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Ericsson, Comsol target South African mines with private networks

Ericsson said its Private 5G provides 4G and 5G connectivity through its single server dual mode core Swedish vendor Ericsson has inked a reseller agreement with South African company Comsol to provide its private 5G solution that will enable Comsol to expand its enterprise business...

Kyndryl sees high demand for “bullet-proof” private 5G for Industry 4.0

The private 5G market – or at least the hard-nosed Industry 4.0 end of it – has reached an “inflection point”, reckons global system integrator Kyndryl. So much so, the firm has had to move hard to keep up with demand. “Our biggest concern...

Rakuten Symphony, Axiata to foster O-RAN deployments in Asia

Rakuten Symphony said the agreement stipulates the deployment of private networks in six Asian markets MWC, Barcelona—Axiata Enterprise, which is a business solutions company owned by Asian mobile telecommunications conglomerate Axiata, and Japanese company Rakuten Symphony have inked an agreement under which the latter will...

Schneider Electric and Capgemini have developed an automated hoisting solution for private 5G networks in industrial plants

Late news out of MWC; Schneider Electric, Capgemini, and Qualcomm Technologies have worked together to develop an automated hoisting solution to attach to private 5G networks. The trio called it a “first-of-its-kind” solution; a prototype has been installed at Schneider Electric’s hoisting lab in...

Cisco and NTT collaborate on private 5G solutions for global enterprises

Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...

Nokia gets nod from Indonesian telco IOH to build region-wide private network for Industry 4.0

Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has appointed Finnish vendor Nokia to build a wide-area private wireless network in certain regions across the country. The brief from IOH, formalised in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nokia, is to build new cellular infrastructure...

Deutsche Telekom partners with Microsoft on private 5G to target SMEs

Deutsche Telekom is to introduce a cheaper and simpler private 5G network offer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using Microsoft’s multi-access edge compute (MEC) bundle, which includes a cellular core network and “RAN components” from the Redmond firm, plus sundry compute and application...

Microsoft adds BICS to private MEC bundle for private-to-public network roaming

Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to solve the challenges” of IoT roaming between private enterprise networks and public operator networks. The Belgium-based firm is providing roaming...

Dell, Airspan open private 5G members’ clubs for operators, integrators

Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge compute and networking solutions, plus system integration and support, for operators to sell private 5G to enterprises. At the outset,...

Bosch and Nokia combine on 6G research for Industry 4.0

MWC 2023: Bosch has said it is working with Nokia to develop industrial IoT solutions based on incoming 6G cellular networks. It follows the same joint work, formalised by the pair in a partnership in 2017, on 5G networks, now coming to market, mostly...

KPMG targets healthcare sector with Verizon’s 5G private network

Verizon operates several 5G Labs in the U.S. that specialize in developing use cases for diverse industries KPMG has deployed a Verizon private 5G wireless network into its Ignition Center inside KPMG Lakehouse as part of the two companies' alliance to deliver 5G solutions designed...

Private 5G will be worth $96bn by 2030 – but half will go on problem-solving SI services

Ahead of a big week in Barcelona, when the telecoms set hits town for its annual MWC jamboree, and when the only talk of any outward substance will be about edge-based 5G for enterprises, analyst house ABI Research has stuck out a revised forecast...

HPE buys Athonet – ignites private 5G play, lights MWC touchpaper

Game, set, and match at MWC, and the contest hasn’t even started. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Italian private core network specialist Athonet for an undisclosed fee. For our money (old Enterprise IoT Insights money), this is likely to be the biggest news...

RAKwireless intros integrate private 5G box solution for Industry 4.0 developers

RAKwireless, making hardware systems for the LoRaWAN-end of the IoT market, notably for the Helium community networks movement, has launched a ‘5G-in-a-box’ hotspot solution, available to system integrators and enterprises to support private 5G setups and experiments. The package features dual 5G and LTE...

Nokia and Bosch carry out 5G positioning proof-of-concept

Nokia said that the proof-of-concept was deployed in a Bosch production plant in Germany Nokia and Bosch are jointly working on the development of a 5G-based precision positioning technology targeting new Industry 4.0 use cases, the vendor said in a release. The two firms have deployed...

Nokia boosts MXIE portfolio with top-end Dell server for intensive Industry 4.0 workloads

Nokia has bolstered its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) hardware portfolio with a top-end server blade from Dell for hard-working Industry 4.0 installations on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private 5G platform. The new Dell server, in the form of the PowerEdge XR11, goes alongside...

AWS pushes private 5G with carrier quintet (DT, KDDI, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefónica)

AWS has opened a new shopfront and for operator partners to hawk their private LTE (4G) and 5G solutions to enterprises, to be combined with its own cloud-to-edge compute services and applications, including sundry IoT and AI/ML based solutions. AWS has deals with Deutsche...

Cox, Intel and Future Technologies to deploy private networks

Cox, which had launched its private networks business unit last year, uses both LTE/5G and fixed wireless infrastructure for its offering Cox Communications announced that it is working with Intel and Future Technologies with the aim of designing and deploying end-to-end private network for public...

Private 5G specialist Celona goes global – chases Nokia’s lead, junks ‘Frankenstein’ systems

Private networking specialist Celona has it in for Nokia. Some way through a pre-brief about its MWC news – about expanding beyond LTE to support 5G in the US, and beyond the US to support a range of 5G bands in global markets –...

Box-shifting private 5G for SMEs – Vodafone teases a vision of the future

Private cellular in a box? It is hardly a novel idea, as Athonet and Druid Software will testify, including via commercial air-drop installations at music shows and war zones, or suchlike. But a new card-sized private 5G prototype from UK operator Vodafone looks genuinely...

LG CNS inks partnership to develop private 5G services

LG CNS established its 5G network system at Kyung Hee University last December LG CNS, which is the IT division of South Korea’s LG Group, recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kyung Hee University to jointly develop technologies for a private 5G service,...

Private 5G: Build-to-requirement vs. build-to-scale

BT outlines its approach to the private 5G market Private 5G networks are widely viewed as the next big revenue driver for operators as enterprises increasingly understand the value of 5G-enabled solutions. Within BT, these capabilities reside in the Division X part of the organization...

The macro market will drop by 28% by 2027, but don’t worry (Analyst Angle)

Yes, the market for Macro and Massive MIMO infrastructure will drop dramatically through 2027.  But that drop will be offset by small cells, software, millimeter wave, and private cellular investments. In fact, with a rebound expected from new spectrum bands in 2028, our new...

Kyndryl, Nokia look to accelerate private 5G adoption

Extended, expanded partnership tap Palo Alto Networks for private 5G security Based on a partnership initially announced in February 2022, Kyndryl and Nokia now tally 100 “active engagements” around private 5G and 4G networks, as well as mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies, for enterprises. To...