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Boldyn to buy Apogee to expand connectivity in US higher-ed campuses

UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks has agreed to acquire US-based higher-education connectivity provider Apogee Telecom for an undisclosed fee. The announcement follows hard on the heels of its completion, yesterday (March 5), of the purchase of industrial private 5G specialist Edzcom from Spanish...

Boldyn completes purchase of private 5G specialist Edzcom from Cellnex

UK-headquartered neutral host provider Boldyn Networks Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of private network specialist Edzcom from Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom. The deal is for Cellnex’s entire private networks business, which mostly equates to Finland-based Edzcom. Cellnex has owned Edzcom since July...

10 new 5G projects get €50m EU funds – for healthcare, public safety, logistics

Ten new projects have been selected for €50 million of European Union (EU) funding from a second call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. The focus of the funding is 5G for Smart Communities’, and includes a couple of notable...

Boldyn buys Edzcom from Cellnex, targets private 5G ‘leadership’

UK-headquartered neutral host provider Boldyn Networks, majority owned by Canada-based CPP Investments, has agreed to acquire private networks specialist Edzcom from Spanish tower company Cellnex Telecom for an undisclosed fee. The deal is for Cellnex’s entire private networks business, which mostly equates to Finland-based...

OMRON bundles managed private 5G from Edzcom into AMR solution

Cellnex-owned Edzcom, one of the pioneer firms in the industrial private cellular market, has a deal with electronics firm OMRON to provide industrial enterprises with a managed private LTE/5G service with the Japanese firm's industrial robotics products. The partnership has been formalised in the...

Edzcom and Nokia to deliver private 5G system for Europe’s deepest mine

Cellnex-owned Edzcom, one of the pioneer firms in the industrial private cellular market, has been recruited by the Finnish mine redevelopment project Callio to deploy an underground private 5G network in the Pyhäsalmi mine in the municipality of Pyhäjärv in the Northern Ostrobothnia region...

Editorial Report: Private Networks Forum, Europe – Key Findings

This report, a companion to the Private Networks Forum, Europe will connect key stakeholders to discuss - are private networks the key to driving enterprises into the Industry 4.0 era? We will examine the latest private network deployments, European spectrum liberalization and management, and...

Cellnex bolsters vertical and horizontal reach with acquisition of UK DAS firm HiBW

The UK division of Spain-based tower company Cellnex has acquired indoor cellular connectivity provider Herbert In-Building Wireless (HiBW) for an undisclosed fee. The deal will see the creation of a new Cellnex business unit, called Cellnex UK In-Building Solutions (CUKIS), which will be led...

Paris La Défense preps 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave bands

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 3 – the spectrum

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

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 Finland. The network, which is to be deployed and densified in quick-time by Edzcom...

Nokia and Edzcom/Cellnex renew private 5G vows, hit the Industry 4.0 trail in Europe

It is a partnership of industrial-minded telco country-mates that effectively helped to build the early private LTE and 5G market, with joint references in a number of key installations in Europe over the last five years, notably in the ports and mining sectors; now...

‘A sum of many things’ – Edzcom’s 5G mix for industry, and that Athonet-Nokia joint-ticket

Note, for more on this topic, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28, featuring speakers from ABI Research, MFA (MulteFire Alliance)/Nokia, Schneider Electric and Vodafone; check back here, also, for the editorial report...

MGA Tech taps Edzcom (taps Nokia) for 5G-based Industry 4.0 co-creation platform

Custom-machine manufacturer MGA Technologies has engaged Finland-based industrial networking specialist Edzcom, owned by Spanish tower company Cellnex, to deploy a private 5G network from Nokia at its new MGA TechLab 4.0 in Lyon, in France. The network went live in January; new Industry 4.0...

Edzcom breaks into German auto market with private 5G install for SEGULA

Cellnex Telecom is to deploy a private 5G network, plus edge componentry, for the automotive branch of engineering group SEGULA Technologies in Germany. The project is being handled by Edzcom, the Spanish company’s private networking division. Edzcom will install the edge networking and compute...

Edzcom partners on mission-critical private 5G for emergency services, heavy industry

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom is working with France-based communications software provider Streamwide to bring higher-grade security to mission critical private LTE and 5G networks. It said the partnership will allow it to expand its offering in the ‘critical communications market’. Streamwide divides its portfolio...

Edzcom installs 5G at machine maker MGA’s Industry 4.0 biopharma lab in France

Finnish private networking specialist Edzcom has been appointed by industrial machine manufacturer MGA Technologies to build a private 5G network at its new Industry 4.0 innovation lab near Lyon, in France. Edzcom called the installation the “first private 5G lab” in France – for...

Edzcom and Signal Partners bundle private 5G networks and devices for heavy industry

Finnish pair Edzcom and Signal Partners have signed a deal to combine private LTE and 5G networks and industrial LTE and 5G devices for customers in Europe. Their plan is to cater to the “growing digitalization and automation needs of heavy industry”, they said....

Edzcom and Nokia upgrade Konecranes ‘smart factory’ from private LTE to 5G

Edzcom and Nokia are to build a private standalone (SA) 5G network for fellow Finnish firm Konecranes at the company’s factory in the municipality of Hyvinkää about 50 kilometres north of Helsinki. Konecranes manufacturers and services cranes and lifting equipment. The company’s Hyvinkää facility is...

Edzcom taps Athonet for twin private 5G networks at Steveco terminals in Finland

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the core network and connectivity platform. The two sites in Kotka, on Finland’s southern coast, are...

Edzcom, Nokia install private 5G for sports broadcasts, vehicle tests at Finnish KymiRing

The KymiRing motorsports venue in Finland is to get its own private 5G network to augment media streaming and television broadcast services, as well as to help with testing autonomous and connected vehicles. Local private networking specialist Edzcom has been appointed to manage the...

Saab deploys private 5G network from Nokia at Airbus / Boeing factory in Sweden

Aerospace and defence company Saab has deployed a factory-wide private 5G network at a manufacturing plant in Sweden. The facility in Linköping, in the south of the country, produces ‘aerostructures’, notably for Airbus and Boeing.  The deployment has been organised by Swedish tech consultancy Combitech...

Edzcom and Signify team up on private Li-Fi and 5G combo for industry

Finnish private networking and edge computing specialist Edzcom has signed a deal with Netherlands-based lighting company Signify to offer Li-Fi based solutions combining two-way wireless infrared and visible light connectivity for industrial IoT applications to its customers in the manufacturing, energy, oil and gas,...

Nokia and Telefônica Brazil build private LTE for world’s biggest iron ore mine

Nokia and Telefônica Brazil have struck a deal with Brazilian mining firm Vale to provide a private LTE network to the open-pit Carajás Mine, the world's largest iron ore mine, in the state of Para in northern Brazil. Vale wants its own cellular network...