Mission Statement

"Working together with all interested parties, EUWENA acts as a catalyst for the wider adoption of feature-rich private mobile networks across Europe. It advocates sufficient, accessible, affordable, harmonised spectrum and promotes an open, multi-vendor approach to advanced services and applications running in these networks. EUWENA’s ultimate goal through its actions is to make the adoption of such solutions as easy as possible for as many organisations as possible, thereby creating enhanced and sustained value for enterprises and wider society.”

 

Videos of EUWENA’s First on-line event - 3rd of October 2024

 

 

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Who We Are

 

EUWENA (European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association) was set up in April 2021, following a series of parallel conversations during early 2021 between private mobile networks pioneer, Christian Regnier and critical communications industry experts, Peter Clemons and Koen Mioulet, who recognised the urgent need for a European-level initiative to promote the greater uptake of 3GPP-based private mobile networks. Christian, Peter and Koen were joined from the beginning by Antoine van der Sijs, Christopher Gehlen, Kerim Agdaci, Shaun McGinley and Thomas Hervieu, with the support and attendance of Tony Boyle and Johann Schmid at the inaugural meeting in March 2021.

The founding members all share EUWENA’s common values and goals and represent companies from across Europe: AirFrance, Privinnet and LD expertise (France), Quixoticity (United Kingdom), ULWIMO and Strict (Netherlands), Sigma Wireless (Ireland), Opticoms (Germany) and Neutroon (Spain), as well as industry associations, AGURRE (France) and KMBG (Netherlands). It is expected that many more companies and associations will become a part of EUWENA over the coming months and years.


 

 

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Our Role

 

To speed up the availability and harmonisation of sufficient frequency spectrum for private wireless networks in Europe, stimulating the creation of an open ecosystem.

To exchange knowledge and experience on the technology, demand and supply market, to contribute to the digital transformation process, accelerating the adoption of mobile broadband technology by enterprises in Europe and supporting the specific needs of vertical sectors.

To inform, advise and represent European enterprise users in established European spectrum, regulatory and related organisations and in international interest groups for private networks.

To help enterprise customers define and deploy the best spectrum and private mobile network strategies.

- President; Christian Régnier

- Vice President: Peter Clemons

- Secretary; Koen Mioulet

- Treasurer; Thomas Hervieu

 
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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.

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