
Five steps on the road to industrial 5G – technology / standards (#1)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail5G will only gets its wings in 2023, or thereabouts, when its full functionality is revealed in a standalone version of the new radio (NR) standard. That is when it …

Cellular IoT to hit five billion connections by 2025, with LTE/5G taking a quarter
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according to Ericsson. Around a half will …

Nokia and Microsoft bundle private LTE and Azure IoT for operators
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMicrosoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed …

Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson partner to offer campus networks for industrial firms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have announced a strategic partnership to jointly serve industrial enterprise customers with campus networks. The German carrier said that the new solution will support diverse …

Verizon intros LTE-based meters and management to PenLight power system
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPeninsula Light Company (PenLight) has appointed US carrier Verizon to upgrade its power distribution system in Washington State with an LTE-based system, comprising smart electricity meters and a data analytics …

What are dual-slice ‘campus networks’? Deutsche Telekom on LTE and 5G slicing for industry
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks. But its recent work in the Port of …

Vodafone proves LTE-based RPS tech for controlling drones in no-fly zones
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMobile connectivity can be used to construct airspace geo-fences as virtual barriers to prevent drones from entering no-fly zones such as airports, or indeed leaving their designated fly zones. This …

New French model for public-private 5G networks will prevail, says Orange
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOrange told 5G World in London yesterday (July 12) that private networks are too expensive, and that hiving off spectrum for the industrial sector to run private networks will throttle …

Cellular IoT to outgun 5G, says Ericsson, offering early snapshot of industrial 5G, private networks
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe number of cellular IoT connections, mostly to machines, will continue to outrun the number of 5G connections, mostly to people, for at least five years. Ericsson predicts cellular IoT …

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – once and future kings of smart farming (part 3)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAs we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and …