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A new report from analyst firm ABI Research has indicated private 5G networks are poised to close the considerable in-building wireless network gap with the currently dominant Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) over the coming five years.

COVID-19 initially slowed mobile phone sales in the Asia Pacific and disrupted supply chains and demand for certain 5G-related end verticals, according to a new analyst report which now forecasts that digital factory revenues are primed for a post-COVID recovery worth US60 billion by 2030.

Global smart meter revenues are predicted to reach US$14 billion by 2026 as water and gas meter shipments enjoy double-digit revenue growth over the next five years — including a growth explosion in the Asia Pacific region — according to UK-based analysis and research firm ABI Research.

Denmark-based Universal Robots (UR), a global developer and manufacturer of industrial robots, has launched a new robot – UR3 – claiming it will revolutionise the manufacturing industry.

Chinese telecoms manufacturer ZTE put out a press release this week crowing that, in Q3, it had ousted Apple to become the fourth largest vendor of mobile handsets by units shipped, but Gartner begs to differ, and other analysts suggest this elevation is likely to be temporary.

The prospects for Telstra's LTE service, set for launch later this year, are looking rosy with market researchers reporting rapid uptake of LTE in markets were commercial services have been launched, and making bullish forecasts for market growth.

In the latest, and most bullish, of analyst forecasts predicting the dominance of Android, Gartner is forecasting Android to command nearly half of worldwide smartphone market by end of 2012.

ABI Research says that, by 2013 about 50 percent of smartphones will have inbuilt gyroscopes and accelerometers giving them functionality similar to a Wii game controller.