
Small Cell Forum on 2021: Diversification from network densification – three ways
The most important watchword in 2021 will be diversification. This will be key to growth for the mobile industry in the 5G era, on multiple levels. In the past, cellular …

Federated Wireless on 2021: CBRS-based 5G takes hold – as Wi-Fi 6 is ‘dead on arrival’
The race to make 5G a viable platform for Industry 4.0 has shifted up a gear with the availability of shared CBRS spectrum for private wireless networks, and private 5G …

Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking
Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks …

MulteFire Alliance on 2021: More variety and volume for private LTE and 5G
Industry 4.0 is here, and private wireless is enabling industry verticals to capitalize on the promise of this ‘fourth industrial revolution’. 2021 will see a major transformation in automation of …

Ports, warehouses, construction sites – UK lines up £28m for nine new 5G testbeds
The UK government has announced a further £28.3 million in joint public-private funding to support nine new 5G testbeds, as part of its £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to …

Telia on 2021: Private 5G will play key role in digital change for critical industries
2020 has been a year of reckoning with a devastating human toll. Technology was a silver lining. It has helped us – as people, businesses and societies – to cope …

‘Only companies that unlock AI and IoT will succeed’ – Bosch trumpets edge-AI at CES
German industrial giant Bosch is using CES 2021 in Las Vegas to promote its development of edge-based AI solutions, where the data processing is carried out on the device itself. …

Elisa buys German software firm camLine to spur Industry 4.0 charge
Finnish mobile operator Elisa is to acquire Germany-based industrial software provider camLine Group, in order to enhance its smart manufacturing expertise and portfolio. The fee has not been disclosed; Elisa restated its strategy …

BT on 2021: Four forecasts for digital change – and why 5G will be ‘bigger for enterprises’
2020 was a year that no person or company will ever forget. The Covid-19 pandemic changed everything. Overnight, people, communities, businesses and public sector organisations were faced with a health …

The trouble with co-creation in industrial IoT – why cities and telcos are dragging their heels on digital change
All this talk about a (industrial) revolution, and sometimes stuff gets left out. Scratching around for news last week, looking through half-written pieces from last year, this jumped out; about …