5G’s real business impact: 3 use cases
Commercial 5G services went live globally in 2019, with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile launching their first mobile offerings that year. By early 2025 the technology had settled into a pattern...
Telecoms & 5G
Reports on rural 5G testbeds, private networks, IoT acquisitions, and realistic deployment timelines.
Superfast, Ultrafast, and G.fast Broadband Explained
Broadband labelled superfast and ultrafast names two distinct service tiers, but those labels map to specific infrastructure choices, not just marketing. Superfast broadband, defined by Ofcom and the EU as...
BT Targets UK Industry With Private 5G Networks
BT is shifting its 5G capabilities out of the consumer lane and into ports, factories, logistics hubs and energy sites. The company, whose EE mobile arm launched Britain's first 5G...
Ofcom CTO on 5G's realistic timeline
Ofcom's Chief Technology Officer sat down with LeadMonitor in mid-2021 to answer a question that mobile operators were spending heavily to avoid: when will 5G actually change anything for the...
KORE Wireless buys Cerberus Telecom for IoT
KORE Wireless, a public IoT provider trading on the New York Stock Exchange as KORE, acquired Cerberus Telecom in 2021. The deal closed and Cerberus's assets and operations were folded...
5GRIT: What the UK's Rural 5G Tourism Testbed Achieved
The 5G Rural Integrated Testbed (5GRIT) was a UK government-funded initiative that tested whether 5G could solve the connectivity gaps keeping rural tourism businesses offline. It launched in 2019 as...
5GRIT Project: Testing 5G in Rural and Remote UK Areas
5GRIT stands for 5G Rural Integrated Testbed. The UK government funded the initiative to trial fifth-generation mobile technology in places where operators had little incentive to build towers. It ran...
