Transatel on the “ultimate” public/private 5G mashup for Industry 4.0 (an MVNO story)
France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global …
Wireless Logic buys French IoT platform provider IoThink Solutions
UK IoT connectivity platform provider Wireless Logic has acquired France-based industrial IoT platform enabler IoThink Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The deal follows Wireless Logic’s twin purchases of IoT MVNO …
Sony preps “first” LTE-M/NB-IoT chipset – as “most advanced” cellular IoT solution
Sony Semiconductor Israel has introduced a new dual-band low-power cellular IoT chipset solution which it claims is the “first” to combine the both LTE-M and NB-IoT in a single integrated …
Soracom claims five million IoT connections (a million in 2022), applies to list on TSE
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of …
Spectrum, systems, slicing – five key challenges to bring private 5G to the masses
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European …
‘America’s inventive spirit at its finest’ – CBRS model must be extended, says industry
Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National …
Skyworks, Sequans combine on “smallest” LTE-M and NB-IoT system-in-package
Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on …
Federated Wireless and AWS kick off private 5G channel deal with Cal Poly installation
Federated Wireless is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a private cellular deployment with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to support the university’s new ‘5G innovation network’, geared …
A message to enterprises about private 5G* in manufacturing – just do it
Note, this article is taken from the intro/outro sessions at 5G Manufacturing Forum, hosted by Enterprise IoT Insights and RCR Wireless. It is a summary, a ramble, and a call-to-arms …
Betacom strikes deal with Qualcomm on private LTE/5G design and management
Network design and services firm Betacom has struck a channel sales deal (“integrated delivery model”) with Qualcomm whereby enterprise customers in the Industry 4.0 space will be able to link …
