Private Networks

Industrial AI has moved from experimental pilots to boardroom strategy. The global market was worth $43.6 billion in 2024, and is growing at 23 percent per year. While most of the real value still lies in proven, production-grade use cases …

IoT has always been more concept than category – like a loose collection of private device networks. And it makes increasingly good sense to enterprises alongside industrial 5G networks and industrial AI systems. New research from Verizon Business says IoT …

Three sides of Industry 4.0 – industrial 5G in numbers (part 1) Private 5G continues to outpace the broader telecoms market, with enterprise deployments expanding and industrial use cases taking shape. New data from Dell’Oro Group shows sustained almost-double-digit growth …

Verizon Business and Nokia showcased their special relationship at the US firm’s first European ‘innovation session’ yesterday – at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. They were joined by Axa, Michelin, and Prada to discuss critical connectivity in the new AI …

Private 5G firm Celona has cut a chunk of its global workforce – possibly about 20 percent, mainly in sales – as it adjusts to slower industrial deployments and macroeconomic uncertainty. The California firm is refocusing on existing enterprise customers …

Three recent deployments – in defence, mining, and manufacturing – illustrate how localized private 5G networks are powering mission-critical operations in Industry 4.0. In sum – what to know: Industrial action – private 5G is being proven and put to work …

Boldyn Networks is advancing its dual strategy of private and neutral-host networks with projects in Gran Canaria, London, and New York – deploying private 5G, urban small cells, and subway connectivity for digital transformation. In sum – what to know: New …

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 …

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 …

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. In sum – what to know: Combination – 5G …

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 …

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. In sum – what to know: Warfighter – private 5G will modernize DoD infrastructure and support …

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. In sum – what to know: Agentic …

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. In sum – what to …

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. In sum – what to know: Hitachi …

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 …

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. In sum …

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 …

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. In sum – what to know: Mid-band spectrum – for enterprises …

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. In …