
Siemens issues private 5G ‘reality check’ – ahead of 2023 launch, and R17 magic drop
The big news out of Hannover Messe a couple of weeks back was that there was no news – not from Siemens about private 5G, anyhow. Not real news, at …

Athonet makes private 5G club to handle the sell-build-run of CBRS networks in the US
Consortiums, alliances, ecosystems – there are too many to count, and too many to report. But news that Athonet has started its own private 5G club in the US, to …

Libelium buys Spanish smart cities firm HOPU, sets sights on future IPO
Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund …

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 …

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 …

Flight of the navigator – the Airbus quest to build, run its own multi-market 5G network
European aviation and aerospace firm Airbus effectively headlined the latest Private Networks Forum (PNF), hosted by RCR Wireless and Enterprise IoT Insights, in May, as the premier (the first, at …

Google makes private 5G play – with Betacom, Boingo, Celona, and others
Google Cloud has followed hyperscale mega-rivals Microsoft and AWS into the private 5G market with a bunch of specialist vendor and channel partners, starting with Betacom, Boingo Wireless, Celona, Crown …

Operators advised to start again with private 5G in spectrum markets they still control
More operator-bashing this morning at a two-day Informa event in London (Private Networks in a 5G World, June 14 and 15); the opportunity to take cellular into enterprise premises is …

Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age
This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at …

Edzcom, Signify to build private smart-city network on 5G lightpoles in Finland
Finland-based Edzcom and Netherlands-based Signify have entered a partnership to build a private smart-city 5G and IoT network using street-lighting and other road infrastructure for the city of Tampere, in …