Omdia’s 2025 private 5G vendor review places Nokia top of the pile, leading from ZTE, Ericsson, and Celona (as prime movers), and exposing market gaps in strategy, distribution, and IT/OT integration across the board.
Market leaders – Omdia crowns Nokia as private 5G champ, leading...
Private 5G doesn’t need (!) AI – but telcos like BT, KPN and Telenor say it’s the difference between ticking over and taking off. Scale it up, and AI goes from ‘nice-to-have’ to non-negotiable.
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Casual to causal – private 5G doesn’t...
Specialist integrator Future Tech has scored impressive private 5G wins with US defense, energy, transport customers. Nokia leads deals, Ericsson fuels growth. US and EU telcos are knocking on its door for help. AI is driving broader enterprise demand.
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NTT Data launches a retrofit-ready agentic AI stack to bridge Industry 4.0 to 5.0, transforming legacy RPA bots into autonomous agents and delivering modular, multi-cloud AI across sectors.
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Retrofitting 5.0 to 4.0 – patented plug-in transforms old RPA bots into...
Short-term pullback, long-term rebound – US interest in private 5G slumps on economic and political jitters, but global momentum builds as smarter models and automation drive long-term industrial growth.
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Short-term setback – US manufacturing interest in private 5G slumps...
5G growth hinges on enterprise demand, from defense to drones, while consumer breakthroughs lag. Operators must monetize APIs, devices, and networks fast — or risk missing the real 5G opportunity. Note, this is an excerpt from a new 5G Market Pulse report, available to...
New private 5G infrastructure to enable smart port applications like anti-collision systems, autonomous vehicles, drones for cargo monitoring, and real-time traffic analysis.
Private 5G – newly-formed Fastweb+Vodafone will deliver a private 5G network for the Port of Ravenna, covering shipyards, terminals, and 15km of canal-way...
Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk (Maersk) has recruited a whole ecosystem of private network and IoT solutions providers to start work on a new LTE ‘connectivity platform’ called OneWireless to connect 450 vessels. The move will pave the way for smarter cargo tracking, it...
Operators are moving through the gears with 5G SA and 5G-Advanced, balancing cap-ex constraints, operational complexity, and uncertain returns. While slicing, RedCap, and private 5G show promise, most are prioritizing efficiency and targeted enterprise services over big spending – reflecting the industry’s search for...
By combining enterprise IT-friendly hardware and software with private wireless, Dell and Nokia are making digital transformation more accessible
Private 4G and 5G have long been positioned as catalysts for enterprise digital transformation—enabling real-time automation, asset tracking, computer vision, and more. But despite the promise,...
FWA is paying the bills, but the 5G market is still chasing dreams. For all the frustration about 5G money-making, FWA has been a revelation for operators; here we consider the impact and implications of FWA for telecoms, plus network gains with NSA and...
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Weak quarter, bright spots – Nokia missed Q1 expectations with a 36% shortfall in operating profit, driven by a one-off €120m charge in Mobile Networks, despite strong growth in enterprise and regional US sales.
Enterprise and Infinera gains – enterprise...
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One radio, full control – mining outfit Newmont has connected 12 dozers at a 2.5 km construction site with a single private 5G radio from Ericsson – delivering 175Mbps on uplink, without missing a beat.
Wi-Fi out, 5G...
Over the past several years, I have visited with and been briefed by several private wireless providers of all sizes. Some are stronger than others. Some are larger. Some are going it alone, while others are partnering or involved in M&A. Some focus only...
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$12bn by 2028 – global revenue from high-end push-to-talk (PTT) services – especially mission-critical (MC-PTT) on 4G/5G – will hit $12 billion by 2028, with an 11% CAGR.
Smarter MC-PTT – better priority-based PTT group comms, including video...
Boldyn pauses M&A – after a rapid acquisition spree, and despite rumours in the market, Boldyn says it has shelved future deals (on paper); its new $1.2bn debt facility in the US is for organic growth, it says.
Neutral and private 5G – with major...
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Private 5G for events – Nokia is supplying private 4G/5G for major sports and music events via partners Digita and CoreGo – for payments, access, enterprise management.
Two million connected – over two million event-goers in Europe have...
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Private wireless surge – private wireless growth catches Dell’Oro by surprise, as private 4G/5G RAN sales jump by over 40% in 2024, reaching 3-5% of total RAN sales.
Top vendors and trends – Huawei, Nokia, and Ericsson dominate,...
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Siemens-led 5G offer – Siemens will hold the customer relationship, selling slices of O2 Telefónica’s 5G network to utilities with its own increasingly AI-heavy Industry 4.0 solutions.
Wide-area ‘private’ 5G – optimised public 5G slicing is the only...
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America’s smartest factory – Hyundai’s new $7.6 billion electric and hybrid vehicle plant, Metaplant America, claims a series of Industry 4.0 world-firsts, generally powered by AI vision and robotics, sometimes delivered on private 5G; the firm wants...
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Multi-operator support: Celona’s neutral-host solution is approved by T-Mobile and AT&T in the US; Verizon is pending. It supports up to five carriers, including private enterprise networks in CBRS spectrum.
Quick and cheap coverage: Multi-tenant neutral-host cellular...
Fujitsu is taking an all-in-one approach to private wireless, including a managed service offering, to drive adoption from enterprise and industry
Communications service providers (CSPs) and network equipment vendors, both cooperatively and independently, have been gradually making inroads into the private wireless market. The high-level...
Nokia has bolstered its menu of industrial applications on its MXIE edge system to include new Industry 4.0 solutions for automation, efficiency, safety, security, and sustainability. At the same time, it has launched a new marketplace platform with new retail partners for enterprises to...
