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Ericsson creates private 5G division to go straight to enterprises – plus new AI-5G unit

Ericsson has restructured its business and management to reflect its new growth strategy, which hinges on private 5G and cloud services, and has set a group target of 15-18 percent EBITA margin “within two-to-three years”. The Swedish vendor said its strategy is to be...

NTT rolls out 5G IoT service in the U.S. via its Transatel subsidiary

NTT started to offer both private and public 5G connectivity in the U.S. market on May 12   Transatel, a subsidiary of NTT, announces the worldwide deployment of a new 5G IoT solution for the industrial, IT and automotive sectors. The firm said that its offerings are...

NTT rolls out 5G IoT service in the U.S. via its Transetel subsidiary

NTT started to offer both private and public 5G connectivity in the U.S. market on May 12   Transatel, a subsidiary of NTT, announces the worldwide deployment of a new 5G IoT solution for the industrial, IT and automotive sectors. The firm said that its offerings are...

Finns and Aussies combine in a high-tech Industry 4.0 pact to… make beer

Finns and Aussies have combined in a high-tech Industry 4.0 pact to… brew the perfect pint of beer (naturally). As part of its long running partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), extended last year in a five-year research partnership and formalised with...

India says ‘no’ to direct private 5G licences “for now” – but ‘maybe later’

India is to say ‘no’ to direct spectrum allocations to enterprises for private 5G and Industry 4.0, as provisioned in most other major industrial markets, according to reports. Instead, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that leases for enterprise-owned private 5G...

Nokia secures license to demo private 5G products at its Tokyo office

Nokia said the center will allow local enterprises, telcos and infrastructure providers to understand the potential of "Local 5G" technology Nokia announced the re-opening of its newly revamped Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Japan, to test and demonstrate its "Local 5G" equipment, software and services,...

‘At a crossroads’ – make or break time for private 5G in Industry 4.0

This is the introduction to a new report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard. To read more, download the report here, or click on the image above; a webinar on the same topic is also available, here, with speakers...

Federated Wireless raises another $14m in Series D to take total funding to $213m

US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised a further $14 million in Series D funding, to go with its $58 million Series D announcement in February. It brings its total Series D round to $72 million, with “affiliates...

Q&A: The basics of private 5G networks

Private networks are expected to be one of the primary ways in which 5G services are monetized. A recent IDC forecast estimated that on a worldwide basis, private LTE/5G wireless infrastructure revenues will reach $8.3 billion by 2026, compared to $1.7 billion in 2021...

Locally-licensed, licensed, unlicensed – how to have it all, and have it all with cellular

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title, The big 5G problem – not networks, not spectrum, but devices (Talking 5G Blues). Asimakis Kokkos, chair of the technical specification working group at MFA, interviewed below, appears on a new webinar...

Federated Wireless and CalChip Connect combine on private 5G install, reseller offer

US IoT distributor CalChip Connect (CCC) has selected Federated Wireless for private LTE and 5G, both for its own distribution centre in Pennsylvania, and as a distribution product for CalChip Connect to resell to enterprise customers. Federated Wireless called CCC the “leading IoT distributor”...

‘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...

‘Scale is the thing’ – Schneider Electric sets out strategy as private 5G user and reseller

Note, for more on this topic, and more on Schneider Electric's private 5G story, catch Zach Nimboorkar on the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on April 28 on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard). He is joined by speakers from ABI Research, MFA...

Dish and Cisco partner with Duke University to trial CBRS neutral-host network

Dish Wireless and Cisco, in partnership with Internet2, have launched a Neutral Host Network (NHN) pilot at Duke University using Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) shared spectrum. Stephen Bye, chief commercial officer at Dish Wireless, explained that it can be challenging to provide consistently reliable connectivity...

Nokia shifts private 5G sales strategy to go all-indirect, zero-touch, mega-sized

Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private networks has shifted, decisively....

The big 5G problem – not networks, not spectrum, but devices (Talking 5G Blues)

Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from MFA and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone; check...

Intel quietly buys software-defined private 5G network provider Ananki

Intel has acquired private 5G network provider Ananki, a startup created from the non-profit Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to focus on the commercialization of private 5G services based on open-source network technologies. Following its spin off from the ONF, Ananki has been delivering software-defined private...

Lufthansa Technik doubles-down on private 5G in Hamburg workshops

Lufthansa Technik, which has arguably set down the definitive private 5G deployment in the Industry 40 sector, has extended its private 5G network in Hamburg, Germany, to a second aircraft engine ‘overhaul workshop’, it has announced. The firm is now running remote parts inspection...

What are non-public networks in 3GPP parlance? 

Non-Public Networks (NPNs) are 3GPP's term of art for private networks: "NPNs enable deployment of a 5G system for private use."

Google Distributed Cloud Edge ready for general use

Google Distributed Cloud Edge (GDC Edge) is now generally available, along with rack-mount or appliance hardware for the network edge.

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...

Scotland opens 5G hubs in Strathclyde, Glasgow – to be at ‘forefront’ of Industry 4.0

The Scotland 5G Centre (S5GC), a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened new private 5G network testbeds in Aberdeen and Kilmarnock, in Scotland. The new additions take the total number of S5GC testbeds to five, following installations in...

Bharti Airtel, Tech Mahindra partner to offer 5G-based enterprise solutions

The partners will set up a joint 5G innovation lab for developing locally developed use cases for the Indian and global markets   Indian telco Bharti Airtel and compatriot tech and business services company Tech Mahindra, announced a strategic partnership to build and market 5G-based solutions...

O2 Telefónica talks-up private 5G install and 5G positioining app in Leipzig hospital

As well as a new private 5G deployment in Hamburg for IT service provider Dataport, covered Wednesday (March 30), O2 Telefónica has confirmed a private 5G setup at the Helios Park-Klinikum, a private psychiatric and orthopedics hospital, in Leipzig. O2 Telefónica led the installation,...