
NGMN and 5G-ACIA to unite operators and industrialists around 5G
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are looking to drive cooperation between operators and industries to capitalize on opportunities …

Cellular IoT to outgun 5G, says Ericsson, offering early snapshot of industrial 5G, private networks
The 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 …

Qualcomm: Industrial 5G will start late 2019, taking its cues from consumer 5G
The industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the …

Orange on LPWA: “If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system”
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on IoT: ‘We’re different; we take innovation to the customer’”. Click here to go to the previous article. The …

Private networks and public slices will combine in hybrid industrial 5G, says Nokia
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article. …

From 50ms to 1ms and 5x9s to 6x9s – Nokia makes case for private industrial networks
Note, this is the second part in a feature about Nokia’snew industrial strategy. The first instalment can be found here. Nokia’s latest results, which saw shares slip on a slow …

Three use cases only workable with URLLC-flavoured 5G
Further to last week’s sub-polemic on the wrongheaded marketing of 5G services, it is worth considering, again, just how transformational the next generation of mobile technology could be – and …

Why 5G is a slow-burning enterprise saga – and Verizon’s criticism of 5G marketing doesn’t go far enough
“The potential for 5G is awesome,” Verizon chief tech officer Kyle Malady wrote in an open letter this week, in protest at the early marketing of rather middle-of-the-road ‘5G’ services …

Ericsson ‘fingerprints’ radio network to enhance NB-IoT, LTE-M positioning
Swedish vendor Ericsson is looking at ways to employ artificial intelligence to enable advanced “fingerprinting” of mobile radio networks to enhance the positioning resolution of LTE-M and NB-IoT devices. The …

Nokia and partners trial 5G for smart grid and harbor automation
The trials used a Nokia ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) prototype Nokia, ABB and Kalmar, part of Cargotec, have conducted industrial trials with 5G technology to support time-critical applications and enhance protection and efficiency …