- SNS names some of Celona's newer private network customers
- The firm said that Celona has over 100 enterprise customers
- The firm's CEO said he thought it would be difficult to change the CBRS spectrum situation
Intriguingly, during Fierce’s recent interview with private network startup Celona CEO, Rajeev Shah, said that the vendor has signed on several new customers that he couldn’t yet name. So, we asked the private network experts at analyst firm, SNS Telecom & IT, if they happened to know any of the names of the new customers. They offered up a few names.
"As per our database, some of Celona's recent customers include Celanese, Cargill, Roularta, BP, LyondellBasell, Cotton Holdings, Dot Foods and Honda Mobilityland,” noted SNS 5G research director, Asad Khan.
“We can name a few but there are many others we’re not at liberty to disclose at the moment,” SNS Telecom & IT noted. The firm said that Celona currently has over a hundred enterprise customers in total. So, probably more customer names to come.
A CBRS future?
Another interesting point the Celona CEO made during his interview was that mid-band CBRS spectrum is working “very, very well” and “the industry has hundreds if not thousands of deployments.” Shah said that “it’s been a great ecosystem [and] the devices are all supporting it.”
“Operationally, I think anybody who would say otherwise, has a vested interest candidly.” Shah stated.
The CEO said that he thought making any significant changes to regulatory framework around shared CBRS spectrum would be difficult. “There’s a lot of usage already and it is going up in mission-critical environments.”
“So, significant changes to [CBRS] has such a massive impact on the country and the economy. I expect that it will be very hard for anybody to make a case that it is the right thing for the country to go through,” Shah said.
Obviously, though, he noted that nobody has a crystal ball to exactly know the future of CBRS.