
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 …

Spending on ESG consultancy services to jump 32.3% per year to $158bn in 2025
Spending on (mostly tech-linked, commonly IoT-linked) business services to streamline and manage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance will grow to $158 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth …

UK must level-up private/public 5G ‘playing field’ for enterprises (operators) – Vodafone
Vodafone has suggested the industrial 5G market in the UK will be skewed unfairly towards elite private enterprises, in position to invest more easily in their own private network infrastructure, …

Vodafone rigs-up 1.5 million Wimbledon strawberries with IoT monitoring, tracking
Vodafone is working with Hugh Lowe Farms to use IoT to deliver 1.5 million strawberries to Wimbledon, the UK grand slam tennis championship, which started in London this week. The …

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 …

Druid supplies Raemis core into new private 5G radio system from German SI HMF
Ireland-based Druid Software has announced a deal to supply private LTE and 5G componentry to German critical comms system integrator Hytera Mobilfunk (HMF). HMF has developed a “brand new private …

Global IoT community set for jamboree LoRaWAN event in Paris (Sponsored)
The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and …

Between the lines, Vodafone study asks how to sell to SMEs just trying to “stay afloat”
Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in …

Europe, Asia Pacific lead smart cities index – for connectivity, services, engagement
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington …