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Nokia, Telefónica strike private 5G deal to spur Industry 4.0 in Latin America

Nokia has announced a go-to-market deal for private LTE and 5G in Latin America with Spain-based mobile operator Telefónica. The pair will target the ports, mining, energy, and manufacturing sectors, described as the “most promising industries in the region”. The deal covers “Hispanic geographies”;...

Well, technically… LTE capabilities have supplanted those of WiMAX in enterprise networks: iBwave’s Kelly Burroughs (Ep. 100)

This week's guest, Kelly Burroughs, enterprise solutions director at iBwave Solutions, provides a deep dive into a private network deployment at a mining facility that the company supported. Specifically, Kelly discusses how iBwave helped the mining company discover its tech needs and then design...

Understanding enterprise wireless: Part 2—private networks for Industry 4.0

In the second installment of four-part podcast series presented in partnership with Nextivity, learn about the role private cellular networks play in enabling the digital transformation of enterprises of all sizes. While there are some impediments to the deployment of private cellular networks, Nextivity...

Sierra, Amdocs, Athonet combine on full-service private 5G buy/build/run bundle

Semtech-owned IoT firm Sierra Wireless has partnered with telecoms software outfit Amdocs on a new network planning and management solution to reduce the complexity of private LTE and 5G networks. The new product goes with Sierra’s portfolio of IoT routers and modules, to work...

BT signs mega deal with British Army for 162 private networks (all Wi-Fi, some 5G)

BT has won a five-year contract with the British Army to deliver a managed Wi-Fi service across 162 new UK army sites, with a view to establish future ‘smart bases’. It is already working to establish a ‘smart base’ at the British Army base...

New iBwave network survey solution targets private LTE, public safety markets

Canadian outfit iBwave Solutions has integrated a new site survey and planning tool for LTE-based networks into its network design solution for network operators, system integrators, and enterprises. The firm’s Mobile Survey app has now been integrated with the PRiSM handheld scanner and spectrum...

Edzcom and Nokia to deliver private 5G system for Europe’s deepest mine

Cellnex-owned Edzcom, one of the pioneer firms in the industrial private cellular market, has been recruited by the Finnish mine redevelopment project Callio to deploy an underground private 5G network in the Pyhäsalmi mine in the municipality of Pyhäjärv in the Northern Ostrobothnia region...

Hyperscalers, integrators, operators – the fight to be top dog in Industry 4.0

It is easy to be benevolent when you’re top-dog. Which is true in life, of course – and is not to say that goodness should be graded by the relative comfort of the do-gooder. But what goodness is there in a boardroom, really? Because...

Nokia bags global SI deal with DXC for private 5G, smart-city private 5G gig in France

Nokia has announced a go-to-market deal for its private edge networking system with US-based system integrator DXC Technology. The pair said they will bundle the former’s compute and cellular components with the latter’s network operations centre (NOC) and management analytics in a DXC-branded managed...

‘True value of 5G is with enterprises, not consumers’ – HPE’s Athonet deal goes through

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its purchase of Italian private core networking specialist Athonet. The US outfit hailed it as “a major leap forward… to revolutionize the private networking market”. It said it would do this, “in part”, by “simplifying and accelerating” private...

Private 5G for IoT – what apps, if any, will bring 5G out of the long shadow of LTE? (part 2)

Note this article is continued from a previous post, under the header: Private 5G for IoT – a year to get real, two to get really-real, six to be ‘seamless’. To read the previous entry, go here.; to watch the original webinar discussion on...

Celona staffs-up for private-5G Euro push, updates orchestrator tool

California-based private cellular provider Celona has staffed-up its nascent European operation with new senior-level joiners from Qualcomm in the US, notably, plus from UK-based tech consultancy and integrator Empowered Technology. Celona is seeking to sell its private LTE/5G system into operator channels in Europe,...

Private 5G for IoT – a year to get real, two to get really-real, six to be ‘seamless’ (part 1)

In case you missed it, RCR Wireless ran a webinar session last month under the heading ‘Private 5G for IoT – plotting timelines, defining applications, and making bets’. The session is available on-demand, and also attached to a full editorial report, out in a...

Telefónica opens international robotics hub to boost Industry 4.0 in Spain

Another day, another techno hub, and another carrier-sponsored effort this time. After Verizon and BT opened private-5G style demo rooms of various sorts in the last couple of weeks, Spain-based Telefónica has cut the ribbon on a new “open lab” in the name of...

Apple goes all-in on private 5G – the highlights (Reader Forum)

At its WWDC23 developer event last week Apple announced its support for private 5G networks in a big way with a lot of exciting enhancements. This includes the ability to prioritize private cellular networks over Wi-Fi, goefencing, and many others. All of this is...

The drugs do work – enterprises get buzzed on the tech-no-one-shall-speak-of (aka Industry 4.0)

Are we being hoodwinked? Has the marketing got away from us? Maybe, and maybe not. When will we see a tech vendor put its name to a report that discusses the societal dangers of sacking a workforce to make everything zero-touch autonomous – so...

Wipro, Cisco launch managed private 5G-as-a-service solution

Wipro said that new offering enables enterprises to integrate private 5G with their existing LAN/WAN/Cloud infrastructure Indian IT services and consulting firm Wipro launched a managed private 5G-as-a-service solution in partnership with Cisco, the former said in a release. Wipro said that new offering enables enterprise...

Apple brings global support for (white-collar) private 5G

Apple has opened support in iOS 17 for private data-only cellular networks running LTE and 5G (in both standalone and non-standalone mode), meaning most new and new-ish iPhone (13 and up) and iPad models can now be used as work devices in private network...

New-enterprise private-network installs inch-upwards by 6% in Q1 to top 1,148

Latest stats from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) says at least 1,148 organisations in 74 countries had deployed private LTE (4G) and 5G networks by the end of March (Q1 2023), up from 1,077 at the end of 2022. Which means (!?) 71...

Kagan: AT&T CEO Stankey is learning enterprises want private wireless

John Stankey, CEO of AT&T, recently claimed during a recent J.P. Morgan analyst conference that enterprises and companies increasingly want private wireless. What, exactly, does that mean for AT&T? Enterprise customers like companies, universities, smart city’s and more want this for the benefits it...

Private 5G – the bigger view | “… the future will be hybrid” (part 2)

Note, this article, a direct transcript of a conversation with Kathiravan Kandasamy, vice president of product management at US-based carrier services company Syniverse, continues from a previous entry, which can be found here. … You mentioned also that, in your experience with customers, that the private...

Private 5G – the bigger view | “Yes, that is the dream, but…” (part 1)

So, is the correct way to look at this, then, that the private 5G market, when it talks about private 5G, is obsessed with a future where Volkswagen is animating its production lines using Release 18-level URLLC 5G networks? But that the wider enterprise...

Telecoms only matters to telecoms – and other lessons about selling private 5G

So where were we? Ah yes: five conclusions about the potential of private 5G to transform telco operations, and telco fortunes – as told by mobile network operators (MNOs) at RCR Live in London last month (all sessions available on-demand).  The conclusions, if we recall,...

Verizon Business opens UK private 5G hub for EMEA enterprises

Verizon Business has opened a UK demo office in London to showcase private 5G services and applications for enterprises. The new venue, called the London Hub, is aimed at customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, the company said, which it finds itself pitching to...