Dublin to test ‘neutral’ 5G network

Dublin will trial a neutral 5G network to support smart city services around its docklands district.

Built by DenseAir, the network is being designed as a “carrier of carriers” platform operating as a neutral host and is open both to private applications for enterprises and as a platform to support existing mobile network operators.

“We’ve been building the network with property owners and getting it all figured out with our street assets to reduce the ‘messiness’ of deploying 5G,” Jamie Cudden, Smart City Programme Manager, Dublin City Council, told Cities Today.

To be launched in April in the Smart Docklands district, Cudden said that rather than each mobile network operator deplo...