
Asset tracking in five years – 24bn assets in transit, $45bn in pockets, 180-200% growth
Spending on IoT-based asset tracking solutions, for monitoring goods in transit, will reach $45 billion globally by 2027, according to Juniper Research. The total spend will jump from $16 billion …

Druid supplies Raemis core into new private 5G radio system from German SI HMF
Ireland-based Druid Software has announced a deal to supply private LTE and 5G componentry to German critical comms system integrator Hytera Mobilfunk (HMF). HMF has developed a “brand new private …

Between the lines, Vodafone study asks how to sell to SMEs just trying to “stay afloat”
Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in …

5G-CARMEN autonomous driving project carries out 5G pilot
The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, …

Europe, Asia Pacific lead smart cities index – for connectivity, services, engagement
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington …

SoftBank, May Mobility to implement autonomous driving service in Japan
SoftBank said it aims to realize a next-generation network for autonomous driving in Japan by leveraging its expertise in vehicle communications with May Mobility’s autonomous vehicle technology Japanese operator …

The juggernaut workload and geopolitical tangles to make 5G work for critical industry
Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, …

‘More simple than you think’: Verizon, Nokia on deploying private 5G at a UK port
What does a port want to get out of a private 5G network? First and most importantly, to solve coverage issues, according to Verizon and Nokia representatives. In a session …

Nokia launches 5G innovation platform in France
Nokia noted that the platform has the main goal of testing and integrating 5G industrial uses in France Nokia announced the launch of the 5G Innov Lab platform as …

Naver Cloud partners with Qualcomm for 5G drone system
Naver said that the new drone system is expected to be commercially available in 2023 Naver’s cloud computing arm, Naver Cloud, has partnered with U.S. chip manufacturer Qualcomm and …