PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe on track for 5G-based railway comms

With the understanding that transporting hundreds of thousands of passengers and tons of freight every day using rail lines that crisscross countries and continents requires a management system that cannot be allowed to fail, Polish national railway company PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe has signed a letter of intent with Ericsson to test a Future Railway … Read more

National roll-out of UK 5G standalone across road and rail could unlock £3bn for economy

Vodafone has announced research calculating  that nationwide UK 5G standalone (SA) will transform road and rail journeys, adding £1bn to the UK economy per year through improved connectivity for remote workers on trains, while also saving regular road users £2bn on fuel each year. Undertaken by WPI Strategy, the modelling showed the benefits to the … Read more

Nokia Bell Labs and e& forge AI use case R&D collaboration

Looking to develop “responsible” artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for sustainable enterprise and industrial automation applications and accelerate innovation concepts towards real-world deployments, Nokia Bell Labs and e& have signed a year-long, non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) for research and development (R&D) collaboration to create AI-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors. An early adopter of … Read more

Vodafone Business IoT, Kigen announce full commercial availability of iSIM

Kigen and Vodafone Business IoT have made their integrated subscriber identity modules (iSIM) solution available for enterprises to sample. The solution is said to reduce weeks or even months of development time for manufacturers, allowing businesses to accelerate internet of things (IoT) projects and scale rapidly. The companies regard iSIM as a major step forward in the … Read more