China is one of the world’s most advanced countries in deploying 5G to support large-scale enterprise and industrial services. There are many case studies of innovative solutions, based on 5G Standalone, being applied to factories, property developments, venues, smart cities and many more. The government says there are more than 4,000 enterprise 5G projects in China, and the operators are even more bullish, saying they are supporting 8,000 between them. However, by contrast with countries, such as Germany, that aim to accelerate the roll-out of 5G enterprise networks by allocating spectrum directly to industries, China’s ‘private networks’ have all been deployed by one of the three major MNOs, in MNO-owned spectrum. This makes a recent announcement in the country interesting.…