how agentic AI running on private 5G is transforming factories and plants. The discussion highlighted not just the technology, but the architectural, connectivity, …

Private 5G is often dismissed as a niche – slow, complex, and commercially uncertain – but this view misses the point. As analysts argue, its real value lies in transforming …