BROWSING: Omdia
‘A thousand flowers will bloom’ – should carriers climb into bed with hyperscalers?
It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...
Latency, but not as we know it – plus other industry drivers for the move to the edge
Speaking last week on a webinar session with analyst house Omdia – following the release of its new industrial edge portfolio at Google Next 2021 last month, and ahead of a new joint-research report with Omdia on why mobile operators should work with hyperscalers...
Hard lessons for private 5G as ‘light-speed’ market ‘fractures between hype and reality’
The chair’s address ahead of an afternoon session on private 5G networks at 5G World in London today (September 22) brought some perspective. The market promises so much but the promise gets over-hyped, said Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst for private networks at Omdia. There...
‘5G is not a special flower’ – a two-sided tale of telcos’ trouble with enterprise 5G
If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation into how and where they might run operations, then the below Q&A session veers...
CSPs are undervaluing the 5G needs of 99% of world’s businesses: Report
42% of SMEs prefer to partner with a CSP on 5G, says report
According to a report conducted by Omdia and BearingPoint//Beyond, the global potential market of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for CSPs, particularly when it comes to 5G, remains significantly untapped. The report...
How is Nokia doing with private LTE / 5G? ‘Good, better than Ericsson, except that…’
How is Nokia doing with private networks for enterprises? Pretty well, and probably better than Ericsson, choruses the analyst community in response. Except its strategy is too narrow, its offer is too inflexible, and its competition – beyond its traditional vendor peers, and beyond...
5G could have a $1.2 tn economic impact in Brazil by 2035: Nokia
The future deployment of 5G technology in Brazil could have a $1.216 trillion economic impact and an increase in productivity of $3.08 trillion, according to a recent study by Nokia and Omdia.
ICT, government, manufacturing, services, agriculture, and retail will be the industries most impacted...
67 local licences in 10 months – 5G in the home of Industry 4.0 and the jeapordy for carriers
Germany has issued 67 local spectrum licences for private LTE and 5G to enterprises since November 2019. What should we make of this number, and the run-rate so far for industrial-grade cellular in the home of Industrie 4.0?
Because 67 does not sound like that...