WOW! goes private in $1.5B deal with Digital Bridge Group and Crestview Partners
The deal is expected to close sometime in the first quarter of 2026 WOW! aims to continue its ongoing cable upgrades and fiber expansion Crestview is now WOW!’s largest shareholder The dominos just keep on falling with telecom consolidation, with...
Verizon and Nokia win one of the largest private 5G projects in the UK
Verizon teamed with Nokia on another private 5G rollout This marks Verizon’s latest port deal in the U.K. Analysts said the deal shows there’s momentum growing behind Verizon’s efforts Nokia and Verizon Business have unveiled plans to deploy a private...
Established vendors aren’t only players in private 5G game
Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei aren’t the only options in the private 5G gear game SNS Telecom & IT told us that Celona has over 100 customers STL Partners said Bristol-Myers Squibb Biologics Manufacturing Facility in Dublin has used Vilicom for...
Airspan CEO pins hopes on open RAN, private networks
Airspan emerged from its 2024 restructuring with a stronger balance sheet The company recently received a $42.7 million grant to fund open RAN development In addition to open RAN, CEO Glenn Laxdal sees more opportunity in private networks Open Radio...
SNS says 5G private networking will be dominant in the US by 2027
SNS said that the private networking space in the U.S. will be worth over $3.7 billion by 2027 Neutral host is growing concurrently in the U.S., the firm reports. STL Partners also said that manufacturing is the most dominant private...
Are we ready for a private 6G specification?
4G and 5G private networks don’t do spectrum sharing well A professor at the Brooklyn 6G Summit suggested that spectrum sharing will be important for a 6G private networking specification The 3GPP isn’t going to be starting a 6G specification...
Private 5G takes the gold in the Paris Olympics
Orange and Cisco are major 5G providers for the Paris games Obvios and other startups provide private 5G networking in a box Broadcasters, meanwhile, use bonded 4G to stream video In the late 18th Century, the Paris Catacombs were used...
CBRS rule reset could expand private network deployments
The new rules will change the way CBRS network operators calculate their potential interference with the Navy Enterprises that want to deploy CBRS networks in coastal states will face less uncertainty Google stands to benefit as one of the biggest...
France Television uses private 5G network for Olympic torch relay
France Television is using a startup’s private 5G networking video streaming for the Paris 2024 torch relay The startup offers an easy-to-use compact mobile private 5G streaming platform Obvios has said it will use the system for festivals after the summer Olympics...
Airspan heads back to private status after Chapter 11 filing
The prepackaged bankruptcy proceeding allows Airspan to eliminate debt Airspan will emerge as a private company after regulatory approvals Airspan is still bullish on open RAN, private networks and small cells, even though none of those areas have grown as...