Newmont is the world’s leading gold company, and the leading industrial private 5G operator in the mining sector. Here, its networks director, Chris Twaddle, gives a blow-by-blow account of how it developed a private 5G model with Ericsson to scale across all of its...
Future Technologies has won over $50 million in DoD contracts to deploy private 5G networks, enhancing battlefield communications, AR/VR training, drones, and AI-driven operations.
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Warfighter – private 5G will modernize DoD infrastructure and support its ‘Connected Warfighter’ program.
Applications – drones,...
Tech Mahindra is advancing private 5G networks in India, enabling Industry 4.0 applications such as connected robotics and real-time analytics
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Private 5G deployed – Tech Mahindra has executed private networks rollouts in automotive manufacturing, enabling enhanced robotics and analytics.
Adoption slowed...
Ericsson has integrated agentic AI into its NetCloud management platform for private 5G and wireless WAN to help to automate workflows, boost reliability, simplify operations, and lay groundwork for fully autonomous 5G networks.
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Agentic support – Ericsson adds agentic AI...
Small Cell Forum forecasts 61m small-cell shipments by 2030, driven by indoor enterprise demand, neutral-host growth, edge integration, 5G SA adoption, and mmWave use. The industry will generate $4.23bn revenues despite economic pressures, it reckons.
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Unit shipments – to hit...
Hitachi Rail has deployed a private 5G network at its Hagerstown factory in Maryland, designed by GlobalLogic with Ericsson technology – showcasing Hitachi’s ‘One Hitachi’ digital strategy to design and deploy digital-change in-house.
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Hitachi model – Japanese firm’s group synergies...
Why has T-Mobile withdrawn (official) support for neutral-host deployments in CBRS spectrum? Has the CBRS brigade failed, and is its move justified, or is it just a classic carrier move by the self-proclaimed “un-carrier” on the US telco scene? And what does it mean...
Future Technologies is deploying a private 5G edge system from Nokia at Maher Terminals in the New York/Jersey maritime port complex. Separately, Nokia has unveiled ruggedized 5G tactical comms solutions for “battlefield digitalization”.
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Maritime 5G – for Maher Terminals at...
Nearly 90% of industrial firms deploying private 4G/5G and edge report ROI within a year, with widespread AI and IoT adoption driving security, safety, and sustainability. Research firm GlobalData has polled 115 industrial enterprises for a Nokia report.
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Quick returns...
The GSMA has waded into the debate about whether India should allocate mid-band spectrum for private 5G, urging the government that a carrier-led model is best. Meanwhile, word on the street is that India’s ‘demand survey’ last month to assess enterprise interest in private...
There is a sense, increasingly, that all Industry 4.0 roads lead to here; that all the new remote-worker and production-line applications that private 5G has brought into view in recent times will gain absolute focus with generative AI – to the point that macro...
Argentina’s telecoms regulator has opened the 2.3-2.4 GHz band for private 4G/5G networks, offering 10-year SPIBA licences for indoor/outdoor enterprise use to support Industry 4.0 growth in the country.
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Mid-band spectrum – for enterprises to deploy private 4G/5G networks via...
Norway’s Tampnet is deploying private 5G, LEO satellite backhaul, and edge computing variously for Island Drilling’s semi-submersible rig and Vår Energi’s floating production unit (FPSO) in the North Sea – for industrial AI, digital twins, and safer offshore operations.
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Island...
T-Mobile has changed tack on its support for multi-operator core network (MOCN) neutral-host 4G and 5G enterprise systems in CBRS spectrum in the US. Without withdrawing support completely, it has directed its neutral-host vendor partners – notably, Celona, InfiniG, and IONX – to “prioritize”...
Boldyn Networks has launched the UK’s first open-RAN neutral-host 5G system at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, with Virgin Media O2 on board; it has also agreed a deal to deploy private 5G in CBRS (with LPWAN) for first responders and government agencies in the...
Private 5G is gaining traction globally, with deployments from Tesla to Sinopec showing measurable productivity, safety, and efficiency gains, reinforcing forecasts of rapid market growth and momentum toward mainstream industrial adoption. Here are 23 of the best.
As is its way, analyst house SNS Telecom...
Private 5G spending will hit $5bn by 2028 (41% CAGR), push-to-talk revenues will reach $12bn (11% CAGR), and Industry 4.0 sales will climb to $1.6tn by 2030 (19.4% CAGR) – reflecting rapid digital transformation across sectors.
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Private 5G – spending...
Few Indian enterprises responded to the government’s private 5G spectrum survey, undermining direct-access plans and strengthening mobile operators’ control. Vendor hopes for India to be the next big private 5G market may just have been dashed.
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Interest – very...
SailGP’s F50 catamarans are like the biggest and flashest IoT devices on the planet; they capture video and telemetry data which is transmitted on a portable private 5G system from Ericsson at a dozen race stops around the world, and delivered every time to...
There is a sense, increasingly, that all Industry 4.0 roads lead to here; that all the new remote-worker and production-line applications that private 5G has brought into view in recent times will gain absolute focus with generative AI – to the point that macro...
The CBRS band in the US is at some vague risk of being refarmed as part of Trump’s OBBB act; but you can’t just tear it up and start again, says the OnGo Alliance – when so much has been spent, so much has...
India’s private 5G spectrum policy remains undecided, with operators resisting liberalisation. COAI argues that an operator-led model is the only solution for India’s unique industrial setup – while the rest of the market warns a failure to deliver urgent regulatory change could stifle industrial...
Indian carrier alliance COAI has issued a strongly-worded statement to oppose a government review of spectrum allocation for private 5G networks – citing good public 5G, plus high costs, spectrum interference, economic loss, unfair competition, and security risks. All private 5G in India should...
Moso Networks and Ataya HAVE disputeD Celona’s claim of launching the first cloud-controlled, AP-only private 5G platform, asserting their Chorus solution pioneered the model over a year earlier.
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First to appear – Ataya and Moso Networks have challenged Celona’s claim...
