Vodafone Business, the global enterprise division of UK-based mobile operator Vodafone, is pushing its state-side IoT credentials with a new reseller deal with tech advisory firm Bridgepointe Technologies in the US. The California-headquartered tech consultancy will resell Vodafone’s mobility, fixed, and IoT solutions to...
UK-based automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and India-based comms provider Tata Communications, both part of Tata Group, are to deploy software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology to connect 128 JLR sites worldwide, covering all of its offices, plants, warehouses, sales centres, and data...
UK-headquartered neutral host provider Boldyn Networks has signed a deal with Roma Capitale, the municipal government covering the Italian capital plus 120 other municipalities around the city of Rome, to deploy 5G and Wi-Fi infrastructure across the Lazio region to support its ‘smart-city’ ambitions....
Verizon Business, the enterprise division of US network operator Verizon, has introduced a range of rugged smartphones and tablets to go with its private LTE and 5G networks in industrial venues in the US. The new devices, by US-based Zebra Technologies, are designed (“purpose-built”)...
French low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, has raised €16 million ($17.2m) in a new funding round to drive its own growth in the private networks space and consolidation in the wider low-power IoT market. The implication is that Actility remains...
As we embark on the journey into 2024, the telecom landscape stands at the threshold of a profound transformation:
In the realm of technology convergence, envision cloud computing, container/microservices architecture edge computing and CI/CD practices blending seamlessly for the 5G crescendo, akin to technological Avengers...
Traditional 5G investment slowed in 2023 creating these technology sectors
At CES 2024 there will be plenty on hot new wireless technologies including private wireless, 5G-A, fixed wireless access (FWA) and 5G home internet. We have watched the growth and transformation of the wireless industry...
BT has started to roll-out its global network-as-a-service (NaaS) offer in carrier neutral metro-edge cloud facilities (CNFs) around the world. The service, offered as Global Fabric, was announced in October; the UK-based telecoms group has since expanded a deal with US real estate investment...
The total number of cellular IoT connections will reach around three billion at the end of 2023, reckons Ericsson, with most, and the increasing majority, connected on so-called ‘broadband’ cellular IoT technologies LTE (4G) and 5G. The arrival of reduced-capability (RedCap) 5G through 2024/5...
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There was lots of other good stuff during the Devil’s Advocate session earlier this month at Industrial 5G Forum. Notably, a couple of questions came up on regional spectrum policy, and the importance of...
This session, a couple of weeks ago at Industrial 5G Forum, was presented as a kind-of empire-strikes-back; an opportunity for established connectivity providers to put the boot into this new 5G rebel-force. It was supposed to provide a platform for the 5G bashers, who...
US-based private networking specialist Celona has claimed the industry’s “first automated eSIM solution” for enterprise mobile device management (MDM) systems. The embedded SIM (eSIM) solution “streamlines” the onboarding of cellular devices on Celona private LTE/5G system, the company said. Enterprise IT staff can “quickly...
Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo has deployed a private LTE network from Nokia for the oil and gas industry, covering offshore and onshore operations. In a press statement, Finnish vendor Nokia called it the “first” private cellular network in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)...
Las Vegas selected Juniper Networks’ Cloud Metro solution, featuring ACX7024 cloud metro routers and EX4300 switches
Juniper Networks announced the city of Las Vegas has selected Juniper Cloud Metro solutions for building its private 5G network, with the aim of powering services for the...
At the center of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, agreed Industrial 5G Forum panelists, are the use cases
The complexity of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, coupled with the disparate needs of different verticals, means that a variety of technology players have entered the arena. However, while...
GSA highlighted that at least 47 operators in 27 countries have already launched 5G SA networks
A total of 121 operators in 55 countries and territories have invested in public 5G standalone (5G SA) networks as of the end of October, Jordan Cox, research manager...
The Port of Virginia in the US expects to have autonomous trucks running on a private 5G network at its site from early next year (2024). The port has a new private 5G network from Verizon Business, operating in high-band millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum,...
The ‘private 5G’ partnership between system integrator Kyndryl and network vendor Nokia has so far resulted in 18 “large installations” on three continents, according to the former. Certain of them have covered enterprise environments of up to 50 square kilometres. The pair have a...
The great promise of private cellular is that some day every enterprise will be able to have its own 4G or 5G network. There is a long way to go to reduce and simplify the offer for the mass market, but there is fantastic...
It seems strange for a telco to lean on its telco roots to sell digital services to enterprises – but that's what Orange has done, as OBS becomes Orange Business.
The main news from the Orange Business strategy update in London last week (November 8)...
Siemens is working with US software firm ServiceNow to offer a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to identify and manage operating technology (OT) devices in industrial settings. The solution is designed to help enterprises manage new industrial-grade IoT, Wi-Fi, and 5G devices from a central cloud...
Private wireless is a relatively new space in the wireless industry. It is very different from public wireless, which is what we are familiar with. This has been with us for a few years, but both interest from various enterprise customers and increased vendor...
UK-headquartered neutral host provider Boldyn Networks, majority owned by Canada-based CPP Investments, has agreed to acquire private networks specialist Edzcom from Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom for an undisclosed fee. The deal is for Cellnex’s entire private networks business, which mostly equates to Finland-based...
Has 5G failed? No. Except you’d be forgiven for thinking so given everything that has been written about it in recent months – at least among the things I read, by the people I rate (and you all read, too). It’s like the critics...
