Celona has always talked a good private 5G fight, and has now surpassed even its own hyperbole by appointing itself to a podium of three beside Ericsson and Nokia. This idea of enterprise wireless peeling down to a three-horse race appears to be Celona’s pitch for MWC 2024, setting itself up for cutting down to size. The company’s other argument is that it alone of the major players specializes just in private 5G, without the dilution of public networks and alternative approaches such as network slicing to create dedicated partitions. Celona does advocate network slicing but within private networks, promoting ‘microslicing’ to segment further by allowing enterprises to allocate resources per application or device across both the wide area and…