James Blackman

A highly-engaged audience at Industrial 5G Forum was short-changed with its questions of private 5G outfit Celona. But RCR got the answers anyway.

UK-based IMI has acquired Durch industrial IoT firm TWTG Group for €25 million; the plan is it retrofit IoT sensor to its valves and actuators.

Italian embedded IoT solution developer SECO has a deal with UK-based Raspberry Pi to work together to develop customised hardware and software solutions fo ...

Siemens has won a major deal to retrofit 60 government buildings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with IoT sensors and software. The UAE government has set ...

The level of attention on generative AI (gen AI) in business is no longer a surprise. It promises game-changing disruption – faster and more cost-effective ...

AT&T has stopped selling NB-IoT data plans and certifying NB-IoT devices, as it starts the process to decommission its NB-IoT network in the US entirely ...

There was some good chat about the drivers behind the surging interest from enterprises in private 5G at Industrial 5G Forum earlier this month. In truth, the same talking points kicked off just about every session, probably, but Canadian network software firm iBwave and US electric utility Oncor Electric Delivery Company, expertly shepherded through an early panel session (actually about ‘ecosystem synergy') by telecoms research and consultancy firm STL Partners, did a good job to tee-up the whole discussion. Indeed, iBwave neatly listed three drivers at the outset, which might be easily bulleted at the top of this piece, and set the tone for a wider writeup.

Singtel has drafted-in Ericsson to deploy a dedicated 5G network on a slice of its public 5G network at Tuas Port in Singapore, the new greenfield ‘mega port' development that will eventually engulf and replace existing shipping terminals at the Port of Singapore. It will also deploy private 5G networks for critical-grade port operations. The new 5G provision will support full automation, starting with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from 2025, and put the facility on the way to handling 65 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per year when it is fully completed.

Neutral host networks are 47 percent cheaper and 38 percent greener (over a period) than traditional single-operator 5G deployments. This is the conclusion of a new study by ABI Research, commissioned by UK-based shared infrastructure specialist Boldyn Networks, which uses live neutral-host installations by the latter in New York City and Rome as the basis for its findings. The message is mobile operators, facing pressure to monetise 5G investments and scrutiny about ESG performance, should get an urgent grip on smarter shared 5G infrastructure densification.

There is “renewed enthusiasm” for cellular 4G and 5G networks in private and shared CBRS spectrum in the US, says SNS Telecom & IT. The firm reckons ann ...