Taiwan’s HTC may be best known for handsets, but as it has lost share in that market, it has taken its wireless expertise into other segments, such as small cells. The company demonstrated a ‘network-in-a-box’, branded Reign Core, for private wireless at February’s Mobile World Congress and the same product was on show at Dish’s event last week, where it launched its first commercial 5G network. HTC said it was working with Dish “to bring low-latency, high-bandwidth private 5G connectivity to enterprise customers across the USA”. Its Reign Core includes a 5G core, O-RAN compliant remote radio unit and baseband, and a Layer 3 switch, all of which can fit into a suitcase. Venkata Movva, HTC’s director of VR,…