
Nokia shifts private 5G sales strategy to go all-indirect, zero-touch, mega-sized
Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its …

The big 5G problem – not networks, not spectrum, but devices (Talking 5G Blues)
Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from MFA and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on …

Volume, complexity, security to drive IoT device management sales to $36bn by 2026
Global revenues from IoT device management services will top $36.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research. The forecast represents a compound annual jump (CAGR) of 17.1 percent, from around …

Hillwood offers Ericsson’s ‘Waze for wireless’ for driverless vehicle tests at MIZ test zone
Ericsson is working with US real estate developer Hillwood to offer a tool for autonomous and connected vehicle companies to access “secure and constant” 4G and 5G connectivity at the …

Revenues from cellular IoT modules jump 58% – with Quectel, Telit, MeiG dominant
Global revenues from cellular IoT modules increased by 58 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, with more than 40 percent of the total revenue …

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 …

‘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 …

Real business outcomes and ‘one throat to choke’ – IBM on what Industry 4.0 wants
Another late entry from the MWC files, this time from a discussion with IBM; but another one, again, where the talk is somehow timeless, at least in a 2022/3 timeframe, …

Vodafone and Nokia install private 5G at UK marine-tech testbed on Plymouth Sound
Vodafone and Nokia have deployed a private LTE and 5G network to underpin “the world’s first marine-focused 5G testbed” in the UK port city of Plymouth, on the Devon coast. …