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The world’s largest gold miner, Newmont, has deployed Ericsson Private 5G technology at its Cadia gold-copper mine in New South Wales – Australia's largest underground mine – to significantly enhance operational efficiency, safety, and connectivity across its mining fleet. -
Earlier this week, Capacity visited Overbury Farms on the Worcestershire-Gloucestershire border to witness first-hand the transformative impact of Virgin Media O2 Business’ (VMO2) portable 5G private network.
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Global revenue from private cellular networks is set to more than double, reaching $12.2 billion by 2028 – an increase of 114% from 2025, despite sluggish market growth in recent years, according to new figures from Juniper Research.
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Samsung Electronics has completed the first end-to-end Reduced Capability (RedCap) trial over a private 5G network in collaboration with Hyundai Motor Company.
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Roularta Media Group (RMG), a major Belgian publishing firm and broadcaster, has partnered with NTT Data to deploy a private 5G network across its printing facilities as part of a digital transformation initiative.
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Verizon revealed it has developed a new AI-powered private 5G platform with Nvidia, aimed at helping businesses securely deploy AI at the edge.
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Proptivity, a company that builds and operates private 4G and 5G networks, is to use atNorth’s data centres for its services.
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French mobile operator Free has built what it claims to be the largest 5G connected factory in Europe for Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN).
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The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has announced the release of its private 5G blueprint, following a successful trial led by its 5G Private Networks solution group, chaired by Telefonica.
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Cost remains one of the major barriers preventing the widespread adoption of private 5G networks according to Maria Lema, co-founder of Weaver Labs.
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Tata Communications has launched a private 5G global centre of excellence (CoE) in Pune, India as it looks to accelerate Industry 4.0 applications for enterprises.
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Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom has deployed its 5G private network for Delta Electronics at its Bangpoo factory in Thailand.
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India’s Adani Group, a transport and utility company, has admitted reports that it wants to move into 5G mobile, but says it is interested solely in private networks.
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Millimetre-wave company Blu Wireless says it has reached speeds of 1Gbps in trials Singapore and France.
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Enterprises in the ports, oil and gas, government and critical infrastructure sectors in Abu Dhabi will soon be able to digitalise through private 5G networks.
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DigitalBridge has led a $60 million Series C funding round in Celona, an enterprise IT infrastructure company that uses 5G wireless.
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Japanese operator KDDI has chosen Californian vendor Wind River for its O-RAN-compliant 5G virtualised base station plans.
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Japanese telco Optage is selected HPE 5G core stack for its testbed Local 5G network.
