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SoftBank launches private 5G service for enterprises

SoftBank will also open a technology verification area at SoftBank Robotics Logistics Innovation Lab in Ichikawa City Japanese operator SoftBank has launched a private 5G service that enables enterprises, local governments and other organizations to build customized 5G networks on their premises with dedicated base...

Good 5G is bad 5G with poor network design – especially in enterprise

You can have the best 5G network in the world, and make it into the worst; or, at least, you can render it as completely ordinary without much effort, and maybe totally useless. This is the warning from Nazim Choudhury, director of market development...

Simpler systems, faster returns, happier teams – five key trends in private 5G

Following on from the article last week, about “ecosystem linkage” in the private 5G market, Stephen Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent, presents five key trends with cellular in the broad enterprise space. Note, he lists a bunch of others in conversation, as...

Operator Batelco makes Nokia “sole supplier” of private 5G in Bahrain

Service provider Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) has signed a deal with Nokia to sell the Finnish vendor’s various private LTE and 5G systems, plus edge componentry and industrial devices, to public agencies and private enterprises in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in West Asia. The...

“Ecosystem linkage” is the big telco opportunity with private 5G, says Spirent

Want to know what’s happening, and also what’s about to happen, in telecoms? You could do much worse, and also not much better, than to ask a well-placed test and measurement firm, running the rule over all the latest telecoms technologies from all the...

Future Technologies sells $14m of private 5G to US energy sector in 12 months

Evidence, or indication at least, that the burgeoning market for private networks in Industry 4.0 is as much about local knowhow and boots-on-the-ground as it is about global corporate reach; busy US-based system integrator Future Technologies has just stuck out a press note about...

Velaspan signs as managed provider to expand Nokia private 5G channel

Philadelphia-based managed private cellular provider Velaspan is targeting enterprises in global markets with Nokia’s private 4G/5G solution. It is the one of the first managed service providers to be authorised by the Finnish vendor as an enterprise solution partner, it said. Velaspan, founded in...

Kyndryl integrates Cloudflare to optimise and secure global enterprise networks

New York based system integrator Kyndryl is working with “connectivity cloud” company Cloudflare to “design, build, manage, and modernize” enterprise networking systems for global clients. Ther pair have expanded a relationship, started a year ago, to bring managed wide-area network (WAN) as-a-service and zero...

GXC readies channel assault with private 5G partner program

Austin-based GXC, offering an Industry 4.0 twist with cellular mesh technology, is recruiting operators, resellers, and distributors to sell its private 5G system to US enterprises. It has announced a new partner program with sale discounts, marketing support, qualified leads, technical support, and staff...

UScellular debuts private 5G at Rockwell Industry 4.0 lab in Ohio

Chicago-based carrier UScellular, the fourth biggest operator in the US, has installed a private 5G network at a new Industry 4.0 customer lab in Ohio belonging to Rockwell Automation. Their focus is to integrate, explore, and expand operational technology (OT) use cases on incoming...

Ericsson opens federal 5G unit to sell USA-made tech to government agencies

Is there an echo in here? Swedish vendor Ericsson has established a new federal division in the U.S. to deliver “5G-driven digital transformation” across multiple agencies in the U.S. federal government. It follows a similar move by Finnish rival Nokia in January to launch...

“Private 5G will be as big as Wi-Fi” – Athonet and HPE reflect on 12 months together

What have we here? As we navigate the one-way system at the far end of hall three at MWC last month, and amble up the stairs into a serious-sized meeting room to meet with Andrew Border, in charge of product management for telco solutions...

Nokia preps ultra-compact private 5G to target 10m industrial SMEs

Nokia is preparing an ultra-compact version of its private cellular network solution to pitch to the small-and-medium sized enterprise (SME) market, particularly as it aligns with its focus on selling edge-based network-and-compute solutions to Industry 4.0 sectors. Speaking with RCR Wireless at Mobile World...

Comcast Business delivers private 5G network for The Players Championship

Comcast Business has deployed a private 5G network, plus an upgraded Wi-Fi network, at the Stadium Course at The Tournament Players Club (TPC) Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, for the The Players Championship, the annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The new...

“We’re agnostic, but we have a view” – Accenture on how to captain Industry 4.0

This article, recounting an interview with Accenture’s ‘cloud-first’ commander Jefferson Wang at MWC at the end of last month, might be taken as a companion piece, of sorts, with last week’s replay of an MWC meeting with Jennifer Artley (see here and here), in...

Nokia strikes deal with Eurofiber to integrate private 5G and fiber for enterprises

Nokia has struck a deal with enterprise infrastructure provider Eurofiber to integrate its private LTE (4G) and 5G macro products into the Dutch firm’s “open digital infrastructure” offer, which utilises its own proprietary fiber optic network in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. Eurofiber is...

‘Land and expand’ – Verizon’s big private 5G play (‘different to how we ever worked’)

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title: Pragmatism, partnership, progress – private 5G pipe ‘doubles’ for Verizon. Go here for the first part. As written, and to recap... Jennifer Artley is in charge of the fast-expanding ‘5G acceleration’ team...

Nokia, stc perform O-RAN based-5G private wireless network trial

Nokia said that the trial demonstrated an augmented reality use case for industrial applications Finnish vendor Nokia and Saudi carrier stc announced that they have successfully tested a 5G private wireless network based on cloud-native O-RAN technology. In a release, Nokia noted that the trial was...

Pragmatism, partnership, progress – private 5G pipe ‘doubles’ for Verizon

What did we write about MWC last week – that it was enterprise, enterprise, enterprise, and that operators failed to show (for RCR Wireless, anyway; to talk private 5G, at least)? Well, that’s not entirely true; some of them did. Verizon Business did, and...

How to scale your private 5G/LTE network from pilot to fully operational autonomous network 

The fast-evolving landscape of private 5G/LTE networks showed a move last year toward operational networks after several years of pilots and trials. A new player now enters the picture: operation teams. As the network users, the key to private 5G/LTE growth and scale depends...

Toyota Material Handling puts entire US factory on Ericsson private 5G network

Toyota Material Handling, the US-based forklift truck manufacturer, is running its business critical operations at its 200,000 square-foot (19,000 square-metre) factory in Columbus, Indiana, “exclusively” over an Ericsson-made private 5G network in CBRS spectrum, it has said. The private 5G installation was completed last...

Private 5G – basket cases, blood baths and bitching (a barroom sting in Barcelona)

How do you write a story you can’t tell? When the real plot, outside of the corporate narrative, can’t be revealed? Normally, you sit on the bank and watch the river flow – until the water rises and the bodies float by. But what...

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...

Cisco joins with Misui, KDDI to deploy private 5G at Industry 4.0 test lab in Japan

The Japanese arm of Cisco has joined with Mitsui Information and KDDI Engineering, parts of trading group Mitsui Group and telecoms operator KDDI respectively, to deploy a private 5G network at the Shinwa Komaki SFiC Lab in Komaki City, in the Aichi Prefecture in...