
Bankruptcy and $150m of debt – Sigfox’s American dream dies (as French sale closes)
Sigfox USA has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Delaware bankruptcy court, owing almost $150 million in unsecured debt. The filing, on March 31, is separate from its parent’s …

‘Time for Africa to put itself at centre of tech revolution’ – Africa Industry 4.0 hub opens
The first Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in Africa has opened in Rwanda, with a focus on data governance, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. It joins a network …

O2 Telefónica talks-up private 5G install and 5G positioining app in Leipzig hospital
As well as a new private 5G deployment in Hamburg for IT service provider Dataport, covered Wednesday (March 30), O2 Telefónica has confirmed a private 5G setup at the Helios …

Helium rebranded Nova Labs, raises $200m in Series D – from a16z, DT, Goodyear, Nokia
Helium, the company in charge of the crowd-sourced Helium non-cellular IoT and cellular 5G networks, has rebranded as Nova Labs, and announced $200 million of Series D funding from New …

Nokia to supply private 5G to Etisalat UAE’s smart-city and Industry 4.0 clients
Nokia has signed a deal with telecoms operator E&, formerly Etisalat Group, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to deploy 5G private networks for enterprises in Abu Dhabi. The pair …

Green business is good business – the six most sustainable smart factories
It is a silly headline, and an opt-in competition, but the World Economic Forum’s list of ‘lighthouse factories’, acknowledged for their use of Industry 4.0 kit, now stretches to 103 …

Shrunk-down and shrink-wrapped – Cisco’s private 5G service play and channel strategy
Cisco took time out with Enterprise IoT Insights at MWC a couple of weeks back to discuss its late entry into the private 5G market, plus its channel strategy around …

Delays? What delays? Keysight rubbishes talk of an industrial 5G logjam
Maybe it is just the way we ask the questions, but… test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has sought, effectively, to dispel any rumour and disquiet in the ranks about …

‘We are a tech-co, not a telco… designed to prime’ – BT on the private 5G sales game
The operator pack, as one would expect, is dividing in two around the Industry 4.0 market, suggests UK-based BT, with serious-minded enterprise-geared providers restructuring their sales operations in order to …

Wyld Networks intros range of sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN devices
UK-based Wyld Networks has launched a range of sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN devices for IoT applications where there is little or no terrestrial connectivity. The new hybrid terrestrial and satellite IoT devices, …