STOCKHOLM Reuters-T-Mobile has signed up customers including an airline operator, a theme park and a business client offering a suite of 5 G products to lure business clients and capture some of the market share of rivals Verizon and AT&T.
The product suite, which it calls 5 G advanced network solutions, will offer three levels - from a complete private 5 G network to sharing space over a public network, said Callie Field, T-Mobile's president of business group. Field didn't say who the customers were.
One of its clients, SailGP, is using T-Mobile's private 5 G in San Francisco, where it saw latency drop by 50% compared to Wi-Fi while sending real-time analytics from boats traveling at 60 miles per hour.
A private 5 G network helps businesses avoid having to compete with others on a public network and allows data-intensive applications.
Ports, airports, warehouses and logistics hubs are expected to be the first adopters of private 5 G, and IDC private wireless infrastructure revenue is expected to reach $8.3 billion by 2026, from $1.7 billion in 2021.
Field said T-Mobile was working with Dell for edge computing infrastructure for the private 5 G but could work with a vendor that a customer chooses as well.
Edge computing helps in analyzing bulk data, where it is gathered from a factory floor or an oil rig before moving it to remote servers, attracting big technology companies to offer their expertise.