
Sympathy for the devil – a private 5G story (thoughts on MWC)
This might seem like a cop-out, but the irresistible narrative from MWC over the week, that the grand-standing on the show floor masked (and revealed) a battle between three industries …

Transatel intros LTE and 5G roaming between public and private networks
NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has introduced a private LTE/5G extension for its IoT roaming SIM to enable connected devices to switch between public and private cellular networks. It described the …

Industry loves Industry 4.0; it’s just not very good at showing it – says Verizon
MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. …

Boingo joins Qualcomm’s smart cities gang, ‘streamlines’ enterprise IoT on private 5G
US private networks and small cells provider Boingo Wireless is working with Qualcomm to “streamline” IoT deployments for enterprise customers, it has said. The Los Angeles firm has joined Qualcomm’s …

Nokia signs DAC sales deals with Alibaba, Atos – as private 5G shifts up a gear
Nokia has announced go-to-market deals for private LTE and 5G with the cloud division of Chinese web giant Alibaba and with French cloud services company Atos. Both companies will integrate …

Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm issue tech blueprints to spur private 5G
MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP …

Druid Software integrates Polte positioning tech into private LTE and 5G networks
Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and …

HPE intros private 5G with home-made core and third-party RAN (Airspan to start)
Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a …

Federated Wireless raises $58m in Series D round, restates mission to scale private 5G
US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised $58 million in Series D funding. The new investment will go to accelerate growth in enterprise markets, …

Hitachi Energy intros industrial 5G routers for cities, factories, utilities
The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 …