Industrial companies want to build their own 5G networks
In setting up the networks for the fifth mobile generation (5G), leading industrial companies seem to want to build "private 5G networks". The reason is the poor mobile radio coverage in rural regions.
Bonn Leading industrial companies in Germany do not want to rely on the three mobile telephony operators Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica according to a report of the "Wirtschaftswoche" during the construction of the networks for the fifth mobile generation (5G). The Central Association of the Electrical Engineering and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) calls on the Federal Network Agency to allow its members to build their own "private 5G networks" in factories, the magazine reported on Thursday.
"We do not want to be dependent on the infrastructure of a certain network operator in the industrial 5G deployment in our factories", explained the ZVEI of the magazine. The fifth generation of mobile telephony is to become the technical backbone of the Internet of Things and is regarded as a prerequisite for digitization of production, which is described as "Industry 4.0".
According to the report, CEOs point to the poor mobile coverage in rural regions and doubt that the network operators can guarantee a stable 5G supply to the production halls quickly enough. However, the cable-free networking of the machine parks is indispensable for complete coverage. The industrial companies, which are part of the ZVEI, therefore want to set up their own company-internal 5G networks. The Federal Network Agency had asked the German economy to register their demand for radio frequencies for the 5G networks. The Federal Republic of Germany is the first European state to award the frequencies required for 5G in the next year.