The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has formed a new GSA private mobile networks special interest group (SIG) to bring together leading telecom companies wishing to track, boost and promote the private mobile networks ecosystem.
The founding members of the SIG are Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei, while Mavenir, Keysight Technologies and Private5GandLTE are permanent members. According to GSA, more leading vendors will be announced as new members in the months to come. Membership and participation in the private mobile networks SIG open organisations from across the telecommunications ecosystem who wish to promote the private mobile networks ecosystem.
The aims of the group are to define the private mobile networks ecosystem, track it, and promote it. To do so, the scope of the group includes the aggregation of private mobile networks data in an environment where participants can confidentially share sensitive and anonymised data on private mobile networks customers. The scope also includes the continuous evolution of tracking in order to support the promotion of this industry as well as the analyst community reporting on it.
Commenting on the development, Joe Barrett, president, GSA, said, “The private mobile network space is going from strength to strength and last year recorded 101 per cent compound growth over the preceding five years, in terms of companies announcing private mobile networks using 4G or 5G technology. The industry is now represented across 70 countries globally and customers continue to grow strongly. GSA has a strong track record and experience in bringing together vendors, regulators and operators from across the 4G and 5G ecosystems to collaborate and promote technology adoption. The formation of the new private mobile networks SIG will bring this experience to the private mobile networks space to accelerate its development worldwide.”
