Nokia has found some salvation from its recent 5G woes in the burgeoning enterprise private network field, and so, unsurprisingly, is eager to press home any advantage over mainstream rivals, while resisting the rising challenge from emerging competitors. This lies behind its recent broadside against the upstarts, accusing them of denigrating the role of the radio to commodity status at a time when, in reality, new challenges need to be overcome at the RAN level to ensure reliable signals indoors. Some emerging private network rivals are falsely claiming that their expertise in the core networks will be sufficient to deliver secure and robust industrial-grade private 5G networks, Nokia contended. As the operator put it, “the magic in private cellular networks…