Private LTE champ Ukkoverkot rebrands as Edzcom, sets sights on France and UK
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFinnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company …
Telefonica inks IoT deal to target water companies
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Spanish telecom giant Telefónica and Idrica, which specializes in technologies for water management, have signed a global partnership agreement to provide services to companies in the water sector, Telefonica …
Vertical farmer harvests light and data with Current, Ocado – the story of Jones Food Co.
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using …
Deutsche Telekom expects to manage most private 5G networks at 3.7-3.8 GHz, too
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself. Following …
Rate of IoT adoption is slower than expected, says Eclipse Foundation
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAround 40 per cent of organizations are deploying IoT solutions already and a further 22 per cent planning to deploy in the next two years. But the rate of adoption …
Nokia deploys private LTE in underground NORCAT mine in Canada
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has installed a private LTE network in an underground mine belonging to NORCAT in Ontario, in Canada. The work has been carried out with Canada’s Centre of Excellence in …
Sunderland preps vendor-tender for UK’s first city-owned neutral host 5G network
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe city of Sunderland in the UK is looking to establish a ‘strategic consortium’ and procure a “strategic delivery partner” to establish the country’s first city-owned ‘neutral host’ network for …
T-Systems bundles Senet’s LoRaWAN airtime and support for US enterprises
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe US arm of T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s digital services division, is bundling LoRaWAN connectivity plans and hardware offers from US-based Senet with its own IoT platform. Senet said it had …
Federated Wireless on CBRS – 40 networks in bag, 100 in pipe, white-label offer on way
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailConnectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE …
DT deploys dual-slice LTE for BMW, pledges integration with private 5G spectrum
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the …
