Private networks are booming, but security blind spots exist without proper device visibility. GSMA Device Database and GSMA Device Map enable private network operators to validate, secure, and optimize their devices and their networks – which is crucial as private network complexities and investments...
Airbus is expanding its private 5G rollout with new networks in Hamburg and Toulouse, partnering with Ericsson. The deployments support factory digitalization, enabling advanced use cases like augmented reality, asset tracking, and predictive maintenance, as Airbus advances plans to replace Wi-Fi with 5G across...
Private 5G and generative AI, the twin hype engines of industrial tech, are converging as enabling technologies for Industry 4.0 – driving automation, efficiency, and edge innovation despite differing enterprise priorities.
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Combination – 5G and AI are complementary, not dependent,...
Across industries and continents, enterprise AI is no longer an abstract ambition but a physical, operational, and financial reality. From automotive plants to hospitals, banks, and burger chains, organisations are investing billions to insert AI into every layer of their businesses – in data...
Private cellular networks — particularly those using CBRS spectrum — are emerging as critical to the Olympic wireless landscape
The Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will be both a sporting spectacle and a technological showcase, featuring connected and secure venues, immersive fan experiences, and world-class broadcast...
Private 5G is essential to Industry 4.0, says Tech Mahindra; here, it discusses its expanding private 5G portfolio with global enterprises, as well as big opportunities in its home market – despite spectrum hurdles in India.
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Record – deployments span...
NTT Data has deployed a managed private 5G network from Celona at two manufacturing plants in Texas for chemical company Celanese, providing large-scale connectivity for worker safety and automation. New use cases and new sites are on the cards.
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Texas...
Boldyn and Nokia have deployed a private 5G network at Finland’s Callio FutureMINE, one of Europe’s deepest mining environments and a testbed for new technologies. Various industrial tech collaborators are also involved.
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Testbed – private 5G network at underground Callio...
Nokia said the new site will allow innovators to trial use cases such as predictive maintenance to reduce downtime and material waste, AI-based safety monitoring, as well as digital assistants
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Industrial testbed for startups and nonprofits – SIPBB provides private...
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...
