FWA is paying the bills, but the 5G market is still chasing dreams. For all the frustration about 5G money-making, FWA has been a revelation for operators; here we consider the impact and implications of FWA for telecoms, plus network gains with NSA and...
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Weak quarter, bright spots – Nokia missed Q1 expectations with a 36% shortfall in operating profit, driven by a one-off €120m charge in Mobile Networks, despite strong growth in enterprise and regional US sales.
Enterprise and Infinera gains – enterprise...
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One radio, full control – mining outfit Newmont has connected 12 dozers at a 2.5 km construction site with a single private 5G radio from Ericsson – delivering 175Mbps on uplink, without missing a beat.
Wi-Fi out, 5G...
Over the past several years, I have visited with and been briefed by several private wireless providers of all sizes. Some are stronger than others. Some are larger. Some are going it alone, while others are partnering or involved in M&A. Some focus only...
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Punchy Q1 results – Ericsson saw net income surge 61% and gross margin jump 48.2% in the first quarter, driven by booming (possibly pre-tariff) network sales in North America – offsetting drops in every other region.
CEO shake-up...
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$12bn by 2028 – global revenue from high-end push-to-talk (PTT) services – especially mission-critical (MC-PTT) on 4G/5G – will hit $12 billion by 2028, with an 11% CAGR.
Smarter MC-PTT – better priority-based PTT group comms, including video...
Boldyn pauses M&A – after a rapid acquisition spree, and despite rumours in the market, Boldyn says it has shelved future deals (on paper); its new $1.2bn debt facility in the US is for organic growth, it says.
Neutral and private 5G – with major...
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US-made AI infrastructure – Nvidia has commissioned one million square feet of new production space at factories belonging to Taiwanese trio TSMC, Foxconn, and Wistron in Arizona and Texas.
Major AI-economy drive – $500 billion of AI componentry...
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Private 5G for events – Nokia is supplying private 4G/5G for major sports and music events via partners Digita and CoreGo – for payments, access, enterprise management.
Two million connected – over two million event-goers in Europe have...
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Private wireless surge – private wireless growth catches Dell’Oro by surprise, as private 4G/5G RAN sales jump by over 40% in 2024, reaching 3-5% of total RAN sales.
Top vendors and trends – Huawei, Nokia, and Ericsson dominate,...
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Siemens-led 5G offer – Siemens will hold the customer relationship, selling slices of O2 Telefónica’s 5G network to utilities with its own increasingly AI-heavy Industry 4.0 solutions.
Wide-area ‘private’ 5G – optimised public 5G slicing is the only...
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America’s smartest factory – Hyundai’s new $7.6 billion electric and hybrid vehicle plant, Metaplant America, claims a series of Industry 4.0 world-firsts, generally powered by AI vision and robotics, sometimes delivered on private 5G; the firm wants...
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Multi-operator support: Celona’s neutral-host solution is approved by T-Mobile and AT&T in the US; Verizon is pending. It supports up to five carriers, including private enterprise networks in CBRS spectrum.
Quick and cheap coverage: Multi-tenant neutral-host cellular...
Fujitsu is taking an all-in-one approach to private wireless, including a managed service offering, to drive adoption from enterprise and industry
Communications service providers (CSPs) and network equipment vendors, both cooperatively and independently, have been gradually making inroads into the private wireless market. The high-level...
5G is a game of two halves, they say – because the industry is between rollout of 5G NSA and 5G SA architectures, and because there is everything to play for. The following is the introduction to a new Market Pulse report from RCR...
Nokia has bolstered its menu of industrial applications on its MXIE edge system to include new Industry 4.0 solutions for automation, efficiency, safety, security, and sustainability. At the same time, it has launched a new marketplace platform with new retail partners for enterprises to...
Apologies, first of all; these MWC files are being held in a long production queue, which is jammed with reports and sponsorships, and other internal initiatives. But this interview with Ericsson, from the showfloor in Barcelona a couple of weeks back, works like a...
Private 4G/5G security startup OneLayer has developed a zero-touch zero-trust network access solution for private 4G and 5G networks with Ericsson. The novelty for the private networks sector is the zero-touch aspect; zero-trust network access (ZTNA) is the name of the game, almost, in...
France-based software company Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) is offering Celona’s private 4G/5G system as part of its debut private 5G proposition for enterprises, integrated with its own connectivity management, powerline, and Wi-Fi switching equipment. ALE is targeting “complex industrial settings”, it said, such as factories,...
It says something about the sense of opportunity in the private 5G space, perhaps, that Nokia, the most restless and innovative agitator-brand in the vendor market, can post a record quarter (“double-digit growth, globally”) and extend its lead at the top, and yet still...
Ericsson noted that this partnership establishes a foundation for the future integration of 5G-Advanced
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Middle East telco Ooredoo Qatar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate digital transformation efforts for enterprises and public sector entities in Qatar.
In a...
Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has introduced a ‘5G’ IoT router for use with public, private, and satellite-based NB-IoT and LTE-M networks. The product, called Pyxis, received certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Innovation, Science and...
Canadian operator TELUS has signed a 10-year deal with the Calgary Airport Authority to deploy and manage a “benchmark” private 5G network at Calgary International Airport (YYC). They called it an “unprecedented 10-year agreement”, and said Calgary International Airport will be the first in...
ICYMI (because we did): Last week, Airspan Networks announced a deal to acquire Jabil’s open RAN portfolio and associated intellectual property rights for an undisclosed fee. It follows on the heels of an agreement to buy Corning’s distributed antenna system (DAS) and small cell...
