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“It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive at core networking provider Quortus. It sounds almost fanciful, that such a global infrastructure might ever …

Chilean mobile operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has selected Nokia to provide its AirScale portfolio to launch the operator’s 5G network in Chile. In addition, Nokia will upgrade Movistar’s 4G and “4G+” networks to strengthen the critical …

Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to combine their private 5G networking and edge computing capabilities, respectively, for the industrial sector. The pair said their “joint vision” is to deploy integrated industrial-grade 5G communications and computing solutions on customers’ …

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, …

The trials will test the interoperability between Play’s 2G/3G legacy networks and Samsung’s latest solutions Samsung Electronics is beginning work with Polish mobile operator Play on 4G and 5G trials in Warsaw, Poland. The trials will take place in Play’s …

German operator Deutsche Telekom has built up 5G capacities at 75 locations across Germany in the past eight weeks, the carrier said in a release. Deutsche Telekom said it had implemented Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) to upgrade these LTE sites. …

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, Nokia, Lufthansa …

Nokia has picked up a couple of other contracts for deployment of private cellular networks in the mining sector, it has said, with Russian palladium and nickel mining company Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) and with Chilean copper mining company Codelco. The …

European aerospace manufacturer Airbus has announced the deployment of a private LTE network from Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson at its factory in Toulouse, in France. Ericsson said the deal was an ‘extension’ of an existing partnership between the two firms. …

Nokia is working with mobile operator Claro in Chile, a regional subsidiary of Mexican telecom group América Móvil, to equip South African mining company Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte mine with a private LTE network. The new network will support …

Local Japanese telco KATCH is looking to hoover up Industry 4.0 contracts among automotive and high-tech manufacturers in the Aichi Prefecture, in Japan, after apponting Finnish vendor Nokia and local systems integrator CTC to deploy a dedicated private 5G network …

Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 nuclear power reactors in the country, and the stated schedule …

This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, …

In general, FDD is considered better for coverage and TDD better for capacity Mobile operators are looking to carrier aggregation (CA), which allows them to use multiple sub-6 GHz spectrum channels simultaneously, as a method of increasing the bandwidth and …

Edzcom and Nokia are to build a private standalone (SA) 5G network for fellow Finnish firm Konecranes at the company’s factory in the municipality of Hyvinkää about 50 kilometres north of Helsinki. Konecranes manufacturers and services cranes and lifting equipment. …

Deutsche Telekom has positioned itself as a system integrator (SI) in the emerging private 5G market for Industry 4.0, via a deal with AWS for managed edge infrastructure and services. It has also released a couple of all-in packages for …

Nokia has teamed up with professional services consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) in Finland to help enterprises and mobile operators ”unleash the business potential” of ‘private wireless’ solutions, the umbrella term used by Nokia to capture a range of industrial …

Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT platform to business customers and application developers using its 4G …

New Zealand operator 2degrees has announced a partnership with Ericsson to launch a 5G network in the country, the telco said in a release. The company said that the initial 5G sites will be located in the cities of Auckland …

Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile said it attracted over 3.9 million applications for its mobile service since it launched its 4G offering one year ago. The telco launched a new promotional campaign to attract more subscribers. This campaign offers the Rakuten …

It is just another networking technology, after all; Appledore Research tells of the trouble with the telco sector’s ‘god complex’. Note, this is an excerpt from an interview that appears in a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on …

The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well in “large scale” smart city initiatives in the UK, including …

Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, …

Nokia has deployed an NB-IoT network for mobile network operator Saudi Mobily in the 800 MHz band in Saudi Arabia. The pair said they have connected more than 4,000 sites, with radius coverage of 20 kilometres per cell. The software …

This conversation will form part of the narrative in the forthcoming Enterprise IoT Insights report on industrial 5G SLAs, out at the start of April (to be available here). A webinar on the same subject is available here, with panellists …