There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these in trial mode, but most now moving to commercial operations. Nokia is the top vendor in the market, it says.
The number of private LTE- or 5G-based cellular networks will grow at an average compound rate of 33 percent per year until 2028 (over a period of four years), to reach 11,900 deployments, it said. Test cases will reduce, logically, as the technology is better understood by enterprise customers (and enterprises are better understood by tech vendors).
