Private Networks

Written by Mike Dano for LightReading.com

Verizon's financial outlook for 2023 is today much lower than what the company's executives outlined during Verizon's analyst day almost exactly a year ago.

• Telcos around the world are looking to exploit the potential of network APIs and encourage new application development
• The GSMA’s Open Gateway initiative is helping to coordinate efforts

The 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme has seen 10 regions throughout the UK receive a share of £36m of funding as part of our wider programme to drive 5G adoption.

Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay TV services will reach $1,544 billion in 2024, representing an increase of 2.4% year-on-year, according to the Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC).

On 15 November, the Federated Telecoms Hubs (FTH) invited academia and industry to a symposium in London. 
It was an opportunity to hear from each of the four hubs that make up FTH and understand their ambitious collective goals to better drive the gap between telecoms R&D and translation to commercialisation.

The Flexi-DAS project, where AWTG is the project Lead, a collaboration between UK and South Korean partners, successfully concluded and achieved its key objectives in revolutionising Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS).

• Deployable in under 48 hours, new T-Mobile 5G Advanced Network Solution delivers low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity for data-intensive applications from virtually anywhere

Bellevue, Washington –  introduced 5G On Demand; a complete, portable 5G private network and servic

Schiphol has activated Ericsson Private 5G to explore new applications of 5G

The UKTIN Strategic Groups bring together academic and industry leaders and experts, governmental and regulatory specialists, and representative bodies to cohesively communicate the needs of the broader ecosystem and propose a shared public and private sector strategic vision for UK telecoms. 

• New private 5G networks to empower West Sussex growers, creating new digital skills and career pathways.  
• The project, Growing Sussex 5G Innovation Region, has won £3.8million funding from the Government’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology to catalyse sustainable food production thr

• China’s ‘big three’ mobile operators report 20 million 5G net adds in July
• Fixed broadband growth not so impressive
• Cloud-based services boost operators’ H1 2024 results

The number of 5G subscribers in China continues to make vaulting monthly leaps, equivalent to

Plum Consulting and i2 media research have been commissioned by DSIT (Department of Science, Innovation and Technology) to produce an analysis of the market for private telecoms networks in the UK. 

A private 5G network-enabled Innovation Lab is set to transform the Port of Blyth into the UK North East’s premier technology hub, providing unprecedented access to 5G technology for industries in the North East region.

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.

London, UK – Boldyn Networks (Boldyn) today announced the close of its acquisition of Cellnex's private networks business unit.

• Leading global telecoms organisations expand SONIC Labs facilities to include an outdoor field testing environment for Open RAN technology.
• Replicates real-world complexities to allow vendors to test and accelerate development of Open RAN product capabilities.
• Specialist R&D lice

In London on the 14th of September, The Right Honourable Sir John Whittingdale, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure announced the 19 successful projects in the Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) competition - a part of the government’s £250 million Open Networks R&D Fund delivering on the 5G Telecoms Supply Chain Diversificatio

As more UK local authority areas are awarded Gigabit infrastructure contracts, we pose the challenge - what's next?