Size and growth of the private wireless market

1. Size estimations for the embryonic private wireless market

The market for private wireless systems and cellular networks in verticals has just emerged. The

market took of when and where country regulators provided access to suitable, affordable spectrum

that enterprises could then establish a network on with their own equipment, vendors, systems

integrators and most of all with the KPI’s that suited their particular processes and automation.

Countries that have been amongst the first to liberate spectrum for these purposes have been for

instance the UK and the Netherlands, with the opening up of private spectrum in 1800 MHz., the so

called DECT/GSM guard band. These bands have been available for around a decade and have led to

respectively 1000 and over 500 systems in the UK and the Netherlands alone. Since then, countries

like Germany and – again – UK have been early starters with the provisioning of 100 or more MHz of

private spectrum in the designated 5G anchor band of 3.5 Ghz. Again, since these frequencies have

been released just years ago, these 2 countries have seen 100’s of applications and wireless industry

networks. France has been another case, with 40MHz in the 26 Ghz band, and recently countries like

Sweden, Finland and Denmark have followed with private spectrum.